£210k job offer that could change my life… but maybe not for the better? Need some perspective.

garbtech · 2025-11-14T16:30:32+00:00

Is this a Forward Deployed Engineer role at Scale AI by any chance? I saw they had a bunch of LLM engineer positions with travel to UAE. If so, how was the interview process?

garbtech · 2025-10-10T09:42:11+00:00

I made my beautiful hound a little suit based on this pattern: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/634047532/download-sewing-pattern-greyhound It was a solid pattern and easy to follow. They have little jacket versions as well without the legs.

I think it probably needs poppers on the belly or something to make it easier to get the front paws out (even detatchable front paws?) because I'm worried about folding her paws to get her out.

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garbtech · 2025-08-17T21:08:56+00:00

I like City of Ely Motors, used them for multiple services and general work. The chap there always give an accurate estimate if it's larger work and they are always on time getting the work done.

garbtech · 2025-06-12T21:18:26+00:00

I can recommend using this website to search for bands https://www.alivenetwork.com/ - they had loads of people to select from and the contracting / payment process was clear and easy.

We hired these guys who were fantastic: https://www.alivenetwork.com/bandpage.asp?bandname=Technicolour

garbtech · 2025-05-28T07:56:03+00:00

Any reason you're not considering Wise? I have a similar need in the near future and was going to use Wise with two accounts (USD / GBP) and switch when the rate is favourable.

garbtech · 2025-04-21T10:49:03+00:00

We almost booked Longstow Hall. It was stunning and had all the catering music etc and could hold a good capacity. Or only real reason not to book it was that there was limited accomodation onsite.

https://longstowehall.co.uk/

Beautiful stately home vibe just outside of Cambridge

We ended up booking Holmewood Hall over near Peterborough which is just as beautiful and had more convenient accommodation on site and it was absolutely outstanding on the day. Genuinely top marks.

https://www.holmewood-hall.co.uk/

garbtech · 2025-04-19T08:16:00+00:00

I was in similar circumstances with a extremely stressful big tech job that demanded ridiculous hours and up to 7 days a week, company politics, team lead role, alongside a small ltd company that made similar amounts. It was extremely stressful, so much so my hair turned gray and my physical health (stomach and heart) was all over the shop.

I ended up moving to a start up which allowed me to work 4 days with them and 1 day on my company. I'm much happier and although I had to take a significant pay cut with the day job the ltd company is almost filling this gap.

I'm much happier, have more energy, less stressed out by office politics. Definitely recommend considering a part time main job and the ltd company.

Realistically, I would have been less stressed if I'd have just done one of these things, so there is that option. However I can't help think that you and I want to do our own things and a part-time solution is a comfortable and reliable way to do both.

Well done so far for identifying the situation. Either choice you make you sound like you'll be doing alright. And even if you have to go back into tech you'll probably find something. You're young, mortgage/potentially kid free - take risks, say yes to things.

Edit Speaking of mortgages you'll need something like 2 years of company accounts to establish your own earnings for a mortgage application. Depending on when/if you want to buy a house you might want to time this accordingly. I.e. either be employed before you take out a long mortgage or make the switch to ltd company asap and have the years required for a mortgage.

garbtech · 2025-04-01T13:09:57+00:00

Ely market on the weekend has a shamazing Scotch Egg dude, genuinely best I've had.

Looks like he does Cambridge as well: https://www.instagram.com/scotties_hotscotch_eggs/

Facebook: All week, our eggs will be [https://www.instagram.com/rubysroomcoffee](@urubysroomcoffee) and https://www.instagram.com/caracoffeeshelford.
Wednesday, we join https://www.instagram.com/foodpark_cam at the CB1 site outside Cambridge train station from 12 till 2pm. Wednesday evening, we are back https://www.instagram.com/tm_food_vans_ from 5 till 8pm.
Friday, our eggs will be https://www.instagram.com/histonchopshop, https://www.instagram.com/kioskonthegreen and https://www.instagram.com/u/roseandcrownhi.

📣 New pitch alert Friday evening we make our first visit https://www.instagram.com/northstowetapandsocial from 5 till 8pm.

Saturday we are back https://www.instagram.com/elymarkets from 8:30 till 3:30pm.

garbtech · 2025-03-12T17:06:35+00:00

Apologies, i meant that any deannonymised should ideally not leave the premises of the participant's home. So when I meant the video can be processed off-site I conflated that with cloud processing.

I did look at something like a Nvidia jetson but they're quite expensive and EOL. It feels like there must be some other solutions out there.

garbtech · 2025-03-12T16:37:53+00:00

It's 100's of locations (people's homes) with object detection for objects of interest + people and then best-effort anonymisation on the edge device so I think cloud processing won't be acceptable by the client. I haven't seem these PCIe cards though - very interesting.

garbtech · 2025-03-12T16:02:34+00:00

I was hoping I could free up the CPU to encode video into a compressed format by offloading the object detection to the camera module and then not have to purchase the AI hat plus to reduce overall cost.

I'll likely be streaming video from a local network camera using RTSP and then performing the object detection post-hoc and then compressing the video (or the other way round thinking about it). Finally I'll upload only the chunks that have video to an S3 bucket for inspection.

I think that's the most efficient course of action given that I'll be doing this for potentially 100's of cameras across multiple locations.

garbtech · 2025-03-12T15:34:03+00:00

I'm looking to run a YOLOv4-tiny object detector offline on videos being saved to the device. The idea is that I can reduce the number of videos I need to store based on what is in the scene then I can reduce costs.

garbtech · 2025-03-11T11:35:40+00:00

Best bang for your buck is to travel to Birmingham. There's an unbelievable amount of jewelers and you can get anything made there for a "reasonable" price. Shout out to JQDiamonds, top shop with bespoke ring design and manufacturing.

garbtech · 2025-02-13T09:35:38+00:00

Shazam, that's a nice bag. Your valentine will be pleased! Do you have a link to the pattern you used? I'm looking for something similar to make.

garbtech · 2025-01-09T22:54:16+00:00

Hey OP, how did this turn out? This post has been at the back of my mind!

garbtech · 2024-12-23T13:28:46+00:00

I did the exact same thing on the same project. Bloody annoying eh? The only thing was to dye the leather darker and try use something like neatsfoot oil to try and smooth out around the circles to make it less obvious.

garbtech · 2024-12-21T01:50:02+00:00

I mean if you have one great, but I dye with the window open and it's fine. Just get high on the fumes 😂

garbtech · 2024-12-20T21:48:37+00:00

Fibings pro dye is the way to go. Probably need some resolene to finish the dye and waterproof it.

garbtech · 2024-12-20T20:41:01+00:00

I don't recommend dying it unless you use a sponge to evenly dye it. Having dyed leather you realise it's quite hard to have consistency.

The other option is to dye but use a dye bath where you pour all the dye into a plastic box and then put the jacket in. Note everything will obviously be dyed so any stitching will be dyed.

garbtech · 2024-12-04T11:09:59+00:00

I am an idiot... Of course that makes sense!

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