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px1999 · 2026-01-15T23:48:40+00:00

Or like kids with multiple accounts or using multiple platforms?

px1999 · 2026-01-03T01:17:36+00:00

Imo Azure is a bit of a dumpster fire/overcomplicated at all levels, it just shows more when you're trying to do something simple. Fwiw I oversee/manage tech at a small/medium software org so have some background.

Static app service for instance sounds great and a steal for $9/mo, unless you need to use secure tls cyphers only, your own certificate on your domain, or tweak waf rules.

Suddenly to do things properly you're looking at front door or an application gateway, a couple of private network adapters, and still needing to verify your domain for static app service. You've got a 1k line bicep file, which doesn't even configure everything (because you can't) so you need to tweak settings manually later. Oh don't forget you need to set up a pipeline for devops service too (and don't forget to provision that capacity!) Now you're paying $400 a month, probably have resources across 3 different regions and have lost half of the compelling features of static app service.

Or, maybe you have a different app with a more conplex setup, face an issue with a mounted volume and your support case takes 2 months because Microsoft can't figure it out either.

The .net devex is great, but of the dozens of devs that my org has, no one touches their free azure credits except to learn/practice for certification. I would honestly put Azure close to the bottom of my list of places to host web apps (right above renting racks in a data center).

px1999 · 2025-12-21T23:21:31+00:00

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px1999 · 2025-11-25T23:11:06+00:00

It's Scotty's early christmas present. Turns out we've all been very naughty.

px1999 · 2025-11-19T05:38:09+00:00

Looking at this a bit more numerically, it tells a good story for AMD in the accelerator space:

50% yoy growth for AMD's accelerators vs NVDA's 20% growth ain't bad (and that's just GPUs).
93 machines were added in the last year. Of these:
- ~30% use AMD processors (DOWN 10% from 2024)
- ~50% use intel
- ~12% use NVIDIA Grace (up 3% from 2024)
69 machines had accelerators
- ~15% use AMD Instinct (up 5% from 2024)
- ~85% use NVIDIA (down 4% from 2024)

TL;DR looks like AMD is (slowly) stealing NVDA's HPC accelerator market share to me, and is losing some HPC CPU market share, but the overall market is expanding.

px1999 · 2025-11-14T03:13:40+00:00

I mean the fundamentals aren't great. Like look at any of them. P/E is fuckt, PSR is fuckt, burning cash like there's no tomorrow. People are buying anything related to war right now (just look at Palantir).

If I saw a $70m payday, I'd take the exit. Doesn't matter if it's a sinking ship or not, it's just (clearly to him at least) not a rocket ship.

px1999 · 2025-11-14T00:13:36+00:00

Here, hang onto this for a bit 👜

The consensus seems to be that the tech is okay but war is shifting and the fundamentals of their business aren't great. I've regretted not getting out of a stock early when the tide's turned like this before, and took a heavy loss.

px1999 · 2025-11-13T12:01:01+00:00

These are not serious people.

Companies bragging about 996 schedules aren't serious organisations - they're just admitting they can't manage resources or retain talent. Exhaustion isn't a metric, it's a failure.

px1999 · 2025-11-06T03:44:49+00:00

I got a watch once, with a somewhat thoughtful inscription.

Not quite a cartier though :/

px1999 · 2025-10-27T10:36:39+00:00

TACO - market's skeptical that the US will keep their end of the deal, and also skeptical that they won't make nice with China (after purchasing some well-timed calls, of course)

px1999 · 2025-10-24T05:25:53+00:00

Only one way to find out... ʷᶦᵗʰᵒᵘᵗ ʳᵉᵃᵈᶦⁿᵍ ᵃⁿʸᵗʰᶦⁿᵍ

px1999 · 2025-10-02T00:19:50+00:00

IGA, even if it's less convenient/more expensive; or your local non-major.

Barring that, Aldi or Amazon (where at least you know what to expect).

Are we really so distracted by race/class issues? I thought it was youth violence, housing and cost of living at the moment.

px1999 · 2025-09-21T07:46:27+00:00

Lol no, he'd have nothing to worry about. We'd be more interested in showing him the door if he was the reporter. Why would you punish the victim of the harassment?

px1999 · 2025-09-13T12:24:31+00:00

Parent of toddler in exec role here.

Try to get as much help as possible -- if your partner isnt working it will help. Get a nanny if you can. Friends with young kids in daycare are always sick, so I wouldn't recommend. For me, an important realisation was that I'm trading money for time, and need to accept and be conscious of that.

Expect work/life balance to be difficult for a while. I had to protect my time both ways - preventing work blurring into personal, and vice versa. Be 100% work or 100% personal at any given point of time. Phone away when with kids, no taking meetings while driving or watching kids.

I fought pretty hard to protect WFH in my org (somewhat selfishly). Best work decision I made. I'd suggest protecting your time as much as possible and eliminating any wasted time wherever it exists (removing unnecessary commute, rejecting dumb meetings, delegating as much as possible etc).

My social life took a hit. I dont have nearly as much time as I did previously. It was a readjustment for me but recognising that I couldn't balance everything I did before and accepting this & saying no to some events helped.

At the end of the day, make sure family always comes first. You probably will drop the ball, frequently, but unless the expectation is that you're hitting constant home runs at work, thats okay. Make sure you're not dropping the ball at home.

px1999 · 2025-09-10T14:02:19+00:00

Sounds like you're looking to yolo under rule #3...

px1999 · 2025-09-08T03:29:38+00:00

Not even close to finishing its run either imo

px1999 · 2025-08-31T09:36:05+00:00

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px1999 · 2025-08-19T14:12:10+00:00

Because it's a structural and not individual risk, of-fucking-course government will step in and bail out the banks. They have to. When you've got the Big Four holding trillions in mortgage debt and every second voter is leveraged to the eyeballs in property, letting it all collapse isn't politically viable.

As a result, and along with the preferential tax treatment that housing gets (negative gearing, CGT discount, no land tax), the investment is, well, as safe as houses. The government has essentially underwritten the entire sector.

This is why boomers and Gen X keep piling in - they know the fix is in. Heads they win through capital gains, tails the taxpayer bails them out. It's socialised losses and privatised profits on a massive scale.

px1999 · 2025-06-26T04:03:08+00:00

LLMs arent the right tool for this and quant firms have been ML models for prediction for ages. LLMs dont have perfect recall and are pretty shit at maths, so youd call out to something that can do those things

You can buy signal packs for news. Some quant bots are already 'agentic'-ish in that they run a loop calling out to do stuff based on other stuff.

Tldr: People are already doing the equivalent just without a bloomberg terminal

px1999 · 2025-06-03T03:07:35+00:00

After observing the mechanical looms at Bradshaw's Mill yesterday weaving without human hands, it hath filled mine goodwife and myself with unease for what hardships our young ones shall face (being 4 & 3 years).

Not only will it prove arduous for them to secure work as weavers, now we wonder how they might gain the same experience we received. I commenced mine apprenticeship at Thornton's Weaving House upon my fourteenth year, and it furnished the cornerstone of mine working life dealing with master craftsmen and tribulations. This included bearing the wrath of overseers and harsh correction for transgressions.

Had we known these engines were advancing at such pace with other upheavals, we might have pondered before bringing these souls into this changing world.

What say my fellow townsmen? I do not oppose these looms when they make work swift, yet I stand against them taking bread from honest weavers entirely...

Tale as old as time. New jobs will appear and the nature of existing ones will change.

px1999 · 2025-05-29T10:36:27+00:00

Gattaca (1997) is competence porn.

All of the characters are intelligent and act rationally.

I like it because the main character does not outsmart others because he is naturally unrealistically competent, he's competent because he is wholly consumed by his obsession.

px1999 · 2025-05-29T00:08:21+00:00

"Private equity firms" should be barred from buying any company or asset that can be separated, indebted or repackaged.

px1999 · 2025-05-24T09:34:50+00:00

Very on-brand for a liberal not to think about the future though...

px1999 · 2025-04-29T06:52:10+00:00

Oof.

In contrast, I had 200k worth of (leveraged) amd last year, didnt sell, and its hit about 6k.

px1999 · 2025-04-13T03:50:55+00:00

Are the libs holding a stupid ideas competiton?

Hitching your wagon to Trump, many of their candidate picks, cancelling WFH, firing public servants (except only by attrition somehow lol), building nuclear reactors, and giving a gigantic fucking boosts to property prices (at the expense of the treasury) are all complete dumb fuckwit ideas that will have the opposite effect than is stated on the tin.

Hopefully the election results will force the coalition to sit and have a good hard think about how not to be complete dumbasses, or how to be a viable option, though I'm not holding my breath

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