ilikerashers

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by ilikerashers 9d ago
We have stagnant economies with slow adopters and shallow capital markets. EU tech companies are working with hands tied behind their backs. The US deserves it's success.
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by ilikerashers 24d ago
If you're interested there are books on Oikophobia (there is one called Western Self-Contempt). It's a theory that societies generate a luxury class which loathes itself and attacks it's own history and culture. This usually
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by ilikerashers 1mo ago
Why don’t they marry the visual categorisation of objects with a sparse predefined model to simplify? Point clouds seem like a noisy layer to use and better as verification.
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by ilikerashers 2mo ago
I'm working on https://GovWeave.com/ . It's like a BuiltWith for Government. I am tracking all UK government spend and building a picture of software and rising/falling trends of various products in the govern
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by ilikerashers 3mo ago
I feel the same. Investments are shooting up and wages stink. UK has very high taxation now so working full time doesn’t bring in as much as a decent portfolio.
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by ilikerashers 4mo ago
Thing is, if you are a good developer/architect, you have lots of options to make this elsewhere. £100k is not a very high salary in London. Most of the GDS crowd (who were good), left to go elsewhere due to boredom/frustration. T
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by ilikerashers 5mo ago
Understood that this is a pitch for his own platform (which is fair enough), there is a mixture of a few things here which are common tech tropes. - Enterprise buyers are risk averse and buy the wrong thing - Language X is better because th
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by ilikerashers 6mo ago
I am building something similar in the UK. As a contractor, I have to manage tax, invoices, reconciliation, payroll, accountant emails. I think software in the future will be general portals which roughly self manages via plugins and automa
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by ilikerashers 6mo ago
GDS went from an internal distruptor, breaking the consultancy oligopoly to being another entry gate. The companies who capitalised on this (Kainos/Equal Experts/ScrumConnect) are now their own oligopoly. It's just big guys c
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by ilikerashers 7mo ago
LLM's are like accountants looking at the past. The numbers are bad therefore it will collapse.
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by ilikerashers 7mo ago
How about NFC? App with a QR code displayed? Could be a force of habit for UK but that's mostly how we do tickets. Printing is usually still an option.
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by ilikerashers 7mo ago
Maybe i booked through a shadow site. The ticket office printed out something else. The ticket office did have impressive throughput and lines building up.
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by ilikerashers 7mo ago
German trains are absolute chaos. Tickets are sent via PDF for trains running 3 hours late. I was in Frankfurt last year getting to Cologne and back a few times. Coming from someone who has to commute via South Western railway into London e
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by ilikerashers 7mo ago
Yeap. I worked in the UK public sector and I watched the UK gov briefly back their own cloud company (Skyscape) then ditch them when they had some minor issues. Completely captured by US tech
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by ilikerashers 7mo ago
Europe has just been catastrophically slow in developing anything related to it's own tech infrastructure. Its doesn't back itself. Given how poor it's responding to things like the Draghi report, I wouldn't anticipate s
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by ilikerashers 7mo ago
Yeap, getting this for the last 20 minutes. Everything green on their status pages.
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by ilikerashers 11mo ago
I've started buying clothes from China. Quality and style is starting to really improve. Makes you wonder how much we've been ripped off for years.
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by ilikerashers 1y ago
Coachcube | https://coachcube.ai | Mid to Senior ML Engineer and CV Engineer | Onsite London Coachcube is new gym product providing a virtual PT service. We have an experienced senior leadership team and are building a hardware&
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by ilikerashers 1y ago
The EU outsourced manufacturing without any Mag 7. I'm sure it'll work out well for us...
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by ilikerashers 1y ago
Tech giants have no competition in Europe and no capital to do so. In some ways, what Trump is doing is a call to arms for the EU to kick their economies into shape. We've been stuck in 0 growth for years, the UK is in a 0 growth trap
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
While I agree we're not all implementing physics engines, there is a spectrum of complexity that is both business and technical between a todo app and a banking system. Developer brains are still much more efficient at holding the diff
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
My view is that Ai companies saw there was a huge volume of code online and decided coding was a text generation problem and easy to replace. I don't buy it. I also don't think it'll replace writers or artists. Just the low b
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
We need very big changes to capitalism at its core. There are warning signs flashing across all economies without any coherent solutions.
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
Germany is in serious trouble. The US and China are in protectionist markets. EU is starting to realise their labour and manufacturing are expensive and not unique anymore. The business model is broken.
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
Too much to build. UK government has shown it can build styling templates, payment and notification wrappers well. These are useful and achievable services. Full on ERP would be a disaster.
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
I use notion and like using it. But it’s high contrast Jira. Yes it’s decluttered but it’s not a very sticky product.
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
Have Indian relatives and can confirm that lots of the home cooked stuff is greasy too. Fried sugar jalebis anyone.
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
While Ireland has some cash these days, it was a poor place until joining the EU. If you wanted to do well, you emigrated. This is still the case pretty much.
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
The UK economy is not very dynamic and becoming less so. Low wages, high immigration, low investment. It’s not just a mentality thing, there are legitimate reasons unfortunately
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by ilikerashers 2y ago
I agree with that. The thing that made them grow so quickly is now going to force them into reliance. Encouraging consumption by creating more welfare programs, spreading corporate wealth to citizens via share schemes etc would be a way of

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