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> you can negotiate with the billing department at comparative leisure.

I'm curious. How likely is the billing department to waive off a huge bill as bad debt because an inexperienced builder misconfigured their infra or was hacked?

Re:Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory on Sunday May 10, 2026 @07:57PM (#48089423)
M4 = M4 Macbook Pro
Re:Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf] on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:06AM (#47898801)
It would've helped to share some context y'know -> https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/examination-fellowships-general-inf...

TL;DR: It's one of the papers you need to sit to become an Oxford All Souls Fellow.

This is an idealistic view and makes hiring seem like charity.

There will always be steep corrections when they overhire driven by economic cycles or otherwise (and we're living through an otherwise).

Pangram says this is 61% AI generated. Thinking of paying for a Pangram subscription so I can spend the valuable time I have to read for pleasure on human created pieces than AI slop.
You know it's an AI generated readme when the "advanced language models" it mentions are GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4

And the success stories are just something else. "It pays for itself" - Engineering Manager.

Sure, Engineering Manager, sure.

We're about to see a steep rise in AI code slop on GitHub as everyone tries to pad their resumes with "open source contributions".

Re:OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:33PM (#38327933)
> Imagine if your boss fired you - and your response was - I’ll come back if you quit! Yeah, no. People might confuse status with those of actual ceo shareholders like zuck, bezos, or musk. But Altman is just another employee

Think you're missing the big picture here. Sam Altman isn't an "easily replaceable employee" especially given his fundraising skills.