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You're absolutely right!

Curious what people's experience is with these models. Anecdotally I tried these out earlier in the year and found it struggled with pretty basic full-stack coding I was doing, when Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 4.5 didn't break a sweat. Was hoping to use it while my Claude usage was resetting but was disappointed.

The Economist | Several engineers and engineering managers | Birmingham, UK (On site) | £30-63k

The Economist is scaling its engineering team to the next level, growing from around 50 engineers in Birmingham, UK to around 75 engineers over the new few quarters.

We're hiring:

Engineers of all levels for our product engineering teams

Senior and mid-level engineers for or mobile product engineering teams

Engineering Managers for our DevSecOps / Security enablement teams

When the pandemic ends and it's safe to do so, we're planning to return to our central Birmingham UK office (walking distance to New Street and Snow Hill stations) around 3 days a week.

Just ping me if you have any questions or would like to apply.

Even more troublesome, IMO. This as a gate to interviews leads to a really uninclusive hiring process.

I'm with ya, but that's because I'm an American who finds himself in the UK! Every UK keyboard I use is ever so slightly different, which drives me a bit crazy.

You may be able to host your development environment cheaper. Hetzner works out to be almost the same price as electricity of keeping my desktop up all the time for me.

Interesting. Thanks for the heads up. I've had the 8.99 offering for a while now and haven't had any issues... yet.

I've been loving Scaleway. It's a great service and I'm glad to see they're expanding. Hopefully they'll come to the UK and North America next.

We use DbFit every day at our shop. It's really changed how we work (as DB developers). Was funny that I thought of this project right after reading this article, and how I should probably try and contribute, then I see this in the comments. :)

Thanks!

Ransomware have spread via exploitable, unupdated versions of RDP, which is worrying. Better to listen on another port of RDP must be exposed to the Internet.

There's a large income exclusion that means unless you earn a really kick ass salary, you're unlikely to be double taxed.

Also the biggest problem is that almost everyone else one sends an unencrypted email to is not "NSA-proof."

Baptism by fire, huh? :) I guess I was one of the unlucky ones, but it hasn't put me off. Hoping you guys expand to the UK (datacenter-wise) eventually!

They were down for 4 or 5 days last month. Was due to a power issue in their DC's building.

They kept everyone in the loop, and it's the only downtime I've noticed from them.

Kimsufi is good (used to be with them), but there are a few drawbacks: 1. Only one IP allowed. No way to request more. 2. No KVM access-- Delimiter has HP iLO

I have to disagree about the better hardware as well because even the slower Delimiter offering is faster than Kimsufi's fastest offering: https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5420+%40+2.... vs http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5504+%40...

OVH's SoYouStart is also a good choice, but it is pricy in comparison.

Both Kimsufi/Delimiter/Et al should really only be used where support or downtime doesn't matter.

The blade servers at Delimiter (https://www.delimiter.com/) are even more affordable. I pay $20 a month for a dual Xeon blade with 16gb of ram.

They did have a very long downtime this year with no service credit, but uptime has been reasonable over the past year. If you're looking for a hobby box it's a pretty good deal.

My 2008 macbook's (removable) battery also puffed up.

I use gear music player for google music https://www.gearmusicplayer.com/. It's fantastic (but not free).

Not always in the UK, and if they do it's only liability and not comprehensive/collision.

Even the yellow cabs within Manhattan would not take me places within Manhattan when hailed. They would stop and ask where to-- when I told them where (touristy areas) they'd just drive off.

Which machine did you buy?

I really hope they do drop the limits.

I've had no trouble downloading at around 3.5Mbytes/sec+ from Dropbox in the UK. I would have definitely went with hubiC otherwise.

I considered hubiC, but all download syncs (from the website and application) for now are limited to 10mbit (even from the UK). There are several posts complaining about this on hubiC's forums.

If you don't care about this, it's a really great deal, but to me it is a deal breaker.

Very cool. Unfortunately, I think the price point is a bit too high (at least for me).

When I read campaign stances on this site last year I was really surprised how socially moderate their campaign was. I'm glad the site is still around.

Feels like they're targeting the hobby-box market. I picked up the 16gb model because I think it will make my life a bit easier by moving most of my virtual machines away from home. For the price, the hardware necessary is about $500, which is roughly 26 months of paying OVH.

You can also use http://proof.ovh.net/ but the GRA datacenter, where these servers are located, does not have a speed/ping test available yet.

Actually, they're located in Graveline, France, which is about 100mi from London, near Calais.

Source: http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6730

This is their data center in Roubaix. The datacenter these new dedicated servers are available in is in their new datacenter, Graveline (Graveline France).

Probably similar spec, though.

Could it be that this is a move to get Yahoo more attention?

30 million is not that expensive for advertising, and pretty much every local news show covered the story of the amazing 17 year old start up founder who was acquired by Yahoo.