This just seems like a lot of cloud costs to take on, considering how much power developers laptops carry and would be completely untapped. Instead of having everything remote, to me it appears more sensible to have a distributed development environment. I guess this would look something like the dagger.io folks are shooting for.
I think the steelman answer is that if this works well, you don't give developers powerful laptops; you give them cheap laptops that are little more than dumb terminals. (Whether that works is left as an exercise for the reader.)
we’re not seeing cloud costs be too terrible at DevZero - with proper hibernation/suspension, cloud costs are ~$50-60/mo in the worst case
admittedly, we target only enterprise companies where the cost of loss of dev efficiencies is much higher
Say net cost to company for an engineer is $100k-$200k+. Even a net 10% savings over a year means $10k-$20k+ vs a $600-1k/yr investment (in worst case).
Security posture is also significantly improved, which admittedly is harder to assign a $ value to
mostly accidental. you're working on a prototype, so to just get started you use a const at the top of your code with an API key, this then gets checked in and you then realise 'oh shit' , but by this point its within gits tree. It can still be removed, but its not a straightforward process.
I am finding it very useful for laborious tasks that pre-AI would burn up valuable time and energy. A good example is I needed to construct a docker-compose file. I fed the docker run command to ChatGPT and asked it 'generate a docker-compose file from this docker run command' and it produced a perfect usable example. Could I have done it myself, sure, but I just saved 10-15 minutes by having it done for me.
It's not just the waiting lists, it's the dire situation at A&E. Folks waiting around 10 hours to be seen and ambulances parked up with patients onboard as there are no beds available for them to offload and see to the next emergency.
And a lot of this comes from upstream. It’s bordering on impossible to see a GP so you need to go to A&E for anything semi urgent. I cannot even speak to our family GP, and if I could I would be offered a telephone appointment in 3-4 weeks.
What kind of social problems are people seeing GPs about, that they otherwise wouldn’t?
The example usually given is the other way round, that the woeful provision of care by the NHS leads to other public services (notably the police) becoming the backstop, e.g. for those with mental health issues.
Controversial opinion: Social care services are a way to paper over cultural and societal issues that will inevitably out-grow the funding used to do so.
We're about to discover the true depth of our societal issues, now that we've run out of wallpaper.
Current approaches to social care services are designed to paper over symptoms rather than tackle the cause. But again, that is due to poor govermental policy.
Apparently the problem is also downstream - namely the inability to discharge patients who are ready to go home due to lack of sufficient community care available to support these patients.
Thus taking up a lot of extra beds and having a knock on effect on A&E queues etc
That and a recruitment problem - as I understand it. (Likely partly due to poor wages but that’s an assumption on my part)
We hired a few people from the NHS. Admin staff. They were over the moon and working hard even with lower salaries as long as they won't need to work for NHS. The workloads are insane and the shitty cynical attitude is all over the place, which doesn't help at all with morale.
We have the concept of a "walk in centre", but there aren't many, they are over-subscribed and they can't do much (for instance prescribe antibiotics). The typical experience there is to wait for 4+ hours to then be seen by a nurse and either sent home or sent to A&E. I am not being cynical here either!
A subtle way that government has cut services is to hand things like walk in centres to local councils to run but without increasing the funding for the councils. The councils then close them and take the political flak. The UK is not a good place to be sick and poor.
Yep. A lot of people don't realise it because the loudest voices are often Brits that happen to live in locations where it has not collapsed yet, but there is basically no health service in England for a huge proportion of the population. It is only a matter of time before resources get diverted away from those locations where it still happens to be good to try and patch up the failed areas, but that won't solve the problem. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before total collapse in all locations.
Currently there is a lot of ignorance about it. People hear that it's bad but because they happen to live in an area where it happens to be good they can't really accept it. Seriously ill or dead people don't have the energy or motivation to spend time complaining about it on social media or to the press.
There is also an ideological problem for both sides. Both Labour supporters and socialists do not want to admit that the NHS is failing, because they know that if it goes then it is very unlikely to ever return, and they want to generally support nationalisation. On the other hand, Tories don't want to admit that the NHS is failing, because even for the pro-Capitalist Tories, the NHS is a patriotic symbol of the UK loved even by hardcore conservatives, and a symbol of the "blitz spirit". They also are aware of the fact that its collapse would be a sign of its own failures, since the Tories have been in power for a vast majority of the time that the NHS has been collapsing, so who else is there to blame?
I think most likely the Tories are going to try and blame this on Putin, which is quite comical.
Obviously there is this idea going around that this is being done on purpose by the Tories to encourage a move to private medicine, but I don't think this is true because the private medicine in the UK is heavily reliant on the NHS to function and the UK government aren't really doing anything at all to encourage more private hospitals to open either. If the Tories really wanted to move people from the NHS to private healthcare they would offer a statutory insurance system like in France or Germany and tell people to use it at private clinics.
https://sigstore.dev - although its really not true to say I built it. I started it off, but very quickly smarter folks then me jumped on board and really took it to all sorts of new directions.
Sorry to hear that. I won't try to fault your experience, just state its not a given this is the case for everyone. I have been a vegan for 16 years now. I would say I am in excellent health. Each year I run several 100 mile mountain races along side training all year (running, swimming, hiking and biking), and will be attempting 258 miles non stop race for 5-6 days in the middle of the British winter 2023 (the montane spine race), so I must be doing something right. I very rarely get sick. I also manage a large team of engineers at work and have a young family.
The issue is having to wait for someone else to do it. I feel the same way as a gamer waiting for third party fans to build mods/fixes/overlays that fix issues of a game that the dev decided not to implement for whatever reason. Good that it happens, wish it really didn't because now your product is more purchasable to some people because someone other than you fixed it.
