Isn't it like way more expensive and restricted? They were very competitive in the early days, but currently they are more capped than anything else it seems. Especially for self hosting..
Ok, they have changed their pricing. Currently they are capping the number of concurrent agents. At one point, they introduced minutes cap and that was very big step down.
This is timely. I'm in hospital having just removed a 9.4mm stone from one kidney and some stones from the other. I don't want to go though this again.
I have vague memories back in 1990 of a superman arcade game in a pub broadcasting the games image to my black and white tv with an antenna in a different room. Not HDMI but the concept is there.
There's a reason the FCC has RF standards otherwise there would be anarchy...anarchy I say!
Thankfully my kids are devouring my Studio Ghibli collection. Ny Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo are played multiple times in the day. They've not yet gotten to Spirited Away, waiting until they are a little older. I dread the day they turn on Grave of the Fireflies. I thank the stars they have outgrown baby shark and cocomelon.
The movie that scarred me as a kid was Princess Mononoke. I remember my parents had a few friends over to watch it when it first released on DVD and they did this after my bedtime as I wasn't considered old enough to see but of course I snuck down to watch (I'm pretty sure they knew I was watching in retrospect).
The scene that I would relive in my nightmares repeatedly for years was the one where the protagonist's cursed arm comes to life in the middle of a pitched battle and everyone sets down their arms to watch as he pushes open a big gate or something. The music in this scene is foreboding, solemn, yet energetic, and the visual combined with the music evoked exactly the emotion I'm sure Miyzaki intended: dread at the vastness of the power of nature about which humans know naught, finally revealed in all its terrible horror. The prince's fate as a cursed person is supposed to feel worse than death and this was maybe my first time fully appreciating that concept in my short life, so it was doubly effective.
See there is a baby shark (doot do do do do) that also has a mama shark and a daddy shark. But the Grandma shark is also there. As is the ten hour version.
My strategy is to provide selective spoilers. I think the scary/violent parts of movies are easier on children when they are prepared emotionally that everything will be ok.
So for Spirited Away I warned them in advance, “It’s got scary parts-for example, her parents get turned into pigs! But it all turns out ok in the end. You’ll have to watch to see how.”
And for “Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro” something similar: “Just so you know, there’s one part where he gets shot with a gun and blood comes out. But don’t worry he doesn’t die.”
I dont know if this is valid, but i intentionally showed it to my kids super young hoping to normalize it so they wouldnt be afraid if it (they love it now).
While there may not be a clause in your employment contract there may certainly be a clause in the contract between your employer and the client that could possibly be more hassle than it's worth for the client.
The only way to know is to go through the process with the client, declare the possible conflict early on and let them research it on their side to see if it's worth going through with. Best of luck.
thanks, since I'll be going in via the normal recruiting channel, I assume it's best to bring this up in the initial phone screening phase with the recruiter? or could this harm me if the recruiter decides to just back away without escalating it higher up the chain? it's big tech corporate, so not sure how much agency recruiters have, and how closely they work with the teams they are trying to recruit for?
2025 brought me to:
The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School - Mark McCormack
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change - Adam Braun
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski
We Were Eight Years In Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mort - Terry Pratchett
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - Stephen King
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Boy’s in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins
Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business - Gino Wickman
Source Code - Bill Gates
Mythos - Stephen Fry
Educated - Tara Westover
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World - John Wood
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism is a memoir - Sarah Wynn-Williams
Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phipip K. Dick
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie