Take a look at salary reports from places like https://www.levels.fyi/2024

If you think $124k a year is high compensation for someone with 17 years of experience in Portland, your compensation expectations are way off.

Wow, I read your informative link. Where are these jobs? I went through a round of interviews last year for Sr. positions, across a number of locations in the U.S., and quite frankly, the average salary for the positions interviewed for was $80k less than most of those in the list, and $230k less than the SWE manager in the list.

The page lists the locations, and the businesses, where these jobs are placed. Unless you live on the coast (or end up in Denver/Austin), you're going to have a harder time reaching these salary numbers.

By my count they mention AI seventeen times on their homepage.

https://perfectwikiforteams.com/

Plus, what will the other 18 people on the team do? Burn their cash using and inserting "AI".

From my past experience, I can say that Google Cloud services (e.g load balancers) by default blocked traffic from ITAR sanctioned countries. Not just blocking people in those countries from becoming customers of GCP, but blocking them from accessing content hosted on GCP.

I didn't know how that situation had evolved since I last used GCP.

In the US there is a reduced media mail rate for educational materials. Not sure how it would work internationally.

https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm

The US used to have "ship mail" options for sending international by boat. Not sure if there was even more discounts for media, and/or if it's still offered.

Another comment mentioned M-bags: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-M-bag-Service

> I actively avoid watching videos I think MIGHT be interesting because the risk is too high

You can remove videos from your viewing history. I do this when I start watching something but the content turnes out to not be what I expected. It seems to prevent polluting my recommendations.

For many workplaces, it's not just that that don't pay for a service, it's that using it is against policy. If I tried to paste some code into ChatGPT, for example, our data loss prevention spyware would block it and I'd soon be having an uncomfortable conversation with our security team.

(We do have access to GitHub Copilot)

Good news then, your GitHub admins can enable Gemini for you without issue.

“Without issue” is an optimistic perspective on how this works in many organisations.

I've been using https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/ for this.

What makes you say it's a small part of that?

Argo Rollouts is an extra orchestration layer on top of a traffic management provider. Which one are you using? If you use the ALB controller you still have to deal with pod shutdown / target deregistration timing issues.

https://argoproj.github.io/argo-rollouts/features/traffic-ma...

We’re using the alb controller to expose our kind: Rollouts. The blue green configuration has some sort of delay before cutting over which prevents any 5xx class errors due to target groups (at least for us)

For anyone needing an introduction to Hindenburg Research: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/nathan-anderson-hind...