I think there’s some risk with this though too - more and more is behind the enterprise tier. People try to work around this in various ways but its an unsatisfying experience. For e.g. trying to enforce merge request approval with pipeline stages.

In practice the library ecosystem is just way behind Python. Maybe after you’re trying to optimise once you’ve worked out how to do stuff, but even the Langchain Go port is wayyyyy behind.

I live in a city with trams in the UK and that’s not how it works. There are sections that run on dedicated train lines, and sections where it runs on the street. Where it runs on the streets, priority is given over cars by switching traffic lights to red. Once the tram has passed onto the road it switches back to green so you can end up following the tram in your car.

Much of that depends on country for usage.

In the U.K. when handwriting I think dd/mm/yyyy is much more common than dd.mm.yyyy

Other thing is that when you’re VAT registered, as a buyer of parts you reclaim VAT on things you purchase as inputs. So the tax on the final product is what matters.

With US sales taxes you accrue tax all the way up the chain.

What?

Sales tax exemption is a thing when buying items for sale or materials for items for sale.

In many states in the US, if you go and buy materials, as a business, you pay a sales tax. There are exemptions and partial rebates, but there's nothing across all industries, and it varies by state. So if you were a farmer you might find you were exempt on fertilizer and tractors but not on a pickup truck.

That's different to a VAT, because there, as long as you're a registered business for VAT purposes, all purchases you make are exempt from VAT - either you don't pay it when you purchase and are invoiced by a business, or you can claim it back if you keep receipts. Companies have to register for VAT when revenue hits a certain amount; here in the UK it's £85k for e.g.

>either you don't pay it when you purchase and are invoiced by a business

As a business you pay VAT when you purchase. And you collect VAT when you sell. Then you pay to the government the difference between collected VAT and paid VAT. That's what the "Value Added" part means.

No, if you provide a VAT number, in business to business transactions, companies will not normally charge VAT in the first place, so you don't pay it when you purchase in many cases as a business.

However if you go into something aimed at consumers, and make a purchase, they're normally not set up for this, which is why you're able to reclaim when you have paid it.

This may be an arrangement set up in some jurisdictions and probably widely used nowadays.

The default (as in « the original setup ») is what i’ve described.

> So if you were a farmer you might find you were exempt on fertilizer and tractors but not on a pickup truck.

There are items that generate a non-deductible input tax in VAT countries (often entertainment items or cars). But usually, those will be the exception and deductible would be the default.

It’s interesting because BBC Sounds replacing iPlayer Radio was one of the worst redesigns I’ve ever seen for discoverability. Even now, several years on, it’s considerably worse. Whatever the technical merits of the migration, finding radio programmes became much much harder, all while they push podcast content.

lol, yep, mine is 1st October?!

Offset financial years mean your finance people aren’t working furiously between Christmas and New Years getting the EoY stuff done. I feel bad for the ones in my company every year.

Though it means that some years have 53 weeks in.

Well, 52 weeks is 364 days, and a calendar year is 365.5±0.5 days, so if you are doing “years” by whole numbers of weeks and don't want to get more than a week out of sync with the regular civil calendar, you are going to need a 53 week year every few years, regardless of your start date.

Don't they any way?

You cant use the embeddings/vector search stuff this refers to in self hosted anyway, it’s only implemented in their Atlas Cloud product. It makes it a real PITA to test locally. The Atlas Dev local container didn’t work the same when I tried it earlier in the year.

Australia’s economy is propped up by the export driven mining industry. It’s not really a fair comparison.

> working for Rolls Royce in the middle of nowhere

Most people I know who ended up at RR live in Nottingham or the Peak District and commute in to Derby. Appreciate that’s perhaps not as exciting as London but it’s hardly a shit hole up here.

Agree on pay though. I work for a different engineering conglomerate (foreign owned) and I applied for a HPC role at RR a couple of years ago and the salary was £20k lower. The disparity would be even more now.