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[jamesbrown]

Pay for a registered office address and statutory (i.e., not spam) mail forwarding. It isn't expensive.

[jamesbrown]

Pretty much all of the above. That said, I wouldn't say it's all low-end being replaced by AI. There are entire teams (e.g., at Oracle in the UK) being ditched, partly because they are replaceable by AI and partly to free up investment for higher priorities that involve AI. In the long-run, I wouldn't...

[jamesbrown]

If AI can produce insight, it can - by definition - understand the meaning of that insight because it needs some stopping criteria, a target or objective (that we give it... at least, initially ). As I said above, it's probably quite hard to know when you're inside a revolution, but the rapid...

[jamesbrown]

There were a lot of the same arguments around at the start of the industrial revolution. No massive transitions like this are pain-free, but they are, fortunately, much bigger than governments....

[jamesbrown]

Oh, and manual jobs including trades probably aren't too far behind

https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/2023387529135988951...

[jamesbrown]

Not exactly. Novel information doesn't come from a vacuum. Humans cannot produce novel information without a frame of reference. Novel information is produced by recombination and mutation. Mutation can be produced by experimentation, even if only random combination. Certainly, AI can produce new insight...

[jamesbrown]

You could store everything locally on a NAS and take measures to prevent remote access (no UPnP, port forwarding, firewall restricted to local IPs), keep the software up-to-date and patched, and then have an additional local backup, ensuring everything is encrypted and that the encrypted keys are copied...

[jamesbrown]

If you want UK coverage only, there isn't much to choose between them. If you need coverage outside the UK, particularly for NA, there are few good options, the main ones being Kingsbridge (Accredited Insurance (Europe) Ltd) and Randell Dorling (Hiscox).

[jamesbrown]

In itself, it doesn't necessarily mean much if you have particular expertise that you are contracted to provide and this interview relies on it.

On the other hand, from what you've written, I would strongly suggest you take a long hard look at this relationship, possibly with independent...

[jamesbrown]

P.S. Good luck with that, NLUK doesn't discriminate....

[jamesbrown]

It depends on the place of supply rules (feel free to read them), but B2B supplies will generally be outside of the scope of UK VAT (i.e., UK VAT does not apply) and this is not a pedantic difference. If you want, you can mention the customer's reverse charge obligation on your invoices (e.g., "reverse...

[jamesbrown]

Nice one. Take the first ...

[jamesbrown]

Yup, or you could've shorted scootie who was no doubt heavily short RAM prices from around the start of September ...

[jamesbrown]

RAM is currently a better investment than gold

[jamesbrown]

Pretty much, yeah....

[jamesbrown]

Reply for you:...

[jamesbrown]

Have asked my wife's brother who builds and maintains servers for a UK business, so will let you know what he says...

[jamesbrown]

That is probably non-ECC memory(?) It is a reasonable price for non-ECC memory, if you trust Amazon marketplace (I don't, personally). Server memory is significantly more expensive, though, and not as common from retailers.

[jamesbrown]

Your spec is listed on My Memory for £1800 (inc VAT) with stock due imminently

Not sure I would buy from them anyway, though - heard mixed things.

[jamesbrown]

Scan seem to have some stock (unless you called them and they don't)?

https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer...am-memory-kits

To the extent that all RAM is bloody expensive now, ECC RAM is especially not cheap, of course. But if Scan don't have the stock, you are really going...