You make three applications with those fees divided slightly differently each time.

That’s without any legal fees if you need someone to help you prepare your application which will be ~£2k per application.

If you have non-British children or stepchildren (which is generally quite rare) it’s approx those fees per kid as well.

For most other European countries including Ireland the fee is <€500.

Pretty much all forms of permission to stay in the UK other than asylum can only be granted from within the country if you hold an existing long term status. So if you're visiting as a tourist you can't then decide to apply for a spouse visa or even a working holiday or student visa without leaving the country first. If you're already on a student visa or a work visa or similar you can change categories without having to leave.

The graduate visa is essentially an extension to the student visa with slightly different permissions - it makes sense that you can only apply to extend if you're in country and you view it from that lens.

The historic reason behind all this is that there used to be a substantial difference between being granted "leave to enter" and "leave to remain" (out of country vs in country applications). Leave to enter used to be granted by embassies etc and the foreign office, but leave to remain was granted by the home office. Now the home office handles everything in the UK centrally so the distinction is not significant.

It's very true that retirement means losing many of the fun perks associated with a high-flying career, but you have to have those perks in the first place.

Even here on HN, many of us are living fairly ordinary lives, perhaps working on cool technology, but I think even in our fairly exclusive club, not all that many of us have PAs and frequent high-class work travel, even at the apex of our careers.

For those who have all those things and lose them it can be very profound. For a lot of people in that position they spend almost all of their time working in some sense or other, and retirement ends all that. I think that's why people in super successful careers often end up doing advisory work or ending up on boards, so they can keep some of the perks with less of the commitment.

What needs to happen is a sensible evaluation of the candidate's and employer's mutual suitability. We've had systems to do this in various ways for decades/centuries. What AI has enabled is a kind of shotgun approach to hiring that benefits nobody. The solution to this issue is more/better human interaction, not "agent-to-agent" communication.

I recently bought a sample for a NUC-style board that contains an N355 processor, ram, and disk in a little kit. In the couple of weeks between when I put the PO in for the sample and the time it was delivered it had gone up in price from ~£600 to ~£1000. That might be a huge difference in BOM costs for a given product based on that design.

Real-terms prices for embedded computers must now be 2-4x what they were in 2020 for "similar" (i3, i5, i7, though I know there have been substantial improvements since then) positions in the market due to inflation and price gouging.

It's terribly difficult to keep up. This impacts far more than just AI. IoT devices, scientific instruments, kiosk systems etc have all skyrocketed in BOM costs because of this. Almost everything contains RAM, and a ~2x increase in an already expensive component might scupper a whole design.

I think there are very few roles where someone has a nice clean set of inputs and outputs and a clear connection between them. Software development (at times) is amongst the cleanest, because all the inputs are typically computer friendly, and I think that's why GenAI has had a lot of traction in our industry.

I therefore believe that even with incredibly advanced AI, there will still be a huge amount of work to because the world simply isn't as neat as people imagine it is. In other industries this will be even more true.

I've evangelised using Tailscale at our company and the 100+(20 * user) limit was very comfortable for us at our level of scale. Cutting that to 50 + "contact sales for pricing" means that our use-case is no longer supported. We use Tailscale as the control plane for remote access to embedded devices we ship around the world - we use tagged devices far more than user devices. I think most tech-focussed companies will also have far more tagged devices than user devices. Anything that discourages us from tagging a server or a random dev machine and putting it on Tailscale will reduce our use of the service and ultimately reduces the "stickiness" that you are probably aiming for.

I also think capping Tailscale SSH to 5 devices on the standard plan kneecaps the value. It's probably in the top 3 most "magical" features of Tailscale. Who has only 5 servers?

I'm happy to pay more if that's what is needed but I resent the "contact sales for pricing". I waste so much of my time jumping through sales hoops with vendors and have a strong preference for vendors that will openly tell me on their website how much my use case will cost.

Increasing the quality of the panopticon has all the downsides we talk about regularly on HN, and if you can't do anything useful for society with the data, it only ends up hurting people.

I’d love a similar document for ARM NEON as well.