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New comment by svobodovic in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

svobodovic — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:14:29 +0000

I don't know how cloud services count usage, but this is certainly not true for telco. I manage several fleets of hundreds/thousands of SIM cards (mostly IoT/M2M applications), and almost every provider counts the data traffic per byte. Different business and use case, I know, but still.

New comment by svobodovic in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

svobodovic — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:36:18 +0000

Depends on how you look at it. For example, the average salary in my Central European country is about 27k USD per year. I work in an IT/telco business and make about a double that. While it may sound very low for US standards, I own a house, a car, and go for a few non-lavish vacations each year with my family (wife makes about a third of my pay). I don't stress about health expenses, and have a good small town community just outside the capital city. People who work in senior management in tech, or work for international corporations can make upwards of 120k yearly, and will have a very comfortable life where I'm at. It can't be directly compared I suppose.

New comment by svobodovic in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

svobodovic — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:28:04 +0000

I know we're not on Reddit, but have to say - username checks out.

New comment by svobodovic in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

svobodovic — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:40:13 +0000

The difference ia larger than let's say just a "dialect". They really are different languages, even though we generally understand each other quite well (younger generations less so). I've heard it's about as different as e. g. Danish and Swedish - not sure if that comparison is helpful.

New comment by svobodovic in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

svobodovic — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:23:11 +0000

How did you come to this conclusion from the previous answer/comment?

New comment by svobodovic in "Just let me select text"

svobodovic — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:43:22 +0000

Yes, I just wanted to reply the same thing. It's a great feature for these use cases (albeit, I too would like to see more universal or friendlier approach to text-selectability in apps).

Additionally, the text copied in this manner can be instantly opened in Clipboard editor (at least on Google Pixel), and when selected again there, it offers even more contextual options, such as translate in one of your installed apps (like Deepl).

That way, you can translate the "non-selectable" text in a very few short taps.