Bob Morales posted:

Actually what you should do is get good at something else, anything else, and find a job where you can combine IT and whatever the other skill is, then you can fool a company into thinking you’re real important and pay you more money than IT alone

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

I see what you did there.

Bob Morales posted:

Deal with it for a couple more months?

jaegerx posted:

Starlink is another vanity project. Like those stupid google balloons.

The Fool posted:

The latency is poo poo too, Starlink is a gimmick and won’t amount to anything

captaingimpy posted:

I'm hoping it will succeed, though I'm really interested in how they're keeping the latency down. I think it's very possible that there have been leaps in technology that the current satellite providers haven't deployed for their customers due to cost/demand/whatever.

Bob Morales posted:

How many subscribers will it be able to handle?

Proteus Jones posted:

Same. Due to LEO, satellites will have a functional life of around 5 years before they burn up in the upper atmosphere, resulting in a phenomenal churn rate of anywhere between 12,000 and 40,000 replacements annually (of course they need 12-14 more launches just to meet their minimum coverage targets for this year alone, so oops). So just in normal fleet replacement operations you're looking at billions of dollars a year. To break even, I saw a number of 1500 subscribers *per* node at maximum fleet size being floated about. So that's 60 million subs needed globally right out of the gate.

"Wikipedia" posted:

The initial 12,000 satellites are planned to orbit in three orbital shells:

First: 1,440 in a 550 kilometres (340 mi) altitude shell,
Second: 2,825 Ku-band and Ka-band spectrum satellites at 1,110 kilometres (690 mi),
Third: 7,500 V-band satellites at 340 kilometres (210 mi).

Proteus Jones posted:

You're not.

That's why this won't work.

They way this is supposed to work, large constellations in a line of sight mesh network zooming around in LEO for low latency to large core routers situated around the globe.. To maintain the kind of density and service he claims, will always be running at a deficit. Push them to a higher orbit, and then you gain functional life but lose latency. Make them larger to meet bandwidth demands, functional life decreases and material costs increase by A LOT.

A lot of genius-smart people have tried to design a high-bandwidth, low latency satellite network. And physics gets in the way every time.

And that's not even getting into the fact that none of the units in orbit have any redundant systems. If it goes dark they plan to "just" replace them like it's trip to the hardware store and not a millions of dollars launch. Even if you work the replacements into a batch going up during normal replenishment, you still have degraded service while a hunk of metal is floating around potentially occluding you're line of site laser coms.

jaegerx posted:

His cars suck and he sucks. SpaceX was a one-off

Neddy Seagoon posted:

It's a complete waste of money when you could just drive a fibre cable out to those rural areas for a fraction of the upkeep and logistics.

devmd01 posted:

I’ve hit burnout. It usually takes me a couple of weeks to realize it but I’m definitely there. I just don’t give a gently caress about anything I have assigned to me. It also doesn’t help that I’ve had multiple projects and issues dragging on far longer than they should due to various (legit) reasons. I’m getting things done but not nearly as effectively as I normally do.

I have a good boss and he’ll listen and try to help if I talk to him about it but honestly I just need to be a loving adult and power through, we’re all pretty drat busy at the moment.

Internet Explorer posted:

Not unique to doctors. Lots of "important people" somehow think carrying a laptop back and forth is below them.

Gort posted:

The US system just seems the worst of all worlds

Honey Im Homme posted:

As a British expat, I could give 2 shits about tax not being included on price tags when my income doubled overnight moving here.

Bob Morales posted:

Believe it or not some employers fully pay health insurance premiums. So the most you'd spend out of pocket is $0-2500 for a deductible.

Thanks Ants posted:

UK wages in general are pretty loving garbage

GreenNight posted:

There was too many hops.

SubjectVerbObject posted:

My boss actually looks like a wizard, full grey beard, etc. We had a weekend issue that he had to get involved with and he was grumbling that it took away from his DND time. I IM'ed him and said, "I knew you were a Wizard!" and he replied, "Sorcerer!"

Vargatron posted:

Taking an entry level programming course at age 31 is humbling.

Bob Morales posted:

Jfc 3/5 of my department has covid including me

Gort posted:

You have COVID, dude. You're loving sick.

Internet Explorer posted:

Oh, well if there's not enough space then nevermind.

The Fool posted:

skipdogg posted:

I'm not unhappy at my current job, but I have major reservations about the outlook of the company. Our long time CEO was recently fired, and private equity folks appointed a new CEO who's heavily incentivized to make the stock price go up. He has a history of chopping up companies and selling them piecemeal. I've been through this playbook before. Costs and benefits are going to be cut, and honestly I don't see my current team surviving the inevitable downsizing that will probably come next year. Who needs to architect new solutions when you're not spending any money?

Zotix posted:

Final interview today, and I might have blown it right at the finish line. At the part where there were any other questions I asked about opportunities to grow within the organization. One of the interviewers said that's kind of a red flag.

Bob Morales posted:

No her cancer came back

CLAM DOWN posted:

I donate 10k to charity every year already, chief

unknown posted:

Tell them to move. They know they're in the boonies and that's why they saved tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars being there.

Otherwise, yeah, hotspots and cellphones if the wifi provider sucks.

Sometimes you can work with the providers, pay more and get a licensed frequency point to point wireless connection to the nearest tower. But that's $$

Internet Explorer posted:

Or your SA posting history, for that matter.

Internet Explorer posted:

There are certainly bosses who are better than others. I've been someone's boss for most of my career and I have always tried to be the best boss I can be. That's not always been easy to square with being a socialist, but as I have told other leftist friends who were growing in their career, would you rather work for a conservative or a communist? Because I know which my answer is, and I think until we manage to win a better world, we need more leftists running things.

If your boss is earnestly doing right by you and the other people that work for them, that's good. Hopefully you'll do the same when you reach that level.

And you'll encourage your coworkers to unionize.

LochNessMonster posted:

Because a raise is better than no raise. If that raise still means you're underpaid by all means search for a better opportunity.

Over the years there's hardly any loyalty left from companies to employees. The moment it's more profitable to give you your pink slip than it is to keep you on board, you're out. Employers pay for skills and employees do their best the least amount they can get away with to deliver what's being asked. If someone else is willing to pay more for that and the job/commute/tech stack/whatever interests me more employees should seek employment somewhere else.

It's a 2 way street and the fact that you can get fired at will means no company should expect any loyalty either. FAANG companies know this and this is why they're paying boat money to keep people on board.

GreenNight posted:

Excel is Microsoft's password manager.

Umbreon posted:

I know basically nothing about them, should I legitimately decline the interview? If so, why?

klosterdev posted:

Do Oracle databases even offer any significant advantage anymore? Seems impossible Oracle could manage to stay in the same position of technological superiority while being so lovely to its customers for at least a couple decades.

klosterdev posted:

Or is it because software patents and lawyer army.