The comparison to subsea cables can’t be made yet, because Starlink doesn’t work that way yet. You are routed up to a reachable satellite maybe at most one or two hops over the inter satellite laser links to other satellites (but it’s hard to confirm anything concrete), and then quickly back down to the next reachable ground station. From there it’s fiberoptics.

Geostationary satelites at 38000±2000km distance take around 125ms up and the same back down for about 250ms for you to reach a server, maybe you were thinking of that. My uncle has that on his farm in Australia. It’s bad, you can’t have a good IP based phone call because the delay is too long, people keep starting to talk at the same time.

Starlink flies in low earth orbit 450 - 500 km, so maybe up to 1500 km distance from you if its at the edge of reachability, for a worst case. That’s 5 ms, or 10 ms from you to the server. At those low distances the buffering overhead of their system will dominate like with Wifi. I don’t know how it works for Starlink specifically.

I think the real killer issue for starlink and realtime tasks is the constantly changing latency, and the handoff between satellites.

I have a coworker occasionally on starlink. The big issue with both videoconferencing and I would assume also gaming, is the handover. Each satellite is in view only for around 90 second, then the antenna hast to switch to the next. This means that your latency keeps fluctuating and you drop packets every 90 seconds during the handover. It sounds miserable.

Holy shit that’s low. So to get even just 8 weeks you need to have worked there for 5 years. And this from a rich company.

I work for a small company of 150 people. I’ve got 3 months of notice period in my contract, though it’s going both ways. This protection started immediately after my trial period ended, which was also 3 months long. That’s considered normal here in Switzerland for office jobs. The minimum by law after your first year of employment would be 2 months.

Just for reference, in the European context the Swiss labour laws are considered quite weak. Market liberalism is comparatively strong here.

That’s not what they said in the quote in the article.

“Per the Plan, you are eligible for Enhanced severance pay benefits of: four weeks of base salary for your first year of employment, plus one week’s salary for each additional year of employment, based on your most recent hire date, up to a combined maximum of 26 weeks of base salary.”

I remember editing the hosts file to prevent an online license check after applying a crack for Adobe back when I was a child. Seems Adobe decided it is payback time lol.

We use rack mounted LiFePO for some of our network nodes that don’t have local facility provided UPS. But I do notice Lead Acid often as I visit various small datacenters. My guess would be that Lithium is still more niche

Yea there is a lot of bad translations out there including movie subtitles. Here in Switzerland they usually have double subtitles in the cinema if you want to watch the original dub. So you can be annoyed at both the French and German translations at the same time.

Games and Websites tend to be worse though. Yesterday I followed a link to a Heise article, and linked was the English version. It was genuinley hard to grasph in some paragraphs. Switching to German made it much clearer. Not because I understand German better, my grasp of English is good. It was because the English writing was just bad, and didn’t convey the original intent of the German version.

Most often it’s not that the translations are wrong in content, but just contain very unnatural use of the target language.

That the various new and inventive grid scale energy storage solutions people are trying out won’t end up being better than just building big chemical batteries. Sodium Ion will probably be good enough and cheap enough.

Can anyone fact check this

You could?

But I guess I will.

I can’t find any good source for him having bought Amazon forest. So that’s probably made up. However he seems to be buying and donating to conservation wooded land in the Appalachians.

https://www.treehugger.com/fortnite-founder-sweeney-invests-millions-forest-conservation-north-carolina-4868672

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2016/11/08/box-creek-wilderness-permanently-protected/93443704/

https://www.thegamer.com/fortnite-creator-epic-founder-time-sweeney-spending-millions-buying-up-protecting-forests/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/meet-tim-sweeney-the-epic-games-billionaire-who-quietly-bought-50000-acres-of-forest-to-save-it-from-developers/articleshow/129589611.cms

https://appalachian.org/sahc-south-yellow-mountain-preserve/

In that last one he is being thanked for a particularly large land donation.

If I had driven a truck, tgere would’ve been laws for me to drive normal hours. This was a cowboy job.

This year the EU rules on driving times and rest times start applying to delivery vans too. I guess the sort of time abuse you experienced was quite common.

I’m not sure the janitor would encounter those less than the radio operator…

At night.

This was neither a good attack, nor a good false flag attack. It’s just a nothing burger.

Retroactively granting him the 2020 term, and in exchange terminating the current one would be a fine deal.

Maintenance went so quickly we managed to travel back home in the same day and don’t need to stay at the hotel

Deep Rock Galactic was pretty fun for my group

I got a Technoline WL1030 meter for my room and whenever it reaches 1500 ppm CO2 I open the window until its back down below about 600-700, then I close it to not waste more heat than necessary

Edit: To give some more context, my room is 14 m^2 and about 2.50m high so roughly 35 m^3 of air minus some occupied by furniture call it 30 m^3 maybe. It is a modern house with good insulation and energy retention rating (built to the “Minergie” standard we have here in Switzerland), but without forced air, so not much air is exchanged when the windows are closed. With this I end up roughly having to exchange the air every three hours or so.

Haha the random occurrence of Altorf is fun.

Altdorf is the capital of our canton of Uri. Which is one of the early members of the first alliances that later became Switzerland under Napoleon. There is also a founding myth around Wilhelm Tell, not tenable with modern historical understanding, but still very popular. In that myth Altdorf is an important location too.

The interesting thing is that Altorf is an older spelling that we used to use. Now its Altdorf, literally alt + dorf, old + village, but I guess whoever brought the name to the US did so before the spelling was reformed! Cool detail.

I was recently thinking, this recruitment drive must be heaven for the common proud boys brownshirt.

Who of them wouldn’t sign up, they get to harm immigrants, they get cover from the very top if they catch public attention, they get gear, and they might even get paid for it.

Feels weird to work in Zürich, Switzerland and see Lake Zürich every day, and then read about a random US highschool on the outskirts of Chicago being called “Lake Zurich High School”