There were a lot of people back in the early '90s who thought cell service would never be widely adopted because of the cost. It was clear you didn't need a mobile phone -- we'd all gotten long just fine without one.
I have been flying a lot post Covid between it being a hobby of ours and consulting - I’m currently Platinum Medallion on Delta.
Frequent flyers choose their airlines for a lot of reasons - which airline has the most direct flights from their city, who has the best frequent flyer program, etc. The latency of the Internet is seldom a factor or the difference between 10Mbps and 50Mbps.
Non frequent flyers just buy the cheapest flights. The major three airlines make money off of business travelers, business and first class flights and credit cards.
If I’m flying for work and Starlink is that much better, quite possibly. My wife’s experience with other in-flight WiFi providers has been quite poor, often to the point that it barely works. Having said that, neither of us has been on a flight with Starlink yet.
No but the airline might choose starlink. I think a gogo business install is on the hundreds of thousands and annual costs in the tens of thousand for their Eutelesat based system.
My 2019 iPad Air with 3GB RAM runs it fine including multi window mode. That by itself makes it the most significant upgrade in at least the last 10 years
Funny enough, my favorite version has been the SNES version. Despite all the limitations, it's got built-in controller support and also has a map! Maybe I'll try to gran the mac-for-pc version.
That caused me to go down a rabbit hole. The //GS version was released 3 years after the computer was discontinued and you basically had to have a sound card.
I remember it running OK on my LCII with a 68030/40Mhz accelerator and later on a PowerMac 6100/60.
This is provable false. First in B2B software the user is not the buyer. The reasons the buyer buys software is usually big because how well it performs but for a lot of other reasons.
What do you do? You realize that neither you nor your family have gotten over your addictions to food and shelter and you exchange your labor for money so you can support your addiction.
Your company never hired you to “code”. They hired you to use your now 20 years worth of experience to either make more money than it costs to employ you or to save more money than it costs to employ you.
My advice is to “touch grass” get off of your computer and don’t make your job your identity. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, your job would send “thoughts and prayers” to your family, have an open request for your replacement before your body got cold and only think of you when your name appears in a “gif blame”.
Turn off your computer - go to the gym, spend time with your family and friends and realize there is a life outside of computers.
Source: Professional developer for 30 years and before that 10 years as a hobbyist. I have never in the 30 years since I graduated from college written a line of code that I haven’t gotten paid for
I was a fitness instructor part time for the first 15 years as an adult and a runner, stop for 8 years to take care of my (step)sons and enjoy my marriage. With my children being grown, my wife and I travel and just hang out (I work remotely) and meet interesting people.
There is so much more to life than pecking at a computer.
Cloud hosted call centers using LLMs is one of my specialties. While I use an LLM for more nuanced sentiment analysis, I definitely use a list of keywords as a first level filter.
Did you fight for raises? If your manager told you choose 30% to cut would you have? Of course you would, your “caring” meant nothing. Your first loyalty is to the people who decide your paycheck
And as a line level manager I don’t believe you are a “bad person”. Line level managers are “powerless”. You don’t control head count, budgets, company wide decisions to reduce staff etc
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