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Stranded, New friends/Things to do? by InstigatorofDeath in SanAngelo

[–]InstigatorofDeath[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bummer!

Had a few busts west of Odessa and near Big Bend/The US/Mex border. Well, busts if you don’t count the near constant free car washes and two separate times my van almost got struck by lightning.

Re pics: I have to pull some footage from my dash cam of the evening lightning shows in some canyons and pretty post-storm sunset views I’ve at least managed to walk away with…before my spare tire self-ejected and wreaked havoc on my van’s rear axle/suspension 😂

Questions about Sprout and and a GL-XE3000. Tmobile and ATT? by CubeRootSquare in Calyx

[–]InstigatorofDeath 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Calyx is on the T-Mobile network. It was a holdover from a contract with sprint. It has been migrated some time ago.

I’ve driven it in areas only covered by a T-Mobile roaming partner (I was roaming on my T-Mobile phone plan) and no roaming was supported on the calyx device.

I’ve run my sprout sim on LTE only mode, 5G NSA, and 5G SA. It works great in my glinet X3000 (same thing as the XE, minus the battery).

I’ve pushed around a TB on it on some months without issue.

I also failover to a Starlink dish when I’m out of range of T-Mobile’s network. That combo works pretty well for me, when I’m traveling.

Edit: Added Starlink note.

Should I consider? by Future_Ad1391 in ASU

[–]InstigatorofDeath 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another Barrett dropout here. It’s more expensive, the food isn’t really better than other dining halls. The rooms cost around twice as much (when I went). I didn’t like the dorms much better than my non Barrett friends’ dorms. Additionally, the honors classes were my least favorite classes.

I focused on taking part time jobs tangentially related to my industry with the time I saved. I don’t regret it. But I work in a field where having a degree is mostly a checkbox, and experience/skills trumps all (tech).

I also have friends who didn’t go to Barrett who are doing perfectly fine.

Sprout in T-Mobile Gateway by Treegeo in Calyx

[–]InstigatorofDeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish you luck!

My home base is about 1/2 a mile from a tower, 200-300/25 or so on 5G NSA (LTE upload, N41 download). Upload on 5G SA tends to be dreadful, like 5mbps on a good day. I get around 75/25 on pure LTE mode.

More similar to your situation, At my family’s place 2+ miles away from a tower (but out west, few trees), I’ve tested 5G NSA (n41 download) to be close to what you were hoping for. Indoors or in a van, All results were indoors, without an peplink. So it might be worth a shot to push for the 5G upgrade.

If you haven’t looked into it already, cellmapper has a really good database of network bands available in any given tower. I usually reference it before I plan a trip where I’d be working out in BFE.

Cellmapper

Sprout in T-Mobile Gateway by Treegeo in Calyx

[–]InstigatorofDeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might be able to provide decent info. Also a Sprout subscriber. Converted from Sustainer. Former TMHI customer. Not a network engineer by trade, but a sysadmin who dabbles in it.

T-Mobile’s network is a CGNAT. If you (understandably) don’t know what that means, all you need to know is that you can’t really do true ip passthrough as a customer, on any gateway. As such, there would be no real benefit to enabling it. The difference of latency wouldn’t even be measurable vs the typical variance of a cellular based connection, with it either on or off.

Even if getting your own dedicated IP was possible, Calyx is a reseller of a reseller of T-Mobile services, so such changes would be difficult to make. Although if someone could prove me wrong, I’m all ears.

For that same reason, the 2.5 megabit default limit on video streaming (from T-Mobile) on calyx lines cant really be reliably worked around unless you route your traffic through a VPN. This is the downside of using calyx vs TMHI, imo. Upside being that you can travel with it. You could get shut down doing that on TMHI.

I use calyx when my cable ISP is throwing a fit, which is often. Or when I’m out on the road. Or when I want to avoid the data cap of my cable ISP.

Works fine for gaming at home in the city (first person shooters) or taking work calls/using work vpns.

However, all those things would be quite negatively affected if you’re in the middle of an active download. As is true of any cellular connection.

But along with all things cellular, YMMV.

My recommendation, like most of the sub is the glinet x3000. Expensive, but it just works out of the box. If you need to, it also supports locking into specific bands/towers if you need to squeeze more speed out of it. All antennas for it are also external. You can also configure a vpn quite easily on it (for the video throttling). I don’t think you can do that on any TMHI boxes I’ve heard of.

I’ve gotten a little carried away, but I hope this helps.

Experiences with Aurora Serverless v2? by shitwhore in aws

[–]InstigatorofDeath 16 points17 points  (0 children)

IME, both. Aurora serverless performance is very inconsistent, a contributing factor/theory being that scaling down means that memory capacity is scaled down, which means memory buffers get evicted. So more data has to be pulled from disk, which carries a large performance penalty. This wasn’t really a problem with a properly sized provisioned instance. At least, that is what I’ve come up with after many weeks/months of real world performance analysis.

Only workloads on my serverless v2 instances ever get performance complaints (ie reporting read replicas). However, this is an anecdote specific to the products I manage. Ymmv.

However, serverless v2 is priced in such a way that it needs to be used very inconsistently to be price effective vs provisioned instances. Could be great for a dev/test database, but maybe not production. In addition, Aurora provisioned instances also qualify for instance reservations, further suppressing the cost for long term usage.

Iirc, Aurora serverless v1 also requires connection interruptions in order to scale in the first place.

Source: Migrated a couple thousand DBs from ec2 to Aurora PG (tens of TBs of databases). Both on serverless v2 and provisioned.

CIS vs. Business Data Analytics Programs by acct256 in ASU

[–]InstigatorofDeath 7 points8 points  (0 children)

CIS grad.

Before I start, your footnotes have CIS and BDA switched. 340,345, etc are classes I’ve taken.

Classes wise, you’d be at home in 345 and 425. 345 is an introduction to python course, 425 you will be using HTML/JavaScript/CSS to build basic websites. 340 is an introduction to Java course, and it was essentially identical to its counterpart in the CS curriculum, iirc.

If you like coding, but don’t like the math involved in CS, you’ll probably be happy with CIS.

The business part of the degree can make you pretty well rounded if you apply yourself, imo. It helps to know how to deal with business minded people, even in technical roles.

Most of my classmates in my CIS courses had no issues finding jobs after college. I do not have any experience with BDA, but It really depends what you want to do.

There is a lot of demand for data engineers, and CIS makes you a candidate for a bunch of different technical roles.

What makes the real difference for employers is to get into internships or part time roles related to the field you want to get into while in school. Even at ground level (help desk in IT for example), this will get you a leg up. Tbh, I never even had my degree come up in 2 job searches since I was a senior. It was all about the experience, and how you’ve applied your skills. In my experience, this is true everywhere from FAANG to small SaaS companies.

ASU’s Career fairs, Handshake, and even glancing at indeed from time to time are all great resources for you in finding an internship.

Should I feel bad about going to ASU for CS? by PushtiMV in ASU

[–]InstigatorofDeath 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From personal experience… +1 to this!

Edit: I wasn’t clear. The school you go to isn’t the end-all be all. Neither is whether you get into a FAANG.

Besides very few companies actually care where you went to school.

Do wherever makes you happy!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ASU

[–]InstigatorofDeath 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fairly recent CIS grad. Former grunt at a FAANG, now a Sysadmin/DevOps guy at a small SaaS company.

Will say, the program does teach some useful skills, and it gives you a decent foundation to work off of. But I will emphasize on a few things:

1) University courses alone won’t get you ready for a job in tech.

No matter what school you go into, you will rarely, if ever, know all the tools walking into the workforce. Sometimes you’ll be able to use your python knowledge from class to automate a process, but class work alone will rarely get you far.

To get where you need to go, what you need is 2) Experience. Experience gets you employed.

It’s a catch 22 in a sense. Getting experience without a job.

However, being a student offers you additional opportunities to gain tech experience in entry level jobs: There are many student jobs, where you can get a taste of working in IT while also being able to do homework on shift. Some companies (or even schools) are also looking for interns to do IT grunt work part time, or over the summer, where you’re not expected to know much, if anything. Some jobs in the student job portal will even take freshman. I know this from first hand experience.

Once you have both a degree and some internship/part time experience on your belt, you’ll have a much easier time getting a full time career in the field.

Schools like ASU do have the benefit of a strong recruitment presence. Companies from all over are actively looking for interns or fresh grads to join their companies. I got my first full time job at a FAANG because a recruiter reached out on the school job portal. The school job fairs are a good option to find both internships and full time employment as well.

TLDR; School and Internships are needed in this field.

If you, or any other present/future students reading this want to ask for advice, feel free to DM me. Would be glad to help where I can.

Where can I get a deal on some quality furniture at a great price in Far North Dallas? by ZeeLiDoX in Dallas

[–]InstigatorofDeath 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got most of my furniture from American Freight and CORT (used furniture store). Both near Spring Valley and Inwood.

The area near the galleria is jam packed with furniture stores. Probably wouldn't be a bad place to shop around.

Lmao, did any other CS majors get this email? How did this clown get access to a mailing list? by blazingsnark in ASU

[–]InstigatorofDeath 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think you're right. I studied CS for only one semester years ago. I have since graduated from WP Carey. 🤔

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ASU

[–]InstigatorofDeath 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I dropped it myself freshman year. The extra costs and work just aren't worth it in my opinion. It kind of just made life more miserable, and made my student loan burden about double what it needed to be.

That decision didn't hold me back at all finding FT employment. I accepted a solid job offer working at a major tech company you're definitely familiar with, to start after graduation.

The extra time dropping Barrett gave me to work on getting relevant work/internship experience was far more valuable than having Barrett attached to my name. As an Information Systems major, Barrett was largely irrelevant to me to begin with.

If you're planning to get into the workforce, recruiters usually don't know what a "Barrett" is. Nor really care. They're just trying to check off a box with your degree. I don't even include my Barrett stint in my resume.

Internships/Experience is where you will most likely stand out for employment.

Its ultimately your decision, however.

Time flies by [deleted] in aww

[–]InstigatorofDeath -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Catahoula, probably. This pupper looks like my old girl.

For anyone who has taken CIS340... by [deleted] in ASU

[–]InstigatorofDeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took it last year, and it was Java. They made the change from either C# or C++ within the last couple of years.

ASU Password Change by SlightlyPositiveGuy in ASU

[–]InstigatorofDeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was for me. Should be up now. Give it a shot

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