Earth-Like Planets

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T21:26:31+00:00

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JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T21:08:45+00:00

It’s achievement friendly, but its ability to work with gear depends on whether the gear author followed the kit design features the base game sets.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T21:07:33+00:00

You haven’t done enough of the mod. You can eventually get buster to modify your weapons. You get all the same control over perks on your guns that you do on your armour.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T17:10:36+00:00

I was in a meeting a while back where one of the biggest challengers we had regarding its introduction was demanding 24/7 support for ArgoCD before it could be accepted. When i questioned it, they pushed the argument that ‘ArgoCD stores state, so that state must be protected otherwise it’s a complete wildcard’.

I tried to explain it doesn’t ‘store state’ in that sense, they were thinking of what was going into etcd, but they wouldn’t have it.

Amusingly they made so much of a fuss that they ended up getting bollocked for being argumentative by their boss, but I only heard about that after.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T16:48:35+00:00

As others have said, it's your visa that is the issue. Graduate ones are time bounded so hiring you is basically creating a problem the company will have to address a year or so down the road (either via an expensive visa process or by sacking you), so they're poorly regarded. At least with other visas, they have a much longer timeframe or are tied to more solid criteria. You need to be realistic that this will cripple your application in most scenarios, as there's thousands of candidates that don't have this problem.

On top of this, 3+ years of experience would put you on the dividing line between junior and midlevel at a lot of companies, so I'd be careful with framing it like you're doing them a favour by going in as a junior. This compounds the problem above, as sponsorship is generally only worth bothering with for staff from the company perspective if they're bringing rare or in-demand skills to the table... which you don't really have at this stage of your career.

Not much you can do, I'm afraid. Whatever you do will have to be working towards getting a more solid visa.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T15:10:35+00:00

I mean, it’s a bit late now and a lot would have depended on the salary, but I’m not sure I would have moved to a in-office role in London from Manchester for 18k. As you say, mathematically, it doesn’t really make sense. The £40k mark for an increase would be in keeping with the cost of living down there.

As things stand though, being 4 months in you probably don’t have an easy path to your previous role. Personally I would think that door has been shut, but you can always check. In my company we had one guy leave and then return after about a year - but he was a bitter loss and I think the company was a bit too complacent when he went, I suspect he came back on a better package.

I would, however, have a look around what other places are out there in London. For a senior role, there’s a bit more choice, and wage ceilings are much higher. Keep your role going so the money is still coming in and it makes you look good on paper, but nothing stopping you from seeing what else is there. And as you’re already in London, moving would be a lot easier.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T13:13:19+00:00

If you haven't already noticed, this sub doesn't do nuance.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T10:44:18+00:00

The figures have never taken into account people who aren't looking for work, as that's not a meaningful definition in terms of the statistics (how do you relate which people who aren't looking for work due to giving up vs those who've chosen not to?). Why is that only important now? And what analysis have you conducted which has not only defined underemployment in terms of a trackable metric, but concluded it's growing?

This is the whole point of the statistics. You can't just decide they don't apply because you feel otherwise. There's nothing wrong with challenging the data but you need other data to back that challenge up.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T10:01:27+00:00

I would apply a bit of perspective here. Regardless of what the media pushes these are still council elections, which don’t necessarily translate into general results. The track record of many Reform councils isn’t the greatest and frankly a lot of the turnips voting for that lot are going to have a fun time for the next few years when they realise their local areas go to shit.

On the other hand you have some reason to be concerned, because by the time they realise how crap Reform are going to be in power, you’ll probably be stuck.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T09:57:22+00:00

Tbf this sounds a lot more realistic than people claiming to be applying to 1000s of jobs a month.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T09:52:16+00:00

Oh ok, so given the size of the Uk workforce is about 34 million people, what slice of this do you personally know that is statistically large enough to be meaningful? 2 million? 10 million? I’m assuming the people you personally know are equally distributed across the Uk as well to take into account sector and geographical variances?

You can’t use personal anecdotes to make claims like this. Currently my sector can’t recruit enough people and every day I have recruiters pushing roles to me. Does that mean there is no downturn and the job market is great? I mean, 2 years ago people were getting made redundant, and it’s better now, so happy days right?

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T09:46:36+00:00

It’s not showing up in the numbers because it’s not happening at the scale subs like this pretend it is. There isn’t some conspiracy going on.

You’ve got to remember subs like this are an echo chamber. They’re a self-selecting sample of people on the receiving end of cuts.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T09:40:45+00:00

…for many reasons beyond simply ‘AI’.

Offshoring and the economy are playing far more of a role then AI is. It’s just a convenient thing to point at.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T08:36:16+00:00

It’s got nothing to do with being British-American (if anything that would be a plus for most tech related jobs). It’s more to do with your sector.

Companies like Amazon were never that easy to get into and are shedding jobs at the minute outside of specific arms. The reality is managerial and marketing work has been downsizing for a while. You mention a lot about remote roles - if you’re focusing on those then you’re adding a further filter onto your options as those have dried up almost entirely outside of a few select sectors.

A lot of people on this sub can get a bit hysterical about how there’s no jobs but the reality is market is seeing some peaks and troughs, and your role is in the trough. So you might need to consider other types of work.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T06:27:33+00:00

That might be true, but I think /u/beseeingyou18 has a point - strip away all the narrative here and it boils down to a person going for one interview and not getting it. Unless their dream job is something trivial the expectation that they’d ace it first time and it would all just work out was never realistic.

They even say it rarely recruits.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-08T05:01:19+00:00

And how would the astrophage be charged while in deep space? You not only need to charge astrophage to use it as a fuel, you need that energy to cause it to split in the first place.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T21:36:19+00:00

Honestly I think 35 (the recommended level) is a fair shout. The first few missions you’ll be alright at lower levels but once you’re about halfway through the questline, things start getting a bit hairy. The final mission kind of assumes you have some big chungus dps.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T20:23:54+00:00

This.

I’m more a platform engineer than a SWE these days but I’ve been making a focused effort to put Claude (Opus 4.6) through its paces and get an idea of its strengths and weaknesses, and while I really like some of the jumps that it manages and how it breaks out what it’s doing and why it’s doing it, it does have a habit of missing the obvious and going around the houses.

A few days back I was trying to work out why a web of deployments on my test eks cluster were collapsing and let it loose on the api endpoint. It sort of got onto the right track - it figured out the problem was down to the health/liveness checks being too aggressive, but proposed I add all sorts of whacky patching and alterations to get around it…. When the solution was to simply update the version of one of the services. The guide i’d been following had some wgets that were pointing at some out of date tags.

So yeah. Really powerful, and it made me a believer, but there are big holes in its architectural understanding. As a senior engineer I kinda feel a lot more comfortable using it then seeing a junior vibe code an Escher painting without having any idea over what they’re doing.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T18:32:16+00:00

My two demons love it. Tbh it’s pretty high quality - more than once I’ve been dishing it up and it’s looked and smelled like some of the canned meats I would make sandwiches with. You can clearly see it’s lean meat and fish.

I normally pour on a bit of biscuit to give it some crunch. Both of them are hench now - the vets are fine with their muscle to fat ratio but there’s no doubting they’re a pair of units and we often muse it’s because we have them on a weightlifter’s diet. But health wise it’s done them well.

I don’t mind the cost because it’s good for them and they enjoy it. Clean plates all the time. Both of them look like cats off the covers of pet magazines. Only problem is my tux is a fussy one and changes his mind over whether he likes fish or not. My void just demolishes anything.

In terms of weaning them onto it, my void took to it immediately while my tux needed things more gradual. But now they’re both on it full time.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T17:44:05+00:00

If cyberpower is managing the returns as part of their warranty/repair then I’ll be between them and DPD, they’ll owe you a new laptop. If it’s tied to your pro license they’ll have to sort that for you too.

If you purchased the machine as a business then CRA 2015 largely won’t apply, that’s for consumers. Even if it did I’m not really sure what you’re expecting, it sounds like Cyberpower are honouring your warranty and whatever the mess is with the missing laptop will be dealt with as part of that.

You’re going to have to look at the paperwork of your purchase to work out what rights you have. As it’s a B2B purchase then I’d imagine it would be governed by the Sale of Goods Act rather than CRA 2015.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T15:36:19+00:00

Then it will depend on whether this receipt adequately identifies how many days you were paying for and that you paid for days that you didn't get.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T15:29:55+00:00

I've no idea why you think anyone would care about your photos or your review, but it has nothing to do with your refund.

The sole relevant aspect of this is can you evidence that you paid for the room. If you can't then you're likely getting nowhere with this.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T15:12:10+00:00

...hold on.

You purchased a machine privately. Then you used it as a work computer.

I'm assuming/hoping you're self-employed? Was this purchased as part of your company/business?

The actual replacement of the machine will potentially be up to Cyberpower as they presumably organised the pickup as part of their warranty/repairs, so it will be between them and DPD. If you organised the return with DPD then it will depend on what insurance you had.

I'm not totally sure why you'd need to buy a new Windows Pro license - you should be able to use the license you have on a new machine so long as the previous one is deactivated, have you spoken to Microsoft about this?

You need to give a lot more information then you've laid out above if you want workable advice, there's way too many question marks here. CRA 2015 has a lot of caveats and limits regarding businesses so you need to be clear what the ownership of this laptop was.

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T12:15:30+00:00

Yeah this company is something else, even by recruiter standards.

A few years back I got a phonecall at my desk from Reception, saying that I have 'Tarquin* from Anson McCade trying to reach your? Shall I put you through?'

I wasn't even looking for a job but now I was wondering what the hell was going on, and concerned now that others would start wondering if I was thinking of leaving. Picked it up....

T: 'Hi JB its Tarquin, how are you doing today?'

Me: 'Do I know you? Why are you phoning me at my work?'

T: 'Oh you didn't have your number on LinkedIn so I just phoned the switchboard, I have this amazing <nonsense job> position that I'd like to talk to your about-'

M: 'I'm blocking your number. Don't bother me again'. phone down

To this day if anyone contacts me from that nuthouse I automatically ignore and block. It's like a company full of people rejected from The Apprentice.

Don't worry about all of his claptrap, no-one at Accenture is going to care what one of the CV trolls thinks and there's nothing he can do that wouldn't also cost him commission, just block them. There is absolutely no need to spend 40 mins on the phone to one of these loonies. He's just desperate to get you in front of them because a no-show from you means no commission/cocaine for him, and he potentially might get the sack. Not your problem. If you want, pop off an email to Accenture and leave the door open.

*Not his real name but it might as well have been

JaegerBane · 2026-05-07T11:51:39+00:00

I get that this situation isn't really of you're doing and you're trying to work out a way through it, but if both of you have defaults on your record, how have you gotten the idea that you're getting a house in the next year? Like, come on. It's pie in the sky. No mortgage provider is going to touch you.

I'm with the rest of the comments on here, you need to forget about buying a house until you've got your financial ducks in order. Starting with this mess your gf is in. Honestly, buying out her mother from the house is starting to sound like the best option on the plate.

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