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Seems like it would also not be so wonderful if your remote employees are in rural areas (like the Joshua Tree area I reside in); I don't think I could handle t

Seems like it would also not be so wonderful if your remote employees are in rural areas (like the Joshua Tree area I reside in); I don't think I could handle the latency between keystrokes.

disordinary 3y ago
Surely you have options though? In Rural NZ we have a choice between 4g which runs at about 50mbps and latency of about 15ms and starlink which runs at around 100mbps and has a latency of about 25ms. Both should be good enough for remote work.
- not_alexb 3y ago
  I like how you're implying I haven't worked here for years and don't know the options. I have the best possible option and that system can be flaky for hours on end depending on a lot of factors.
  - disordinary 3y ago
    I wasn't implying that at all, more I was shocked at how a country like America doesn't have high speed broadband ubiquitously available. So it was more rhetorical than anything.
    - not_alexb 3y ago
      Fair enough. You have my apologies
    - lantry 3y ago
      California by itself is bigger (by population and surface area) than all of NZ, to say nothing of the rest of the US. I'm not saying that the US has done a great job with internet access, just that it's not exactly a fair comparison.
      - dragonwriter 3y ago
        Having more people in a bigger area increases the aggregate expense, but also provides more people to spread it around (and the US also has a higher per capita GDP.) There may be legitimate differences that make this harder for the US that aren’t simple failures, but you haven’t identified one.
yazaddaruvala 3y ago
I just set up IntelliJ to use my remote workstation for LSP and Build and Test, but all of the text editing happens locally. Specifically the files are also hosted remotely but the local text buffers are synced in the background not every keystroke.
- spockz 3y ago
  How did you manage this? Every time I tried it, Idea insistent on managing the lsp server itself and locally.
fragmede 3y ago
But the frontend runs locally via JavaScript, so while latency is real, there shouldn't be more between keystrokes than, say, VScode. (Because otherwise that would be intolerable.)

Seems like it would also not be so wonderful if your remote employees are in rural areas (like the Joshua Tree area I reside in); I don't think I could handle the latency between keystrokes.

disordinary 3y ago

Surely you have options though? In Rural NZ we have a choice between 4g which runs at about 50mbps and latency of about 15ms and starlink which runs at around 100mbps and has a latency of about 25ms. Both should be good enough for remote work.

not_alexb 3y ago
I like how you're implying I haven't worked here for years and don't know the options. I have the best possible option and that system can be flaky for hours on end depending on a lot of factors.
- disordinary 3y ago
  I wasn't implying that at all, more I was shocked at how a country like America doesn't have high speed broadband ubiquitously available. So it was more rhetorical than anything.
  - not_alexb 3y ago
    Fair enough. You have my apologies
  - lantry 3y ago
    California by itself is bigger (by population and surface area) than all of NZ, to say nothing of the rest of the US. I'm not saying that the US has done a great job with internet access, just that it's not exactly a fair comparison.
    - dragonwriter 3y ago
      Having more people in a bigger area increases the aggregate expense, but also provides more people to spread it around (and the US also has a higher per capita GDP.) There may be legitimate differences that make this harder for the US that aren’t simple failures, but you haven’t identified one.

yazaddaruvala 3y ago

I just set up IntelliJ to use my remote workstation for LSP and Build and Test, but all of the text editing happens locally. Specifically the files are also hosted remotely but the local text buffers are synced in the background not every keystroke.

spockz 3y ago
How did you manage this? Every time I tried it, Idea insistent on managing the lsp server itself and locally.

fragmede 3y ago

But the frontend runs locally via JavaScript, so while latency is real, there shouldn't be more between keystrokes than, say, VScode. (Because otherwise that would be intolerable.)