If I remember that right. It is not that easy to get into the state school in our state. UW engineering departments required GPA 4.0 last year. Kids who had GPA 3.9 or less had 0 chances getting into the UW engineering schools.
That is probably not true if you are transferring from a community college after two years. It's entering as a freshman direct from high school that has all the barriers.
But Starlink needs to get the traffic to/from the ground eventually, right? And those ground links having their capacity. So I think it is nice to have laser crosslinks, but they will not eliminate the base stations capacity requirements.
Management likes more:
- someone who are loyal to them
- someone who knows how to communicate to them in a right way
- someone who won't threaten them, being promoted to the new role
He claims that his plan isn’t to get rid of those high schools, it’s to focus instead on the neighborhood schools.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt (why not? I don’t live in Chicago anymore).
In addition to these high schools and the regional gifted center K-8 schools, Chicago also has classical schools (test in), charter schools, and magnet and lottery schools. It’s the latter that I think they are trying to limit or get rid of.
Basically, any public school in Chicago that is not running at capacity can open up spots that any student from anywhere in the city can take. Those are lottery schools. So in the spring, any parent that cares can fill out a ranked choice form on the website. Over the course of the summer, they run a lottery. Kids get offers and also their place on the waitlist for each choice they made. You get a couple days to accept or decline any offer you get, and then they make new offers and adjust everyone else’s place on the waitlist, as do this as many times as it takes for all spots to be accepted.
So… the “good” neighborhood schools are running at capacity with a highly diverse set of kids driven to do well, from all over the city. The “bad” neighborhood schools are running 2/3 empty with mostly only kids with bad luck or whose parents don’t care. I agree that this is a problem, and I’d like to see if their proposal has any hope of improving the situation. But as far as I can tell they haven’t figured out the details of anything yet, have they?
Try to interview more senior people, who still remember their C course in an University, or even know what is assembler. Currently, most graduates (from my experience) don't know how an integer is stored in memory.
I don't even know what a good answer to that is. Some integers are stored in registers. Some are stored on the stack. Some are stored on the heap. Or you could be asking how integers are represented, with two's complement being the usual way. Did I pass your ambiguous question? Probably not.
