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Re:A coax cable horror story
on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:25PM (#35869526)
sorry to be snarky there. Your post read to me like, "I haven't seen a banana in the US in 10 years. We don't eat them anymore."
Re:A coax cable horror story
on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:22PM (#35869516)
what are you talking about? Drive _anywhere_ in the UK and you'll see an aerial TV antenna on almost every roof.
Re:Come Break My Compiler
on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:22AM (#35081424)
Yes, exactly. I really thought the author was trying to argue that no one writes in assembly. But then when I reached the butterfly line, I realized it was just sloppy writing missing commas.
Re:Come Break My Compiler
on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:19AM (#35081393)
Oh my god, yes. I had to re-read that paragraph three times, and then open the xkcd to confirm what the author really meant. This absolutely killed the flow of the article for me.
Re:After Alaska Airlines has 2 tail strikes in Seattle, a software bug...
on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:37AM (#34896202)
"The software code was permanently repaired about five hours later."
I always try to permanently repair the software when I find bugs.
Re:Store files inside of YouTube videos
on Monday February 20, 2023 @10:26AM (#34868958)
after your finals, you should read about forward error correction.
Re:How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS
on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:49AM (#34128190)
> For compute - a single Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) t4g.small instance running Mastodon, it’s PostgresSQL database, and Redis.
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Re:FCC fines Charter, LTD Broadband more than $3M for RDOF defaults
on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:43PM (#32243720)
Yes. Idaho
Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
on Monday July 25, 2022 @09:53PM (#32233360)
Yes, I fully support this position by Meta but their reasoning is not quite right when it comes to astronomers and scientists. Passing around a leap second kernel is a major pain for everyone dealing with GPS, satellite ephemerides, celestial bodies, etc. Leap seconds transform a problem which is entirely deterministic, and make it dependent on a policy decided by a committee, like timezones.
Re:FCC fines Charter, LTD Broadband more than $3M for RDOF defaults
on Monday July 25, 2022 @08:26PM (#32232776)
That's what I have: fiber infra as a public utility, with a choice of ISPs on top of that.
Funny fact, the ISP I chose is $10/month for 1G down/up. Want to add a phone line (which runs digitally over fiber)? That'll be an extra $26/month. It's as if they know the only people who want a phone line are willing to pay a lot for it.
Re:FCC fines Charter, LTD Broadband more than $3M for RDOF defaults
on Monday July 25, 2022 @08:22PM (#32232749)
My city runs fiber infra as a public utility, with about a half dozen options of ISPs to choose from which provide internet connectivity on top of that infra. I pay $26/month total for 1000 Mbps down, 1000 Mbps up. It's a huge benefit to everyone living here. The city is going neighborhood by neighborhood, connecting everyone that wants it.
To me, the best part isn't even the price. It's the satisfaction of not having to deal with Comcast/Cox/Verizon/charter/etc.