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The guy who posted the story of splicing a 500kW cable wasn't looking for money. He wanted to amuse people and thanks to him we got amused endlessly. The costs
by wbl 7y ago
The guy who posted the story of splicing a 500kW cable wasn't looking for money. He wanted to amuse people and thanks to him we got amused endlessly. The costs of putting things online are $5 per month at Digital Ocean.
- paulryanrogers 7y ago> The costs of putting things online are $5 per month at Digital Ocean. Plus the knowledge you can, and non-trivial technical expertise like: registering a domain, DNS configuration, setting up web software (even if "one click"), and maintaining it over time.
- stordoff 7y ago> the story of splicing a 500kW cable Do you have a link to this? I've tried googling "splicing a 500kW cable" (and variants) and haven't found much relevant.
- wbl 7y agohttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ is the version I've found.
- dasv 7y agoWarning (NSFW?): if you're coming from HN, the link redirects to this somewhat entertaining image https://imgur.com/32R3qLv https://imgur.com/32R3qLv