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very good story about repairs of above mentioned LA cable https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering

by tguvot 4y ago

very good story about repairs of above mentioned LA cable https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/

bjord 4y ago
damn, I actually wanted to read about that cable edit: I just checked archive.is and it's...there? under what circumstances do I get redirected to that nsfw meme?
- tguvot 4y ago
  i guess JWZ doesn't like things linked from HN
- hadlock 4y ago
  jwz is one of the original developers of Netscape Navigator, an old man by these forums standards. That is the modern equivalent of "Get off my Lawn"
robocat 4y ago
Here’s a similar story from 1998 in Auckland, New Zealand where everything failed for 5 weeks: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/misc/mercury.txt https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/misc/mercury.txt