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While this is is interesting, the "nobody's heard of" phrase is rather condescending and such phrases leave a bad taste in the mind.
by publicola1990 1y ago
While this is is interesting, the "nobody's heard of" phrase is rather condescending and such phrases leave a bad taste in the mind.
- jen729w 1y agoHmm it's just a turn of phrase. I would bet you $100 that no more than 0.001% of the population have heard of BPS. I hadn't. That's functionally "nobody".
- jandrese 1y agoThe title is still clickbait given the reason nobody has heard of it is that it barely exists and is not useful yet. Also, it smelled a bit like wishful thinking to assume the high precision clock would not be driven by GPS on real world deployments. I know some cell towers synchronize via PTP, but a great many others use GPS as their time source.
- geerlingguy 1y agoFor anyone who deploys GPS-based timing systems at scale, having more sources of precise time is a huge boon. (Some companies pay many millions for dark fiber just to have a redundant time source). Holdover can only help so much, if there's a persistent jamming effort, it can wreak havoc on many time-critical systems.
- bmacho 1y agoIt's worse in every way than just omitting it. 'BPS is a GPS alternative' is better as a title, on HN at least
- Calwestjobs 1y agoyes saying jeff geerling is the nobody who never heard of that thing is offensive to me. XD
- p_ing 1y agoIt's a curiosity gap headline; it's a lazy form of headline that insults the intelligence of the audience. It also extends into clickbait. Poor form. Do better.