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by Aloha 2y ago
"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
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by Aloha 2y ago
Everything is easy if you have enough money.
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by Aloha 2y ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r... Because of the coercion the company puts on its customers for bucking what their software says to do.
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by Aloha 2y ago
Glasslinger is amazing, her videos are fantastic, and she's among the best bench engineers I've ever had the pleasure to watch working. Here is the video where she makes the tube used in this 1912 radio. https://www.you
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by Aloha 2y ago
For those who would like to read - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1074_bqmd.pdf
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by Aloha 2y ago
I think we're about to see yet another AI winter, and the people who did not invest in AI will look smart in 2-3 years. I think we're a long way off from a general purpose AI - its not that AI isn't useful as a tool, it is -
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by Aloha 2y ago
I think Legacy AT&T made the wrong choices in divesture - they should have held on to WECo (and the labs) and the local BOC's - and spun off Long Lines - I dont know how they would have worked culturally though (or if it would have
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by Aloha 2y ago
I work on a system with notoriously noisy alarming and messaging logging - my first step is to tell the customer to ignore all of it. I tell them to do two things to tell them how to check system health. 1. Is it working normally? if so, th
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by Aloha 2y ago
Therac-25 was at least more deadly. Also much more complex than a UX failure.
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You raise the point, that particularly when it comes to manufacturing, living knowledge is paramount - Could we have restarted Saturn V production in 1975? yes, at some vast cost to remake tooling. What about 1985? oof, that's a litt
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by Aloha 2y ago
Based on prior experience? No, I dont think so - interest rates go up, and they go down. I look at all the folks who bought houses in the early 80's between appreciation and inflation they won in the end. This also works out for unsecu
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by Aloha 2y ago
I didn't see the word 'inflation' in there once. I do think we should tax borrowing on securities though.
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by Aloha 2y ago
As someone who has lots of debt, I would prefer slow, but subtle inflation. I look forward to minimum wage jobs being 25 dollars an hour, and still poverty wages - because then the debts I have will be roughly half what they are now in cons
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by Aloha 2y ago
I was the kid who no one thought was paying attention, until I read back the last 3-5 min of conversation to the Teacher. I dont think you can enhance learning thru fear, there is no way that you get people to be more engaged and retain i
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by Aloha 2y ago
So everyone is right?! Thats the best kind of correct. ;-)
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by Aloha 2y ago
This has nothing to do with this problem though - phones are pervasive among kids today, absent policy allowing teachers to take them away, there isn't anything you can do.
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by Aloha 2y ago
WiMAX was the answer for build 4G for cheap, and also how to use a bunch of spectrum that was not conventionally useful. It did work quite well in practice, I can assure you.
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by Aloha 2y ago
Which has what to do with Sprint?
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by Aloha 2y ago
and an a Selectric II/III didnt use a felt ribbon, but rather a wax transfer.
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by Aloha 2y ago
US Cellular is actually pretty probably, same tech stack, same hardware, similar customer bases, but they didnt have acres of capital. The issue was the albatross of the debt from the Nextel merger.
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by Aloha 2y ago
He finally reduced the fixed costs that should have been done post Nextel merger. I remember Nextel and iDEN sites co-sited on the adjacent towers.. but with different shelters (sprint was often outdoor cabinets).
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by Aloha 2y ago
The clearwire side of things was wildly oversubscribed on backhaul, often totally saturated 10m circuits.
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by Aloha 2y ago
It was a shitshow, you'd have GD tell us a site was complete and show up and find no equipment or equipment on pallets. GD rather than the equipment vendors were the villains, it was subcontractor-o-rama, and no one was responsible for
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by Aloha 2y ago
I remember saying at one point to my operations manager at Ericsson, "how does anyone make money in this business?" he laughed and said "I have no idea". I cannot explain how poorly managed Sprint was, it'd take me
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by Aloha 2y ago
Wimax actually did work great in practical terms even if the clearwire network was made out of compressed spit. All of them - all the CW sites, were under provisioned for backhaul.
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by Aloha 2y ago
Yes, they consistently lost money from 2008-2019.
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by Aloha 2y ago
CDMA, from an RF performance perspective regularly outperformed GSM, but as is noted downthread, the provisioning/auth system was inherited from AMPS/D-AMPS, CDMA2000 with a GSM network core would have been amazing. Which, tbh, is
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by Aloha 2y ago
They didnt start to build their LTE network until 2012-13.
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by Aloha 2y ago
You're spot on, I posted a long comment downthread elsewhere, but you're 100% correct here. Sprint lost money basically every year after they merged with Nextel (having to pay for rebanding was part of it).
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by Aloha 2y ago
By the time they merged with T-Mobile, they had a fully modern LTE network - I know because I helped to deploy it. That never would have happened without Softbank buying them however.

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