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by baybal2 5y ago
Multimode fibre is expensive, and quicky dying. I never seen it used outside North America. The biggest reason to use multimode - cheaper equipment, is no longer here. High-end multimode NICs, and transmitters now cost more than SMF.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Linus Tech Tips The first thing I though before googling it up was that Linus Torvalds got into youtubing.
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by baybal2 5y ago
The extra charge is in installation fee, but yeah, for 800 USD the cost of 25Gbps transmitter is negligible over letting go of a client needing more than 10Gbps, and ready to pay for it. Note, it's not a PON, but real symmetric, point-
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by baybal2 5y ago
You literally can't step into any public place here, and that may include a grocery store, without a proof of vaccination, and a recent PCR test. PCR tests cost 50 AED, and you have to pass them in between weekly, to bi-weekly. UAE has
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, and not only foreigners. There are plenty of poor Emiratis in fact. This comes as a surprise to a lot of people who never been to UAE. The percentage of uber-rich natives is grossly overestated by the popular image of the country. No
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Obviously those negatives are all present but less of a threat than one might think from the outside. I doubt anybody who lived in the gulf for at least a year never been a witnness to extremely harsh treatment of debtors firsthand. I
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by baybal2 5y ago
Totally correct. It's a North Korea with oil, and welfare programs, and, now, rave parties* * https://youtu.be/8PBz9yaPksM
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by baybal2 5y ago
ProTip: Never ever open a credit card in the UAE, or just never deal with anybody on credit here. Cash, cash, cash only.
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by baybal2 5y ago
BSD* 3 clause license, which means Freertos kernel 10.0+ only. The prime majority of SDKs from chip vendors still use much older Freertos ports which were under GPL RelianceFS is GPL as well * Typo fix
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by baybal2 5y ago
It seems American scammers are learning from Chinese ones. Fake payment QR codes are everywhere in China. Somebody take his QR, changes it to look visually similar to victims one, puts it on a sticker, and slaps it on top of store's QR
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by baybal2 5y ago
UAE has recently shot at least $150M of interceptors in a single night. THAAD, and PAC III. Raytheon people are all over the place there, to the point I bumped into them on every drone industry event I been (3 in total)
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Mozilla have limited resources and they (and Firefox users) want the browser to be successful and sustainable, To begin with, near nobody uses Firefox today. Very succesful, and sustainable. I have to pour heavy sarcasm here. It's
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> The KGB has not even existed for multiple decades. KGB lives, merged with mafia, and now owns a whole nuclear state after a few rebrandings.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Third world banks still care about where your money comes from They care even less than banks used by mobs owning half of Piccadilly, and those are not third world banks, but first world's most biggest, and most powerful ones. &gt
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, USA, Canada, or entite Western world sanctions only work if you have their financial infrastructure in the way. It makes 0 difference to a typical BTC cash out shop in the third world.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> I do not think the people who designed the chip were amateurs. How do you define amateurs? Most chip designers in US will work on less than 10 designs in their lifetimes. In Asia, a chip outsourcing shop pumps out that much in a month.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives. Relatively speaking, 330000 civilian deaths is surprisingly low in comparison to the war in Europe. USSR lost few percents of t
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by baybal2 5y ago
I am preparing for the next recession by looking to get a wife before it hits.
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The Coming Construction Boom(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by baybal2 5y ago
> I worked in a steel mill a while back. While I agree it's incorrect, I would say that the average high school student knows next to nothing about making steel. What country you are in?
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by baybal2 5y ago
MOE wasn't, but colocating blast furnaces with steel converters is a very old idea.
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> then refine it from iron oxide into pure iron and fortify it with small amounts of carbon. It’s a complex process that emits carbon at different stages. Some emissions come from the heating process, which usually involves burning a hea
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by baybal2 5y ago
> For example, we are seeing large electricity prices increases in Europe. Which is very good. New capacity will most likely be non-gas.
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You don't target cheap steel market with this, you go after VAR, and ESR steel. > Among other benefits, you're now only heating the material once instead of 2-3 times, and as a result, you actually consume less total energy in
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by baybal2 5y ago
UAE switched to 36 hours workweek in January
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by baybal2 5y ago
Now you need to get an annual budget surplus.
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Taiwan soon have more electric battery swap stations than gas stations(electrek.co)
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Chip backlogs stretch to 2 years(asia.nikkei.com)
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by baybal2 5y ago
Democratic party transformation from the party of the deep south, to a hipster, liberal one in just around 1 decade is truly remarkable. Remember, Carter won the vote in 1976! Just few years after the Vietnam war.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Good for them, when they have money to spend on servers. Budget CDNs are much less happy.

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