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by bcrl 3y ago
Why would ceding help? Texas is already running their own electric grid, and they seem to be doing so incompetently. My local LDC (Hydro One) is ridiculously expensive, but we haven't had rolling blackouts anytime aside from the 2003
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by bcrl 3y ago
I used to love buying CDs from artists I liked at concerts in small venues so that the artist would get most of the $20 I was forking over. Sadly, I'm no longer in my 20s living in a large city that has lots of artists going through.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Many of the colocation facilities within 151 Front Street West in Toronto make use of the Enwave's deep lake chilled water intake from Lake Ontario for cooling, saving a lot of energy. It claims to be one of the largest district energ
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by bcrl 3y ago
Yes, but you don't plan your network based on actual capacity usage, you plan for a fully loaded network that can serve 100% of dwellings passed along with some spare capacity to serve additional buildings over the expected lifespan of
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by bcrl 3y ago
A 1x32 splitter costs somewhere between $20-70 (unless you pay exorbitant Corning prices). 32 core (well, 36 core) cables are cheap enough, but that's not what you need for a pure point to point network. Let's say you've got
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by bcrl 3y ago
Depends on the market. If you're in a high density area the cost of feeder fibres is inconsequential. If you're in a low density rural market, additional feeder fibres are expensive. Smaller market players can't get the 30
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by bcrl 3y ago
P2MP is fine -- you can use EPON/GPON/XGSPON/10G-EPON that are designed for shared optical networks with passive splitters or even run DWDM over those splitters to provide P2P circuits over those same infrastructure (PLC spli
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by bcrl 3y ago
The same thing happened here in the province of Ontario. The government handed out roughly $2.5 billion in subsidies through a reverse auction, but not a single smaller provider was able to participate. The lots were too big (my local are
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by bcrl 3y ago
I loved my old single sheet 6502 reference card that helped me through many things on the Apple ][+/][e -- see http://www.atarimania.com/documents/6502%20(65xx)%20Micropro...
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by bcrl 3y ago
You say that with the air of confidence of someone that believes their test cases cover all possible circumstances. I know for a fact that none of the large, complex real world systems I've worked on have ever had complete test covera
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by bcrl 3y ago
Just retire and work on whatever you find interesting.
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by bcrl 3y ago
It's pretty much guaranteed that any software defined radio you build today will be almost impossible to get parts for in 10 years, so your maintenance budget ends up requiring a software developer to upgrade things when parts become o
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by bcrl 3y ago
Sounds like they need a dose of open source shared across companies.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Which points to a firmware bug in the SSD that the use-case managed to trigger repeatedly. Firmware bugs were around in abundance when performant SSDs first came to market more than a decade ago, and while manufacturers have gotten better
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by bcrl 3y ago
Meta is a near monopoly in the market they are in. There are no competitors that are a reasonable substitution for their product.
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by bcrl 3y ago
It's still used to allow for timing discrepancies between the physical layer and higher layers. Phys will insert and delete symbols in the IPG when the FIFOs between layers have too few or too many entries. This allows for systems wi
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by bcrl 3y ago
Yikes. The peak rate here in Ontario is CAD$0.157/kWh, but our delivery charges are ~$0.05/kWh on top of that (Hydro One is the worst in that regard).
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by bcrl 3y ago
Microsoft's governance when it comes to financial matters still seems better to me.
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by bcrl 3y ago
I don't recall any instances of Microsoft hitting a "debt ceiling" and ceasing payments to employees and other parties on a regular basis every few years. Twitter might be a better comparison.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Adding interconnects won't help if there aren't investments in the grid itself to add capacity.
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by bcrl 3y ago
2GB/s is pretty low performance for storage these days. =-)
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by bcrl 3y ago
Thank you for submitting your support request through the Stripe back channel support network. Your ticket will be reviewed by nobody, unless you happen to be extremely lucky and win the Hacker News lottery. Best of luck!
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by bcrl 3y ago
Fake news is more about the viewpoint of the reader than the creator in many cases.
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by bcrl 3y ago
If you're talking about fflush() from the C standard libray, fflush() doesn't write to disk. It pushes writes from the FILE's buffer to the kernel and drops any read data that has been cached. The C standard library doesn&#
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by bcrl 3y ago
Ultimately the complexity of managing all these DRAM corner cases needs to be handled inside the DRAM itself as there's just no way for DRAM controllers to be revised to cope with every new and exciting DRAM hardware bug. Sadly, the D
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by bcrl 3y ago
I'm sure regulators will start regulating the 1550nm spectrum once they realize they can start making money off free space optics.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Sounds like your WISP isn't investing in the new generation of massive MIMO radios made by companies like Cambium.
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by bcrl 3y ago
https://archive.ph/0nI3z
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by bcrl 3y ago
The 2023-56 proceeding has seen hundreds of comments in favour of access to FTTP facilities by individuals. Out of all of the comments my helper evaluated there were only 2 against providing access to incumbent FTTP -- one was a comment by
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by bcrl 3y ago
So your argument is that making rules is hard so we shouldn't make rules? The bare minimum standard of ethical behaviour is to not do things that harm other people. The ads I am referring to meet the test of causing harm to people tha

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