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by grahamburger 8mo ago
I've heard some teachers are assigning their students to 'grade' a paper written by LLM. The students use an LLM to generate a paper on the topic, print it out, then notate in the margins by hand where it's right and wro
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Yeah this seems like an easy way around it. Post the video with subtitles and no audio, and a link to the original video hosted on a PeerTube instance or something.
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Isn't the only way to learn what things we can ignore and what things we can't ignore to do a lot more testing? Is there a better way to learn that? It seems like having a lot more data from tests is the kind of thing that would h
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by grahamburger 5y ago
This is a major cultural difference between US and EU. In the U.S., data is only Personal if it's on a Personal device.
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by grahamburger 5y ago
I can definitely see how someone who sacrificed to pay rent throughout the pandemic, maybe using up some of their retirement funds or defaulting on car loans in the process, would be frustrated to learn now that they could have just not pai
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Where would you say it falls on the spectrum of animal abuse in relation to going fishing, fly swatting, and walking the dog? Those are all activities I'm personally ok with.
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Another fun thing you can do with flies, and also bees and wasps, apart from vacuuming them up, is put them on a leash. But first you have to freeze them. Catch one in a cup or plastic bag and stick it in the freezer for about 10 minutes. W
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Yes, should have specified - I always monitor usage in circuits at no more than 1 minute resolution.
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Thanks! I know some of the folks at Monkey Brains, they're a great ISP and super cool people too! > I agree with the top post that if you're a engineer who hasn't dealt with low level networking stuff, worked in a DC, or h
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by grahamburger 5y ago
> Or for people who are fed up with their ISP options and are ready to take matters into their own hands? Basically, who do you imagine the typical user of your guide is? If your only motivation is that you are fed up with your ISP (join
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by grahamburger 5y ago
I realized after the fact that I didn't elaborate on my meaning here, but it seems like you picked up on it. What I meant was: You should have experience with at least one and preferably several of the important parts of running an I
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by grahamburger 5y ago
This is cool, thanks! I'll check it out and probably add a link on startyourownisp.com. A few of the other companies that I know are doing fixed 4G LTE right now are Blinq and BaiCells. BaiCells, at least, is also moving toward 5G.
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by grahamburger 5y ago
I can share these news articles! https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2021/06/start-your-own-isp-lo... https://www.wfxg.com/story/43745096/georgia-cyber-center-wor...
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Thanks, this helps to confirm what I've always expected from my end (the wisp side.) It sure seems like a good match at a high level but seems to fall apart once we get in to the details of making it work.
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Thanks, appreciate the kind words. It did derail my plans a bit to hit HN this morning, but it's fun to chat about and HN has done a lot for me over the years!
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by grahamburger 5y ago
> Exactly. 5G doesn't focus on increasing coverage but mostly latency. This is my opinion as well - 5G will improve latency and also capacity (meaning carriers won't have to be as stingy with tethering plans) but not necessaril
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by grahamburger 5y ago
> Then, what'd you say are key differences between meshcenter.org and syoisp? No big differences, everything is applicable to both. In practice 'Mesh' has kind of become associated with 'non-profit, volunteer staff,&#
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by grahamburger 5y ago
(author here) It's similar in architecture, if not in the actual hardware being deployed. FWIW my personal opinion (informed by personal experience) is that designing your own equipment is a huge distraction with little benefit. We&#x2
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by grahamburger 5y ago
(Author here) This is great, you can't see me but I'm laughing with you! :) I have sometimes considered making this in to a game, actually. It could have some fun territory and financial mechanics. But the more I think about it th
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by grahamburger 5y ago
(Author here) Maybe possible to figure out a way to use this. The problem is the people using it would still need transport to your network, which in practice can cost as much or nearly as much as direct DIA to their location. The reverse h
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Could be! East coast has traditionally been hard for WISPs because of trees. Recently I've been doing a proof of concept in Georgia, though, and had a lot of success even with tree cover. Would love to try out a few more of these place
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Also just a note for those curious: this is how I like to measure what's needed for a WISP, and track how it changes over time. Set up a 1gbps connection and start adding customers. Watch the usage on the circuit as your customer base
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by grahamburger 5y ago
(Author here) That is old, I'll update it. My recommendation today is to keep a 1gbps customer to 200-300 customers. FWIW, though, Comcast's oversell rates are probably worse (at least in some places) than even the old number that
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by grahamburger 5y ago
(Author here) > The main problem with this way of transmitting is that you are on unregulated parts of the radio spectrum. Traditionally this is true and is still mostly true today, but a ton of WISPs picked up PAL licenses in the CBRS b
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by grahamburger 5y ago
(Author here) WISPs are more like local restaurants than big chains. Some local restaurants are terrible. At least with a big chain you know what you're going to get. That being said, the WISP you had probably just didn't know wha
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by grahamburger 5y ago
We should chat! (Author here.) Email is in my profile. It'd be cool to have a hangout with a bunch of the WISP folks from Hacker News.
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Author of startyourownisp.com here. Your experience is unfortunate and definitely not unique, but also not universal or I would say even the norm for WISPs. I'm personally involved in running a few different ISPs in rural parts of the
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by grahamburger 5y ago
Related in both cases. SYOISP describes what I, as a somewhat opinionated author, believe to be the absolute minimum amount of information required to build a business that can be called an ISP. To the extent that the companies involved in
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by grahamburger 5y ago
> I read somewhere that 40% of restaurants started by people with no previous industry experience go belly up within 5 years? Something like that. I imagine one could easily spend $400,000 setting up a restaurant and working 14 hour days
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by grahamburger 5y ago
There's a little bit of that in there. Surprisingly, in the U.S. at least, there's not much of a gap between being a legal business entity (LLC, corp) and being able to be an ISP. You don't have to log much of anything (unl

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