oasisbob

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by oasisbob 8y ago
Isn't 256QAM on 2.4GHz a proprietary feature? https://www.cwnp.com/forums/posts?postNum=307358 I always heard that 802.11ac was 5GHz only, and that on dual-band, stations would stick with 802.11n for 2.4GHz
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by oasisbob 8y ago
I don't understand it either. Here in Seattle, SeaTac airport has a parallel taxiway (Taxiway Tango) with a long history of being mistaken for a runway. The list of things tried so far to resolve the issue is interesting: https:/
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by oasisbob 8y ago
That behavior is illegal in WA, and probably other states too. Landlord/tenant law supersedes the terms of the rental agreement. Lockouts have been historically abusive, so the law here covers them specifically.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Once you discover rope bags (or, cable buckets) it's hard to go back. People who do technical (arborist) style tree climbing make frequent use of a 1-2mm throwline used as a pilot line to get the climbing rope up into the tree. It stil
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Exactly. Just about every organization I've worked for has gone through a consolidation phase where DNS registration and certificate issuance is consolidated and formalized. You don't have to get very big before these issues surfa
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by oasisbob 8y ago
I understand if you don't want to reveal your organization affiliations, but if this was widespread, it should have been discussed somewhere with more specifics. Can you link to a discussion anywhere with more specific examples? We had
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? Google's KB articles still reference Chrome 70 [1], and I can't find another reference to this anywhere else. Paypal.com is still operating with a Symantec signed cert - issued by "Symantec Clas
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by oasisbob 8y ago
It would be nice to have the date reflected in the title of this post (March 2018). It's relevant and a nice reminder because the full-distrust is coming soon, but there isn't anything new here AFAICT.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
As I understand it, Chrome and Firefox are both operating under the same policies with about the same timetables. Full distrust doesn't come until Firefox 63 / Chrome 70 - neither of which are stable releases yet. The limited dist
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by oasisbob 8y ago
A ton of pacific northwest hydropower is already flowing into California through the BPA's intertie system: https://www.bpa.gov/news/pubs/FactSheets/fs-20170726-BPA-set...
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by oasisbob 8y ago
I was good friends with a daughterful Skanky family growing up - almost wonder if it was the same one. Much in the same way that the pronunciation of harassment over-corrected to "hare-es-ment" for a while in the 90s (avoiding &qu
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Somehow, I find him to be especially inspiring and encouraging of beginners - especially some of the early no-nonsense framing basics. He shows the clear experience of a lifetime of craft, yet there's something about his persona that&#
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Intel's spokesman isn't saying "ignore the license, distribution is fine, I promise" - he's pointing out the clause in the license which is intended to allow redistribution.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
> the back of the house contributes a much larger portion of the value of the meal, so it feels like I'm stiffing _them_! There's a weird economy to tips - in many (most?) US restaurants, the kitchen and non-wait staff (hosts,
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Is there any state where that isn't just blatantly illegal wage theft?
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by oasisbob 8y ago
That hotel is still doing cash accounting though. If there isn't much at the front desk, how about the bar? The restaurant? A business that has any type of daily cash accounting is still going to need to balance the register at the end
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by oasisbob 8y ago
It's really going to depend on the bank and what their business model is. eg, free consumer checking accounts have been heavily subsidized by interchange fees for years. There are more dollars in interchange fees collected in the US ev
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by oasisbob 8y ago
It's going to depend on how the retailer's contract with their merchant account works. Your mom and pop store may just pay a higher rate, and a high txn fee and call it a day. Simple contract. For a large retailer like Kroger, the
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Correct. The fee will vary within a network based on all sorts of things. There are low-rate carve outs for low-margin products (eg gasoline), discounts for "card-in-hand" transactions, and higher fees for premium cards. https:&#
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by oasisbob 8y ago
The figure sounds reasonable to me. IIRC, a recent figure for US interchange revenue to originating banks was around $40 billion a year. (Interchange fees are a large component of swipe fees.)
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Unless a retailer doesn't accept any cash, the marginal cost of accepting another cash transaction is low.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
They do, but different cards on different networks have vastly different fees. The consumer using Visa SuperRewardsPlatinum probably doesn't know that it's costing the retailer more than other cards when they use it. The originati
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Some previous discussion, four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16637162
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Doesn't that viewpoint ignore real-world yields and binning?
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by oasisbob 8y ago
They do - this expands those regulations (which have exceptions for discharge of treated sewage) into a full-blown "no discharge zone" (NDZ), where even treated effluent can't be dumped. As I understand it, the federal regula
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Thanks for the correction - easy to forget that the P in PON is for passive.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
The #1 ingredient in glass isn't sand, it's previously manufactured glass. You can pretend it's sand, but it's not. The economics of all this is very geographically dependent. In many parts of the country, the transport
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by oasisbob 8y ago
> Saying it takes 1.5-2 hours to ride a bus from the east side to the city ignores the fact that it takes more than an hour to do so in a car. But, that's a key part of the problem. It's easy to compromise and take public trans
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Yes. I first noticed about six months ago, and it's been frustrating. The most annoying habit I've seen is google disregarding the most relevant part of the query, and returning low-quality news results that aren't at all rel
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by oasisbob 8y ago
> Isn’t wire also a shared medium? That's a really tricky question. At some point, the packets are going to share a link with those from other customers, possibly oversubscribed... Cable internet is clearly a shared medium at both t

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