oktobercrisis

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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
What a bait and switch. I came to read about the origin of that expression, only to have the author go balls-deep into running FreeDOS, never referencing the original lede.
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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
I couldn't take the article seriously due to the absolute idiocy of the term '100x Engineer.'
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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
This paper is ahead of its time. The birth and popularization of the term "Fear of Missing Out" (FOMO) entering every-day life is a testament to this. The amount of choices we have now compared to the publication date (2000) is st
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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
Not surprising...people always slip through the cracks in Canada's healthcare system.
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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
It's point-to-point, so yes. There's two towers at each site with quite large antennas.
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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
The labor cost, materials cost, maintenance cost, and right of way / easement cost in laying cables is a huge barrier both cost, time, and pain in the ass wise.
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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
5.8 GHz
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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
There are a lot of microwave connections (E.G. 24Ghz, 5.7Ghz) that are in the unlicensed spectrum. We are using these extensively in our network. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band
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by oktobercrisis 9y ago
We are using microwave technology transmitting over 30 miles to our satellite ground station, and even in a hellish snow-storm we don't drop any more packets than usual. It actually was pretty damn impressive the first time I witnessed