Come over here big boy and I’ll find you a handy

I have no idea if this is true but it’s inconsequential so I’m going to choose to believe it.

You people, I swear. I said specifically that I’m not arguing for increased population and yet your whole response is structured like that’s exactly what I said we should do. Do you even read what you respond to or do you just scan until you find the right key word to launch into a rant?

I’m not arguing for population growth but we definitely have more than enough resources for everyone now. Scarcity isn’t the problem, it’s that we allow people to hoard those resources and we waste a ton of them.

Just so happens I have some myself. It is air pressure based.

It’s pretty good stuff. Plant based, easy to apply, higher smoke point than olive oil.

Nobody wants to have a debate about gender roles in a meme community you knob. Quit making every space about your virtue signalling

I like the memes here but I swear every comment section is 50% dedicated to some turd in the punchbowl who wants to make it political. Leave that shit in the politics subs

Be grateful that is a choice you can afford to make

I’m my experience it’s pretty uncommon for a CEO to struggle finding a new position no matter what transpired at their previous company. Golden parachutes and failing upwards are way more common

You know what it says you dumb bjtch

Napster still exists?

My company switched to Oracle in the last two years. It has gone as horribly as you would imagine it would. The solution we had in place before wasn’t great but Oracle is far worse in every way.

Argentina’s goalie was da real MVP

I bet he was pretty annoyed watching Spain’s goalie win the “best goalkeeper” award with 0 blocked shots while he had 11. I guess that happens when your team registers 0 shot attempts for 90+ minutes.

That’s certainly what it looked like to me. Not so much “I want to be here” but “my people didn’t tell me what to do after the medals”. He looked like a confused old man shuffling about.

If their offense had shown up that might have mattered

Let the internet do what it does best, create all kinds of weird and unnecessary porn. That should do it.

Kind of but not as much as you might hope. Most of the time when telcos add more capacity to a fiber route they are either pulling more fiber through existing conduit or laying new ones along the same path. Being able to shoot farther is great if you’re building an entirely new route and can plan out your regen locations accordingly but not as helpful if you’re using the same huts on the side of road that were designed for shorter distances. They already have land and/or lease agreements, power, access, and all the other required infrastructure in place using shorter distance calculations. It would be expensive, and probably impossible in many cases, to set up new regen points along their existing routes.

Then there’s the added expense of testing, certifying, stocking, and training people how to use all this new gear, which probably has longer lead times to acquire. Add all that up and a 40% reach boost isn’t quite as enticing. That’s not to say it won’t be done in some cases. I believe some subsea cables use hollow core fiber and added reach in a situation like that is awesome. I just think most of them would rather invest in improving reach on the glass they already have in the ground than going with something like this.

That’s pretty cool, but it isn’t going to help AI data centers get bandwidth faster any time soon. Most fiber in the ground today, especially the kind of long haul fiber being discussed here, isn’t hollow core. Laying new fiber across the country is arguably just as difficult and expensive as building these AI data centers and it’s spread out over very long distances. It costs more than $1/ft to lay relatively cheap fiber in rural areas with no permitting fees and it only gets more expensive from there. Fiber builds between major US cities cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Additionally, glass based fiber can do these same speeds and even higher today. Granted, this reach is about 40% longer on average at 200 km without a regen, but that doesn’t save network operators as much money as it sounds like it would. Not enough to justify overbuilding their entire network with hollow core fiber, that’s for sure.

Sure it is. There is a connection from the battery string to some kind of controller. If you disconnect that and reconnect it to one of a dozen generic controllers designed to work with battery strings from various manufacturers it will work just fine.