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hOUse_atomics , to pics in Fibre optic cable ducts look kind of neat

Mmm, candy.

FlashMobOfOne , to mildlyinfuriating in Online dating
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It’s kind of nice when people reveal themselves to be insufferable douchebags at the outset rather than wasting your time.

Rutter ,

He has a valid point there. If he doesn’t want to say , you keep talking the same shit and expect a different answer?

Jamie ,
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Not wanting to answer a question is fine, but doing that by just being pretentious isn’t a good way of going about it. Being forthcoming about not really wanting to talk about your music preferences is fine, changing the subject politely is also fine so you don’t leave the onus of carrying conversation entirely on the other person.

Acting like your music choices are too out there for anyone else to understand is a good way to not have them relate to you in any way.

lazylion_ca ,

Right. He could have countered with different topic.

scarabic ,

As my wife will tell you, there are benefits to being married to an insufferable douchebag. Chiefly, you can be pretty confident they won’t play around on you, because no one else will have them.

thekernel ,

her persistence indicates he is physically attractive

niels , to programmerhumor in Turing-completeness

youtu.be/Kk2MH9O4pXYHow about Turing complete Conway’s Game of Life

SnowGlobal , to pics in Fibre optic cable ducts look kind of neat

How many fiber cables do they put in each one of those ducts? There’s 15 ducts and let’s say 5 cables each, 75 fiber lines is a ton of bandwidth!! Lots of room for expansion there.

tortoise ,

I did this for work a few years ago in New Zealand and they run them through neighbourhoods with enough for each house and spare ones for errors and expansion. Particularly in commercial areas because some businesses need multiple lines.

The fibre itself is a piece of glass the size of a strand of hair with infrared shot down it, but with the casing it looks similar to that small blue one poking out there. Can’t remember exactly how many but that’s the size of a single line so you can fit a lot of them.

SnowGlobal ,

Wow ok the fiber line that runs into my house is way more shielded and bulked up than that little blue one, so my estimate was wayyyy off. So yeah hundreds of strands could fit in there. How often do they put a switch in neighborhoods? Maybe less often than I thought!

tortoise ,

They run through boxes dug into the ground and that’s where a connection is made using electrical arcs to weld the two ends of glass together and keep them housed. Then the business end tends to go to a telecom building either directly if it’s a small town or through their current system the copper was on.

It’s been a few years I’m a little sketchy on the details obviously lol but thought I might as well jump in the discussion.

SnowGlobal ,

Right on, thanks for the info! I consider this a moment of great success for young Lemmy- on r/ regardless of the topic there always seemed to be someone with experience who would show up and share some of their knowledge. And this feels like the same thing here in a fiber cable laying thread. Cheers!

tortoise ,

They’re used to be; now it’s just puns and jokes for the most part. I loved that about reddit and I hope Lemmy thrives in this way too

dixius99 OP ,
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When they installed it to my house, they left some of the bare fibre lying on the ground. It’s a little thicker than the fibre you see in those “fibre optic flower lamps”, but not by much. If I’m not mistaken, the blue wire you see in the picture is to help detect the cable after it’s buried.

tortoise ,

Good catch, that’s exactly what that is. Just to clarify my Job was to take it from the boundary of the property and finish the connection so I’m not super knowledgeable on those main lines but the fibre shot through them to us was about the size of that blue wire. There’s also a type that goes along phone lines instead of underground and that’s a thick black one with Kevlar in it.

machinaeZER0 , to steam in Steam likes to keep it interesting in the UI department

I will never unsee this, hahah. Amazing.

PixelPassport , to pics in The Columbia River Gorge, Washingon State
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I was wondering where I took that picture! I knew it was during my drive to Tacoma but couldn’t remember where. Had my DSLR on me. https://chat.maiion.com/pictrs/image/1ad42f7c-a738-43b9-9a63-d7d34c2d643e.jpeg

Stoney_Logica1 OP ,

Definitely a popular lookout and photo stop on the way.

Stoney_Logica1 OP ,

Also nice shot. The clouds add a lot of drama.

PixelPassport ,
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Thanks! It was my first time being that far west and it was a stunning welcome for sure

bquintb , to mildlyinfuriating in Online dating
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You don’t want to date that guy, let the process work.

TheTechNerd789 , to pics in Muelle Tijeretas on San Cristóbal Island, Galapagos

Nice scenery

TheTechNerd789 ,

Going to use this as a wallpaper

tentphone , to pics in Week 1: Congratulations to SeedOnTheWind for their photo of the week.

The saturation is cracked to hell. I love the photo otherwise but the sky is not that deep blue at that elevation.

laxe ,

Is it unrealistic to allow only unedited images in the competition?

spindrift ,
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Saturation and exposure isnt really “editing”, because all photos must be developed from the raw data. Most of the time your camera develops it automatically (and often get things slightly wrong), and many people like to develop raw photos themselves vith apps like snapseed.

Oversaturated photos should be considered flawed, but not disqualified.

Imo.

Alchemy OP ,
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I agree, if we start getting too particular we are drifting over into c/photography’s realm.

tentphone ,

I agree, it would be impossible to enforce any rules on color adjustment in a fair way. There’s a lot of variability in terms of what is captured in camera as well as subjectivity in terms of what is most faithful to the actual subject even if the intention is to be 100% realistic, which is not always the case.

tomkatt , to retrogaming in R-Type: An 8-bit Port Comparison

Cool shit, I had no idea there were all these ports of the original R-Type.

IMO R-Type Complete for PC-Engine CD is the absolute best version of this game available.

GRENADE_MAGNET , to pics in Mount Rainier, Washington State

Where was this taken from?

Stoney_Logica1 OP ,

Edlynn Farm in Graham, WA

GRENADE_MAGNET ,

Ah Graham, ok. Slightly different perspective than I’m used to.

TheTechNerd789 , to pics in Birdie

Really cute

TheTechNerd789 , to pics in Birdie

Nice pic

FancyGUI , to aww in Super cute baby seal
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FREAKING ADORABLE

Flagpole2465 , (edited ) to pics in Fibre optic cable ducts look kind of neat

Thats most likely “future path” from a company called Duraline. There should be a rip cord just like a cat5e cable.

They won’t use all runs at once, hence the name future path.

Edit: I just assumed this was in the US, however this is made worldwide.

dixius99 OP ,
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Canada, but all of what you said sounds right.

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