I used to be the resident "no one knows how this works, let RichiH figure it out and apply it to the business" for networking and optical transmissions. I did stuff with basic tools which manufacturers with fancy stuff didn't believe possible.
When it was time to understand QAM, it fucked my brain
And don't get me started on shoes
Think about shoes
A long walk with shoes, or barefoot. A walk in the desert barefoot, or with shoes. Walking through deep snow barefoot, or with shoes. A heavy hike over rough terrain barefoot, or with shoes
We are standing on endless levels of shoulders of giants
I always wanted to tell you that I migrated from IT to wireless m2m in the early 2000's, follow you for a peak into what it'd be like to return once I get burned out on connecting machines and carrier certifications
I'd be surprised if even those 16 understood the whole thing in fine detail, especially since the whole thing has to provide some level of backward compatibility.
“We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear prescription for disaster.”
and about as many people who understand fonts and unicode well enough to write something to correctly shape text.
the iana time zone database is itself pretty much a one man operation. i specifically recall asking for a change in it to avoid tc39 having to keep a workaround in a js date/time spec.
you'd be surprised how much of the foundation of modern tech is stuff only a handful of people in the world has sufficient knowledge to write. it's incredible.
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When it was time to understand QAM, it fucked my brain
Think about shoes
A long walk with shoes, or barefoot. A walk in the desert barefoot, or with shoes. Walking through deep snow barefoot, or with shoes. A heavy hike over rough terrain barefoot, or with shoes
We are standing on endless levels of shoulders of giants
(All the 5G network infrastructure stuff they've created runs on @rockylinux.org)
Carl Sagan.
I had two friends with the same SKU phone, same carrier, same OS. One could get signal in a park, the other couldn't -- and that was 4g.
the iana time zone database is itself pretty much a one man operation. i specifically recall asking for a change in it to avoid tc39 having to keep a workaround in a js date/time spec.