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Edit: Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585548
Not sure how you're styling your links, but in a dark mode view, they are effectively illegible.
Can log in while sitting down, can't log in when standing up.
I need to find the reference ...
Edit: OK, here's one version:
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3v52p...
Similar but opposite story: 20ish years ago I hung out in an IRC channel in which, during autumn/winter months, one person would frequently get disconnected and when he came back complained about foggy weather. He had a laser line or sight connection. It could handle rain (with some degradation), but thick fog killed it.
Every week day + Saturday, from 7-3 the link would keep cutting out intermittently. Then work fine and the rest of the day and on Sunday… a crane, building a new residential building would operate during those hours right in the middle of the microwave path. Many weeks of theories and time wasted until someone had a chance to visit. :)
I have some fancy Asus Mesh wifi routers at home. I sit next to the cable modem and one mesh endpoint. My wife sits upstairs. there's an upstairs mesh endpoint but I think neither of us are usually connected to it (mostly serves to extend our connection to go to yard). But when my wife gets up from her desk and walks through our hallway (closer to the non often used mesh endpoint) our internet drops for a bit. My only guess is that the endpoints get mad at meat being in between their back haul? Anyone deal with this and figure out the solution?
I recall there was a story about a computer mouse not working when it was sunny? It had to do with the sensor. I can't find it so I'm starting to doubt if that actually happened... Edit: Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585548
TIL about Fresnel Zones! > Interestingly, objects outside the straight line between antennas can still cause interference! For best signal quality, the Fresnel zone between the antennas should be clear of obstructions. But perfection isn't achievable in practice, so RF equipment like Wi-Fi uses techniques like error-correcting codes so that it can still work without a perfectly clear Fresnel zone. I wonder if other w…
Yes they do. That’s what an echo is, sound waves bouncing off an obstacle between two points. That obstacle doesn’t need to be within the direct line of sight, just within the dispersion area of the outgoing sound wave. At the far end you’ll hear (although in reality, your brain will almost certainly cover this up for you) distortion caused by the sound wave defracting off the obstacle and interfering with the primar…
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> I had a fun one where every time I would get out of my chair my monitors would turn off Wait, can you elaborate? I have the same and I thought I was hallucinating or tripping a cable somewhere.
https://superuser.com/questions/1406140/monitor-screen-that-... https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/09/office_chair_emission...
Update: reading the reg one, it also had no cusions, it was a standard herman miller so it was a mesh bottom and back.
I know of a case in the Caribbean where where a line of sight connection between two buildings of a bank was being interrupted by a tree from a competitor bank. They asked the competitor would they mind cutting the tree and the answer was sure for the small fee of 1 million, Third hand info but I did hear from a network guy I worked with.