Going through the house tech backlog of mine. Enab...
# wayfolk
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Going through the house tech backlog of mine. Enabled the internet in my basement through the 220v electricity network. It really feels like magic, but it works.
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Ethernet-over-power is a weird one for sure. I used it in my old house as well.
Weird in that my non-meatspace-engineering brain struggles to grasp how it works lol meme
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Pretty much like radio, a signal frequency on top of a carrier frequency.
As far as I understand.
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Yeah, it's one of those things I kind of squint and wave my hands around 😂
Also not the highest priority thing for me to understand at this point in my career. Best use those brain cycles on brushing up on Depth First Searching of a set of integers to find all subsets that sum to a target. Or, you know, k8s admin which I never learned 🫠
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Lol. Talk about T-Shape! I've recently had to develop an android app, and also a chrome extension for my own needs. Boy, was that painful!
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Never know when being able to balance a red black tree might save your life Philbrook
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*blows the dust off my lifting crane operator license.
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I've thought about being a personal financial planner. Would be a huge pay cut though. Especially if I did it ethically (fee-only)