I get what you're saying, but I'll just clarify that my 16 paragraphs vs 16 words was about wordiness, not layout.
GreatBlueHeron
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Denial information is available on the internet, so LLMs have ingested it. Couldn't the above output have easily been generated with a prompt like "what arguments do holocaust deniers use?"?
For me the most obvious tell is using 16 paragraphs to say something that could have been said with 16 words.
I'm sure I've used some software that's auto corrected hyphens to em-dashes too, but I can't remember what.
I'm thinking that you used "akschuelly" to make this a joke? It hasn't really worked.
It's pre terminated pure copper direct burial cat6 from Amazon. I don't have access to a real tester, but my cisco switch has some built in test capability and I'm not sure I fully understand the results, but it's assessment of the cable length is pretty close and, more importantly, it shows all the pairs are the same as each other. I think that if there was some damage to the cable, it's unlikely that it would affect all the pairs in exactly the same way. I have other weird grounding issues - like 20V between neutral and ground, even though it's a new house and they're properly bonded at the service entry. I had a really old transformer on the street feeding the two buildings and the power company recently replaced it - I was disappointed when this didn't resolve all my issues.
I guess that's what I haven't figured out yet - it's about 200' and I don't have 200' of wire laying around. I'm thinking of making dummy terminations for each end of my cat6 cable and stripping each of the pairs and twisting them together so it works as a single conductor and using that to measure.
It's a 200' cable and the buildings each have their own connection to the power company. I suspect that the earth potential of the two buildings is quite different - I just have not figured out a way to measure it yet and not sure if there's anything I can do to fix it even if I do confirm it.
I already have a pair of Ubiquiti airMax GigaBeams left over from a different project and agree - they perform incredibly well. I didn't even bother aligning mine as they did 800Mbit/s just pointed in the right general direction. A trench was being dug to the studio for another reason and cable is relatively cheap so I figured I'd drop one in. Hasn't turned out as well as I hoped. I will setup the GigaBeams one day - but the cable does occasionally sync at 1Gbps and I'm hoping that one day it just stays there :-)
As someone who grew up with 10Base2 and 10BaseT, and thought 100Mbps was amazing - it still surprises me every time I'm reminded how slow it is now. I buried a cat6 cable out to my wife's studio and due to (I assume) some grounding issues it only syncs at 100Mbps - it works for general browsing etc., but every time we try to move some data it's arggghhh.
Some of you may recall my previous post about a ~20V potential between my electrical ground and my concrete slab. That's still not resolved - it's currently sitting just under 10V.
Today I have a new mystery - to me anyway..
I'm sitting at my desk and notice that I got a tingle from the outer shield/shell of a USB-C cable. I got my multi-meter and measured 65V from the cable to me with my bare feet on the slab! It drops to about 16V if I lift my feet off the floor. I immediately assumed the charging brick it's plugged into was faulty, but just in case I took a more measurements and found that the another similar charger has a similar offset, the "ground" part of a TRS cable plugged into an amplifier is similar, the accessible metal shield part of a USB-A port on an ASUS ChromeBox is similar. I assume that's not normal?
This is a new slab on grade build. Ground and neutral are properly bonded - I checked a few outlets and ground to neutral is ~0.3V.
Edit - I don't think there is any safety risk - I measured 0.3μA current.
I live in a small community at the end of a long line in Atlantic Canada. We get frequent power disruptions so I have installed a backup generator. I have a bit of a home lab, and don't like my server to lose power with no warning so I've recently installed a small UPS to keep it running in the gap between my power going out and the generator starting. The UPS logs data and lets me access it.
I'm wondering if I should be concerned about my input voltage. The blue line in the minimum for the hour, the amber is maximum for the hour. The zero period on the 8th of March was when I had the power turned off to do some work.
The default configuration for my UPS has it cut over to battery power at 88V, so it seems some significant variation is expected!
I tried searching my power company web site but they don't seem to publish anything about guaranteed, or even expected, supply voltage.
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I have a STEM background myself and spent a good bit of my career writing (relatively poorly in my opinion) technical documentation. I understand what you're saying and I guess I didn't make my point very well.
I was hoping people would understand that I was referring to the enshitification of internet search results - where every search leads to pages of results of entire articles about very simple topics that say basically nothing. It seems obvious to be, though I admit I'm making an assumption, that the vast majority of these articles are LLM generated fluff attempting to lure people to pages to generate ad revenue.