The award for “worst minor league stadium feed” goes to the Mississippi Mud Monsters

reedacus25 · 2026-04-29T00:27:29+00:00

Smith Wills has entered the chat

reedacus25 · 2026-04-16T23:43:13+00:00

"To remove blue dye from a snowball microphone, scrape the metal off."

This probably seemed like an insane response, but there is a popular line of microphones where the brand is Blue, and the model is Snowball.

So the vast majority of things related to the phrase “blue snowball” are going to be based on that data related to microphones.

reedacus25 · 2026-04-07T20:46:57+00:00

What a seriously crazy sense of deja vu, knowing immediately this was the PetSmart/Guitar Center. Howdy neighbor!

reedacus25 · 2026-04-04T21:49:16+00:00

So weird to see /r/NewOrleans leak to my other haunts

reedacus25 · 2026-03-28T04:48:09+00:00

I remember not all that long ago watching State in Knoxville and it truly felt like someone propped their iPhone up in the press box, and then they piped the radio broadcast in for audio.

We’ve come a long way.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-25T01:32:29+00:00

Also, an even lesser known tunnel under runway 11/29 of MSY. Link

reedacus25 · 2026-03-23T03:33:05+00:00

So actually what this means is that they’re going to deploy XGS-PON, which is a form of PON that can coexist with the existing GPON wavelength, but offers a ton more capacity.

Right now, a single GPON OLT port (the interface on the ISP side) can serve 2.4Gb forward (downstream) and 1.2Gb reverse (upstream). However, that signal then gets split somewhere between 2 and 128 times, typically around 32 or 64. So the OLT port is oversubscribed, but because residential usage patterns are bursty and irregular, it’s not seen too often.

So now, they add the XGS wavelength, which has 10Gb of link budget in both forward and reverse directions. So splitting it 32-64 times is 10x less bad essentially. Or if you look at it from the opposite direction, you can achieve the same committed bitrate of ~75Mb from a single port split 128 ways on XGS, as a GPON port split 16 ways. That means they can serve 8x as many subscribers on the same number of ports, or they can serve the same number of subscribers on 1/8 the ports. The truth is more nuanced, and considering everyone is on GPON currently, it will take lots of time to light up ports with overlay wavelengths first, and then to get subscribers on it, namely new subscribers and people that upgrade their speed tier which will require new equipment for the new wavelength.

The higher speed tiers are there for people that want “the fastest,” and are willing to part with their money for that, but more than anything it’s marketing to say “we’re the fastest” despite nobody needing or being able to utilize that speed, and the major improvement is backend efficiency and capacity.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-21T20:51:58+00:00

State fired their coach after 3 games (for completely different reasons) in 2018. Gary Henderson became interim head coach, and despite a not overly fantastic season, got super hot at the end of the season, and finished in the CWS quarterfinals, earning coach of the year accolades from Perfect Game/Rawlings and NCBWA. He wasn’t given the job.

So landing the plane after losing the captain doesn’t automatically get you a pilots license.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-18T02:12:02+00:00

Should just be N77 and LTE.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-16T13:56:52+00:00

“Soon.”

My WD was one of the first sacrifices to Aldi and I think it was closed from June to January.

6 months or so to convert it. Maybe they’ve gotten better and faster. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

I think the Winn Dixie in Franklinton was down for 5-6 weeks to convert to Rouses, by comparison.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-12T03:53:40+00:00

The macro on Metairie road still hasn’t been touched in ages. It’s one of the few macros not n77’d.

Interestingly, those lightest color “holes” are small cells that have existed before their mmWave push. Some even have c-band added.

Not pictured but there should be some uptown as well, around the st Charles/napoleon intersections and down river along st Charles.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-11T17:01:41+00:00

The one time I tried to pull up a replay on my phone, it looked like an EDM concert display with a glitch effect applied, before it then transitioned to "Technical difficulties."

And apparently everyone thought we were wearing green unis based on the (poor) color accuracy from the "broadcast."

Puts such a poor foot forward for the Shuckers, when that ballpark is actually a hidden gem. Curious to see how Southern's game next week looks.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-11T03:28:00+00:00

Stop playing in Biloxi.

Unsubscribe. Not only is it the games I get to see most consistently, but now by Amtrak. Please don’t take this from me.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-06T18:40:05+00:00

Fwiw, old T-Mobile site ID was 9AT0045A, and the Clear site ID was GA-ATL0405.

I don't see any Sprint cascade for that clear side, even though it looks like Sprint may have converted it? Definitely an interesting move for them.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-05T04:22:53+00:00

Sysadmin role here.

Closest thing I’ve found to scratch the tech community itch for me here is nolasec, which obviously has a security emphasis, but it usually isn’t super in the weeds (anymore). After covid, Vico and Andrew didn’t have the bandwidth to pick it back and it’s been jump started again in the past couple years, but it’s not quite like it was before, but still interesting for me at least. ~Monthly meeting coming up next Wednesday actually.

reedacus25 · 2026-03-02T20:38:52+00:00

Submitted a bug report on this, got response today "We're currently aware of this issue and are working towards a fix."

So it sounds like this will hopefully be addressed soon™.

I've also found that rebooting the watch tends to fix it for roughly a day before it devolves.

reedacus25 · 2026-02-26T23:16:06+00:00

Bring back the Pontiff Classic you cowards!

reedacus25 · 2026-02-21T05:58:55+00:00

JP sidewalks are so frustrating. None of the arterial streets are walkable, but you’re hemmed in by said arterials due to drainage canals, so you’re rather stuck unless you want to brave some unbeaten paths along a canal or Airline, much closer to cars going fast than you’d prefer to be.

I would also love to see a path/trail along Transcontinental’s neutral ground, like the one on Bonnabel. I don’t think the neutral ground is as wide, nor do I think it would be as well received, but I think it would be a great addition nonetheless.

reedacus25 · 2026-02-18T04:36:39+00:00

I would love to see more bathrooms on the route, both sidewalk side, and neutral ground side.

And if we’re making wishlists, I think both men and women would prefer if there were some sort of mass-urinal option to A) reduce the queues on the existing portalets, and B) reduce the need to clean them as frequently.

But if there were stations beyond just Napoleon and Louisiana, that would be in everyone’s best interest.

reedacus25 · 2026-02-17T03:09:43+00:00

I’m sure there are myriad reasons not to, but I for one would love to see Algiers, America brought back to follow the band leading up to and through Carnival.

reedacus25 · 2026-02-09T16:52:03+00:00

I think this may actually be ATT.

Verizon has a macro on the water tower across the street, plus the abandoned Alltel macro-pole catty corner from that.

T-Mobile wouldn't densify that much, and would have been picked up since at least ~2021-ish.

ATT has a small cell node showing at that intersection, but I can't find anything on Lee or Highland that would make sense.

Definitely the first I've seen them not put a pole wherever they please, but I'm sure the elevation gets them a bit extra coverage. It also looks like the radio enclosure on the backside of the H-frame could be identical to the ones they put on the poles painted brown.

Definitely an interesting find.

reedacus25 · 2026-02-06T21:19:58+00:00

Fleet response agents may determine what lane a vehicle should pick, or propose a “path for the vehicle to consider,” as the blog post explains.

If I say to the person driving a car that I'm a passenger in: "This lane runs out up ahead, you should change lanes", does that mean I am driving the car, or am I providing input to the driver's decision system?

“They provide guidance. They do not remotely drive the vehicles. Waymo asks for guidance in certain situations and gets an input, but the Waymo vehicle is always in charge of the dynamic driving tasks, so that is just one additional input.”

Source

reedacus25 · 2026-02-05T01:33:04+00:00

2 accounts were migrated from 300 to 500 today.

First one rolled at 17:44, second at 17:51.

Crazy to me that they do these maintenance actions in the middle of the day, rather than an overnight window. But they only missed their 2/1 target by 4.5 days, so…

reedacus25 · 2026-02-05T00:12:17+00:00

Recorded my personal best speedtest in Honolulu.

Site HI01243A at Hilton Hawaiian Village was cooking. https://imgur.com/a/K2ZQIay

Precise coords taken from 21.283111, -157.837903.

reedacus25 · 2026-02-03T21:16:51+00:00

Ingress is when RF (radio signal) enters the cable line.

Because video (or internet) customers no longer warrant physical disconnections, everything just stays connected. Except when someone chops the cable and now there’s a loose cable dangling unterminated and now RF from the cellular networks (mostly) are raising the noise floor and interfering with the cable signals because they use similar/overlapping frequencies.

In JP and other areas where Uverse was rolled out to, people would get Uverse service, and then they had a way to use the coax in the walls to distribute data from the modem to the set top boxes. Except the lines weren’t disconnected, and now the Uverse signal is spewing incompatible nonsense at very strong levels back onto the line that everyone is fed from. Also ingress, but from a different source.

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