Or one of the many many variation upon the same joke. There's a version of it of a tradition of cutting off the head of a fish before steaming it, and turned out the original reason was the dish is too small to fit the entire fish.
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There was a song that I think my father liked, 'Right Said Fred'...
I think I heard it as cooking a ham in two pans, and they went all the way to the great grandmother to find out her pots were a bit small.
Someone didn't call for locates. Looks like fiber optics. That's going to be a wee bit costly.[/ISPOILER]. The techsuportgore subreddit is both a blessing. And a curse
At least that's a less expensive solution even if they have to replace the tap and box completely you're looking at well under a grand. A single coax line is fairly inexpensive as those things go, even if they have to completely replace the line instead of repairing it you're looking at less than $1,500. Phone cables range from that level to hundreds of thousands depending on size and location.
Don't tell me the 'Hardware Characteristics' section in the manual for the hardware-agnostic software is unnecessary!
It's all about 'context'. Which can be a 'simple' (ha!) physical thing, or involve an incredibly complex web of relationships and required resources.
"What's that?!"
Answer, if there's any wiggle room, should be...
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I really like it that language allows to express concepts like 'should' ... because from my experience, the business decision and the feasibility of the project are between slightly to completely disjunct.
Maybe adding HOP-based artificial intelligence to the business decision process would improve things?
This reminds me of Load Bearing Internet People.
Could well be. I'm not aware of anyone who got a straight answer as to final cost to the drilling company only that they got left holding the, very expensive bag. I found out about it after my then largest customer called in a panic because all but one of their multiple phone lines were dead. Ma Bell told me it was a 'major outage' when I called it in w/ close to thirty lines out. (This was in the late 90's before most large companies got moved to digital service of some kind and the old copper lines were still the most common type.) I only found out 'How Bad' it was the next morning from the news as it was a locally very big deal. I did a drive by out of curiosity that morning and couldn't get a direct look due to the shear number of official Telco vehicles and personel surrounding the site. Found out later that they had six splice crews, (one for each end of each damaged cable), in a pit you could drop at least two Suburbans into with another six crews at the endpoints of said cable to facilitate identification. Took them three days for the repairs and the lady got a new yard and driveway as Ma Bell had to dig it up to get to the breaks.
If you don't call you are liable for the full cost of any repairs,
Presumably this is all based on GISs, which have only been around from some time in the 1990s. So, maybe, 25yrs, a generation. Before that I'm guessing you'd rely on town/city planning and maintenance tracking maps? One of the reasons planning permission is required for things, so such info is actually filed?
Nope, although it may well be referenced. When you call for locates you are required to mark the area that you are wanting to dig in and then all of the affected utilities are notified. They then send out a crew, (generally a single person), to utilize locating equipment to then mark the area with the location and routes of their facilities. If those markings go through the area you are digging in you are expected to take care, (hand dig), in those locations.
Hmm. I wonder if a HOP can replace things like ground-penetrating radar? Might let you see a 3d model of the area you want to work with? Tie the HOP to your safety helmet, so you get 'X-ray Vision'?
