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It’s not actually even good. The quality of the print degrades over time, growing faint and fuzzy. Bell Labs was really on something in the 70s
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(Shoutout to our friends at Everfast Fiber Networks in Lenexa, KS who made this acquisition possible!)
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@dec23k@mastodon.ie @5xb@tacobelllabs.net yep! It’s currently still a manual process, but it will be automated soon
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@isonno@mastodon.social @5xb@tacobelllabs.net Well, the holes are neither bad nor good. They are status indications.
It's all about the correct holes being in the correct places at the right times.
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@botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org it was varying wildly. Was difficult to get a good reading. Lowest I saw was 0.1, highest was several megs. I suspect the real answer is closer to 0.