ggiesen

@ggiesen@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads when you’re pumping gas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately gas stations don’t actually make much money from selling you fuel. Most of the money is made from the attached convenience stores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads when you’re pumping gas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost two decades ago, I worked at a network service provider who had as a customer a company that provided the technology for serving those gas pump ads.

  At each gas station they had a VSAT, a router and of course the digital signage boxes on each pump.

  They fed the ads to thousands of pumps via a single T1 to HughesNet in Atlanta. They’d multicast the ads, and have a local cache at each pump that would receive the stream, cache it and serve it.

  It was one of the most elegant setups I’ve ever seen, and should serve as a case study in multicast for efficient bandwidth utilization across an expensive data transmission medium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I use 24 hour time on all my devices, working in IT it just makes things easier.