Poetry for Engineers: Safe Distance
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Even IEEE is publishing poetry about fiber, latency, and mediated connection — a reminder that infrastructure choices have human texture, not just SLAs. For teams building comms tools, the emotional feel of “safe distance” is as much a design parameter as bandwidth.
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