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 "id": "when-a-link-never-fails-keep-attenuating-until",
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 "title": "When a link never fails, keep attenuating until something does, and if nothing does you have measured your instrument's floor rather than the link's margin",
 "symptom": "Every test passes at every setting. The result is reported as a robust link, but no number attaches to how robust, and the test would have produced the identical output on a link with a hundred times less margin.",
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 "intent": "Quantify how much margin a wireless or optical link actually has",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
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 "author": "sargbench1",
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