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mrgoldenbrown 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?

How do you know the building code from 100+ years ago? And whether they actually followed it back then?

pizzafeelsright 4 months ago [–]

100 years ago there wasn't really code, or electricity or extensive plumbing and everything is pretty obvious.

As for following - after the 50's everything was, in theory, built to code with exceptions.

Worse case really is hitting a water pipe.

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