PapaSpaceDelta

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by PapaSpaceDelta 3mo ago
He was inspired by Iram of the Pillars, which is mentioned in the Quran ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iram_of_the_Pillars ). There's an interesting overview of its role in his work here: https://lovecra
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by PapaSpaceDelta 4y ago
I’ve heard stories about high end recording studios, with shrink wrapped boxes of expensive audio software, that used cracked versions on their workstations because they don’t want to deal with the inevitable iLok hassles…
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by PapaSpaceDelta 4y ago
The Victoria line in London runs up to 34 trains per hour, using CBTC: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2014/june/v...
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by PapaSpaceDelta 4y ago
On very busy urban systems, one major advantage of CBTC is that the signalling blocks (the section of line that only one train can be in at a time) can be smaller, since the possibility of a driver failing to notice a red signal can be disc
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by PapaSpaceDelta 5y ago
I recently migrated from 1Password using Dropbox for sync, to KeePassXC (Windows, Linux & Mac) and Strongbox (iPhone & iPad) still using Dropbox. Migration was a simple matter of exporting a CSV and then just correctly selecting the
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by PapaSpaceDelta 5y ago
I suppose that I have to put this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSCppeFzX4 here. Many a true word…
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by PapaSpaceDelta 5y ago
For a lot of us Brits Sir Clive's machines were our first glimpse of the future. If that doesn’t sound like you, then just stand aside while we mourn our hero.
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by PapaSpaceDelta 5y ago
It's an interesting part of corporate culture. Large companies hate the process of firing employees for a number of reasons: staff moral, public perception, potential legal liability, etc. This applies whether it's individuals for
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by PapaSpaceDelta 5y ago
With regard to its popularity with publicly traded companies, aside from the cost and liability issues that are being discussed here, I have been told that Revenue per Employee is an investment metric that senior management try to optimise
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by PapaSpaceDelta 5y ago
This is an excellent point. If you are a hands on techie by inclination, then you should be aware that blindly chasing promotion in an organisation that doesn’t have a track for “individual contributors” is simply going to lead to more time
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by PapaSpaceDelta 5y ago
The fact that he went into hospital and came back out to a functioning farm suggests that he has a good relationship with his neighbouring farmers. My guess would be that he's planned for exactly what will happen to his livestock and f
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by PapaSpaceDelta 5y ago
I dived the Blue Hole in Belize and was shocked by the slack attitude of most of the other divers on the boat. I'd just completed my Advanced Open Water (with a deep dive) so was very conscious of the regular air checks, however despit
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by PapaSpaceDelta 6y ago
I don't think there's any real standard, since it very much depends on application SLAs, industry sector, size of the on-call team, geographic location, length of on-call rotation, frequency of call-out, how realistic the manageme
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by PapaSpaceDelta 6y ago
If your expected response time is of the order of 5 minutes, then you are not "on-call", you are working 12 hour days and your compensation and time off arrangements should reflect that. I suspect that if the company is currently
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by PapaSpaceDelta 6y ago
My impression was that during the early stages there was more concern about touch based transmission, so there was a feeling that the benefits of masks (trapping respiratory droplets) might be outweighed by causing people to touch their fac
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by PapaSpaceDelta 6y ago
My family have always been happy to make a donation on my behalf to the good cause of their choice, perhaps that might work for you?
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by PapaSpaceDelta 6y ago
If you can gain the same enjoyment vicariously, you might enjoy SouthernASMR's channel - she often tidies up the shelves of the stores that she visits. Here's a playlist of her Nail Polish organisation videos: https://w
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by PapaSpaceDelta 6y ago
Betfair takes its commission as a percentage of the profit that one has made in a given market rather as a percentage of a bet size, so it's always worth making a bet on a certain event. Usually by the end of an in-play sporting event,
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by PapaSpaceDelta 6y ago
Have you tried Reaper? I haven’t personally used the experimental Linux builds, because I depend on a lot of third party VSTs, but if it's anywhere near as good as it is on Windows/Mac it may work for you.
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by PapaSpaceDelta 6y ago
I think this (alleged) Orson Welles quote says it best: “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” (Information on the quote's provenance, for those who might be interested: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014&#x2
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by PapaSpaceDelta 9y ago
One reason is that any System Administrator can be expected to be able to understand and maintain Bash scripts. I recently built a fairly complex system entirely in Bash, not because it was the "best" language for the job (it woul