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541.
by chgs 2y ago
You’re talking about the contribution from the venue to the boardcast centre, increasingly not a full program but being mixed remotely. That’s a very different area to transmission of live to end users.
542.
by chgs 2y ago
I taught it by standing (kneeling) behind, so my left was my son’s left. Didn’t occur it could be done the other way. However my wife, who’s 3 weeks younger than me, ties her shoes in a completely different way to me, which I believe is a “
543.
by chgs 2y ago
I thought they renamed it Urectum?
544.
by chgs 2y ago
User accounts and sudo does auditing of who is doing what. They’re are other ways, sure, but checking auth.log is the simplest. And while lpadmin users can escalate, I’m more interested in escalations from services like web servers or whate
545.
by chgs 2y ago
Depends on your location. Alaska is somewhat different to Hawaii
546.
by chgs 2y ago
You can’t mention price without including the externalities and the total cost of ownership. Regulations attempt to price those.
547.
by chgs 2y ago
I’ve worked for bike longer than my kids have been alive, they’re in high school now. If the house burns down then sure, I’ll stop work, but day to day I start work when I start and finish when I finish. I don’t do a half assed job trying t
548.
by chgs 2y ago
Geoff Marshall made “Station Master” for the London Underground
549.
by chgs 2y ago
30 year fixes seem so alien to me, 2 or 5 years are the most common in the U.K. Are there shorter interval fixes? Is it just a cultural thing where lifetime fix is the norm?
550.
by chgs 2y ago
I’ve hired cars in Austrailia without an IDP, just my British driving license.
551.
by chgs 2y ago
In the U.K. people used to go to a booth, but nowadays you just get a well lit white wall and take a selfie on your phone.
552.
by chgs 2y ago
The $1m isn’t for the mission Think of it another way, would you pay $99 for a camera which will work or $97 for a camera which might work.
553.
by chgs 2y ago
There’s no far left media in America?
554.
by chgs 2y ago
If you’re spending nearly $1m on something to launch a camera do you really want to take the risk, so you can launch for 950000 instead of 970000?
555.
by chgs 2y ago
So you saved the company $10k a month and got a $200 meal in gratitude? Awesome.
556.
by chgs 2y ago
It’s odd, last time I went to the US they barely glanced at my photo
557.
by chgs 2y ago
Laws are not designed to be explicit, they aren’t code.
558.
by chgs 2y ago
For now. Our transmitters have links via isdn from the studios. Isdn goes away soon. Beyond that, how does the studio receive information? By say phone? SMS? Again depends what “the internet” means
559.
by chgs 2y ago
Depends what “internet is down” means, but are you sure radio will carry news? Even if the studio can get the signal out to a transmitter, how will news get to the studio? How will you be able to trust it? You might have someone saying some
560.
by chgs 2y ago
In the U.K. a Thames barrier failure would (amongst a lot of London) wipe out the vast majority of switching capacity. Sure there’s slough and a few smaller IXPs but not enough for the capacity.
561.
by chgs 2y ago
Wet sponges were a common site in offices back before widespread computing and lots of cash.
562.
by chgs 2y ago
When. But the same can be said about the US. Look at the “reconstruction” of Iraq.
563.
by chgs 2y ago
In most western countries your 60s is when you start drawing an old age pension. The post ww2 boom started when people got home so births from about 1946. Those people have been drawing US social security for over a decade.
564.
by chgs 2y ago
Boomers are 60-80 years old. That’s elderly.
565.
by chgs 2y ago
25 years ago I was quite happy with enlightenment but moved to blackbox/fluxbox. Went to xfce around 2010ish though. Only issues I can think of that have every affected me were pulseaudio related.
566.
by chgs 2y ago
I find it amusing that there’s this constant assetion on this forum that the Linux desktop sucks Yet many of us have been quite happy with it for decades, and the major problems tend to be with new stuff that seems to be added just to do so
567.
by chgs 2y ago
When someone says unsinkable most people think titanic
568.
by chgs 2y ago
The coincidence is shocking, but coincidences often are.
569.
by chgs 2y ago
Which is why large companies, and companies in general, have far too much power.
570.
by chgs 2y ago
What does .com do which .jp does not?

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