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I tried several drawstrings.
I found that if I make it tight enough so that things don't loosen easily when there's tension, then it's too tight to adjust easily. Maybe there's a happy medium to be had, but through numerous tries, I never achieved it.
BTW... full credit to the artist, Shanaka Dias.
https://asciiart.website/artist.php?artist_id=121
https://asciiart.website/preservation/poster.php?person_id=1...
I know this doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge, but...
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snd |/ `^ .'This got me wondering if vibecoding might bring with it a newfound interest in developing apps for vintage computers. Are the LLMs that most people use trained as well on these older coding languages / platforms as they are on modern ones?
De La Soul's 12" Single for "Me Myself And I" also has its second side cut with two grooves. The hype sticker says, "3 Sides." Each time you put the needle down you have a 50/50 chance to hear the song you're trying to hear. :-)
https://www.discogs.com/master/19554-De-La-Soul-Me-Myself-An...
Also thematically related (from 2011):
This is what helped me back in the day when I did that stuff. I didn't know my ass from a hole in the ground and Avi's guides got me up and running, fully multi-homed!
http://freedman.net/bgp102.ppt
http://avi.freedman.net/fromnetaxs/multi.html
Back to the point of the article: is there quantified evidence that use of wood for heat is increasing in America among the poor? Or is this based on the author's impressions?
Indeed. I wish that were the point of the article. However, in my opinion, this article is unfortunately much more of an emotional/political rant than a conveyor of useful information.
First on the site's list of "Healthy Games" is a game called "Beholder."
Description: "You work for a dystopian surveillance state and spy on your neighbors."
What you're trying to accomplish doesn't really translate into TV production automation systems. The systems being discussed in this thread don't "integrate content" per se.
You may be confusing what we're talking about with an NRCS. (Newsroom Computer System.) The biggest players in this space are ENPS, iNews, Dalet Galaxy, and (to a lesser extent) Ross Inception. As it pertains to making it "easy to make that content available on newscasts," I don't know of any such method. You may be inferring that these systems employ a higher level of sophistication than they actually do. My advice: format your news as plain ASCII text. I really can't think of anything else you would need to do to it.
Thank you for the vote of confidence. :-)
I do ask myself that sometimes. It sounds weird, but I think it's what I was put on this earth to do. Yes, it is a cruel industry at times and pain is indeed inflicted just as you assert. I guess I'm just built for it. And I've been doing it for so long that I've built up a really thick skin and I'm just not that fazed by its unpleasant aspects. I can honestly say that it's a fun job. It's the job I always wanted when I was a kid and I still absolutely love it. (I'm fortunate enough to be compensated at a reasonable level, so that helps.)
People think it's stressful and I suppose it is. But the nice thing about it is that when the newscast is over, I'm completely done. And I have the luxury of knowing, down to the exact second, when that moment will be. I don't take my work home with me. There's nothing to stress out about (until the next day.)
Another thing... unlike an airline pilot or a surgeon, no matter how poor a job I might do, no one dies. That's kind nice too. :-)
Disclaimer... I am a director and not an engineer. I can only give you my relatively limited understanding....
It looks like great support (Blackmagicdesign) for building a small broadcast studio from scratch tho.
Agreed!
I could see BMD embracing this. There are lots of studios that are not commercial broadcast that could really use a system like this.
Also agreed. Black Magic definitely makes a lot of reasonably-priced and very capable gear. They're not a major player in the TV automation space, but perhaps with the help of Sofie, they could make inroads.
Isn't one of the problems with hardware support is that hardware vendors have agreements with the competitors you listed?
That's not a topic I'm knowledgeable about. It is my understanding that most shops who have a particular vendor's automation platform will also have that vendor's hardware running at its core. In all the shops I've seen, the switcher that's controlled by the automation system is made by the same company. Or if its another vendor's product, it's sold and provisioned along with the automation system when its purchased. Other stuff like audio mixers, robo-cam products, clip players, and CG/graphics platforms can be from other vendors.
Computers are fast enough now that once you can get the signals into a machine, many of the special functions that previously required dedicated hardware can now be run in software? With proper timing signal distribution of course.
Seems like 12G SDI to SFP+ would enable server class machines to subsume most of the special function hardware.
For audio, I think that would be a relatively easy lift with technologies like Dante. However, in most TV stations, you're going to need to literally plug upwards of 100 HDSDI video cables into a piece of hardware so that those sources can be switched to on TV, mixed and keyed on multiple mixed-effects banks, and viewed on multiviewer screens in the control room. I don't know that a regular-ol' PC has what it takes to take in and simultaneously process that amount of video. But just because don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ;-) Just haven't seen it yet.
As a live television newscast director in a major market, I would be very interested to see a feature comparison between this product and its main competitors: Ross OverDrive, Sony ELC, and Grass Valley Ignite.
Due to the substantial complexity of these automation systems, they tend to have a lot of inertia. But if anything could drive a station group to make a change, the "free" part can be effective.
I did take a look at the supported hardware (1). I think that's the pain point for many shops. Free open source production software is great, but being forced to choose form hardware products you don't prefer is a pretty tough tradeoff.
Historically, I suppose that's been one of FOSS' big challenges.
(1) https://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/docs/user-guide/supported...
Very nicely done. If I were to tweak something....
Some have different names once you click on them.
- "Speed" is "Speed and Pace."
- "Data Size" is "Data Storage"
- "Fuel Economy" is "Fuel Consumption"
On the Data Size / Data Storage calculator, I would add kilobits, megabits, gigabits, and terabits. In addition to data storage, that might make it useful as a bandwidth calculator as well.
In my younger days, I had a significant other who took advantage of my good nature, expected me to pay for everything, and was borderline abusive toward me at times. When I finally stood up to her, she told me she hated me. I believed her.
Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying,
When attempting to formulate a persuasive argument, this isn't a great place to start in my opinion. It's perfectly acceptable to dislike Trump and his policies. If you do, then go ahead and state your reasons. He was elected by the people of his country and he'll be done in four years' time. That's not how kings generally function. Perhaps I'm throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I don't find myself too interested in reading the article after the inflammatory introductory TLDR.
What are the falling pellets?
Not every. Bart.gov is missing.
(I found it in the data source, but not on the website that was linked to.)
I work in broadcast TV in San Francisco and am very good friends with one of the engineers who is responsible for the care and maintenance of some of the facilities up there. We talked about him taking me up there for ten years before we finally got around to it. :-)
I had the privilege of spending about 30 minutes at level 6 in May of 2023. It was as spectacular as you might imagine. I would say that if you have even the slightest fear of heights the whole experience would be a nightmare.
Or why not start with a more modest production budget? It takes longer to shoot, but with the right equipment, you can shoot this stuff yourself. Watch one of Mend It Mark's videos (1). He does the whole thing all by himself and it looks absolutely fantastic. Then, if you get a couple million subscribers, hire some people and go big time. Because you can afford to.
Now how about Carracho?
This is one of the better documentaries out there about Kowloon. It's in German but you can turn on English subtitles. They got a camera inside and you get a decent taste of what life was like there.
In nearly all populated areas of the US, you can still receive broadcast TV for free over the air with an antenna.
Digital television stations state what "channel" they are in their signal's meta data. That allows them to change frequencies but keep their channel identity. Since TV when digital, many stations have changed frequencies, some several times. You may find the "repacking" of the broadcast TV frequencies an interesting read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_wireless_sp...
Interesting. Not sure how that happened. I thought I ended the post with the URL. You may be on to something.
I think I sent you an e-mail back then, but let me take this opportunity to heap a bunch of praise and gratitude upon you in front of God and everybody. I bought several books on BGP at the time and slogged through them, but it was intimidating and I had a lot of trouble putting the pieces together. Your tutorials were simple, straightforward and helped me an awful lot. And the other thing about the way you wrote them that I really appreciated was that you didn't make me feel inferior for not knowing WTF I was doing. Thanks Avi. From time to time, I think back on the challenges I had in my life/career and I'm grateful for the people who helped me. You're definitely on that list, sir.
25 years ago, I worked for a small ISP (back when there was such a thing.) When I started there, we had one upstream ISP. I was charged with getting us multihomed. I found some tutorials written by Avi Freedman (1). I don't know what I would have done without him. He made an intimidating topic approachable. Thanks to him, I got us a /20 from ARIN and advertised our routes to two different peers. It was fascinating to learn how it all worked. And the more I learned about it, the more amazed I was that it worked at all.
Avi
Neither the Vice article nor the The Barents Observer article it links to seem to report exactly when the incident occurred.
When I was four, I got a record player for Christmas. This one:
https://djcj.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/denim_turnta...
My mom had a copy of Ray Charles' greatest hits. My favorite song was One Mint Julep. Quincy Jones did the arrangement. You can see by the wear on this record how much I listened to that song, as well as "Unchain My Heart" and "Hit the Road Jack."
https://djcj.website/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/one-mint-jul...
So much great music. And when you watch interviews with other musicians with whom he crossed paths, they all talk about what an uplifting and positive influence he had on their lives.
Here's a interview with his longtime collaborator Tom Bähler. He has some really beautiful stories about his experiences with Quincy.
https://youtu.be/yIkP_XuIDeY?t=5197
And when he got together with Rod Temperton, the magic was next-level.
https://www.facebook.com/QuincyJones/posts/ill-never-forget-...