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Yes, DARC is used to broadcast public transit arrival times over one of the public FM radio stations in Stockholm and Helsinki (and probably other places): http://www.windytan.com/2013/11/broadcast-messages-on-darc-s...

I have a pair of Genelec 8020's which fits the bill pretty well.

I used my X40 a lot in college where I did a lot of theatre sound and lighting, and the thinklight was really good at illuminating the script as well as the keyboard.

The early game designers and devs of EVE all came, unsurprisingly, from an UO and Elite background

Pandemic Legion pretty much.

My previous team was distributed (SF, TX, NY) used Geekbot in slack for standups, 9:30am local time it would prompt you to enter what you did yesterday, what you'll be working today and any blockers.

Geekbot worked good when people put thought into their reports, which was far from always - a lot of the time it'd be "yesterday: wrote code. today: will write code. blockers: everything is awful" which isn't hugely helpful for team synchronisation. That said, it was a lot better than when we tried using hangouts. With Hangouts we kept running into issues like: not socially acceptable for video conferences at desks in the SF office, and the SF people being in a conference room felt a lot more distant than the remotes on their PCs.

Current team is also distributed (same timezones as previous), but we do a highly structured standup in video conference where everyone is on equal footing signed on a workstation (instead of half being in a conf room).

In Sweden, night clubs have a different time period for sound pressure exposure limits than concerts[0] (15 minutes instead of 60), partially due to the difference in dynamic range.

[0] https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/globalassets/livsvillkor... §5.1.2 vs §5.2.3

DMX512 runs at 250 kbit/s, so yeah, "not a lot". I've usually seen standard rackmount gigabit switches in installations, when I was involved in touring audio it was usually fanless consumer switches (think 8-port netgears), but these weren't for ethernet snakes.

In terms of data, audio multicores over ethernet and video content distribution/playout massively dwarfs the bandwidth that lighting uses. But when it goes down, everyone notices.

Modern consoles can control a lot of universes these days. A grandMA2 full-size can run 256 universes corresponding to 65k parameters in one session, a Whole Hog 4 is basically unlimited.

When you're running that many fixtures (big events like Olympics ceremonies, Eurovision et c) you're usually bumping up against the limits of the operator and tend to run multiple sessions with multiple operators so they can program scenese in parallell.

Says in the post, "Far end of El Cap meadow"

Some great pictures from the climb: http://elcapreport.com/content/elcap-report-6317-special-edi...

In the NYT article[0] he said he's climbed this route without falling in 2008-09, so physically he's been able to do this for 8-9 years.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/california-today-alex-...

This would be impossible to follow at higher latitudes - I used to live in Stockholm where from october to mid-january sundown is 4pm

I'm missing the "How to shoot one-handed at a concert"[0]. I'd love to have zoom not be a pinch only

[0] since my other hand is holding my drink

It's spliced like any other rope, you can see this in action here: https://youtu.be/5itSfxJoXY4?t=183

The splice for the Vail lift is about 300 feet long apparently.

Good to hear that Lenovo has continued to do this after the split from IBM - I ordered a new front bezel for my X40 when it cracked and the amount of parts available was staggering.

This exists in SF, it's called called "Pit Stop SF": http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1805 and costs over $1mm a year according to the Chron: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/City-...

Every? Comcast does IPv6 since a few years back.

Except that only works in Classic and not VPC.

Amazon paid for my entire move (Europe to SF) without me having to incur any expenses beyond the taxi to and from the airports.

Tobacco smoke has finer particles than standard glycol-based smoke machines. For concert lighting, tobacco smoke gives a much better effect if all you want to see are the light beams, glycol is a bit coarser and not as smooth-looking in comparison.

You can get a fair bit closer to that look by using an oil-based cracker. Those have finer particles than glycol-based, but they have their own drawbacks as they rely on an air compressor that's either noisy or needs to be placed somewhere far away, and the oil tends to get on every light fixture and surface in the venue. It looks fantastic though.

When they introduced a smoking ban at the concert venue I worked at, I noticed that we had to run our smoke machines a lot harder to get the same looks we previously got "for free" from the punters smoking tobacco.

I agree - the docs are kinda hard to parse, and after launch it didn't work in us-west-2 for several hours. I've got great ideas for what I can build with it if they fix a few issues with it, but for now it's just a toy.

I've experienced the same frustrations with the API Gateway. Lack of knowing the IAM principal that authenticated, and no clear way to differentiate if a call came from the API gateway or not makes me feel that this needs some work. SNS, for example, will sign it's HTTP requests and that would be a good start IMHO. Ability to use security groups in proxy mode would make this even better.

Unfortunately Kimsufi / SoYouStart have a tendency of not always having servers available - either the kind you want or in DC you want.

OpenBSD fixed it in 5.5 released in May.

The explosion sound is way too loud, my eardrums hate you now.

Daily downtime is 11.00 to 11.30 UTC, usually less than this (10-15 minutes most days).

> In Mexico City, the city has simply licensed dollar vans with just the minimal oversight necessary for public safety. They've all painted themselves green and white and the informal routes have firmed up but there is still -- decades later -- no map, public or private, of the routes of the most common form of transit in this modern city of 22 million.

http://www.viadf.com.mx/directorio/Microbus looks like a good directory of microbus routes.

Along the same lines, I've seen a lot of touring light & sound techs put a coffee pod machine in their tool roadcase, so they can have good coffee right by the stage / mix position.

Same for me. My apartment building in Stockholm is from 1943. It has copper for phone (DSL) and cable, plus fibre right into my hallway.