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That’s not actually long enough. My cat got up a tree, which we couldn’t figure how to get up safely (very high on a slope with ground that was not stabile and nowhere near good access)

Took about 20 hours before she came down. Just before the tree surgeon was arriving to help get her down.

I’ve built or been involved in building 4 closed source media asset management systems ( including my current place of work and one I cofounded) and you can get relatively far in the first month.

But the devil is in the details and most people that attempt it don’t even get the database models right on the first or second time, they underestimate the complexity particularly when it comes to video and struggle when the use cases widen. Document asset management systems are way easier but usually don’t understand media as in depth as a media asset management system.

In 2007 and i would argue before that, live media encoding for streams was pretty much a solved problem but it was often very expensive, and out of reach of radio stations and the information wasn't readily accessible so you could potentially end up giving Microsoft or Real networks lots of money.

I was working on streaming in the late 90s - that was real wild west, had to write solutions myself, and it felt very duck taped together. Luckily it was an offshoot of a largish ISP so we had bandwidth and a lot of servers. incoming streams often used bonded ISDN lines.

The problem with English/British food is that some/a lot of restaurants care very little about the food, and more about maximising profits. These restaurants tend to be in the most highly trafficked areas, and in tourist spots.

So you need to research where to go. But English food at its best is as good as anywhere and pulls influence from a variety of cultures.

But I would rather shop in a general UK supermarket than a general American one any day. The food is not as processed and not full of crazy ingredients ( but is getting worse ), and you can often buy local.

I posted this above, but its because its much much cheaper and turkey can be farmed on a scale which is very difficult to do with duck or geese.

Its not banned from our table, but it would get the same reception from my family as if I had heated up some microwave meals. But we grew up on farms and had good access to better alternatives.

BTW, if you like duck, try Goose for thanksgiving, and make sure you use the fat if making roasted potatoes.

Turkey is much much cheaper to raise in quantity than duck or goose. In my family it would be rare to use a turkey for an occasion, its just not interesting.

You might actually need two hubs, which is why the sync box doesn’t work very well. I don’t have the sync box but I noticed the hub struggling with automations on about 60 something lights.

I now have two hue hubs, and a zigbee 3.0 controller with over 120 devices.

Easily run 8m of the best (high density, super bright which is actually too bright) RGB CCT rope light from a single zigbee controller. Perhaps its the controller and power supply you are using?

Had the opposite experience. I am in Europe if it makes any difference (maybe they are actually different)

Well, you already skipped the better alternative. Lutron or crestron.

Dishwashers are not essential, but for a family it does make a difference. When you have guests, even more so.

Can do it with a physical switch, an automation or voice. I have all 3 enabled.

I don’t know where to begin… There is a lot of material on the internet that is relevant to answering that.

What do you mean “how they let Apple do it”. Do you think Intel & AMD could stop them?

Its not a sports car. Besides, BMW M4 CSL, Jaguar XE project 8, BMW M3, Mercedes AMG 63 GT have faster lap times.

I lived on a mountainside in Norway. The amount of people that slipped and slid down on our roads was much higher than I could have imagined. That was people that lived there all their lives, let alone me trying to cycle.

Have you been in Norway? The weather can be harsh, the Norwegians are some of the best in dealing with it in the world, but covering large parts of Norway with public transport is difficult.

I used to bike in Bergen, Norway in the winter and it can be really dangerous - I saw many accidents even from the locals.

Europe is composed of several islands as well as the continent.

And safety provided by having much stricter control and requirements on the whole house electrical system.

We can get 400v 3phase inverter welders here.

Yes, we have it so we use it - for sure.

The pool pump on 3 phases seems slightly more efficient when I compared them last time. The pool is also being fitted with a heat pump inverter, which doesn’t need 3 phase.

Sure it’s 3 phases of 32 Amps. I can request more, but it’s not required.

The cost is insignificant.

I have monitoring on all the phases on my house (in Sweden) and I can charge two electric cars, run the heating in winter, run the washer and drier and cook with two ovens a microwave and the induction hob at the same time and everything just works.

Things on three phase in my home: swimming pool, sauna, induction hob, electric car chargers, heating system and I have sockets to plug-in welding and other power hungry equipment. The rest is split on the phases. I can’t remember whether my solar system supplies on three phases or not but I think it does.

3 phases is cheaper than single line for delivering a houses power. You can get away with 3 smaller cables than the larger cables needed for 110V or 230V low voltage single phase at a particular amperage.

The cost of termination of 3 phases is insignificant compared to the cost of the rest of an electrical system in a modern home.

It’s the better system.

I have the feeling that in the past this wasn’t so unusual, particularly as there was less security patches and more airgapped systems that didn’t need rebooting. I remember being in airports, government offices, large corporate field offices and the like, and these machines that have huge uptimes would have BSD, SCO unix, HP-UX, DEC alpha and similar installed and almost never Windows or Linux.

I still use a BSD variant or Solaris clone when I want something super reliable, but now with Linux I am doing an experiment for a system I want around for 10+ years (I do have experience with Linux almost since its release, just think its something I have to handhold more).

I also like in the article the engineer talking with the customer about the reliability of the hardware - I guess the customer was proven right or just lucky for once!

I grew up on a diary farm in the UK and spent large amounts of time outdoors and had access to a lot of milk. I was strongly allergic to milk (not just lactose). Was also allergic to other things.

Well I remember going around to friends houses and them having 8 bit consoles.

Not that I have ever enabled graphics or sound on my OpenBSD boxes - but I would say it’s probably not my first, second or third choice of OS for this.

But my recording studio would probably bore you as I just run macOS for both graphics and sound work.

You clearly need to learn more about BSD. They have a lot to offer, including the community of people that maintain and work with them.

Except it really isn’t, distros usually refer to different distributions of Linux but not different types of operating system.

I usually say to layman that they are different forks of unix from many years ago.

OpenBSD and Linux have a lot of the same tools to be sure but they are different enough that you have to learn them both if you are administering them.

Could you expand your answer to list vendors which you would recommend?

48khz is better for video due to the way it can be divided more evenly with popular video frame rates - and besides it’s the standard for audio alongside video so you might as well use it for everything.

So yes, for that reason alone you need more.

My 20+ years of being involved in broadcast/tv/video technology says otherwise about TV resolution goes along with content. It’s actually a weird chicken/egg situation, that involves more than screens or content such as delivery, price of content creation and customer acceptance.