wcfields

I have a friend who is an editor on a topical semi-daily current-affairs show on Quibi. It's all done manually and they now have a semi-established style now, however a lot of it is cropping or shrink-to-fit with a background.

The fictional series, however, are shot with an almost 1:1 ratio since the safe-zone is ridiculously small.

Profile Manager works great* * , ask me how I know.

* Until your hidden-from-view postgre SQL db gets corrupted and stops working and all the solutions on the Apple support forums are "couldn't find a fix so just flatten and reinstalled... now moving to Jamf", so every thing in PM is treated like a faberge egg and you're using a kludge of package managers and such to fill in the gaps.

Your 2012 Mac Mini Server in a Sonnet Rackmac needs it's dying 5400rpm HDD switched over to SSDs, which, now you're also using 3rd party hardware + SAS PCIe controllers to connect to a RAID / Tape Drive to keep this thing going.

* Every OS X update is held off because you're trigger shy of the last time it broke OS X Server and your 3rd party SAS controller drivers.

Yet another server to manage on site and/or spend too much $$$ on a boutique "Mac Stadium" data center which is essentially a colo'd Mac Mini.

My company, an experiencial ad agency, furloughed all but 2 people in every non-finance Dept March 23, rehires everyone with big paycuts (me, 37% cut) April 27 through PPP.

No new business was able to be drummed up and now massive lay offs of 90% of the US offices starting June 15 with a paycheck severance so effectively June 30. The EU offices have faired better with more work, and few layoffs of only receptionists.

All and all it’s bleak for the events industry. I’m sure that a lot of convention centers, caterers, AV rental houses, independent producers, PAs, will all be on the dole and you’ll see a huge spike in unemployment on Aug 1.

When exchanging money at a currency exchange kiosk in Koa Lanta Thailand they denied a few of my $20 due to almost unnoticeable rips, the kind that go no further than the outside border.

They were quite particular on the "quality" of the bills, with another older bill being in too worse of condition for them to purchase.

For myself, I was furloughed March 23, had about a week of paid Vacation that I used up until March 30th. Filed for unemployment on the 31st. My health benefits continued until April 30th at which time I would be laid off.

Employer got PPP and I was un-furloughed on April 27th and they have enough runway for us until June 30th when the PPP runs out. Everyone got a sizable paycut, myself 37%.

I work in corporate events / trade-shows / experiential advertising and this whole industry won't survive.

Food stamps in some states are almost impossible to get.

Ditto, (hi fellow Gem City-er?)

The Kirlin’s occupy a very particular role in the city.

once operating the largest franchise of Hallmark stores for nearly 60 years before quickly going out of business a few years ago. Other Kirlin defunct businesses include “The Fly”, a Blue jeans only store in the 80’s, KSNI (Kirlin Super Net Inc) a dial-up ISP in the 90’s.

The mentioned Kirlin of the story used to run “The World Freefall Convention” the largest skydiving convention in the world. For about a week and a half the small Airport would be beset by 10,000 skydivers and cessnas. One quirk of Quincys airport is a super long runway that can support a DB Cooper style 737 jet landing, so one would be chartered to allow 100s of skydivers to do high altitude jumps.

Unfortunately the convention ended because of the Bible-thumping city leaders didn’t care for the weeks of debauchery that were part of the festival attendees.

> Is there some technical innovation here enabling this

I guess you could say the SDR based ICOM IC-9700 [1] transceiver FG8OJ used is enabling this by being reasonably priced [2] and off-the-shelf. It was released in January 2019 and has made experimentation of VHF/UHF more accessible.

[1] https://www.icomamerica.com/en/products/amateur/hf/9700/defa...

[2] https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016656

I work in the trade show & event industry, and a million is a drop in the bucket. Actually, it’ll pay for the artist fee for the welcome reception concert (think like a “Rhianna”)

The shows I’ve worked the overall topline budget for a 2 day single-company show at San Jose Convention Center (SJCC) that uses all of SJCC usually $30-40 million. Moscone South in SF is $35-50.

That’s just direct cost for food, Union, fabrication, etc... doesn't include venue rental (client usually pays that direct) & doesn’t count the extra that flow to the hotels, Uber/taxis that the guests generate.

They just tweeted it about 20 minutes ago [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/NABShow/status/1237801294246694912

Yes, because of an unpatchable boot rom exploit.

It’s a bit disingenuous to call I/O it’s biggest when Cloud Next attendance is 35k versus 5k for I/O. Especially when Next generates lots of sales.

Maybe it’s most “publicly visible” would be more apt.

We have a few in the office, the gripe I have with them (and the HP Z27) over the legacy 27" Thunderbolt (with a TB3->TB2 adapter) is wake time. It takes 5-7 seconds for the monitor to wake back up versus the almost instantaneousness of the 27" Thunderbolt.

I think you missed the point of adding additional responsibilities.

In my example the electricians did not make the mess, but they, however, walk around the facility a lot so why not give them a broom so they can clean up messes on their way.

Unchecked is how you lead to companies squeezing 3 jobs out of one person.

> About the time I had one PC opened up and was installing the NIC, one of the local IT guys dropped by and told me "You can't do that." 'Why not?', I asked. "That's not your job.", he replies.

I say this as a non-union IT Tech who works at convention centers and trade-shows regularly and really wishes at times I could just grab a hole saw to make the mouse-hole to run my cables through:

It's not your job. If there was a need for more NICs to be installed the company needs to pay for the necessary labor to make that happen.

Similarly anyone could pick up a broom and sweep the job floor, but without clear delineation that is ONLY the janitors job then why not make the electricians sweep the floors when they're walking back?

> Unions, in my experience, exist to help keep mediocre, unmotivated employees employed. One has no incentive to excel, as promotions are based on years "served", much like prison.

Great! Not everyone has to be motivated to work or excel! I come to my job, do the job, and go home. It's a business transaction.

In 2016 Sirius discontinued broadcasting from tundra orbits. Their newest FM-5 uses geostationary. [1]

Satellite radio was tried a few times in other geographies, but only in North America did it succeed. [2] In 1999 Worldspace launched for EMEAI, and looks like it collapsed in 2008. MobaHo! was a mobile satellite digital audio/video broadcasting service in Japan whose services began on October 20, 2004, and ended on March 31, 2009.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_orbit#Spacecraft_using_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_radio

Although a little kludgey, it does cross of the boxes:

- Only allow one entry per GSuite ID in Google Forms

- Enforce yubikey 2FA on GSuite.

- Issue each captain a Pixel 1 with Google MDM for remote wiping and app deployment.

- Turn off all other apps (Docs, Fi, Photos, etc...) in GSuite.

Now all I can see is someone is being choked by a spaghetti of white wires.

Wait until 5G rolls out into mass adoption where an IoT modem is built into every TV for “diagnostics”

Beyond counterfeits as mentioned another huge issue is getting someone else's return.

I've been shopping for a bed frame and it's shocking how many people got bed bugs from a bed frame they bought from Amazon. Mattress covers/protectors are just as bad with people complaining of fleas and stains.

I brought this up at work and I was speaking to some of my co-workers with kids, ditto goes for buying a high-chair to have one come with crud and food all over it in the box.

All those specs and yet only has 802.11ac, and not 802.11ax?

I'm going to guess that Cincinnati was (is) a legacy central meeting point for many of the baby bells long distance interconnects, situated between the East Coast/New England, the south, and the midwest.

The one area that they're supposed to be good at, mobile telephone networks, they've totally flopped with Sprint.

Embroidery software is another ( https://www.wingsxp.com/ )

All chicken in the US is technically antibiotic-free. [1]

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/overuse-of-antibiotics/what-...

Disagree that iPhone users are going from a previously $700 phone to a “free when you switch carriers” Android.

More so that someone with a 6S or better has little reason to upgrade; the improvements have been incremental.

I don't know if this has ever been hypothesized, but HIV infection rates, and AIDS mortality among IV drug users in the 90's before the advent of medications?

> 2. ... x86 becomes a co-processor, just like how discrete GPUs are handled ...

That's become my hunch too in the transition to ARM, with Apple producing a SoC that integrates an entry level x86, with usual 2 upgrade options. Eg the next product line would be:

$1599 -- Dual-Core 1.5ghz A14 + Dual-core 1.2ghz x86

$1899 -- Quad-Core 1.9ghz A14 + Quad-Core 2.4ghz x86

$2199 -- Quad-Core 2.5ghz A14 + Quad-Core 2.7ghz x86

Any liability claim you have to harm from the cereal would be denied based upon misuse for the targeted age range.

Let's just say I'm still waiting on my 7,000,000 Pepsi Points Harrier Jet to be fulfilled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.