"* Climbs up tower and replaces part: ehhhh...you win.
You have me on that last one. Replacing parts still requires a human. For now"
I could easily see that being replaced by a modular design of easy to fail parts and a drone. Drone flies up, puts part multitool into slot, unslots it and transfer the one from its drone bay in place. Optical sensors verify the repair and no air leaks.
Wrong. The parts are absurdly heavy and have to be winched up. This requires several people keeping tabs on where the part is and steering it so it doesn't smash other antennae on the way up. Furthermore, the tower is swaying back and forth in the wind.
Manually switching parts is difficult only because the parts havent been designed to be switched by a robot. Once that happens, game over. You've probably seen videos of robotic tape libraries already. https://www.google.ca/search?t...
I have a tape library. And a room full of servers. And hundreds of fiber links. And about a thousand spinning disks. There's no automated way to keep all of those things working. And none in sight.
All thats needed is to design and build the system. We have the technology.
Making it cheaper than paying some forest ranger 50k a year to do it on the otherhand might take a while.
Wrong again. The more technology you throw at the system, the more important the human in charge of the system becomes. This is what robofetishists keep failing to recognize. It's a bit like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which you have demonstrated by referring to broadcast engineers as forest rangers. I would remind you that we make quite a bit more than $50K/y, as well. What I make here in Alabama equates to about $160K in San Fransico's economy.
I have a limited amount of time to reply, so I can't go into as much detail as I had liked. But I appreciate the insight. Like your industry, we too have automated very much of the broadcast operations.
Originally when this started happening, there was fear the humans would be replaced. What we found out instead was that it simply allowed the same amount of humans to do more. It meant we went from being a single station to being a statewide network with multiple transmission sites. It meant that the operations team spends their days programming the playback automation instead of doing manual playback. In my engineering role, it means that now I have MCU's, digital sensors, and a WAN for taking my readings and doing troubleshooting.
Simply put, automation did not simplify humans roles or obviate them; it made the humans' roles even more important and far more difficult, because the environment is now almost unthinkably intricate and complex. When the automated processes break down, there is no automated "overseer" to get the robots back on track. I don't see an end to that trend any time soon.
I would definitely put myself in that category that strongly disagrees. There may be robots that can do physical tasks in factories, and software "robots" that automate broadcast playout are a thing.. But the idea that a bipedal robot is going to be able to drive my work truck out to a remote & off-road site and go inside to replace a 9000 volt vacuum or climb up the 1800ft tower to find a loose hanger or air leak is almost as perposterous as the idea that we won't be using high power transmitters anymore. It just ain't gonna happen... And that's exactly why I left the datacenter to find a job like this one which requires hands-on skills.
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
-- Nikola Tesla
Of course what little we know about his work is also part speculation, so I consider Tesla's esoteric & unrealized works a mere curiosity. Meanwhile, the tinfoil hat crowd takes any rumor of Tesla's success as if it were written in stone by divine actor(s) and delivered to Moses on a mountain. It's all somewhat paradoxical; on the one hand he developed real-world, usable tech like alternating current motors and generators, while on the other hand claiming that he knew these things because he could tap into a universal, ethereal body of knowledge that exists in another dimension. You have to take his work seriously while still being aware that the man was possibly quite mad.
A century ago, Nikola Tesla was convinced he could do this over great distances using broadcast towers (for lack of a better term). Due to what essentially amounts to corporate sabotage of his endeavors, we never got to find out if he was right.
Unless you're "one toke over the line" and suffer a panic attack. Well, even then a salty stoner can still get up and down the highway, but it is by no means pleasant.
I'd say there's a fair chance Mr. Kjellberg *is* Jewish, which would make his Anti-Semetic about as serious as Sasha Cohen's "Borat" character. Either way, it's not a good match for Disney, so how is this news?
Granted, but it has been my experience of late that Fat Charlie's Crew has no resources to ride around and triangulate signals, so the chance that the FCC will catch you encrypting QPSK signals is slim to none.
Do we start peering a new Internet to steer around The Matrix? Routers of The World Unite? Or worse.. HAM radios and QPSK modulators? One can only hope it won't to that point. We shall see.
RTFA: It is not an attack on your SMB. It's a phishing-style attack vector that tricks users into contacting a malicious server. More appropriately, one should block outbound SMB traffic to "not your SMB".
We use metro-ethernet, OC3'S, satellite, and microwave to deliver program feeds to transmitters. I don't know of any professionals who do it over the Internet. I would never do it under any circumstances. I have no sympathy for anyone dumb enough to try it.
No, you're missing the point. mv foo/some/safe/place and when everything is working again... and you're sure you don't need it.. Then and only then use rm.
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I could easily see that being replaced by a modular design of easy to fail parts and a drone. Drone flies up, puts part multitool into slot, unslots it and transfer the one from its drone bay in place. Optical sensors verify the repair and no air leaks.
Wrong. The parts are absurdly heavy and have to be winched up. This requires several people keeping tabs on where the part is and steering it so it doesn't smash other antennae on the way up. Furthermore, the tower is swaying back and forth in the wind.
Manually switching parts is difficult only because the parts havent been designed to be switched by a robot. Once that happens, game over. You've probably seen videos of robotic tape libraries already. https://www.google.ca/search?t...
I have a tape library. And a room full of servers. And hundreds of fiber links. And about a thousand spinning disks. There's no automated way to keep all of those things working. And none in sight.
All thats needed is to design and build the system. We have the technology. Making it cheaper than paying some forest ranger 50k a year to do it on the otherhand might take a while.
Wrong again. The more technology you throw at the system, the more important the human in charge of the system becomes. This is what robofetishists keep failing to recognize. It's a bit like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which you have demonstrated by referring to broadcast engineers as forest rangers. I would remind you that we make quite a bit more than $50K/y, as well. What I make here in Alabama equates to about $160K in San Fransico's economy.
I have a limited amount of time to reply, so I can't go into as much detail as I had liked. But I appreciate the insight. Like your industry, we too have automated very much of the broadcast operations.
Originally when this started happening, there was fear the humans would be replaced. What we found out instead was that it simply allowed the same amount of humans to do more. It meant we went from being a single station to being a statewide network with multiple transmission sites. It meant that the operations team spends their days programming the playback automation instead of doing manual playback. In my engineering role, it means that now I have MCU's, digital sensors, and a WAN for taking my readings and doing troubleshooting.
Simply put, automation did not simplify humans roles or obviate them; it made the humans' roles even more important and far more difficult, because the environment is now almost unthinkably intricate and complex. When the automated processes break down, there is no automated "overseer" to get the robots back on track. I don't see an end to that trend any time soon.
I would definitely put myself in that category that strongly disagrees. There may be robots that can do physical tasks in factories, and software "robots" that automate broadcast playout are a thing.. But the idea that a bipedal robot is going to be able to drive my work truck out to a remote & off-road site and go inside to replace a 9000 volt vacuum or climb up the 1800ft tower to find a loose hanger or air leak is almost as perposterous as the idea that we won't be using high power transmitters anymore. It just ain't gonna happen... And that's exactly why I left the datacenter to find a job like this one which requires hands-on skills.
Nobody knows. We just have quotes like this:
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
-- Nikola Tesla
Of course what little we know about his work is also part speculation, so I consider Tesla's esoteric & unrealized works a mere curiosity. Meanwhile, the tinfoil hat crowd takes any rumor of Tesla's success as if it were written in stone by divine actor(s) and delivered to Moses on a mountain. It's all somewhat paradoxical; on the one hand he developed real-world, usable tech like alternating current motors and generators, while on the other hand claiming that he knew these things because he could tap into a universal, ethereal body of knowledge that exists in another dimension. You have to take his work seriously while still being aware that the man was possibly quite mad.
A century ago, Nikola Tesla was convinced he could do this over great distances using broadcast towers (for lack of a better term). Due to what essentially amounts to corporate sabotage of his endeavors, we never got to find out if he was right.
Of course you can drive stoned
Unless you're "one toke over the line" and suffer a panic attack. Well, even then a salty stoner can still get up and down the highway, but it is by no means pleasant.
Perhaps I've seen too many movies, but what if the Russians found out the hard way that the vodka flask(s) in the capsule was a bad idea after all?
Pascal, the GPU design. Not Pascal, the language.
Finally a list of items ranked by state in which Alabama and Mississippi aren't the worst.
Right, because that stored and forwarded alert will be really useful three days after the tornado rips up the village..
Really, now? Or the proverbial "now", as in "now we have done it once in a lab environment".
He or she said "disable sound by default", dumbass.
I'd say there's a fair chance Mr. Kjellberg *is* Jewish, which would make his Anti-Semetic about as serious as Sasha Cohen's "Borat" character. Either way, it's not a good match for Disney, so how is this news?
Now they're going to *reward* users for shooting fucked up vertical video? How retarded can Facebook get?
Everybody used BitchX and Eggdrop on "shell accounts" somewhere in Eastern Europe
Not sure if I should be proud of them for learning cracker rule #1 (cover your tracks).. Or if I should be scared because they learned rule #1.
From The Fucking Dictionary:
Performant
Adjective:
1. Capable of or characterized by an adequate or excellent level of performance or efficiency.
"Our software is more performant than our competitor's."
I heard you like fires, so we put a fire factory in your factory
Granted, but it has been my experience of late that Fat Charlie's Crew has no resources to ride around and triangulate signals, so the chance that the FCC will catch you encrypting QPSK signals is slim to none.
Do we start peering a new Internet to steer around The Matrix? Routers of The World Unite? Or worse.. HAM radios and QPSK modulators? One can only hope it won't to that point. We shall see.
Make sure your SMB is behind a firewall.
RTFA: It is not an attack on your SMB. It's a phishing-style attack vector that tricks users into contacting a malicious server. More appropriately, one should block outbound SMB traffic to "not your SMB".
We use metro-ethernet, OC3'S, satellite, and microwave to deliver program feeds to transmitters. I don't know of any professionals who do it over the Internet. I would never do it under any circumstances. I have no sympathy for anyone dumb enough to try it.
Yeah just mv foo /dev/null
No, you're missing the point. mv foo /some/safe/place and when everything is working again... and you're sure you don't need it.. Then and only then use rm.
Use mv! Also.. What's with the need to tweet? Don't tell the customer anything until the dust settles! Geez... What's with these amateurs?