Viewing profile — PapaSpaceDelta

He was inspired by Iram of the Pillars, which is mentioned in the Quran ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iram_of_the_Pillars ). There's an interesting overview of its role in his wo…

I’ve heard stories about high end recording studios, with shrink wrapped boxes of expensive audio software, that used cracked versions on their workstations because they don’t want…

The Victoria line in London runs up to 34 trains per hour, using CBTC: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2014/june/v...

On very busy urban systems, one major advantage of CBTC is that the signalling blocks (the section of line that only one train can be in at a time) can be smaller, since the possib…

I recently migrated from 1Password using Dropbox for sync, to KeePassXC (Windows, Linux & Mac) and Strongbox (iPhone & iPad) still using Dropbox. Migration was a simple matter of e…

I suppose that I have to put this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSCppeFzX4 here. Many a true word…

For a lot of us Brits Sir Clive's machines were our first glimpse of the future. If that doesn’t sound like you, then just stand aside while we mourn our hero.

It's an interesting part of corporate culture. Large companies hate the process of firing employees for a number of reasons: staff moral, public perception, potential legal liabili…

With regard to its popularity with publicly traded companies, aside from the cost and liability issues that are being discussed here, I have been told that Revenue per Employee is …

This is an excellent point. If you are a hands on techie by inclination, then you should be aware that blindly chasing promotion in an organisation that doesn’t have a track for “i…

The fact that he went into hospital and came back out to a functioning farm suggests that he has a good relationship with his neighbouring farmers. My guess would be that he's plan…

I dived the Blue Hole in Belize and was shocked by the slack attitude of most of the other divers on the boat. I'd just completed my Advanced Open Water (with a deep dive) so was v…

I don't think there's any real standard, since it very much depends on application SLAs, industry sector, size of the on-call team, geographic location, length of on-call rotation,…

If your expected response time is of the order of 5 minutes, then you are not "on-call", you are working 12 hour days and your compensation and time off arrangements should reflect…

My impression was that during the early stages there was more concern about touch based transmission, so there was a feeling that the benefits of masks (trapping respiratory drople…

My family have always been happy to make a donation on my behalf to the good cause of their choice, perhaps that might work for you?

If you can gain the same enjoyment vicariously, you might enjoy SouthernASMR's channel - she often tidies up the shelves of the stores that she visits. Here's a playlist of her Nai…

Betfair takes its commission as a percentage of the profit that one has made in a given market rather as a percentage of a bet size, so it's always worth making a bet on a certain …

Have you tried Reaper? I haven’t personally used the experimental Linux builds, because I depend on a lot of third party VSTs, but if it's anywhere near as good as it is on Windows…

I think this (alleged) Orson Welles quote says it best: “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” (Information on the quote's provenance, for those who might be interested:…

One reason is that any System Administrator can be expected to be able to understand and maintain Bash scripts. I recently built a fairly complex system entirely in Bash, not becau…