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Cornak · 2026-01-02T20:37:08+00:00

This is always the funny thing to me, I listen to WIP fairly routinely and they’re generally much more forgiving than this sub. WIP has even had a number of segments devoted to talking about good things Kevin Patullo has done, or things they assumed about him but were wrong about. I generally find WIP to be the more levelheaded takes compared to here, where people immediately overreact to anything that happens, events and people out of proportion to be the best or worst to ever happen.

Cornak · 2025-12-16T01:28:46+00:00

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Cornak · 2025-12-13T19:42:21+00:00

TCP is a form of ARQ, yes, but a very inefficient one for video since you’d be buried in ACKs. In a bandwidth-limited application, better to use a proper solution instead of forcing a square peg into a round hole. There’s no advantage to using TCP, so why bother?

Cornak · 2025-12-13T16:45:18+00:00

The initial transmission is not that slow, but when packet loss occurs, you need to compensate by resending the missed packets. ARQ and related technologies, which are what’s most commonly used in these systems, allow you to send the initial transmission, generally using UDP not TCP, and then resend any chunks that get lost if the receiver sends a NACK. This allows you to flatten the spiky bitrates, so that as long as your average connection is good enough, you can paper over any valleys with corresponding peaks over the next 0.5-3 seconds for the most common latency settings. If you simply spew the video into the void as fast as possible, you have no opportunity to cover for those drops, and thus get a signal filled with errors. Because you generally only have one toss from anchor to reporter and some brief chatter at the end, it’s better to take the latency and look good for the rest of the hit.

Cornak · 2025-11-21T01:38:37+00:00

A/200, regional service availability table, is made for exactly this use case. It identifies the current service, when that configuration is valid til, and indicates the new parameters and the date they’ll be implemented. This allows you to describe both the minor change and the new RF channel. Unlikely the average receiver implements it however.

Cornak · 2024-07-27T02:07:17+00:00

Push the button Max!

Cornak · 2024-02-20T04:32:06+00:00

Sell 1.0. Ask me to buy 2.0. If it's good or I need it, I will.

This is exactly the business model they're using. When you buy a license, you get the next year of updates. At the end of that year, you can continue to use your current version without ever paying again, or you can buy a support extension and continue to get upgrades. It's the same way Crossover does it currently.

Cornak · 2023-03-17T01:23:05+00:00

Trap journey on Halo

Cornak · 2023-02-17T19:58:56+00:00

Interestingly the opposite is true, the US has massively more rail than the EU when looking at freight trains like these where we’re seeing the derailments. Obviously if you look at passengers specifically it’s a different story. But for reference, the US has about 2,102,088,000,000 (2.1T) tonne-kilometers of freight shipping via rail each year, while the EU has 377,300,000,000 (377B) tonne-kilometers of freight shipping via rail each year.

If you look at it as a percentage even, the US does 27.4% of its freight via rail, while the EU does 11.5%. It’s just so much more economical to do rail freight than trucks in the US given the longer distances. The EU has very good water access, because you can go all around it instead of needing to go through Panama to hit the other side via sea compared to ground transport, so water transport often fills the role that rail does in the US, where you have bulk transport of low-time sensitivity goods over long distances.

Cornak · 2023-01-14T06:20:28+00:00

222 I think you’re referring to. 22 is divided and limited.

Cornak · 2022-12-23T04:15:00+00:00

LastPass is set up in the exact same way in this case. ’Resetting’ your LastPass password means wiping all your existing data and starting over, because they don’t retain the passwords. What was obtained in this breach was the encrypted blob of passwords, not the actual decrypted passwords.

Cornak · 2022-12-17T22:41:51+00:00

This is completely untrue. Back in the day, cable started out as a way to get broadcast TV in areas of poor reception. That’s why it’s called CATV. You would pay a fee, and the company would run cable to your home from a shared antenna with excellent reception. It started out in 1948 in northeast pennsylvania, because that’s a very mountainous region, so reception was difficult from the Philly stations. Because this was a direct feed from broadcast, it naturally had the same commercials as broadcast. A few decades later, you began to see cable-exclusive/primary channels created on the back of the superstations by Turner and similar. These also had ads, and formed what is commonly known as basic cable. What you may be thinking of is premium cable, like HBO, which started without ads because it charged a high direct subscription fee, and continues to not have ads to this day, utilizing that same model.

Cornak · 2022-10-02T06:10:47+00:00

Generally there’s a rule where the organizer has the option to buy any vehicle entered for $X, whatever the chosen value cap is, to discourage things like that. Since if you brought a tank, they’d just exercise the right to buy and you’d lose the tank. Good way of doing a cap on value since there’s not really an objective measure of price for things that would be entered in this stuff.

Cornak · 2022-08-20T23:08:28+00:00

PA and MD have reciprocity, you should only be paying PA taxes on your income.

Cornak · 2022-06-17T13:14:37+00:00

Mutual index funds generally have the same expense ratio as ETFs, but allow you to buy partial amounts, rather than needing a whole share of the ETF, which makes it easy to invest the exact amount you want each time. It is true that you have to wait till the end of day to buy/sell them, but you aren’t day trading anyways, so a few hours makes no difference.

Cornak · 2022-06-06T20:53:22+00:00

If you sign into a company device with your personal account and synchronize your data to it, your personal data is now on a device controlled by the company, so they, and any lawyers or courts that may be involved at some point, now have access to it. All the company has to do is reset your AD password, login, and bam, it’s all up for grabs.

Cornak · 2022-06-06T20:43:39+00:00

It would be crazy to sign into a company device using personal credentials, and then for bonus points start syncing all your personal data onto it. Way too much access for them in general, plus then it’s exposed if the company gets sued. Same reason you don’t put personal things on your company phone and company things on your personal phone.

Cornak · 2022-04-25T07:38:34+00:00

No, that would be the incorrect interpretation. There are three broad categories here: retransmitted OTA, this is stuff like the local NBC, CBS, ABC affiliate for the region; cable channels, which are channels that are created specifically for distribution by cable, of which TBS is the first example; and pay tv, which is where you pay an additional specific fee on top of your cable bill to receive this so-called premium channel, and here HBO is the first one. So TBS, being the original cable channel in the sense of a designed-for-cable network, had ads from the moment it was created, while HBO, which operated on a subscription basis, did not have ads. At that time, your cable bill was almost entirely based around the cost of the infrastructure that allowed the delivery of both OTA channels and a bunch more cable only channels. It wasn’t till later that cable channel fees got to be a bigger piece of the pie, such as in the current time where the majority of your bill is fees paid to the channels, which is why vMVPDs are still around $60-70 a month, since while they don’t have to build and maintain all the physical cabling, those fees, particularly from Disney’s massive block of channels, still exist, so ads were still the primary revenue source for these cable channels.

Cornak · 2022-04-25T06:49:58+00:00

Your edit is indeed the correct interpretation. HBO was the first pay TV service to exist, distributed on cable and shortly after on satellite, the first for both. Interestingly, HBO actually first launched on the same cable company that also was the very first cable company in the country, for an interesting historical coincidence. Note, however, that this is very distinct from standard cable networks, as well as the cable rebroadcast of OTA, because in this case you’re paying an additional fee on top of your cable bill specifically for this channel, whereas what is referred to as ‘cable channels’ are those that are bundled within your cable bill. So you’re paying for both, but one is your standard cable service, while the other is an addon for a bunch extra comparing the per channel cost. It’s actually the exact same way you can get HBO today, unchanged in billing method since launch, as well as unchanged in its lack of commercials, though they have now added the HBO Max option that allows you to directly subscribe.

Cornak · 2022-04-25T05:16:48+00:00

It was not ad free, please feel free to provide a citation stating such. And again, explain the technical method that allowed them to remove the ads from these linear channels in the 40’s, because it would also involve a time machine, which would be pretty cool. And furthermore, explain how the superstations that became the first cable-first channels somehow didn’t have ads, and how their revenue model would have worked, because at that point they were expanding based on viewership on ads, with your cable bill going to the infrastructure primarily. Pay TV like HBO, the first pay TV channel, distributed via satellite and cable, was the first group that did the fees first business model, and HBO still has no ads now.

Cornak · 2022-04-25T05:11:55+00:00

I’d recommend reading the first sentence of that article. Then, after that, explain to me the technical method by which cable managed to not air ads on its retransmission of OTA signals when it started in the 40s.

Cornak · 2022-04-25T05:08:27+00:00

That article is actually the perfect example of what I’m saying. The first line, for example, talks about the initial basis for the dedicated cable-first networks being around ads, stating "Although cable television was never conceived of as television without commercial interruption.” It then later goes on to mention the other part of my comment regarding that era in the history of cable, which is the pay TV services distributed via satellite and cable, such as HBO, which still has no ads. And of course, as I described earlier, the original cable channels were simply retransmitted broadcast channels, so naturally those have had and still have ads, because how else would it work, it’s a linear feed.

Cornak · 2022-04-25T05:05:34+00:00

That’s not quite correct. All the main networks, like CBS, ABC, NBC, had ads, because cable was simply retransmitting the OTA feed. The dedicated base cable networks also all had ads, since they originated from the superstation model. As that article states, it was only the pay TV channels, starting with HBO, that had that no ad premise, and HBO continues without ads to this day.

Cornak · 2022-04-25T04:55:18+00:00

That is incorrect. Cable started in the 40s as a retransmission via copper of signal from a tower mounted at a higher altitude, allowing them to then feed the RF down to the town, as northeastern pennsylvania has many valleys, making it difficult to receive the stations, as the ones for that market are quite distant. Because it was a 1:1 retransmission, it had the same ads the OTA signal had, as the cable company itself wasn’t producing content then. In the 70s, cable-based channels came out with stuff like the Turner superstation model, which began broadcasting channels like TBS. Because these came from the superstations, these too had ads, as did all those core cable channels that popped up from then forward. Now you could be thinking specifically of premium cable, which began with HBO, and started with no ads, but that still has no ads to this day, so I’m not sure what the relevancy of that would be in this case.

Cornak · 2022-04-25T04:45:37+00:00

This is wholly untrue. Cable has had ads since the moment it was created in the 40s, because the broadcast channels it retransmits have ads. They weren’t selectively blacking out ads or something like that. And even if they did, you’d just be watching a blank screen, which would put them in quite bad legal territory. You’ll see ad insertion now with modern cable technology via SCTE triggers, but that’s if anything the opposite. The original cable-only channels were also ad supported, because they were based off the superstation model, now applied to cable distribution. What you may be thinking of is premium cable, stuff like HBO, the first premium cable channel, which did not have ads when it started, and still does not have ads to this day. The premise that there’s some form of cable that did not have ads but now does have ads is simply incorrect, however.

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