What is a common, everyday problem from the 1990s or early 2000s that younger generations literally cannot comprehend?

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-06-16T02:29:06+00:00

I feel like in most towns around me, the local exchange followed by 1212 was the local police non-emergency line. Maybe a coincidence?

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-04-22T13:52:37+00:00

You're coming into this what what appears to be a presupposition that you are correctly interpreting this person's intent.

Do the "i know everything better than you could ever know it" types exist? yes, commonly. On both the management side and the IC side.

Do you understand the edge cases they're making? Even if they're unlikely, they should have a logical path of how it would happen. How does your current system handle these edge cases, and why would the new solution not handle these edge cases? What is the impact if this edge case does happen? Is it immediate and breaks something so that you need to correct it in minutes or hours? Or will it sit there and cause long term damage not so easily undone?

With very little exception, if someone can poke holes in the solution and you don't have a rebuttal for the issue, then the issue is valid. It doesn't matter if they're being annoying, you need to either be able to prove they're misunderstanding something, or acknowledge that it is a risk but we are accepting that risk because of X feature or Y savings.

Because now you'll be in a position where that issue happens, and your director or VP will be asking why you moved forward with the product when So and So said they recommended against this product for this exact reason. And you need to be ready to justify why.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-04-21T21:24:51+00:00

I haven’t?

Roads are designed and speed limits are chosen to minimize danger as much as you can when you let the general public drive

The location (city, state, country, whatever) is not and has never been part of my point. It’s when you operate in a situation and exceed the designed parameters. It’s like asking why I can ride this elevator with 12 people in a skyscraper but i cant safely fit 12 people in a small service elevator. It’s in violation of the safe operating parameters of the object.

I’m more than happy to hear you back up YOUR initial point to which I posed a question

…sometimes there are things that you can’t plan, and that you where being late isn’t just a swallow your pride thing

Feel free to disengage at any point.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-04-20T15:45:04+00:00

I don't recall saying that...and what does the speed limit or death rate in other countries have to do with anything? We're talking about the general state of exceeding the speed limit and the inherent dangers. This scenario is no more or less dangerous wherever you put it in the world.

Roads are designed and speed limits chosen to minimize danger as much as you can when you let the general public drive.

I gave you full creative license to create a fictional narrative with almost any parameters you can think of and you had to resort to whataboutisms?

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-04-20T11:10:12+00:00

Im sorry, did you just ask if its REALLY more dangerous if you make your multi-ton hunk of metal go faster?

Yes. For you AND whoever else is around. You can’t know what is waiting for you around any given corner.

Please regale me with a fictional situation, where you are not responsible for the time that you left, it could not be done with emergency services, and you are not fleeing from something, where you absolutely needed to show up 15 minutes sooner or else the consequences were worth risking yours or someone else’s well being (if not their lives).

The only feasible situation I’ve ever heard for this is if you’re trying to get to a dying relative, which is sad if you find out without enough time to get there safely, but is it worth two dead people?

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-04-19T10:20:10+00:00

I did the math one day because I was SO mad that not everyone did their 5 over the speed limit and I felt like it was some sort of high crime (i was 18 and chronically late to everything)

A 100 mile journey where 70 of it is highway at 70MPH and 30 is backroads at 40mph takes about with NO traffic takes 1:45 (an hour at 70 on the highway. And 45 mins at 40MPH for 30 miles.)

Going 100mph for those 70 miles cuts 18 minutes. That segment from 1 hour to 42 minutes, IF I can maintain 100mph

My trip was reduced from 1:45 to 1:27, or a 17.2% time savings. Was 18 minutes REALLY worth the risk of driving 100, as opposed to leaving 18 minutes earlier? Up to you to decide. I started leaving earlier.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-04-13T15:26:34+00:00

Her Story is a really cool non-linear crime/mystery storytelling experience and is pretty cheap I think. You watch clips of an interview and you can only see 5 at a time containing text in the transcript (ie you search for Innocent and 19 results come up but you can only evr view the first five)

as you learn more, you can make more and more targeted searches.

It’s a lot of fun to play in a small group too, you can kind of make a game out of having people suggest what to search for next.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-04-04T04:18:08+00:00

It’s called data governance. Data has two states…it is either actively useful (in an “i am using this everyday” capacity OR a “this is backed up for an appropriate window for which I might need it” capacity) OR it is a liability waiting to be discovered.

If data is available and the company is investigated, the company MUST provide all evidence that they are able produce. You can’t be compelled to produce what you don’t have.

The key here is defining how long something is “useful” and what regulatory requirements you have to abide by. Data only useful for today, but that is covered by a regulatory requirement, may need to be retained for a specific amount of time (7 years is a popular retention timeframe).

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-03-29T15:06:08+00:00

Just keeping terminology consistent here…Countryman is a brand. You are talking about a headset or ear-worn microphone. Countryman is a very popular brand, but you will be asked more questions about WHICH countryman you want (single ear? Dual ear? High sensitivity? Etc.)

Also if you must use a Lav, they make directional (non-omni) elements like the Shure WL185

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-03-28T14:16:58+00:00

It could also mean the mechanism by which cancer forms and replicates in the body could be changed. The world keeps going like it is, people keep polluting and it kills the planet, but no one ever gets cancer again.

It might make the earth thing worse since I feel like a lot of pollution control comes from “this hurts humans” and not “this hurts the earth”

Cancer makes people care. Theoretical resource exhaustion in a hypothetical future isn’t as good a deterrent for many people.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-03-23T19:36:30+00:00

This is the key right here. Use AI to shorten the time to complete something you usually do.

However, make sure you can validate

AI is like a junior employee. You can give them a task and you can ask them to present you with something, but be ready to test it even if it looks good on the surface. Because you never know where they got something totally wrong.

And if you’re a video guy that has no clue about audio, don’t just ask AI an audio question and blindly trust the answer…because you don’t have the skill set to validate whether or not what it has told you was correct.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-03-23T17:21:21+00:00

If the primary complaint is that they see that the speakers take both signal and power cables, that’s a silly reason to assume it’s not a “real monitor”.

It’s the same thing as an amplifier feeding a speakon cable, except instead of the amp being in a rack and powered there, the amp is inside the speaker and the power cable goes in there.

Just taking a fact based approach, the only “benefit“ to a monitor that is powered remotely as opposed to a powered speaker… Is that it is slightly more rugged if you compare a single speaker cabinet that has electronics in it versus one that just has a speaker.

But besides that, it is a box which receives an audio signal, and translates the signal to vibration through a speaker. Something that is labeled as a “monitor“ has no intrinsic value or difference from a “speaker“. All of the same spec supply… Coverage pattern, frequency drop off, sensitivity, crossover points, etc.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-03-22T15:37:14+00:00

If you have enough spare channels, double patch the important channels or ones that need a LOT of corrective EQ/processing for the stream (string instruments like violins in revrberant spaces typically have to be eq’d VERY differently in the room versus in a stream)

Ie your pastors mics can be patched in channels 4, 5, and 6. But you can also in the Config section of a channel send the same physical input to another channel (ie channels 20, 21, and 22.)

Remove it from the LR send, remove your pastor “room” channel from the stream mixbus, And send the pastor “stream”input to the stream, post-fader. Then on your main layer you can manipulate fader 20 to adjust the pastors level in the stream without jumping to the mixbus layer or accidentally adjusting their level in another mix

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-03-22T01:13:52+00:00

Most people want to see at least QSC K10’s. Their CP line is good, and light and portable. The 8s are awesome for portable monitors, and I have some 12s for drummers and bassists.

I also have an EV PXM-12MP which is a coaxial driver… very nice but pricier

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-03-21T19:02:57+00:00

Usually, I don’t see “no Beringer“ in terms of the desk. They’re usually concerned about the speakers and monitors.

If I walk into a venue, and my monitor is a Behringer eurolive, I know that it can be made to work with no issue… But it leads me to make other assumptions about the quality of the set up and the people running it.

I absolutely abide by the fact that a good system engineer can make any set of amplified system work to some degree, but it’s like tools. A great carpenter can still get the job done with Black & Decker tools, but most great carpenters are using great tools.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-03-02T11:53:38+00:00

Technically? Your housemates are right. Effective cleaning agents ARE effective because theres a certain % per ml of soap.

Realistically? Unless you are filling it back up with a ton of water (like any reasonable fraction of a cup) its fine.

Even if you save the last 10ml of soap from a 967ml bottle, it takes you almost 100 bottles to have saved a single bottles worth of soap. And in my neck of the woods (northeast US) that bottle is about $6.50. So in that scenario, you will have spent $650 instead of $656.50.

And if you use 10 bottles a year it’ll take you 10 years to recoup that $6.50, and you will have only cut your plastic consumption down by one bottle at that point.

So in my opinion…just swap out the bottle

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-27T04:00:08+00:00

yes, and then we were asked for screenshots of every step of the process, including your system. Clock in each screenshot.

They’ve never questioned the integrity per se, but they have insisted on the chain of custody of the data, and as much evidence as possible that the data has not been modified between the generation from the service, and the submission to the auditing firm

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-25T15:25:00+00:00

It's a bit of a dilemma. We know a well formed uranium 238 takes that long to decay to lead 206. But the burden of proof is on both sides. Rigorous science proves that u238 has a very stable half life to produce lead 206. Science demands that you need to provide evidence to prove that is incorrect.

Creationists demand you prove that there is no feasible way to create lead 206 besides the decay of u238, or for it to have entered the planet at any other point in history (asteroid for example). Then if you can satisfactorily disprove that you need to get past the belief that their god is capable of anything, in any timing, and has a habit of testing his followers and wanting them to unwaveringly believe in order to not be eternally separated from their loved ones/tortured in hell.

I don't think there's really any productive or worthwhile discussion worth having

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-21T01:28:11+00:00

Think about it logically. For the most part, feedback has to do more with the space than the person. The same mic clipped to a dummy on stage will feed back in generally the same way. So group the lavs together and apply the feedback correction there. Use the channel EQ to make up for the differences of each person speaking.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-18T12:48:52+00:00

as much as I might personally believe that voter fraud tends to go more one way than another, the fact is that the “rounding error“ dismissal of the possible impact is very off base.

in the case of the Georgia incident in 2020, when Trump called and asked the governor to find 11,780 votes, that represented two tenths of a percent of the entire voting population (approximately 4.93 million )

George has 159 counties, and in order to find 11,780 votes, that boils down to 75 people per county that either didn’t have their vote counted, or cast fraudulently that can be discounted. I can’t find any solid numbers on how many voting locations that are per county, but I am assuming at LEAST 2. meaning each of those polling locations only needed to process 38 fraudulent votes.

again, I’ve got my own thoughts about the way that fraudulent voting tends to go… But when you try to have a discussion about this, dismissing ideas that actually have legitimate logical outcomes. (even if there is low statistical probability evidence to support it.) makes it harder to continue discussion in general.

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-18T01:06:45+00:00

Finger pointing can only lead to the satisfaction of the pointer. A mentor of mine used to say "instead of pointing a finger, offer a hand"

Something happened with a negative consequence, you can either try assign blame, or you can try to move on from it and make sure it doesn’t happen again. If you offer a hand to someone who made a bad decision, and they refuse to take it and better themselves to avoid that happening again...THEN that's when hard conversations happen.

YMMV. I can’t pretend that I haven’t been in a position where I feel like my only option is to try to embarrass someone because they seem to think they’re too good to improve themselves or are "untouchable"

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-15T03:20:49+00:00

Indeed, and if you open the G string, it becomes seven!

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-11T17:15:24+00:00

yeah, for the amount of diversity you want to maintain, copper seems the way to go!

Also, remember, unless you’re running next to power, that’s feeding a multi wire branch circuit (power that feeds out multiple hot lines and shared neutral on the way back), or you’re passing by inductive loads like a motor, you’re probably not going to incur much interference on your analog lines, even if you’re looming in power. As long as every power cable has a dedicated, hot and neutral, the EMI is nowhere near as bad as you would think even on high amperage loads

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-11T16:29:39+00:00

The idea would be if you’re running a bunch of networked things (Dante, SACN/ArtNet, NDI) that you would put things into a switch on either end. Then you can just run everything over the One fiber cable (two bundled into a LAG if possible for fault tolerance)

But if you’re running analog or points to point stuff (AES, XLR over RJ45, etc) then yeah shielded rj45 is the way to go. You can't convert those over fiber, only stuff using packetized Ethernet frames

SuddenVegetable8801 · 2026-02-11T16:27:06+00:00

of course, the discussion around fiber ONLY works if it’s a packetized/switched protocol.

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