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On December 29 2017 01:08 Slayer91 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 28 2017 13:51 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
I guess as an add-on to earlier, I think British comedians are funnier in a conversational environment, but I think Americans have vastly superior stand-up. i mean britain has a ton of quiz shows and panel shows which require humour to at least be interesting so theres a lot of practice for british comedians to get on those and just be funny america has talk shows which are more like "give me 5 minutes of your act and we'll pretend it's a conversation" and some stupid attempts by the jimmies (kimmel/fallon can't remember who does what) to do game comedy as well so obviously the americans don't really get a chance to have comedy in a true conversational environment although I think there used to be tv shows that resembled modern british panel shows, i remember some old black and white show with groucho marx on it that was like that theres a lot of good american standups, probably loads of terrible ones too. if you normalize for population I'd bet you get a comparable quality
A lot of those panel shows are a bit deceptive in how "casual" the humour is though. A lot of them have the questions given out in advance, so people have pre-prepared anecdotes or stories, and there are a lot of longer scripted interactions too. Even QI gave out questions in advance to some of the guests. Comedians who are genuinely just ridiculously quick off the cuff are pretty rare.
I think it's mainly due to britain having such a large comedy scene that there's a lot more room for niche comedians to exist, meaning you get very popular standup that only a specific target audience enjoy. Compared to america where the scale of success is so different, and the ones who get really popular are generally just the mainstream normal, haha funny standup that everyone can at least appreciate as funny.
Although there's probably an aspect of what you say, in that people who excel in the panel show format and struggle live still get popular enough through tv to have profitable standup tours. I guess they spend so much time building themselves up as some caricature so as to be easily enjoyed by non regular viewers, that their standup ranges gets very limited by that.
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On December 28 2017 23:05 killerdog wrote:Show nested quote +On December 28 2017 05:59 Holyflare wrote:On December 28 2017 03:48 killerdog wrote:On December 28 2017 03:31 Holyflare wrote:On December 28 2017 00:14 Duvon wrote:
I'm guessing your workplace has a network tech you can talk to as well? Yeh but that defeats the point of scoring arbitrary brownie points by doing it myself. If they're already doing it with VGA splitters, wouldn't it be much simpler to just optimise the current system? Just get better splitters or signal boosters or something rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Would probably still have some degradation compared to digital, but it might be manageable. In theory wireless could be doable very easily, but I assume you want to avoid having to be responsible as the on hand tech guy every time there's the smallest problem with a computer not syncing or a signal glitching or anything. Also are you sure you're allowed to broadcast evidence over generic wireless protocols like miracast or w/e? I assume there can be a fair amount of confidential stuff in there but have no idea exactly how data protection protection laws/policies work around stuff like that. Better splitters? Each vga degrades the picture by like 50% lol. 20 screens just makes it shit tier. You can get powered splitters which automatically boost the signal, allegedly give basically no degredation going down to two screens. Dunno how badly it would propogate though.
Still has wires though? :p
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Yeah it doesn't solve it if they're dead set on wireless, just saying it's perfectly possible (and probably easier/more reliable) to have a wired setup that works :p
You probably want to get some proper enterprise solution or hardware so you don't end up being responsible for keeping it working. Plenty of them out there depending on how much customisability you need, but something like this + Show Spoiler + + Show Spoiler +https://help.airtame.com/general/faqs/can-i-stream-to-multiple-screens
You can use obs like you suggested + Show Spoiler +https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-send-an-udp-stream-to-a-second-pc-using-obs.455/
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Well my job is to specifically go to these sites and fix the problems so no problem there. I'll look into the airtame thing, thanks.
Also I find British stand-up much more hilarious than American but I feel like that's because they are each specifically targeted at their respective audiences.
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Power gone in half the house, circuit breaker didn't trip and i can't find any blown fuses T.T
Used 4 extension cables to get the fridge working again but I have no idea what to do from here
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On December 29 2017 20:44 killerdog wrote:
Power gone in half the house, circuit breaker didn't trip and i can't find any blown fuses T.T
Used 4 extension cables to get the fridge working again but I have no idea what to do from here
That is super weird. Is it every power circuit in that half or just one line?
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On December 29 2017 20:46 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2017 20:44 killerdog wrote:
Power gone in half the house, circuit breaker didn't trip and i can't find any blown fuses T.T
Used 4 extension cables to get the fridge working again but I have no idea what to do from here That is super weird. Is it every power circuit in that half or just one line?
Everything. My room, kitchen (oven out but stove top is working, has a dedicated line i think,) outhouse, hall, bathroom all dead.
I thought the circuit breaker was meant to trip if a fuse blew, but I guess it didn't
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RIP kdawg. If you're unlucky the fault will be in a flammable wall somewhere, potentially burning down your house.
nah but turn main power off, check the circuit board.
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On December 29 2017 21:09 Duvon wrote:
RIP kdawg. If you're unlucky the fault will be in a flammable wall somewhere, potentially burning down your house.
nah but turn main power off, check the circuit board.
I think I am looking at the circuit board? There's just one box with a bunch of fuses for the whole house, and a stromsfejlrelae which is meant to click off if there's a storm or something draws too much power. Those nobbly round fuses varying between 16A and 10A, and then some strange box ones. But I can't find anything that actually tripped and checked most of the fuses and they all seem ok.
Would rather not just turn everything off since I have to leave relatively soon and nobody else home until 10pm. Would probably be rip to everything in the fridge.
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On December 29 2017 21:12 killerdog wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2017 21:09 Duvon wrote:
RIP kdawg. If you're unlucky the fault will be in a flammable wall somewhere, potentially burning down your house.
nah but turn main power off, check the circuit board. I think I am looking at the circuit board? There's just one box with a bunch of fuses for the whole house, and a stromsfejlrelae which is meant to click off if there's a storm or something draws too much power. Those nobbly round fuses varying between 16A and 10A, and then some strange box ones. But I can't find anything that actually tripped and checked most of the fuses and they all seem ok. Would rather not just turn everything off since I have to leave relatively soon and nobody else home until 10pm. Would probably be rip to everything in the fridge.
So all the little nobby bits are pointed up while there is still no power?
The fridge should be fine for a day. Just keep it closed. If there's anything that is super fragile that may be an issue.
edit: Did the electrician mark the board which what circuit is which? I'm not sure how EU houses differ.
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On December 29 2017 21:23 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2017 21:12 killerdog wrote:On December 29 2017 21:09 Duvon wrote:
RIP kdawg. If you're unlucky the fault will be in a flammable wall somewhere, potentially burning down your house.
nah but turn main power off, check the circuit board. I think I am looking at the circuit board? There's just one box with a bunch of fuses for the whole house, and a stromsfejlrelae which is meant to click off if there's a storm or something draws too much power. Those nobbly round fuses varying between 16A and 10A, and then some strange box ones. But I can't find anything that actually tripped and checked most of the fuses and they all seem ok. Would rather not just turn everything off since I have to leave relatively soon and nobody else home until 10pm. Would probably be rip to everything in the fridge. So all the little nobby bits are pointed up while there is still no power? The fridge should be fine for a day. Just keep it closed. If there's anything that is super fragile that may be an issue. edit: Did the electrician mark the board which what circuit is which? I'm not sure how EU houses differ.
Vaguely :p
From trial and error switching stuff off,one of, or some combination of the circuits called "kitchen heating, heating, outside water heater, inside water heater" or "washing machine" is the one which controls all the lights and sockets in half the house. I'm not convinced the labeling system is up to date.
I've replaced blown fuses before and I've switched the circuit breaker on before, but nothing actually seems wrong (other than the lack of power) >.>
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I meant, turn main power off, open the circuit board, check that all the wiring is intact. Be very careful about the incoming power line still.
You could also just try changing all the fuses.
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Oh, I'll probably leave that to people who know what they're doing.
Too many exams coming up to die today
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That's a good call.
I forgot about airtame but we use that at work occasionally and it seems pretty slick.
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guess ew don't really have enough people to do a game night or some such this year
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On January 01 2018 01:12 Scip wrote:
guess ew don't really have enough people to do a game night or some such this year
I'd say skype has enough people for sure but we lack euros
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Im not in the skype convo. Can you inv me in pls?
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im here as well if you need some bodies
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I can be a warm body as well, although I'm also deaf in both ears.
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