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I dumped Sky at the start of the year and went to EE: moved my broadband, landline, and TV provider all together and it worked out about 50% of the same price from Sky. I still get some Sky channels via Now included and best of all it's totally streamed instead of satellite - which means weather / trees don't affect it in the least.
Most of the TV content is still repeats of repeats of repeated garbage, but ... it's cheaper repeats of repeats of repeated garbage!
Oh, and thanks to the new router all my landline calls are now VOIP instead of analog ready for the PSTN switch off at the end of this year.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: ready for the PSTN switch off at the end of this year Really? Is that in all of GB, or only in your region? Is that a single large phone company who keeps going with mobile networks and internet, or are you offering early retirement to a number of small POTS only phone companies?
Do you still have landlines, but digital? ISDN? ISDN was the best phone system there ever was! IP phone has far too much latency and processing artifacts. (Do they still compress? If they do: Compressing a 64 kbps stream on a 100 Mbps fiber is rather crazy. An attempt to increase latency even more?)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Whole of the UK (and ISDN goes with it) - but it's been delayed to 31st Dec 2025 now, it seems: The PSTN and ISDN switch-off: what it means for you | BT Business[^]
My home phones no longer connect directly to the master socket - the router does and the phones connect to that. Works fine with no noticeable lag, and I'm on fibre-to-cabinet, so only 40Mb/s
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's the clip I was thinking of...
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Blast from the past. I watched that franchise as a child.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Quote: Johnny 5 is alive? Yes, and is currently a member for Motley Crue.
John 5 - Wikipedia[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Wordle 1,012 5/6
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Wordle 1,012 6/6
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Wordle 1,012 3/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So nearly 3
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Long streak broken
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Well, that was close.
Jeremy Falcon
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Somewhere I have a copy of the journal (Mathematics of Computation?) ca 1962 where they proudly published the first 100k digits of π .
Took many hours on an IBM mainframe. Calculated by two different formulae, had to rerun when they didn't match.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A classic book by name 'Numerical Recipes in C', (also Pascal, Fortran) has code for calculating the first n bytes of Pi.
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Can we just agree that pi will never end.
and use all that processing power to find the meaning of life ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Junior, learning the basics. Usually self-aware enough to realize they're new. Can offer new and fresh perspectives, which is great, but also accepts things may or may not be able to happen if the voice of experience chimes in. Usually energetic and eager to learn while accepting their lack of knowledge. Reminds the seniors they're old and crusty.
Mid-level, knows just enough to argue about everything, while missing the big picture or understanding the whys or history. They're never wrong... in their minds. They usually cannot communicate well, as it's one-sided and self-serving. All of them think they are seniors when they're not. Maybe been developing for 5-10 years and think they've mastered tech. Maybe they'll attempt to be communicative by virtue of "bruh, dis suckz" or maybe they'll sit in the corner and never speak a soul, until someone comes to get them. Usually reactive though. Don't understand why non-nerds in real life avoid them, but gee golly they act cool online. They can help hire coders, but usually have to look up interview questions online because they can't figure out how much someone knows since they're just scratching the surface of their own knowledge. Some are really smart. Some think they are.
Senior, someone who's actually seen it all. Was coding and arguing online before the Web came out, but over time learned the soft skills and respect required to speak to real humans. Tired of the nonsense, wants to go fishing instead. Has a fond appreciation for the why and abstract concepts. Can pick up things quickly because they understand the core comp sci principles. Knows the future of tech over the next couple of decades at least. And most importantly, can communicate well. Has a certain level of maturity. Isn't afraid to be honest to the business. Never delivers false expectations, but is self-sufficient enough to get things done proactively. Can usually sum up people's tech skills in 5 mins and aren't fooled by people who Google crap and pretend to know something. They speak in abstract concepts more often than not.
Everyone falls somewhere on that spectrum, and 9/10 mids thinks they're a senior. And someone can be stuck in mid for decades even.
You're welcome.
Jeremy Falcon
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