Doubt it. No age gap or superheroes involved.

Yes, but in Norwegian. -March.

Go away, Robert.

Same. My old doctor recommended daily vit D supplements in months that end with R. Regular store bought dosage is strong enough to actually do something if taken daily, but weak enough that it won’t harm you if you’re not deficient.

Source: 65 degrees latitude.

They probably haven’t unlocked enough of the tech tree yet for those.

I wouldn’t, as managed switching is only a small subset of the managerial tasks I attend. I don’t manage individual switches as much as I manage production systems where managed switch management is only a minor component.

On that note, we actually use hubs in one particular place in these systems, and since I manage their installation and asset tracking, does this make them managed Ethernet hubs?

Unmanaged switches don’t care about VLAN tags, spanning trees, management interfaces, or LACP.

Managed switches care about at least some of those features and therefore will have a management interface to configure them, as well as firmware supporting them.

A dumb/unmanaged switch will look up the MAC address of the intended recipient and map that to a port before forwarding a packet to a particular port. A managed switch might do a lot more.

If you don’t need a managed switch, don’t buy one. If you’re OK with everything on one port being able to communicate with anything on another port, and connectivity is your only concern, you’re probably going to be fine with an unmanaged switch.

Source: I manage (amongst other things) managed switches for a living.

Stupid indeed, but of utmost importance.

I’m just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

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I’d offer you an animal as symbol of your success, but I presently have none in store.

Any chance what you have is not an EPIRB, but a SART? SARTs are only registered with beacon ID and doesn’t require programming. Shows up on radar and sometimes AIS also. No sat comms involved.

Yes, except no plugging involved: It’s some sort of inductive way of programming it via a USB dongle. The info is written into this “programming program” which can read and write data to the unit, it’s written, and then you read it to make sure all the info was applied.

Then you label the unit physically with ship name, callsign, and MMSI. In addition to this there are two stickers that come with the unit, denoting the expiry date of the battery and the hydrostatic release. These go on the unit so that’s it easy to check if it’s time to replace them.

It’s been a while, but off the top of my head: MMSI (which is basically the radio installation identifier. Same number is used for AIS), and an ID digit (0 in wheelhouse, 1 on starboard bridge wing, 2 on port, etc)

For those who didn’t know: EPIRB = Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. Sends an emergency signal via satellite and terrestrial RF. They can be triggered manually, but they also trigger automatically if salt water shorts two exposed pads for a certain amount of time (a minute, I think).
Once triggered it will get a GPS fix and transmit a distress signal via satellite as well as terrestrial VHF. It is programmed with the MMSI of the ship it belongs to.
Works all over the world, although they take a bit longer to successfully transmit the signal in the polar regions as they then have to rely on LEO sattelots in polar orbits.

Source: I have a GOC, and I also used to work with marine electronics. I’ve programmed hundreds of these. Mainly Jordan Jotron TR60 (Ducking autocorrect). Some from McMurdo too, don’t remember the model name.

Fun fact: A coworker did have to make the phonecall of shame to the coastal radio after accidentally dropping one overboard.

I’ve used this a lot in the past at work. I see now that it’s discontinued, but I’m sure they have a new thing in its place. tiny, easy to use, and a huge time saver.

Been doing it for almost 30 years. I still have better and more precise hearing than most.

However

Most people in the “headphones bad”-crowd fail to understand that it’s the volume and not the medium at fault. I’ve always been very afraid of permanent damage to my senses, ears and eyes in particular, so as much as I love head banging to loud music, I ensure it’s not too loud. I’m the kind of person who brings earplugs to a concert (the type that dampens the audio without distorting it). I rarely need them, but I keep them with me just in case.

Choose a side, and be sure to evaluate whether that side is based on culture, ideology, something else, because those three may not necessarily be the same.

For example, imagine a scenario where the US ended up in a war against russia over a conflict against NATO allies. One could easily imagine that Russians in Europe or the US landing on both sides of the conflict, depending on whether they are pro Putin or not.

As for china, I can imagine a similar scenario where ethnically Chinese people may be on the US side on the basis that they’re against CCP and/or Xi. Sadly, due to how the US treated people who looked foreign during past conflicts, choosing the US side may not necessarily mean that you’re safe.

It’s not hate, it is complete and utter indifference beyond whatever they need to win the next election. After that it’s simply a priority of lining the pockets if themselves and their donors. Dems aren’t that much better, but at least their virtue signaling is on the right side.

Yeah, I figure such a list would only serve as advertising reasons for VPNing past the firewall.

12ish or so, when we learned about Mussolini. It wasn’t that substantive, though, since it took quite a lot longer to learn to differentiate between fascism and Nazism.