Not saying that the US isn’t in fiscal crisis, I’m not at all qualified to say either way, but: Comparing government balance sheets to household finances is a age-old conservative folly designed to encourage the working class to support smaller government in order to reduce taxes on the rich - in other words, encourage the turkeys to vote for Christmas (or in this case maybe Thanksgiving?).

The fact is that government finances and household finances are not at all the same thing, for many reasons I’m not qualified to explain, but a couple of obvious ones:

• Households can’t choose to tax the rich to increase income.
• Households can’t print money.
• Households can’t secure low-interest loans that extend beyond their lifetimes (i.e. issue bonds).
• Households don’t typically find spending increases income (i.e. Government workers pay taxes, infrastructure investment drives growth which increases tax revenue, etc etc).

The UK Conservatives used this line of reasoning around 2010 and it’s led to 15 years of growth stagnation with no real improvement in the debt situation.

I don’t usually take scissors to the bar with me

I think I’ve figured it out somewhat.

Handling instance invite codes is definitely missing from the official stoatchat-for-web repo I built my frontend from - see: https://github.com/stoatchat/for-web/issues/639

But I think what confuses things when you ask around for help is that AFAIK a lot of people are using various forks and pre-made docker images that patch things like this.

(speaker calbles almost warrant a debate due to the currents and the reactive load, but the smartest people I knew in the field would just use domestic mains cable for this as it ticked all the boxes that mattered at a low price. They’d literally connect £10k speakers.up with it!)

I suspect you haven’t missed anything and the audio tracks provided have been either inadvertently or deliberately manipulated by some other factor unrelated to the RCA cables.

For context, I’m an Elecronics Engineer with a Masters Degree and 17 years industry experience in a mix of RF and Pro Audio product design, including designing high spec audio converters for both studio and test and measurement use.

Apart from something extraordinarily badly designed, broken or dirty, there is no plausible reason why a cable carrying a signal with no significant current and no high frequency components can have any effect on that signal - high frequency audio is approximately DC in the wider scope of Electronics Engineering.

That answer doesn’t suite people trying to get rich selling ridiculous cables though.

Is a peacoat a coat soaked in pee?

But… America is literally Europe 2.0… so, you’re saying Europe is Europe 3.0?

Caveat: I don’t know you or your manager, so your experience may be very different.

But as someone who has ended up in management in three previous roles (not currently) your post brought two thoughts to my mind:

1. For me, I’d far rather people in my team came to me and were open about things. Don’t bottle it up and hope that they’ll somehow guess - they won’t. They’re not psychic and they’ve probably got 101 other things to worry about. Think of it like this: Could you do your job if nobody was ever honest with you about you previous days performance.

2. If you’re tempted to default to thinking of line manager’s as the enemy, consider that in most cases they are just trying to do their best while shouldering 10x the shit from their manager than is making it through to you.

Not saying there aren’t bad and/or narcissistic managers about, but I suspect most of the time they only appear that way due to the screws in their back from above.

I also wasn’t aware so had a search.

If you don’t mind Reddit, this thread is interesting… https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/133lcyl/can_someone_explain_what_happened_with_the/

Or there’s this… https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion

Edit: Actually this is probably the most comprehensive summary: https://schneems.com/2021/05/12/the-room-where-it-happens-how-rails-gets-made/#the-basecamp-incident

Embrace the analogue radio.

Do take rest stops - you won’t realise you’re tired until it’s too late.

Yelp still exists!?

Who is finding a McDonalds location on their phone’s map app and then thinking “I’d better cross-check this against Yelp first”!?