How are so many Americans so mistaken about their own constitution?

It's "common" to lower a TTL in preparation for a change to an existing RR, but you need to make sure you lower it at least as long as the current TTL prior to the change. Keeping the TTL low after the change isn't beneficial unless you're planning for the possibility of reverting the change.

A low TTL on a new record will not speed propagation. Resolvers either have the new record cached or they don't. If it's cached, the TTL doesn't matter because it already has the record (propogated). If it doesn't have it cached, then it doesn't know the TTL so doesn't matter if it's 1 second or 1 month.

They have shiny cases, yay. I'll take my ugly Thinkpad and actually get shit done over a shiny case and glossy screen.

Which ironically is one of the first networks to fail when we have widespread storms etc.

They could make technical improvements to their own Makefiles, sure. But it's more about being able to enter a project and have a consistent experience in "getting started".

It's the only reason we have it deployed.

Values were separated with char(254), subvalues were separated with char(253), and the third level were char(252) separated.

It was... unique, but worked. And to be fair, PICK originated in the 60's, so this method probably evolved in parallel to the ASCII table!

The sbin directories are supposed to contain "system" (or superuser) commands, and regular users should NOT have those directories in their PATH.

This has been broken for a long time on every distribution I've looked at though.

There is no contemporaneous equivalent.

We would write the code in VB, compile the exe file (files? I forget), and FTP them to somewhere in c:\program files\

Pretty sure that system was a result of "when all you have is a hammer" from the previous IT manager.

My wife just stayed working full time because we need the money to afford our mortgage after interest rate rises. Almost 90% of what she earns goes to pay for childcare, and that's with her mother looking after our kids one day a week. If we had to pay for a full 5 days, it wouldn't be worth her working.

It's reliable partly because it's so basic - it's a "one-way" broadcast network, and only operates at 1200bps (IIRC). They're not trying to build a network to serve hundreds of Mbps over duplex data connections so everyone can download their favourite cat pics. The network is built to cover 98% of the state by area, mobile networks cover less than that by population.

As a volunteer unit, we use mobile apps to augment our response (ie, hit green on our phone to indicate we're responding, red if you're not), but the primary alerting system is still the pager. The amount of people that turn their pager off then act surprised when they miss an alert because they don't get the difference is fun though.

Sorry everyone randomly pinged by our bot.