mobilene

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by mobilene 2mo ago
The current WBOW isn't actually connected to the OG WBOW, which was on AM at 1230. It went off the air in 2001 after the owner was convicted of some pretty awful crimes. Another company resurrected the call letters on FM some years lat
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by mobilene 2mo ago
In commercial radio, DJs haven't selected the music in 40 or more years. I used to show up for my shifts to find a printed playlist from a software product called Selector. I had to follow it.
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by mobilene 2mo ago
Local community is probably irreparably damaged. But I was a kid with niche interests and I didn't start to find my people until the Internet entered my life in 1989.
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by mobilene 2mo ago
Not controversial, not even within the DJ community.
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by mobilene 2mo ago
Who knows why we landed on our system of 3 and 4 letter call signs, but we did. Plenty of stations use them only when they have to: in the top of the hour legal ID, which is "<call sign> <city>," such as WZZQ Terre Hau
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by mobilene 2mo ago
<waves frantically> Hi! How did we overlap at WMHD and never run into each other?
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by mobilene 2mo ago
Yes! Exactly this. I'm the OP and I wrote about this specifically as well. https://blog.jimgrey.net/2023/01/10/connecting-through-the-e...
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by mobilene 2mo ago
I'm the OP, and I'm surprised to find this article on HN at all, let alone the front page! Many comments are focusing on music but the thing I tried to get across in the article was that good radio wasn't primarily about the
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by mobilene 2mo ago
I find myself irritated by this article because its headline is about how blogging has collapsed, but you have to get into the article to find that it's only the blogs that were gaming SEO to make a buck that have collapsed. Those blog
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by mobilene 6mo ago
I was in testing for 17 years before moving back into Engineering. I have spent my time in Engineering leading teams to push quality left. But I think it's better to say "quality is a system" than to say "engineers own q
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by mobilene 6mo ago
I miss the energy of being in the office, but I do not miss the commuting. If I could commute in 15 minutes or so each way I'd strongly consider an in-office role. OTOH, the ease of the home office is very nice.
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by mobilene 7mo ago
We do the same here in Indianapolis and my read is that it's about cost containment. Our tax base here really doesn't fully support city services. And then more people move to the high-tax-base suburbs for better services, and the
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by mobilene 7mo ago
When I rode the city bus as a teen in South Bend, IN, in the 80s, there were some designated bus stops. But buses worked on a hail model anyway. You could be on any corner on the route, and as the bus approached, you'd just stick up yo
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by mobilene 7mo ago
Having a graphic file of your signature is hella useful. I did it the old school way thirty years ago -- I signed my name on paper until I liked it, scanned it, created .gif and .bmp files. Still use that.
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by mobilene 9mo ago
I completely understand the kind of mind that would catalog such a thing. This wouldn't be my thing to catalog, but I'm glad somebody did it.
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by mobilene 9mo ago
What other industries but tech do any of us bother to talk about finding jobs that align with our values? (Outside of avoiding illegal or immoral work.) I think we were incredibly fortunate before ZIRP went away that we had much greater opp
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by mobilene 10mo ago
It's stuff like this that makes me still love the Internet.
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by mobilene 11mo ago
Thank you.
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by mobilene 1y ago
I entered middle school in 1979, at which time I was slotted into available "advanced" classes. This was as close to a G&T program as we had. It changed my game. Not because of the knowledge imparted, but because (a) I was wit
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by mobilene 1y ago
Well _this_ is a pisser for sure. I've relied on POP3 email transfer for years and years so that I have one mailbox to check: Gmail.
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by mobilene 2y ago
This was one of the most wicked cool things I've read in a long time. I grew up in a TV market that was UHF only (South Bend, IN) in the 1970s. TVs from before about 1963(?) didn't have to have UHF dials. So a company named Blonde
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by mobilene 2y ago
I own a 2024 VW Jetta GLI. The haptic steering-wheel "buttons" are sloppy and uncertain. I applaud the return to real buttons. At least my GLI has a physical volume knob and physical heater controls.
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by mobilene 2y ago
Something similar happened to one of our sons. Unfortunately he has a history of drug use that landed him in legal trouble. The local police recognize him. He had a minor fender bender. The police tested him for alcohol there, clean. But th
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by mobilene 2y ago
I've been laid off a few times in my 35-year career. Being laid off felt like a betrayal to me for a long time. But I was operating under a false model: that because I worked hard and did good work, that the company would value me and
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by mobilene 2y ago
This. 1000% this. I'm 57 and still kicking around the industry deliberately choosing companies like the ones described. It's also important to note that I have a small network of people also working for companies like this who hav
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by mobilene 2y ago
Part of the challenge is how wide his text column is. It makes the lines hard to scan; your eye can't fall on a line just once or twice to scan it, but must keep falling, which makes the text feel more tedious. Easily fixed by narrowin
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by mobilene 2y ago
This. Yep, automakers have deliberately gone after higher profit margins per vehicle. Huge-volume, lower-cost cars are slowly going away. Get one while you can, if that's your thing.
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by mobilene 2y ago
I'm blown away that this was their response. My oldest child committed suicide on New Year's Eve of 2021, aged 36. I reached out to my boss and HR saying I'd need some time away. HR responded by telling me not to report to wo
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by mobilene 2y ago
I'm the OP. Good point.
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by mobilene 3y ago
I married into a large Irish family and goodbyes take bloody forever as everyone has to have a ten-minute conversation with everybody else on their way out the door. Irish ghosting goodbye my eye.

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