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Why do none of the supermarkets have my favorite chili tomato sauce any more?!

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"Hahn's experiments inspired others to attempt similar feats, particularly Taylor Wilson, who at age 14 became the youngest person to produce nuclear fusion."

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@Stephen Michael Kellat Is this supplementary to my description, a correction to it, or a little bit of both?

Am I correct about how Star Trek (TOS) was produced and aired?

@ghostdancer Next weekend for us.

This weekend we saw "Trolls Band Together", which is not amazing, but it's a far better movie than anyone could reasonably expect from the third movie in a series based on plastic pencil accessories. The music was, of course, top notch.

Non-US people in discussions about TV series and reading TV history may be wondering: What is "syndication"?

"Syndication" is a term closely tied to US television and the mostly US-specific concept of "network television".

It's a large country that was early into television, and early into commercial television, and as a result they have a very complex and decentralized system of TV broadcasting.

People actually from the US feel free to correct me on anything I'm saying, I'm not in the business and I'm not even a consumer, I'm just piecing this together from cultural osmosis from across the seas and from wikipedia articles like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcas… .

In the US, television was originally run by many local TV stations run independently. Over time they started affiliating with each other into TV "networks". This mainly meant networks in an organizational sense, rather than in the sense of a physical radio network of relays all broadcasting the same signal. In fact, as the phenomenon of local broadcasters was considered a good thing and something important, regulation was put in place to make sure a limited number of hours were controlled by a centralized entity, the other hours were supposed to be managed locally.

Syndication is kind of a way around this. Instead of simply relaying programming from a centralized broadcaster, which is restricted to certain hours, local stations that are part of a network can buy recordings of TV series through their network. This does not have the same restriction, as the decision on what to show when is made locally, even if it's centrally-produced content.

When a big broadcaster produces a TV show of their own, they might first air it on their own national direct-relay hours, but after this exclusive airing they might sell it to their network of local stations or even to other TV networks, for local stations to buy and show on their own time.

This is syndication, and this is the main way reruns happen, which is what people are referring to when they are saying things like "after its original run Star Trek gained more and more of a following during its years of syndication". It means local TV stations were showing Star Trek episodes on their own time.

Again, any insight from US people welcome. The above is my impression of how this works, not the ironclad truth.

What if the real problem was

The friends we made along the way

Found an approximation in the slightly more exotic supermarket.

They're labeled hotdog buns, but they're long burger buns and cut the wrong way. They'll do. 😃

Guests are late, for which I am grateful.

My final non-update update. Sorry for getting everyone's hopes up, it's not happening any time soon.

The pile of laptops is still there. If IT Support ever get around to going through it between projects, reorgs and cutbacks, I'll still have all your names. But I won't ping you any more until anything is likely to happen.

I returned briefly to this topic ( libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2… ) and started thinking of what attempts exist to use a subset of some existing Infoset (XML) binary encoding for the JSON datamodel subset of the Infoset datamodel.

I already mentioned Fast Infoset here at the top, but the W3C Recommendation for "binary XML" is EXI, Efficient XML Interchange, which I have not yet mentioned in this thread, and:

> EXI4JSON is a specification developed by the same working group to use the same format for JSON documents.[7]

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[7] w3.org/TR/exi-for-json/

@takahe.social Admin Your current user ceiling of 200 users has been saturated since March.

Do you expect to be raising it again, or do you perhaps have some host other than the flagship that you could recommend?