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[Torrent Link] Heroes (2020) by the Motorsport Network
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It is not working for me, can someone confirm it works?
US network TV cancellation rates 1950-2020
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Graph of cancellation rates: https://imgur.com/a/HCGjupG
Graph of average show lifespans: https://imgur.com/a/gPEATDn
Script: https://pastebin.com/YALXAtM1
In discussions about streaming services, there are often people talking wistfully about the days when renewals were the norm and networks let shows run for a few seasons to find their feet. I decided to see if the data agreed with the nostalgia.
Wikipedia has a lovely set of pages with network television schedules by year, going all the way back to 1947. For example, here's the schedule for the 1979-1980 broadcast year. Each year's page includes a list of shows that were cancelled from the previous year.
I wrote a very quick-and-dirty Python script (link above) to parse the Wikipedia pages and calculate the cancellation percentage for each of the major networks for each year.
These numbers are sometimes off by a bit, e.g., in cases where a show moved from one network to another, and of course they're only as correct as the Wikipedia pages are. But I figured they might be of interest to folks here.
The gist of it is that for the last 70+ years, around 30-50% of network shows have been cancelled each year. The variance is pretty high from year to year but it has stayed in that band of percentages pretty consistently across all the major networks.
EDIT: I also calculated the average number of seasons shows cancelled in a given year had been running; the results are in the second graph. It has remained pretty steady over time, averaging just under 2 seasons, meaning "cancelled after just one season" has been happening since the early days. I should add that this is a pretty generous average: due to the way it's calculated, a show that was cancelled after a handful of episodes would count as running for 1 season. So the real numbers are lower, but the methodology I'm using makes it impossible to tell by how much.
Top Comment: I have a theory: Its true that netflix doesn't cancel shows more than anyone else. Hell, Netflix at least makes a season of anything, unlike linear TV that declines to proceed with 50% of pilots. However, Netflix cancellations psychologically hit harder. On linear TV there exist shows that fall into "utter ratings disaster" territory - there are examples where the network aired a single episode, things were so bad that they immediately dropped the show and burned it off at like, Tuesday 3pm. But for most shows, you didn't know if they got cancelled until "renewals season" after the show has finished airing, and in a way you kinda got into it like a team sport. You'd tell all your friends to watch this great show and hoped that if everyone did the same, the show would be saved. If TV renewals was a team sport, the "scoreboard" was public - You can see week after week how ratings where. Netflix is different. Netflix shows get cancelled shortly after release. On one hand, this is good for the cast and crew, as they can find new jobs, but on the other hand, viewers have been conditioned to wait a bit and see if Netflix will renew. With linear TV, episodes dropped one after the other, and you were practically forced to every new show as it came out. And you knew that if you didn't watch the episodes as they came out, the show would get canceled. You had no choice but to watch week after week, after all, if you didn't do it, the show gets cancelled. To be fair to them, Netflix is very, very good with data and customer research. They practically invented "product operations" - conducting research and analysing customer data to make product related decisions. Netflix probably had viewer data that said things like "this show is garbage and 90% of viewers don't make it past the second episode", but the public doesn't see that. Because people don't see it, fans of certain shows can go out there and complain about it.
Macbook Pro 2020 kills entire network
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My setup is
TC-7620 --> ERX v1.10.11 --(POE)--> AC AP Lite Cloudflare DNS, Smart Queue on upload only (highly asymmetric internet, 300/18).
I have android phones, wired desktops, a roku TV, and an ipad. All of these work fine.
My problems started last week. All of a sudden, my entire network slowed to a crawl - below dialup speeds. My android phones say "private DNS cannot be accessed" - yet Youtube will still play a 4K video (if I can load the site).
If I disconnect the AP, then speeds on my wired components go back to normal. So I updated the AP to latest firmware, etc.
I've narrowed it down to my new macbook - latest version, with Catalina 10.15.7. If it sits on my network too long, it destroys the entire thing. I can only recover it by turning the wifi off, or if it's very bad, rebooting the AP.
I looked at activity monitor and I see that mdnsresponder is sending a lot of traffic (although only a couple hundred MB). That's the only clue I have right now. A quick google shows others have a combo problem with mdnsresponder + Catalina + slow wifi, that it could be multicast DNS / Bonjour, but I don't have a deep knowledge of these things.
Any suggestions would be very welcome.
Update
I reinstalled Catalina, and also have Wireshark ready in case the network dies again.
Top Comment: Do you use the MBP with a usb-c Ethernet adapter/hub? There are tons of threads about strange usb c hubs killing networks with some kind of network storms. I have different brand name hubs and they work properly until I disconnect the from the MBP but still have Ethernet and usb-c power connected it. Then it totally kills my entire network. There’s perhaps a bad flaw in the driver chip or in the implementation of them in the adaptors.
Irish🇮🇪🇮🇪 railway network 1920 Vs 2020
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Top Comment: Why did the rail network deteriorate so much?
Training worth taking in 2020?
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My boss asked me to come up with a training plan for our 3 man networking team. We're a mostly cisco shop, with some F5 and Fortinet sprinkled in. We also handle outside plant fiber.
We're all at least CCNA level (coworkers both have their CCNP's), and I've already taken 2x ccnp courses last year to fill out the budget.
Any other good ideas for training? I was thinking MAYBE some fiber optics training on how to use an otdr so we can better manage some of our fiber rings and not rely on vendors?
Any other cool ideas? We usually go to Cisco Live yearly, but no other conferences other than that.
Edit : I'm blown away. These are all great!
Top Comment:
I read you first sentence as
"Maybe some official Fortnite training/certifications"
I was like wtf...
Best WIFI Mesh Points for 2020
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