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Archer72 says: Great series and 2nd continuation
RE: hpr4600::2026-03-20 The First Doctor, Part 5 by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.00:15:26 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi Ahuka and Kevie,
I 2nd the request to keep the series going to the end. Although I have not seen many episodes, this is an interesting series.
Cheers,
Archer72
Kevin O'Brien says: I think I will
RE: hpr4600::2026-03-20 The First Doctor, Part 5 by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.00:15:26 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I am now thinking I might just cover all of Classic Doctor Who, and then stop. I don´t think there is any need to cover the revived series that began in 2005. But when did that become 21 years ago? Can anyone stop this train?
Kevie says: Great series
RE: hpr4600::2026-03-20 The First Doctor, Part 5 by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.00:15:26 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi Ahuka, that was fantastic look at the first Doctor, looking forward to hearing the rest in this series. I also went back and watched every episode, there are some good reconstructions out there so that the story can be followed for the missing episodes (archive.org was my friend there).
I hope that you change your mind and continue the series right up to the present Doctors
Antoine says: I will
RE: hpr4553::2026-01-14 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 4 Less Common Reactor Types by Whiskeyjack00:17:34 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thanks, Whiskeyjack, for the answer-information.
I'll do my best to be here and catch the Q&A (or Q&A-alike) show about NRT.
Antoine says: Sharing (response to candycanearter07)
RE: hpr4592::2026-03-10 Happy by shower # 2 by Antoine00:05:21 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Happy that this was in some measure good to you. Sharing is difficult, especially what is relevant to us (which may be irrelevant to others and make us shameful for having different priorities needs and tastes); or simply because we are afraid of not only being mocked, but, worse, being not understood, ignored. My vision only, my fears, barriers that block me to others and others to me.
But it's good to remember, or to learn, the blessing that we are different.
Sharing drawings feels interesting.
Vance says: Expressions
RE: hpr4597::2026-03-17 UNIX Curio #2 - fgrep by Vance00:11:50 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thanks for the encouragement, everyone!
It is indeed weird that there are two types of regular expressions (or I guess three, if you count Perl-compatible regexes). On top of that, the shell's pattern-matching (glob) notation does the same type of job in another different way.
I guess that is a result of tools being developed by different people at different times.
Archer72 says: Great tips!
RE: hpr4598::2026-03-18 Recording good audio using open source tools by Shane - StrandedOutput00:40:24 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi Shane,
Great tips on recording and how environment plays into recording quality. I never knew to the Blue Yeti was not worth it, because it has been touted by 'professional' podcasters.
Ken, I think this episode should be listed on the Recording page. :)
Cheers!
Archer72
Whiskeyjack says: Reply to Antoine
RE: hpr4553::2026-01-14 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 4 Less Common Reactor Types by Whiskeyjack00:17:34 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Yes, there were numerous patents on commercial nuclear technology.
However, most of the basic principles were discovered early on and any early patents had expired by the time that nuclear power was being exploited commercially on a widespread scale.
I am currently in the process of recording a follow up episode to this series and I will add your question to the script as I think it offers an opportunity to address an interesting topic.
So, listen to that episode for more details.
Antoine says: Were/are the designs patented?
RE: hpr4553::2026-01-14 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 4 Less Common Reactor Types by Whiskeyjack00:17:34 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi, Whiskeyjack.
Nice ep.
You said AGR, based on Magnox, was a nuclear reactor type that did not sell well outside the UK. I then started thinking if it were (is) possible to another countries to develop by themselves based on that project, or if it had (has) a commercial restriction for exploration of the technology.
I have yet to listen to the following episodes (doing little by little) and may learn better on the choices, but I felt free to present the question by now...
Thanks!
Ken Fallon says: Congratulations
RE: hpr4605::2026-03-27 Lee locks down his wifey poo by Elsbeth00:08:25 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Congratulations to you both
candycanearter07 says: informative
RE: hpr4597::2026-03-17 UNIX Curio #2 - fgrep by Vance00:11:50 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I always brushed off egrep and fgrep as niche tools, but this episode inspired me to use it more often! Thanks for providing another tool for my toolbelt. As a general grep tip, you can use . to avoid escaping certain patterns in the shell (ie if your pattern has a space)
L'andrew says: Nice job explaining *grep features.
RE: hpr4597::2026-03-17 UNIX Curio #2 - fgrep by Vance00:11:50 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
You've done a great job of explaining when to use each type of grep. I taught an in-house class on regular expressions, and you're explanations would have helped the crew know why there are these different versions.
Thanks for helping to keep *nix alive!
Whiskeyjack says: Response to Jim DeVore
RE: hpr4593::2026-03-11 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 8 Generation Four Reactors by Whiskeyjack00:11:29 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thank you for your encouragement. It always helps to know that people are actually listening to these episodes.
A number of listeners have posted questions about topics covered in this series and I promised to answer them in a follow up episode.
I have the script written for the follow up and will record it in early April and it currently has about 20 minutes of content. I currently have a couple of episodes uploaded for slots in April for an unrelated series and will post the follow up episode after the second one in the new series. This means It should be out in late April.
If anyone has any more questions they would like me to address, please post them in the comments to any episode in this series.
Jim DeVore says: Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
RE: hpr4587::2026-03-03 UNIX Curio #1 - Shell Archives by Vance00:12:08 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Great episode. I especially enjoyed shar and remembering all the issues I once had with attachments. I still have them at times, but that is generally due to security forbidding executable file types...
Jim DeVore says: Great series!
RE: hpr4593::2026-03-11 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 8 Generation Four Reactors by Whiskeyjack00:11:29 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
As an engineer with an insatiable curiosity about way too many topics, I loved this series. A nice overview that I doubt I could find anywhere else.
candycanearter07 says: interesting!!
RE: hpr4596::2026-03-16 Adding voice-over audio track created using text to speech on the movie subtitles by Ken Fallon00:28:09 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I wouldn't personally use this, but I find it extremely crafty and a cool way to modify movies for your own enjoyment! I also often forget that mpv supports multiple audio tracks :P. As an additional tip to improve watching experience, on mpv you can define a global subtitles folder with --sub-file-path and name the srt file the same as the audio file (or use --sub-auto=fuzzy to make the subtitle matching more lenient), and it should be loaded by default along with the original file.
m0dese7en says: Additional details on cars
RE: hpr3711::2022-10-24 Cars by Zen_Floater200:34:02 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I enjoyed your episode and appreciate you discussing cars on an HPR episode. I want to point out that your facts on electrics are inaccurate as well as some of the details about charging infrastructure.
I have never encountered evidence of laws forcing you to replace an electric battery before selling a car.
The battery chemistry you sited was Nickel Cadmium but that is not what they are using. They are using various lithium chemistries. Also, most people are not depleting their battery capacity on a daily basis and a 240v charging plug is more than adequate for most uses.
Thanks again for making a show!
Kevie says: Thanks Gan
RE: hpr4509::2025-11-13 HPR Beer Garden 5 - Heferweisen by Keviefrom the series Beverages.00:34:40 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thank you for pointing this out, I hadn't noticed the spelling error, I shall attempt to get it sorted.
candycanearter07 says: interesting!
RE: hpr4592::2026-03-10 Happy by shower # 2 by Antoine00:05:21 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I think that hearing what other people do in their day to day life is extremely interesting and wouldn't mind a third episode. In particular, the idea of learning how to share things is something I struggle with, since outside of sharing drawings and stuff I've made, its difficult. Best of luck to you
candycanearter07 says: relatable episode
RE: hpr4576::2026-02-16 Responce to Lee/Elsbeth eps by operat0r00:39:18 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I haven't been lucky enough to get a job in the IT space, but what you talked about with struggling with people resonated with me. I am EXTREMELY bad with like talking to people if its not a topic I'm super familiar with, and kinda fall back to generic responses or making little dad jokes during the conversation.
candycanearter07 says: anecdotal teaching is the best kind
RE: hpr4591::2026-03-09 A Bit of Git by Leefrom the series Introduction to Git.00:14:13 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I think that the way you explained all of these features using a real story and going through your thought process, while weaving explanations of each command, is such an interesting way to teach about a program! I found the story interesting, and learned a lot about git that i didnt know about.
Vance says: Thanks, and Solaris
RE: hpr4587::2026-03-03 UNIX Curio #1 - Shell Archives by Vance00:12:08 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I appreciate the positive comments!
Regarding Solaris (and SunOS and AIX), I don't recall exactly how I determined that uuencode wasn't included with the base OS. Probably a set of man pages online somewhere. Of course, it would be easy to compile and install uuencode from source and I'm sure it happened frequently. Similarly, it was common for GNU versions of some utilities to be installed by people using commercial UNIX systems because they often had additional capabilities.
More episodes are coming; hope you enjoy them!
Whiskeyjack says: Reply to Clinton
RE: hpr4573::2026-02-11 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 6 Thorium Reactors by Whiskeyjack00:16:57 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I will do a follow up episode on nuclear power technology and try to cover your questions and others.
I have a four part series on audio recording ready to go, but I will slot in the nuclear power follow up for after that and start working on it now.
Anyone else who would like me to address these or other points is welcome to add their questions or comments as well.
Clinton says: Modern situation.
RE: hpr4573::2026-02-11 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 6 Thorium Reactors by Whiskeyjack00:16:57 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I would like some commentary in the current situation, why has hinkley gone off the rails, the new american approach, the odd things done after fukushima, the new radiation rules in the states.
Aleman says: Beer Garden
RE: hpr4565::2026-01-30 HPR Beer Garden 9 - Barley Wine by Keviefrom the series Beverages.00:27:21 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I've had HPR in my feed for a long time - always hopeful something will spark with me. Then: you 2 come up with
Beer Garden! And: you like what I like! I'm writing from Oklahoma, where a state legislator funded her senate campaign with money from the liquor distributors in exchange for monopoly control over what we drink, but I think before the law changed I actually had some scotch silly. Anyway, RREally enjoy your show,
Ken Fallon says: Time to active use
RE: hpr4597::2026-03-17 UNIX Curio #2 - fgrep by Vance00:11:50 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
The length of my commute
xmanmonk says: uuencode/uudecode on Solaris
RE: hpr4587::2026-03-03 UNIX Curio #1 - Shell Archives by Vance00:12:08 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I worked for the infamous Inference Corporation years ago when they still existed, and the corporate server ran Solaris (I don't recall which versions were running when I was there). That server had uuencode and uudecode on it. It may not have been installed with the OS, but it was there. Someone put it there. So I know it at least ran on Solaris, which wouldn't require much more than a compilation of the sources.
Anyway, great show! Thanks so much!
Gan Ainm says: Hefeweizen
RE: hpr4509::2025-11-13 HPR Beer Garden 5 - Heferweisen by Keviefrom the series Beverages.00:34:40 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
The word "Heferweisen" does not exist in German. The correct composite noun is "Hefeweizen" from "Hefe" (yeast) and "Weizen" (wheat).
However, there are German words Hafer (oats) and Weisen (some homonyms like wise men, manners, to indicate), that do not have any relationship to beer. The word "Hefer" does not exist in German.
Whiskeyjack says: Response to brian-in-ohio for HPR4583 Small Modular Reactors
RE: hpr4583::2026-02-25 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 7 Small Modular Reactors by Whiskeyjack00:13:42 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I can do a follow up episode on small modular reactors comparing some of the pros and cons of SMRs versus large reactors and what factors may favour either. I will also cover any other questions that may come up.
As for safety, that could possibly be a controversial subject and so probably not a good fit for HPR. There will be people who have strong politically based opinions either way, and I would like to stick to just explaining how the technology works and let other people in other forums address non-technical issues.
Whiskeyjack says: HPR Commnity News discussion on audio
RE: hpr4586::2026-03-02 HPR Community News for February 2026 by HPR Volunteersfrom the series HPR Community News.01:12:12 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
In HPR4586 Community News for February at around the 50 minute mark, you talked about automating the audio process for HPR.
I have a 4 part series ready to go which may be relevant to some of this. Episode 2 covers basic filtering, de-essing, and normalizing using FFMPEG in a shell script. I was planning to release this as soon as my present series on nuclear reactor technology was done (there's one more episode in the schedule).
I'm definitely not an audio expert, as I only started learning about this in order to fix audio problems that were the first few HPR episodes that I did.
I listened to the Linux Matters podcast that you referred to with respect to their automated processing software, so I do have some idea of what they are talking about. I do have some concerns about the practical problems which may arise when dealing with episodes sent in by just anybody using all sorts of different hardware however.
I had assumed that you were already doing some sort of normalizing for HPR, as the volume levels are fairly consistent. In fact I emphasized to listeners in the series to send an non-normalized copy to HPR so as not to conflict with whatever processing you are doing.
Perhaps someone at HPR could do an episode or talk about it in the community news explaining what HPR actually does currently in terms of audio processing as that may help in generating some discussion as well as being interesting in its own right.
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