"Flatten" comes from the world of desktop image editors. You "flatten" one layer down to the next to make one layer. Sometimes the people who work on these kinds of things forget their users might have never used software with metaphors like this.
So do these collectors have the ability to play back these recordings? If so, could they at least make some recording (even if pointing a camera while playing back would be better than nothing) to send to the BBC.
Otherwise if they have no means to play it back, I fail to understand why they'd not want the opportunity to watch their collection!
I'm guessing she was briefed to sensationalise everything to try and keep it exciting. It was too much for me, I mostly watched the much more calm chessnetwork stream instead
10 years ago I was put at risk of redundancy with the rest of my team. I was ultimately fortunate to keep my job and was told later I was never at risk, they just had to include the whole team for some HR reason. However due to the stress at the time both my mental health and physical health (IBS) hasn't been the same since.
I hadn't used a shell prior to 1993, looking back I'm amazed at how much I learned in my first few weeks using black. Fond memories of using elm for email, tinyfugue to connect to muds and writing my first web pages.
I can't remember if it was black or sable that a small group of us crashed a few times with a deliberate fork() bomb. Not our proudest moment looking back!
I got the exciting job migrating Oracle Forms to Oracle Jet and learning new JavaScript stuff. Job now: Spend half my life having to rewrite everything since the Oracle Jet team constantly deprecate features, replacing them with some new "Looks the same but completely new API" feature that I then don't have time to learn
