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I know I recently watched the Peacock-exclusive 30 Rock reunion show, on my Roku. I wonder how I did that, now.
I know I recently watched the Peacock-exclusive 30 Rock reunion show, on my Roku. I wonder how I did that, now.
Indeed, I've bought 2 separate sets of lock picks on Amazon. Prime eligible, even. Perfectly legal to own and use in my state, so long as I don't have criminal intent. I've even used them on a fire safe a coworker lost the key to years ago.
I've also toyed with the idea of learning at least basic gunsmithing, to do more than just basic maintenance on my perfectly legal collection of guns (and finally fix one that keeps misfeeding).
Uh, yeah, I did this in the 80s and 90s as a pre-teen and teen, during the summer months. Hell, even into college it wasn't unusual. It's a little harder now, though weekends are a wildcard (this Memorial Day weekend, I think the earliest I went to sleep was about 6am). It's a bit easier these days, with the internet, but between dialup and writing code back then (with whatever stations didn't go off the air at night), it was certainly possible to keep occupied.
I lived and died, and lived again over 25 years of enduring the thunderdromes that are the Washington DC beltway and Rt. 267 in northern Virginia. It got so bad that, at one point, I took a hiatus from work for 2 years to enjoy life outside of 2 hour-each-way commutes that covered distances that in no traffic at 3am on a Sunday morning would take 25 minutes to do, tops - just to spend my time in an open office floor plan with two monitors in front me displaying stuff that the two monitors that I already had at home could do just as well. Since then, I've committed to be a remote work-from-home type and, on the balance, I much prefer it. There is no commute to dread and the stress and frustration it breeds, my car insurance is much lower, my car will last longer and costs less to gas up and maintain, and I'm home to have dinner with my wife and kids every. single. day.
Yeah, sometimes I do miss the social interaction that the office brings and, up until COVID19 hit the landscape, I was seriously considering trying out a nearby low-key co-working space once a week to see if that brought any benefits in that category of life. But you know, that's also what weekends are for, or nights out. This Microsoftie seems to errantly think that work IS life, which is kind of the #1 reason people are waking up and don't want to put up with that bullsh*t anymore.
I hate to break this to you, but... Linksys has been owned by Belkin since 2013... Somewhat coincidentally, I stopped recommending or buying Linksys gear sometime around 2013... Mostly went with TP-Link gear supported by OpenWRT, but eventually grew tired of trying to find the stuff that was supported, whether or not I had to first downgrade the firmware, install DD-WRT, and *then* install OpenWRT, with somewhat flaky radios.
Home studios can be quite an investment, and like any gear-centric hobby/semi-profession, its participants can waste so much time and money chasing the perfect MIDI interface, the perfect studio monitors, the perfect sound interface with clean amps and good ADCs, and so on - so much that they become more of a gearhead than an artist, believing that the limitations they encounter or perceive is because they lack some quality or capability in their gear rather than introspecting on their own talent or self-confidence. While quality gear can help attain some very specific goals or open up a few production options, stories like this are good in reminding people that it's not required and people can be successful without a $10,000 home studio. Further, a great sound engineer is worth the money for their time. Mixing down is a further art unto itself, and often makes or breaks a track despite the efforts of the artist. They know what to listen for and how to present the pieces spatially and emotionally... and to a degree can even put some polish on a turd. To a degree.
I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all..
...of going to the the yearly COMPUTER SHOW AND SALE(!!) at the local fairgrounds and haggling with some sketchy-looking seller for the latest edition of Encarta, a 2x CD-ROM drive, and 8MB of 72 pin EDO RAM, with the goal of getting it all for under $200.
Well, at work at least, I have to do a lot of training that, for better or (most likely) worst, requires sitting through an audio track. Being in a cubicle environment, playing the arduous narration for each required training module is a non-starter. I've got earbuds that I (sometimes) listen to when having to do the required training. I should note that where I am, wireless is strictly *not* an option, no BT, nothing. I may disagree with it, and can point out where $parent explicitly supports some wireless options, but I'm at the point where I pick my battles, and this is one that really isn't worth it.
The larger aperture is a no-brainer when trying to collect more photons. The "pixel merging" is what is known as "binning", a common technique with astrophotography CCDs where the light from a group of pixels (say, a 2x2 or 4x4 block of adjacent pixels) is summed to produce one brighter virtual ("binned") pixel. Binning's downside is that it eats away at the sensor's effective pixel array size and resolution, producing a narrower field of view (akin to a cropped sensor), but it seems that Samsung gets around this by brute force - just have a lot of pixels to begin with.
God, I remember watching that on a Sunday night in the late 80s on PBS. After the finale, it was all I and my friends (we all stayed up "late", like 11:30 or so) could talk about on the bus to school that Monday. And it's never been aired where I lived again. Many times, I've been tempted to get a Region 2 DVD player and order the whole series from the UK. Even to this day, that finale haunts me...
Obvious non-astrophotographer commenting on how astrophotographers should conduct their operations. Get out.
Who, exactly, thought this was a workable idea? Two inches into the asphalt and covered with tar? I can't imagine how one, let alone a group, of civil engineers and the city's own engineers could be okay with this idea. I have so many questions.
1. What happens when the road needs to be resurfaced, nevermind the scoring of the pavement required to dig for and access other buried utilities.
2. How this won't accelerate deterioration of roads due to being a wound in the road that invites moisture, causing things like frost heave
3. How protected is the cable itself as asphalt shoves, slips, and creeps over time in places
4. Is the cable even meant to withstand the mechanical shock of traffic passing 2" or less above it over even 10 years?
The photos look absolutely atrocious given the short amount of time the stuff has been there.
Considering the phraseology you used in your assertion, I take it that you're fairly unfamiliar with how airspace works.
In the US, at least, UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems, the general term for things like drones) MUST be operated by someone with a UAS certificate from the FAA. Getting this certificate can be done online and the course teaches the student basic airspace knowledge, including the knowledge on where and, more importantly, where not to operate a UAS and who to contact if you do. Indeed, it's actually a subset of what a private pilot would lean, as someone with a PPL automatically has a UAS certificate. The point is, the requirements are already there, but most people think they're too cool for school and refuse to comply with those meddling gub'mint regulations.
Ultimately, it'll be the people who stay airspace-dumb on purpose who will ruin the party for other civilian UAS operators and perhaps the lives of unwitting passengers and crew. There are already costs incurred by drone strikes which, thankfully, haven't caused any deaths yet.
Here's an idea: Take each of the regional server clusters down when it's not that region's prime time. Groundbreaking, I know, but it might just work.
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