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When in really sketchy places, I can see the advantage of the GTFO. But rather than going all the way home, I've tended to just identify the closest place with satisfactory care. S.E. Asia = Tokyo, S. America = Buenos Aires, Africa = Cape Town or Germany.

The large LiIon cells are in their own fire safe in the garage ;)

In the more difficult locations I use the cameras as the motion detectors. The on-board software allows me to set dead zones where trees are and exclude areas close to the ground or just above fences. The cameras output a 12v trigger that is picked up by an Insteon senor that triggers the lights.

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. You know what a fire safe is, right? Particularly effective if set into concrete, which is set into the ground.

Thoughts: 1. I regularly have copies of keys that say "Do Not Duplicate" or similar made all the time. Key services are offered by all kinds of places that employ minimum-wage high-school labor; they don't know or don't care. 2. One of my hobbies is sport-picking (timed competition for picking...

Cool. Did you write that yourself?

Ended up picking up some more absurd stuff, I'll test it at home for now before it needs to be deployed. https://amzn.com/B00SLIUYL8 https://amzn.com/B001PPXFAG

?? Not enough control? In my experience it does exactly what it says; takes a bunch of pictures with the specified angle difference.

I have a fire safe, and every document in it has been scanned and encrypted copies of those folders exist in different systems around the globe. The cash would likely survive, and the jewelry sure would. Removing the safe would require demolition of the house; it was put in first ;)

I just stick the 100-400 II on the Gigapan Epic, but for that kind of quickie going hand-held would be fine.

My Blue Yeti mic at home now has an annoying digital whine to it (kid has caused it to hit the floor many times). The mic is connected using a direct USB interface, so I'm assuming it must be within the mic itself. Does anyone have a recommendation for a mic with good quality, vibration...

I have never in my life had a safety deposit box.

If you need wider than you have, just shoot multiple images and stitch. Particularly good for long stuff (no close objects to mess the stitch due to parallax) that are abnormally shaped (I bet 5 horizontal shots with the camera in portrait would work).

I received the prototype of my Protocase-made custom chassis on Friday. Just waiting on a couple parts in the next couple days and I'll have something cool to share.

Tesla quarterly net profit.

I'm considering designing a 3D-printed ceiling mount for them, so I can put them in like smoke detectors.

IIRC 60C?

I'm really happy with my G5. The two things that break on my phones most are the battery (can't hold charge) and the connector (gets loose). Both of those parts are easily swapped without tools on this phone.

640k should be enough for....

I have weatherproof enclosures bolted to poles in the middle of nowhere where space and power consumption are considerations. Having the ability to VPN before jumping the wireless bridge might be nice. Might also be good for integration into IoT products.

Not at that age yet, but I am interested in any solution you come to. I've given the kid their own tablet that doesn't know the password to the WiFi. Any videos she likes watching I download and copy to local storage. No kid mode used at all.

I use "The Cloud" when talking to execs when making general points that are true for all of them. 1. Isn't accessible if you lose internet connection 2. Can be hacked without anyone at our company making an error 3. Is likely already compromised by several government agencies 4. Comes with some...

Yup. Easily, in all samples.

Clearly the solution is a 3x3 matrix of 4k screens.

Fail doesn't seem to be the issue. Efficiency falling to a fraction of initial in a few years seems to be the common one, and even 2x savings wouldn't be enough in that case.

Unless there is some very technical reason that I haven't found relating to backfeeding the grid significant amounts of power, it is not only obstructionist, but counterproductive. They do have to pay me for excess power I produce, but at a rate so low it must be below their production cost...

Make sure the stuff you are looking at carries the right warranties and that the companies themselves will be around to see it through. There is some shady stuff out there.

Are you sure that is the right link, Lunar?

It was about double what the parts alone were at the time. Considering what was involved for permitting (let alone installation), I am entirely happy with the decision. Lawyers were involved over the course of 3 months to get permission to install a system of that size.

8K Gaming https://youtu.be/211Vdi4oC9o

The fans are typically pretty easy to replace, though I've only had to do it once.

PG&E (our local power company) only allows residential solar to reach 80% of their average consumption (or something like that). Otherwise they won't let it grid-connect. And you are correct, that is a typo. 6.3kW. Edit: No battery bank, though that is in the plan for later.

One is actually still down, but thanks for the reminder. And I couldn't get permission to install the 6kW system, so it ended up being much smaller :( Everything installed 20x 260w panels 1x 3.6kW inverter 1x Wireless network interface 20 year performance warranty and monitoring $26,520

There is something to be said to making the resolution so high that no one notices any scaling issues at any size, ever. Of course, the insane added cost and compute times for everything make this a crazy plan at the moment.

Every system I've seen like this has a rolling window. Frequently the previous code doesn't stop working until the completion of the next window.

Just took delivery of 96 cans of Diet Coke at the office (Amazon Pantry). Should hold over the group for a couple months.

That conversation is useful because it is an excellent way to convey to them how stupid the entire thing is.

Man, CivV took up so much of my time... Not saying good or bad, but remind me not to pick up any side work.

"Worth a damn" is a bit vauge for this kind of thing. They can display pictures. The DPI will be lower than just about any print but may be high enough for most applications (depending on screen size). Color gamut will almost certainly be worse than good prints.

I'm certain that the first porn was carved into the walls of caves.

Not a problem at all, but I'm down 8x T-1s at the moment. Let me get this taken care of and I'll do a more complete write-up.

Interesting considering the performance has been benchmarked a number of times by press and private owners, and the performance was as advertised. Did they have to change something for the cold weather?

I prefer the embedded video, but I remember someone mentioning that it broke something in the mobile client. If that isn't an issue in the new system I'd rather go back to embedded.

I'm game for anything. The speed improvements of the latest hardware upgrade you made was all I could want.

I've seen that data visualized a number of ways, but that is more intuitive than most.

These days when I give my phone number, I smile when I say "don't bother calling, I don't answer". They get it.

I'm with Merc on this one. "SMS: like e-mail, but worse."

I bought tons of them about 3-6 years ago. Good quality, excellent price. Both have suffered since.

Sounds right. Most NATing routers have a DNS server in them, but it is unlikely to support this kind of conditional redirect.

Most I've requested did stop, but only after several more weeks. It usually says in their fine print that a 3rd party does the e-mails, and that your address will be removed the next time they update the list with that 3rd party.