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I was bitching about the high 70s and low 80s we were having until mid-October. I would be screaming if we had 90s in October. Only so much of that kind of weather my body can take.

I'm thinking of getting one in the next year or so. I'll need to research my options. I'd probably use it for both prototyping and scale modeling.

+1. You can never have too much light. ;) I converted my workroom to LED about two years ago. 5000K, CRI 90+, 1800 lumens per tube, 10800 lumens total. I actually need this much light when I'm working with tiny surface mount parts. The rest of the time, I just have one fixture on. Nice job...

+1000 to that. My last system was still mostly serving me well when it was over ten years old. My present system is nearly 5 years old. However, given the slower rate of CPU advances since then it's highly likely I'll get a good ten more years out of this system. So maybe around 2027 or...

They've also been testing recharging on the fly: http://www.machinedesign.com/news/they-sound-millennium-falcon

I personally seem to go in spurts. I might not have any alcohol for a month, and then I might have it daily for the next few weeks.

Your reasoning seems sound to me. A home freezer isn't going to be able to freeze food all that fast.

I think it's more how food is frozen than the fact it's frozen which affects the taste. A few years back, we used to regularly order from Omaha Steaks. The meat was shipped in a styrofoam container with dry ice, and each piece was individually wrapped in plastic. To me it tasted better than...

I was thinking the same thing. My great-grandfather actually was a ship's captain. Might explain why I was so awestruck watching that.

It's all their equipment. When I test using their speed test, I'm getting 948 Mbps up and 927 Mbps down. Any other speed test seems to give something in the range of high 300s to low 500s. Sure, perhaps not as advertised, but still a major step up from the 70 Mbps down and 6 Mbps up I was...

Yes. FIOS gigabit internet. They ran fiber right into the house. Price for the package was also $50 less per month than TWC/Spectrum.

And here's something we actually completely agree on!

I can excuse the lens distortion given the content. He did mention in the comments about getting a better camera.

I gradually stopped using it for anything important after seeing what my brother went through keeping his AOL address. I tend to think ISP-provided emails are one way they lock people into keeping shitty service. Once people are heavily dependent on the ISP email, it's a royal pain to switch...

Probably good advice. 99% of what I was getting was throw-away emails that I rarely read. I stopped using these addresses for business a while ago. There may be a handful of old business contacts who might one day try to reach me, but in truth I'll bet that will never happen. In most cases I...

Just saw this. Might be one of the greatest examples of timelapse video, ever.

Lenseless cameras are the future. :lol:

I didn't say it's a good model but it's what we have. Also, how come the right to keep and bear arms seems to only be a right in certain places? Maybe in theory these rights are absolute. In practice they can be selectively violated at certain times and places. If I had even a bullet, I'd...

Of course any decision as to what constitutes "dangerous" is subjective. And that's exactly why we have courts. If someone is a bit overzealous denying free speech, that person can be taken to court. I tend to think the courts will in general only consider "dangerous" as highly likely to cause...

Read the article I linked to about Musk. He's aiming to make AVs hack proof. In principal it's not all that difficult. You could have a physical switch which has to be on before the microcontroller will allow new firmware to be written. Remember software is controlling things like nuclear power...

You're totally misunderstanding me. I'm not looking for risk-free society. That's the province of some liberals who will just as soon wrap kids in bubble wrap to keep them from getting hurt. Mandatory bike helmet laws for children are a perfect example of the type of nanny-statism that I hate. I...

I still think bitcoin is a good investment, but not at ~$3,000. I won't go in unless it drops to around $1,000. There seems to be good support for that price level, making my downside risk pretty low if I go in at $1K. Anything higher is a bubble if you ask me, at least for the time being.

Show me the specific clauses. If it worked as you claim, then we couldn't even have laws against rape or murder because those laws would interfere with someone else's "right" to kill or rape someone. Now I suppose anarchy (which is really what you propose here) is as valid a form of government...

I guess I'll just see if TWC offers anything. In truth, at this point 99% of the emails going to these addresses are relatively unimportant stuff like product update notifications and stuff from the trade magazines I subscribe to. I just need to unlink my eBay and Paypal accounts from the old...

That's pretty much my thoughts on it. And it's why as a cyclist I look forward to autonomous vehicles. I think they'll be much better behaved around both bicycles and motorbikes. I don't see any possibility of automated driving for motorcycles, either. However, as a small part of traffic...

Someone else's personal liberty ends when it interferes with others in a negative way. For example, I'll defend the right of people to smoke in places where they're the only ones breathing in the smoke. The minute I have to breathe in that smoke, their rights end. That's not a nanny state. It's...

Unfortunately, it would be really hard for me to make the adjustment. I spent my first three semesters in Princeton on campus. It was all I could take of living in that type of environment. It literally drained my soul and energy. I commuted the next 5 semesters. And this was a small town. A...

It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out with motorbikes. Some legislators already want to ban the things even now on account of their rather high fatality rate.

What on Earth would I do there except tip cows? When I visit my sister in Long Island I run out of things to do in 30 minutes. Even she hates it but it was the only place she could afford a house. If it doesn't have streetlights and sidewalks, I'm generally not interested.

Yes, but those by definition aren't public roads. As I've said, we'll all be way safer if human driving on public roads is banned as soon as practical. What happens on private roads, off-road, etc. is another story. If someone wants to manually drive in those places it generally doesn't impact...

Really? That sucks. I was hoping there was a way of intercepting emails to the old addresses enroute and redirecting them elsewhere.

Even Elon Musk thinks the same way. A good analogy I've heard is to compare this to horses and buggies. At one time, you could ride a horse and/or carriage on any public street. As motor vehicles became more common eventually the places where this was allowed went down dramatically. However...

It might be because large numbers of motor vehicles in cities, driven by mostly incompetent assholes, make my present reality a f*cked up dystopia. When I cross one of the local arterials with my mom, a number of times I had to wave my arms like an idiot to stop people from running her over. And...

The problem here is there is a delay of as long as 10 seconds from the time a driver might feel the need to take over until the time they actually do. This is why the current idea endorsed by many automakers, namely to have the driver "monitor" the automated system and take over if necessary, is...

Which would give heavy incentives to either convert those cars, or ban them from public roads if conversion is unfeasible. There is also the issue of insurance. I suspect even if we don't ban human driving, the cost of insurance if you choose to drive yourself will make it cost prohibitive for...

Here's the problem. I recently switched from TWC/Spectrum to Verizon FIOS. TWC had given me an email account in which I set up several email addresses. When I shut down my TWC account these accounts were deleted. I had already downloaded and saved all of the current messages so no issues there...

The problem here is pilots have seconds, sometimes tens of seconds, to safely take over in situations the autopilot can't handle. Drivers often have mere tenths of a second. Even if they've been paying attention, the chances of taking over and making the right decision are slim. I'm all for...

Exactly the point I made earlier. Level 5 is really all we should be aiming for. Same reason anti-lock brakes, collision detection, electronic stability control, and so forth haven't increased safety. Drivers compensate by cutting margins closer than they would without these things. End result...

Looks cozy, actually.

I've heard they even sleep on longer flights. They'll have either the pilot or copilot monitoring the in-flight systems while the other one sleeps. My understanding is autopilots help reduce pilot fatigue by letting them avoid doing monotonous tasks like keeping the plane at a given heading...

While on the subject of autonomous vehicles (which the Tesla isn't), one thing being discussed which frankly frightens me is the idea of having the driver "monitor" the system and take control if needed. Horrible idea. For starters, humans are awful at monitoring tasks in case they have to...

Exactly what I did during Sandy, although it turned out we never lost water. Most of NYC's water system is gravity fed. Unless you're in a high-rise, chances are you won't lose water in a storm. We did have four days without power, however. With the temps sometimes dropping into the 30s, that...

No sure they're politicizing it so much as commercializing it. I'm tired of hearing and seeing all the plugs for bottled water, for instance. Seriously, when Sandy came I filled up a bunch of empty soda bottles and other plastic jars with tap water. Just as good, nearly free, and I didn't have...

E-bikes can actually fill quite a few trips which are too long for a bike but rather inefficient to do by car. A susbidy makes sense. In 5 years time you'll certainly have an even greater selection of electric cars than now. It seems they're finally starting to catch on. The real turning point...

Actually, I already know all about the great Dutch cycling network. I particularly love their growing system of bicycle superhighways: http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/search/label/superhighways They realized if you want to get people riding bikes you have to make it safe, stress-free, and...

Someone in the second link of my original post has some direct experience with automotive data recording systems. Here is what he wrote in italics: I've read the datasheets and I have practical experience hacking these devices. Event data recorders in cars have exactly one record. The control...

Yep, saving money has always been one of my motivations for not having a car. I see family members who always seem to be hit with big repair bills just as they're starting to get ahead on their finances. I've found for many trips in the city, the bike is as fast or faster than a car. One...

Indeed, sounds like a stuck register or something. Glad my suggestion fixed it. I had a similar problem a month ago. One of my A/Cs was clogged, the water wasn't draining outside. Pulled it out and cleaned it. When I put it back in the control panel gave a F0 error code. Supposedly there was a...

Thanks, SD. Very informative. Sort of how I thought it was. Basically, if you live in small towns you're pretty much limited locally to how far you can walk or bike. More train options than the US, which is great, but the trains aren't necessarily always faster than driving. In larger cities you...