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Thinking of it as a percentage is probably best. 5-10% of income for all toys/hobbies is a pretty comfortable place to be, but I recognize that this is easier at higher income levels. My first few computers were acquired by dumpster-diving outside UC Berkeley.

Pretty much. I was thinking of running it like a local dropbox, or just using it as a backup target. Maybe running a Mumble server?

Front-end damage can look much worse than it is (or the other way). I don't think it would be that tricky to find someone who can give you a list of the parts that need replacing and compare that cost to a replacement vehicle. It is unlikely that you'll find a similar car with the rest of it so...

No idea. Just staying off everyone's radar. 5Gig/day?

I've been evaluating solar for the house, and one of the thoughts I had was to pull some of the DC off to drive DC things before converting the rest. From the technologies that are most cost effective at the moment, micro-inverters seem to be a leader. This of course eliminates any DC bus from...

I have the opportunity to hang a small machine directly off a 10Gb link at a carrier hotel. Can't be big, can't be loud, and can't be power hungry. Also can't abuse it too much. No idea what I would use it for.

I'll take a little pride that all the machines that scored higher than mine had 3x Titan X and got just a few more points. That makes mine clearly the best bang/buck! ;)

Looking at the new Intel CPUs and not getting one motivated me to see how far I could overclock "Home1" CPU @ 127x36 = 4.572Ghz GPUs @ 1380 / 3960 RAM @ 2666Mhz

Thinking about rehabing a house there makes me think of Fight Club.

It was back-to-back, XP->7, 7->10. Entirely not recommended, but some of the software installs needed to survive.

For the record, I had a Win10 upgrade fail earlier that was resolved by uninstalling Daemon Tools. Not surprising, just a heads-up.

Because they are low or high? I'm used to top-end components breaking down as follows: $1k CPU $500 RAM $500 MB $500 HDD (SSD) $1k GPU (x2?) Not that anyone needs that system, but a top-end CPU for $350 is pretty darn reasonable.

That sucks Merc. Have you considered buying the car back from insurance and having the repairs done? With the rest of the car in such good shape, the value might be there.

i7-6700K supplies seem to be very tight; the only seller listed on Amazon wants $550 at the moment. I can wait.

I have some here. It is vile, but it isn't the lack of taste, it is the texture. No idea how you would hide that grainyness. Also, it needs to sit in the fridge for hours, but can't stay for weeks. Too much effort.

Sounds about right. Considering how many of my common loads are effectively bottle-necked on a single core, I would totally give up parallelism for a pair of faster cores (4.5Ghz? 4.8? $500?)

So their $350 chip natively goes to 4.2Ghz, when do we expect the faster iterations to arrive?

Been in the field climbing towers and mounting antennas all day. Might need to do the same tomorrow as well.

Mine was the same, so I downloaded the Media Creation Tool (linked above) and manually did the upgrade.

Now that we have white lasers, the laser headlights should get much better/cheaper.

The 100-400 II on a crop body is pretty darn long. Adding a 1.4x or 2x makes it pretty crazy, but too slow.

I'd say as a general rule, anything that ran on 7 or 8 will be fine.

Working perfectly for me? No tricks, no looking for things that moved, just easy. The error was from when I did something they didn't want me to do (create a Win10 thumbdrive from a Win8.1 machine).

Did the in-place upgrade using the media creation toolkit on my main rig (Home1). After the download, it took about 45 minutes to complete. Classic Shell complained a bit on restart, I should have uninstalled it before the upgrade (I did right after). Needed to download and install the new...

But you did only buy one (right?), that makes you the pinnacle of restraint. ;)

Whales? Or do you consider Elephants big enough?

There is no point to that machine. I suppose if you wanted to drive 5 4k monitors in games you might need it. And I consider all chassis to be ugly; either exposed circuitry or hide it in another room.

Oh, I know about the lens. Is that the "very bad thing"?

Is RAM usage an issue for any of your systems? Or is it the principle?

200-400/4 IS 1.4x?

Least useful error ever.

Specifically the 100-400/4L II

The only one you need is a Canon L, and I think you already own a few.

My computer choices are totally sane. These guys, they're the crazy ones. I only have ~60% of that... https://youtu.be/nQRunV2pBVU

Tesla Model 3 is expected in 2016, Audi A3 e-tron is probably next year. Golf electric and hybrid pretty soon.

Got to run around with this guy a bit this morning, he was just cautious enough that I could keep up.

I remember keeping paper notes on the different potions and ingredients. Good times.

I have 8x 4TB and 5x 6TB HGST NAS drives at home, and 36x 4TB Seagate NAS at work. For home I went with the most reliable, at work there is enough redundancy that I went with cheapest.

Would a complete drive clone to a new SSD reset the performance issues they are talking about?

My personal tech budget is ~$20k/yr. For work it is $200k/yr.

For the most part I buy cars like computer parts. I wait until I need one, then I buy the best out at that moment. The improvements are (typically) incremental enough that it isn't worth worrying about.

Yup, for Acrobat too. Just went to their corporate model; enabling and assigning licenses to users by e-mail address. Just wish I didn't have to still buy them from a reseller; how hard is it to take a credit card?

I think it's one of those things where if you were really particular you'd already know which one you want. Since that isn't the case, just start with the size of car and amount of money before looking at wirecutter and picking the one that suits you.

70C I wouldn't worry about, 80C I'd start thinking about additional measures.

The pedestrian safety standards are forcing the bumper and front of the hood up on most cars. The higher beltline (side windows that don't start until your shoulders) certainly feels restrictive, but I don't think it actually effects visibility that much. I know I don't have eyes in my shoulders.

1. Only if you have contacts that you don't actually trust. 2. Only if you have passwords saved on your computer. I don't see Lunar being effected by either of these.

Better and worse I think. The cars are better by most standards; more reliable, more efficient, more powerful. But not making gains as quickly as the technology we are used to. Still gains.

Win10 sharing WiFi passwords by default? Edit: Apparently this is not new, but new to me.

Best mobile audio (That isn't a file I brought with me) so far seems to be SoundCloud. Even better than Pandora Paid.

For me it was the repetitive nature of gameplay. Limited number of maps means that you aren't exploring after a couple days, this is exacerbated by how fast the rounds are. World of Warships has the same issues. I'm sure that being part of a group with voice comms would make it much more fun. I...