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Photogrammetry. Specifically, running the program PhotoScan by Agisoft against ~300 18MP images to create a 3D model of several acres of complex terrain including several buildings and other objects. More specifically, creating a dense cloud of several million points.

When the largest EC2 instance isn't enough....this is going to stay pegged on this process for 40 hours+

Running only 20MP from a FF sensor is one way to get good low-light performance. It also lets you get high FPS numbers. I'm most impressed by the 4k@60FPS video mode; last I checked that was a RED thing (or GoPro, but you know what I mean).

I held quite a few individual stocks along with ETFs through most of last year (actually managed a positive return in 2015, a hard thing to do. Thanks Amazon!), but sold out mid-December. I had a feeling it wouldn't be pretty, but I had no idea how bad it would get.

Photogrammetry is getting much better. Also, here is my installed solar array.

None of my recent fixtures are at my place, but JTR did wire up an LED conversion for an antique chandelier years ago. The LEDs are at the top of where the "candles" are and shine directly upward with no diffusion. From any place below the plane of the LEDs there is no visible source of the...

LEDs are effectively point sources. If you don't have a lot of them you should consider either diffusion or indirect light. A lot of the fixtures I'm putting in lately are designed to throw against a wall or ceiling. The two bedside lights I'm putting together mount into the ceiling, but are...

Thanks for that. I've passed the message on. Once I hear back from him we'll probably go e-mail for negotiation.

Any coders around here with some free time and experience with page scraping? Just an inquiry for a buddy. He wants to be alerted when a campsite that fits his parameters comes available in Yosemite Valley. ( on recreation.gov) No idea his budget or specifics.

And for flights, I haven't even tried to check batteries, so I wouldn't be able to tell you. The craziest I've done is bring about 15lbs of LiIon batteries in carry-on for United; security didn't even look twice.

Sorry. Let me try that again: https://www.anker.com/products/A1310011

Clearing snow from a roof or solar panels is as easy as heating them from underneath. Perhaps run a coil of water/antifreeze under the panels/roof and route the other end far enough underground to find non-freezing temperatures? As far as living away from people, I think it has more to do with...

There is a huge difference between wireless internet and satellite internet. Satellite has two problems, latency and bandwidth. Latency is purely a matter of the distance the information travels. All HughesNet satellites are in geostationary orbits approximately 35,786km away. Even if your...

Here is the page for the 10050+ on their site. I haven't tried checking a battery; my carry-on these days is a Pelican case holding laptops, camera bodies, and batteries. Important to board early to make sure there is space for it, but I also keep good (not TSA) locks handy if they insist it go...

And on that note, get a multi-port charger, so you don't need to charge the battery and device off the same port. https://www.anker.com/products/A2062111

At this point they have several generations of products all for sale at the same time. Their latest generation products have a pretty good size/weight per mAh. I haven't tried charging devices off the battery while the battery is charging, I just charge the battery and device off the same...

At this point my trusted brand for USB-based charging is Anker. They make cables, multi-port wall and car chargers, and battery banks. I've had great experiences with all of them.

I was born in Eugene, lived there for a year in my 20s, and still have friends there I could walk through a repair/rebuild if it comes to that. Just let me know.

(keyboard rebuilt) Making all my appliances electric is the start of figuring out how to go completely off-grid. I've done the math, but this will be a practical test of how many panels it takes to run an efficient house in a very inefficient manner. Once that is confirmed I can start worrying...

But my responses are far less ambiguous.

Apologies. I'll be tearing down my current keyboard and cleaning it tomorrow as a replacement arrives. For now I'll avoid words containing "h7".

Admittedly, th7ose are use cases for low-power, low-price computing in general and may not be ideal for th7e Pi. And th7e 7s are th7e result of my daugh7ter pouring diet coke into my brand-new (3 h7our) old dasKeyboard 4 Professional. Th7e "h" key also triggers th7e "7" key. Wh7en sh7e first did...

Paperwork with7 th7e power company was by far th7e limiting factor. Mainly th7at th7ey didn't want me producing more th7an a tiny percentage of wh7at I could receive. Solar City managed to put togeth7er an argument based on sub-optimal angles of th7e panels and weath7er conditions in my area to...

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I th7ink th7e trick is to look at places th7at h7aven't h7ad computers before, rath7er th7an places th7at already do. H&ow about controlling Ch7ristmas ligh7ts? Putting one in every ligh7t switch7 for fancy automation stuff? Tying into th7e garage door opener? Flood detection? Smart appliance...

I think it is a case of misplaced incentives. Those in charge are punish7ed if th7ey underestimate th7e storm, but not if th7ey overestimate it.

https://youtu.be/qRv7G7WpOoU

Yup.

The last several years have been out of line with historical norms, not planning for this or something similar to be the new normal strikes me as slightly myopic.

After starting the permitting process a bit on my own, I ended up having Solar City do it after all. I did get them to up the capacity to what I was after and drop the price a bit, but I won't see those savings until next year. Even without the fed and state tax benefits my usage is so high that...

Solar panel efficiency drops considerably when there is more than 0.1" of snow on them. Enough battery capacity to keep space heaters running for a couple days would be insane. Running combustion-based heaters in a living space also isn't recommended. Might I suggest a generator in the...

I just watched The Martian for the first time (BluRay). It isn't a bad film, just absolutely sucks compared to the book. Can't blame anyone involved with the film, the audio book was at maximum density and 10+hrs long. It is no wonder that the characters seemed under-developed and the drama...

Thanks guys. I never burn anything. The only use I have for optical media is ingesting it.

If you're looking for 4k gaming with a minimum of 60fps (so you can cleanly v-sync 60hz), my home1 rig can just barely do it. Hoping it will be enough for the 90fps minimum that the Oculus Rift wants.

Thanks. Ordered.

USB powered is more convienent and easier to cable, but powered is also possible. For that matter, it could even be an internal drive. My systems don't live in cases, just shelves on the rack, so I could wire in whatever.

It seems my trusty Plextor PX-LB950UE is dying. Any recommendations for an external BluRay drive, specifically for ripping? What are the odds that any drive available now will be compatible with 4k BluRay when those come out?

We're expecting a couple inches over the weekend. Rain, of course.

I'm sure they are off-lease.

Ninite Pro supports Flash. This is the easiest way to get it on Server 2016.

To be fair the $10 for YouTube Red doesn't really company to what I give them on Patreon, but I'm sure it is better than the ad revenue I wasn't going to give them anyway. I've also never seen a video trying to promote red-only content. AFAIK all the channels I watch are still entirely...

5630s weren't on the list. But 5650s were.

My regular sales guy is offering some pretty good deals at the moment:

Nope. Not even informational. For the record, successfully creating a virtual disk also doesn't throw an event. I can create any space I like that isn't tiered, but anything with the "tiered" box checked errors with the same issue. Grr.

Nope. No entries in the log. Not even informational.

Fun jobs work for a very small percentage of the people that want them (photographer, musician, sports, YouTuber, etc). Nothing, including this, is going to change that. If you have a small YouTube channel you also have a day job. Just like 99% of Hollywood. From what I've heard, the amount of...

I'm running Win10 on all my personal machines*, and am just waiting on a program compatibility issue (cough, Barracuda VPN Client, cough) to roll it out at work. *Except this one, Server2016TP4 for added features.

Thanks guys. Powershell actually returned the same error. I did some Googling and found two other people encounter the same issue but no resolution. Does MS' per-issue support work on Technical Previews?

Why are you skeptical about YouTube Red? I does exactly what it says; no ads (except in-video) and the creators I watch get more money than if I'd watched ads.

My main home workstation is now running Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4. I haven't been this reckless in years. Anyway, while trying to create the tiered storage I'm after, I receive an error every time I try to create the virtual disk: This happens regardless of the volume size...