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IIRC, lumens are total light output (all directions?) and LEDs tend to be significantly more directional. Less wasted light?

The kid has learned not to put her fingers into fans, and not to pull cables that dangle from my desk. The computer has been sitting like this for over a week in the middle of her play area without issue. Pretty stoked that we've made it to that level of development. The big thing in the back...

Some builds are less professional than others. My own computers least of all.

Sorry, my post above should have said "unsubsidized". It is completely independent of any employer. Curse you spellcheck.

Mine is completely covered by my company. Currently paying $800/mo for the wife and kid through an unsubsidized Blue Cross "Platinum 90" plan. The benefits are really remarkable, and considering how frequently my wife takes the kid in (having hypochondria and being a doc is a nasty combo), I'm...

Having health insurance tied to a particular employer is a stupid way to do things. That said, most places do. The crazy part is that nearly all of the plans (plus administration fees) cost considerably more per employee than the private insurance through the ACA.

Processing 9999 RAWs at the moment. In case anyone was wondering, the interval timer built into the 7DII stops after 9999 shots even if "continuous" is selected and you have 2x 128GB cards in there. I need to get a faster computer or find a way easily farm out some of the processing to another...

45MP or so would allow capturing 8k video (7680x4320). That strikes me as the place to be in the next couple years (in a properly competitive marketplace).

20MP should be enough for anybody? I expected them to hold at closer to 50MP.

Been playing Prison Architect for the last 6 months or so on and off. With the current feature set (just got out of beta) I can manage 800 prisoners with a capacity of 1000 before things start to go off the rails.

And that lens is a 24/1.4 with no lens cap....so not exactly cheap.

I swear I'm not doing it on purpose ;)

I suspect he meant my 100-400/4 II.

How none of the beer or bubbles ended up on the camera is beyond me.

I can get on board with most of that. I think the simplest bit would be that if a corporate entity commits a crime that, had an individual committed it, would have led to jail time the major shareholders spend an amount of time in jail proportional to their interest in the company. That was...

Of course VW cheating is a bad deal, but to me it brings up a broader issue. Is diesel too dirty to burn in cars efficiently and cleanly? Are there just too many nasties in the fuel to start with?

Not the only ones: Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi, Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, Fiat, Volvo, Jeep, Citroën also found in violation.

Here is a playlist of all of the Leonard Susskind @ Stanford lectures. I'll see you in a month.

JTR, not sure if you've been keeping up with the news for the last half-decade or so, but you are no doubt eligible for highly subsidized health insurance through the ACA. I went through Covered California for my wife and kid as it was cheaper (even without subsidies) than adding them to my plan...

Where the Ubiquiti solution really shines is in multi-AP installs. Once you have the software going adding another AP takes under a minute.

Not happy, but not planning an exit yet either. If this deal had happened before I bought in I wouldn't have done so. I'm still optimistic that it takes at least a year for them to damage the product or brand enough that I jump ship.

My clients have the money. At their level this isn't even a poor choice. I try to cultivate a knowledge and appreciation of what is possible and they choose to have it. Compared to a garage full of sports cars or a jet (or both) this is chump change.

I've had a half-dozen root canals in my life. There is a genetic thing where my saliva actually eats the enamel off my teeth. My grandmother had dentures in her 20s, my mom in her 30s, I'm planning on a mouthful of implants in my 40s. No point in sinking money into a set that only have to last a...

Looking forward to that. The highest capacity LG G4 is only 32GB, and even with a 128GB card in it that won't be enough if I can't move apps and secured data.

I haven't been in about the same time, though I am sure the number of cavities exceeds the number of teeth.

Board in question is a Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming G1

This system is going to have two Titan X and a 9x120mm radiator system, it is in no way about real-world performance.

TacX Bushido i-Bushido Computer Connectivity Kit TacX Steering Frame https://youtu.be/Lg3_EKqNzK0

Storage porn. I've found people online who were able to install Win10 on a RAID0 of these beasts.

I don't have a degree, but science in general (physics in particular) are a fairly deep hobby. It certainly helps. I'd love to be part of a club, but don't have enough time to make any kind of commitment.

There are very few places without empty roads, you just happen to live in one of them. There are countless options around here if you want to explore the limits a bit. Plus a world-class racetrack if you want to go really nuts.

I also use Google Authenticator for some stuff, but a physical key to unlock the smartphone seems like a great idea to me. Another thing I just found out about is Intel True Key. Looks interesting.

Parrot MKi9200 looks close enough that I've ordered one to try out. Planning on wiring it directly to the amp and not having a head unit at all.

I thought the same thing. Or a wall of 55" 1080P Televisions. If you go larger 4k and do the math just right, you could get a smooth radius of curved TVs across the front of the room. That would look incrediballs.

My new smartphone (LG G4) doesn't have a fingerprint reader on it (sad). If it did I wouldn't bother, but now you have me thinking it would be a nice thing to have. I'll have to look into whether the YubiKey Neo will allow me to unlock my phone and activate Lastpass via NFC. That could be really...

I think it is all relative to what the author of the pages you are viewing had in mind. The BBS days had all kinds of optimizations for low-bandwith connections, but I remember being on 28.8 long after 56k was a regular thing and suffering for it. Then when I had dual ISDN when everyone else was...

Exactly like this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaeETZPdShsN8XtwhDKS-iVJZ38lKFKI9

Looks great. Thanks for that.

At the moment standard displays are getting very competitive with projection systems even up to 75"+. Unless projection gets much better very soon I'll be switching to a regular TV for the next refresh.

Did you mean Pradeep or JTR?

Google is the gold-standard of search engines, Yahoo has been deteriorating lately and might be as bad as Bing at this point. Even worse is that they don't seem to have the bandwidth/computing power to serve all the searches coming in since they bribed the Firefox devs to move everyone to Yahoo...

I'll stick with ABP until it does me wrong. Good to know there are alternatives out there. Thanks for doing the legwork folks!

What is the average time for you between a new lens being delivered and it being used?

Eventually you won't have the time to change. Eventually you'll have brand-new computer hardware still sitting in boxes after weeks just because you haven't had time to get to it.

Might I recommend a CRT? They are more throw-in-proof.

On another note, Firefox really screwed their users by changing default search to Yahoo. Not only are the results obviously inferior, but my users are now actually timing out ~15% of the time.

https://youtu.be/UkZqFtYtqaI

If you use Chrome, the plug in is all you need. There is a plug in for Firefox as well (which is all I use). IIRC, the Chrome plugin has more functionality.

RFID blocking wallets are already a good idea.