justjash

I miss all the old forums that have died out. Still some gems out there, but not nearly as active anymore as far as my hobbies and interest go.

Pretty interesting. I recently got some cheap Meshtastic devices just to play around with and it looks like the longest line of sight from my house is about 20 miles. Might have to leave one at home and see if I can directly connect to it from the general area it is showing.

Ugh, maybe I need to see it inside an actual car but overall looks like it could belong inside a small truck/SUV if you took away the Ferrari logos.

I like the physical controls. I actually just traded off my truck over the weekend and the climate controls being through the screen were a major part of that decision. It still seems like the switches here are pretty minimal and might be annoying - do you have to go through the screen when your windshield starts to fog?

I'd imagine scratchers would be almost impossible unless you could somehow get all the tickets from every place they are sold. I'm not into gambling, but I guess it might work if there is X number of prizes/money per roll of tickets.

Who is really heating teflon pans to 850 F on the stovetop?

As someone who started going to school for Mechanical Engineering and ended up in Comp Sci, I think your last paragraph is what drew me in. So many different ways to solve the problem at hand.

This is the one that I remember having in elementary school. Such a funky shape, always thought the top looked cool.

I've also got a Flexispot (from Amazon, assuming its the same brand) and its been good for a little over a year now. Seems well built and sturdy at any height.

I don't stand a lot, but it is nice if I wake up and my back is sore. Also gives me better adjustability with the office chair, lets me set the height just right.

Yeah, that line came off really strange to me also... being a POW doesn't sound so dreamy to me.

Same. Got a laptop and Blackberry at my first job out of college. Didn't take too long for me to realize that it actually sucked.

Later worked as a govt contractor and could leave my laptop at the office 90% of the time. Never realized how good that was until I switched back to a job with an on-call rotation.

I remember having some goofy message for my voicemail when I was in college. Some recruiter left me a voicemail scolding me for being so unprofessional... finally changed it several years later when I upgraded phones.

Custom ringtones on my old Nokia were always fun. I guess I'm old and lame now and just have the standard iPhone ringtone.

It's not really. Any decent bike shop has bins full of spare parts and take-offs. Then you always have eBay, Marketplace, etc. to find something strange.

Same thing here. I dumped Alexa stuff 4ish years ago for Google Home devices and its become somewhat of a let down. They really don't seem to have anything new while Amazon keeps releasing new displays/speakers.

My Nest Hub Max will only show the camera in the old Nest app while it never loads in the Google Home app.

I'm thinking I may have to try something else in the near future.

Worked for a govt contractor years ago and I would imagine the payout from the govt contract was at least 2-3x. There were usually 2-3 layers of people getting paid and I don't think any of them were hurting. Of course no employee was getting a massive payout compared to private.

Govt > contractor > sub-contractor > employee was pretty common. I never knew of anyone being a direct contractor to the agency since the contracts were so large and involved a lot of employees.

I've wrote a few, more like scripts to do something repetitive.

Wrote a script to scrape pictures off an old website from the Wayback Machine.

Wrote another program that scraped some data from a posted Apple Music playlist then used the data to generate a Spotify playlist with the same songs.

I've written several other smaller things related to Arduino and lighting but nothing too special.

Same. I pulled down my dad's old camera from the closet a few years ago and it probably hadn't been used since the 90s so the batteries were dead. Threw in some new Duracell batteries and played with it a bit before putting it away. Opened it a year or two later and the batteries had swelled and leaked everywhere. Had to use a pair of pliers to extract the swollen batteries from the battery compartment. Such a huge pain.

They already do on some. I bought a pack of 2032s (Duracell maybe?) a few weeks back that had the coating.

This is generally what I notice also. Seems to be less about riding the actual bike and more about telling people you have a Peleton.

Yeah, or any McDonalds in the Midwest around that time. I always feel out of place if I happen to stop at one during that time on vacation.

This seems like a very difficult way to do things unless you really needed to mess with items in the background.

I would think there is still plenty of room to crop a single image down from something like a new Canon 1D. Even just making a composite image if really needed sounds much easier.

Yeah, I don't think there are any issues with people moving to cities if they want to live there.

Just because there are protests, etc. going on doesn't mean the entire city is on fire...

This also seems off to me... Sounds like some well paid grocery store workers.

Yeah, had a college professor that hunt & pecked on the keyboard. He was smart and good at teaching, just terrible at typing.

Steve Rinella also talks to him in an episode of his MeatEater podcast. Its a good listen if you have some time to kill. Episode #179 if anyone is interested.

I think you may need to separate religion from churches/pastors/missionaries/etc here.

Myopia is probably caused by lack of exposure to the extremely bright light of the sun during childhood and adolescence

Is there research on this? Just wondering since I ended up having issues with nearsightedness in my early 20s but feel like I spent a lot more time outdoors as a child compared to children these days.

Yeah, just sold our home this month in the Midwest and moved into a townhouse that we rent for now. We did end up making a little money (bought in 2016) due to the great market we were in but I think that was just luck for the most part.

The issue with fixes gets even worse when you live in an older city and most of the homes are 80+ years old. It was a nightmare when you start to think about all the little things that are eventually going to need repaired/replaced in the not so distant future.

For now I am happy not having to do any yard work and only having to pay and electric and internet bill. The simplicity is great but I do miss having a little more space for storage/hobbies.

Yeah, I agree as far as reading it goes when you switch between different projects using different versions. I do like using the Stream API though.

I agree with most of it minus the "Don't make esitmates" part. Without making some sort of estimate things just don't work.

I guess maybe it could work assuming you fully control a single product. Everywhere I have worked we need the estimates simply for coordination of all the moving parts.

That would be great. The drive across Kansas is torture.