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From my use cases: NDI Video

If we lived in a just, and virtuous world we'd all be using cheap coaxial cables with BNC connectors via whatever version of SDI is the highest bit rate.

Have to imagine that the niche market for making 40F/4C "cold" water from luke-warm tap water (if you live in an area that is so hot the tap water is warm) is fairly small.

How could you figure it out if you’re using Boeing surplus carbon fiber that’s past its shelf life. [1]

Your data will be all over the place from surplus to surplus sale.

[1] https://www.insider.com/oceangate-ceo-said-titan-made-old-ma...

> the 'titanic tourism carnival ride' business model.

That was more marketing; the main biz model was to create enough buzz with the oil/gas industry to get bootstrapped and produce a product fleet of cheap subs for independent contractors to use for oil rigs.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40406673/the-man-who-wants-to-se...

https://t.co/0ee7AImRRh

I built one of these for a client a few years ago. Bought 10 refurb T2i kits and this software to stitch it together: https://www.breezesys.com/

Here's it in action from: https://insidethemagic.net/2017/07/d23-expo-2017-take-virtua...

New addictions post bariatric surgery is fairly common. Gambling for instance [1] replaces food.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332884264_Gambling_...

There is a brand that has no added sugar that I believe the poster up thread is mentioning based upon the ingredients. It's ok, but honestly tastes a little like just thick tomato sauce, could be a little more fermented/more vinegar, but it's a fine substitute for HFCS based ketchups.

[1] https://www.primalkitchen.com/products/organic-unsweetened-s...

What's crazy is that they sell waaaay more configurations of the Fit for the Japanese market [1], even a "Crosstar" trim level with 4wd + hybrid! [2].

A real shame they discontinued the Fit in the North American market, I would have easily bought one but ended up with an HR-V because it's basically a Fit on steroids (same chassis, still has magic seats until 2022), but it's a big percent price jump: $17k (2020 fit) -> $21k (2020 hrv).

[1] https://www.honda.co.jp/Fit/webcatalog/type/list/

[2] https://www.honda.co.jp/Fit/webcatalog/type/crosstar/?from=c...

Kinda a trickle down:

A handful of us were laid off in Feb from a global advertising agency's SF office. They had a lot of notable SF clients including a well known bank in the area that made some headlines, so ya know... A few other tech clients really tightened up their retainers as well.

Similarly, their reporting sucks and is years behind Meta and Google. No APIs, and can't give really any geo delivery data.

It's a straight up nightmare to move email providers. Especially if you have an office environment built around GDocs, Gmail and trying to get people to move to Office365.

> Android and everything it stands for.

Bloat. Virtually every android everything is so bloated that the underlying chip speed gains are rendered useless.

I'm here for the games, possible to have a fully loaded one with ti-calc.org conenction?

> Viewship is an easy metric to collect but it ignores perceived value

At a previous analytics job we were working for our client, one of the larger streaming platforms as were trying to quantify value, and more importantly attribution.

Attribution was huge and was still being worked out by the data scientists and then re-worked by marketing C-Levels at the platform. By the time I left, If you signed up for the service and immediately watched "Big Movie" as your first watch, or you finished >50% of "Big Movie" within the first of signup then "Big Movie" was the attributed thing that got you in.

This helped drive decisions (or helped "justify" in retrospect) for day-and-date movies (play on the platform + in theaters same-day), or to take what would have been a theatrical and put it only on streaming.

Hey, have you ever thought of why even the $149 Black Friday loss-leader no-name-brand TVs all have Amazon Fire, Roku, or are now "Smart" in some way?

Certainly isn't because they need to incentivise you to connect it to the internet so it acts as a Nielsen-esq measurement device of all media you view on the screen via digital fingerprints that exist in all commercial media and advertisements. [1][2]

[1] https://www.ispot.tv/ [2] https://www.samba.tv/

I installed 400a service on my 1100sqft home. I was getting solar installed, and my panel had to be updated anyway from an old fire-trap Zinsco. I asked the company how much more to do a 400a service and they said $500 more so I went for it planning on eventually being able to charge 2 EV’s at max amperage in the future.

> more SRO-style housing

Which has been evaporating more and more. There used to be tons of them in SF and LA and now it's been severely reduced. This style of housing at least housed the "upper" level of destitute/poverty and without it that entire population is on the street.

So, then the main purpose of stablecoins is crime.

Timing is right before their largest conference in Las Vegas next week on the 17th, Cloud World[1]

[1] https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/

Love the foreshadowing of it being a total flop from the launch exhibition: https://twitter.com/AllGamesDelta_/status/119683308108220416...

"Remember when Google compared Stadia with the Powerglove, Atari ET and the Dreamcast?"

I had a buddy [1] that worked in the kitchen at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for a few seasons in 2012-2014. From what he told me: The internet works at certain times of the day at different bandwidths depending on the satellite. I think at that time there was 3 in orbit, and one of them was a retired Navy sat that had like dial-up speed.

Also everything that goes to the station stays there so the vinyl collection is amazing, and they have a huge Betamax / VHS library and most importantly they have /The Thing/ on Betamax.

[1] https://www.portlandmercury.com/Theater/2012/07/26/6564600/m...

Edit: Here's the satellite schedule for this week, https://www.usap.gov/technology/documents/SPSAT%2020220915.p... and you can sign up for a listserv of updates here: https://www.usap.gov/technology/1935/

These are the available birds in orbit for Antarctica:

Broadband: South Pole TDRSS Relay (SPTR) Satellite

Broadband: Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS)

Broadband: Skynet Satellite Communications System

Narrowband: Iridium Multi-Channel System (IMCS)

> ban cash

Well, it's not banned, but over $10k USD in cash you need to fill out an IRS form 8300 [1] precisely to curb criminal use of cash. (Although I'd argue it should be upped and pegged to inflation as 10k isn't what 10k used to be.)

[1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

Sharepoint is similarly entrenched at DOE when I worked with them in 2009. Any project that gets a bid contract can't say specifically that it must use Sharepoint, but the requirements will be written in such a way that Sharepoint is literally the only system that fits all of them.

My prediction is that there'll be a growing business of vulchers putting in pay-per-use chargers in large apartment buildings that the landlord gets a kickback on, much like overpriced washer/dryers.

In SoCal I pay, at most, 28¢/kWh, but usually ~20¢/kWh with Time of Use [1]. You configure the car and/or EVSE to only charge at night when electricity is cheapest.

[1] https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/wcnav_externalId/a-fr-elec...

They should also couple a "nationalization" of PG&E with this too. Municipal run power is typically cheaper than investor owned power.

They'll end of failing Smog checks and eventually be sold to Arizona and/or driven over into Mexico.

In Baja cars with California plates and long expired registration tags aren't too uncommon.

I noticed that abroad too that no one batted an eye at using a credit card for tiny transactions worth ~$2, but in the US an independent merchant would either have a $10 minimum or charge a ¢50 fee or both.

In California the coin-op air/water are a scam. They'll take your money, but if you ask the attendant they can turn it on from the booth. Some may even have a secret button on the side to turn them on [1]. Unfortunately for EVs, the law only applies if you are purchasing fuel.

> California law requires that station operators provide free air and water to customers who purchase gasoline or diesel fuel. [2: Complaint form if you were denied]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/3sp0jj/fyi_gas_sta...

[2] https://apps4.cdfa.ca.gov/AirWaterComplaint/#:~:text=Califor....

When one does that, America usually is punitive against your nation in retaliation.