When something like universal healthcare or a $15 min wage goes into law, it's one less thing the union has to negotiate for. The union doesn't have to give up a certain number of sick days to make sure workers are getting $15/hr because its now non-negotiable. The end goal of a union is to not to need to exist, that workers are protected enough that they don't have to engage in collective bargaining.
The low demand definitely leads to higher prices but the other aspect is all of the additional testing involved for every chip. There's standard testing at every level of the manufacturing process and there will be further environmental testing at the package level. They will even run radiation tests on the wafer to characterize any quirks.
You can filter the sensor data to get rid of any "sparkles". You can also add in power controls for the sensor so that you can reboot them when they either stop responding or send too much erroneous data.
There is also a time-domain problem with regards to total integrated dose. All the parts will degrade over time. Radiation hardened parts can have lives of 15 years or more in a GEO environment. A commercial part might be lucky to make it 1 year. Radiation shielding is not as easy as you may think. Heavy ions in space can pass through anything and will impart a charge in whatever they hit as well as creating secondary sources of radiation. Neutrons are not as common in space but can be found near reactors, they are also very penetrating.
Terry Crews is 6'2" and 245lbs. That's an obese BMI at 30.6. Does he look obese to you? Fat is heavy, muscle is even heavier, both will cause your BMI to go up. Obviously most people don't look like him so really the BMI figure kind of stops being useful when you have significant muscle.
I use Excel in my data processing workflow. I'll grab a small subset of the data to play around with in excel to see what it is I actually need out of it. Then, I'll do all of the real processing in python along with matplotlib for any charts I need to produce. Excel could almost entirely handle my use cases but there is usually some bit manipulation I need to do because my data is usually telemetry encoded as ASCII. Also making if-else statement in Excel is exhausting.
I could also just use MATLAB but I'm more used to using python.
Finishing is what separates a nicely cooked meal from the version you would find in a Michelin star restaurant. The way it's sliced, the way it's placed on the plate, whatever else is on the plate, and how it's finally served to the diner is all of the final details that go into gourmet service. I tried signing up for this service but it's not in my area yet.
It looks like its just an upscale version of delivery. But instead of eating out of a takeout container, it's meant to go onto real plates with ingredients and instructions on how to serve it like they would at the restaurant. Many upscale places never did takeout simply because you cannot 100% recreate the experience when the food has been traveling in a bag for 30mins. I'm not sure what they are doing different but there is probably some reheating involved (like cook a steak halfway at the restaurant and then you sear it at home). Neat idea I guess for those that are too lazy to cook but want upscale dining at home. I don't see this lasting very long once things return to normal.
Something I'd rather see is a daily SMS service that sends out recipes for these kinds of menus. I don't mind spending a little extra money to have a gourmet experience at home but I'd rather be the one cooking everything fresh.
It was a real product so no clue why they would come out with something to trick people. The Rokr was just a test of the market, could your phone replace your MP3 player? The Rokr wasn't a huge success mostly because the hardware sucked but it did show that people were interested in the idea of having their music on their phone. Once it was clear that the hardware was hampering the coolness of having music on your phone, that was a big green light for Apple to push forward with the iphone. If the Rokr had been more successful, maybe we would have seen more phones come out with iTunes integration and the iPhone would have taken longer to bring to market.
I limit myself to one mug in the morning and another around lunch if I need the help on the days I do drink coffee. I try not to build up a caffeine tolerance since it's the next best thing to ADHD drugs for me. If you just like coffee, switch to decaf and only drink caffeinated for when you need it.
I'll only drink coffee if I know I have a busy morning and want to power through it. I miss taking Adderall daily but the effect from coffee is almost the same. I don't drink it that often mostly because I don't want a tolerance. Drinking coffee on my less busy mornings just leads me to getting dragged into some low priority task and spending all morning on it when I could be working other things. Sometimes I'll just grab a 300mg energy drink at the store or take a couple Excedrin on an empty stomach if that's all I got.
One of them has already worked on the so-called "dark side". I doubt they are going to refuse sales to anyone unless there are ITAR or sanctions involved.
Ok, what about it? Just posting a link to a wikipedia page about one of the most famous IRC networks is very low effort and really doesn't offer any insight as to why this is important to the original poster or to anyone else.
I've been working on a similar system for a few years now and hate every bit of it. We built it fast because we needed it and didn't have time to use the standard system we use in-house. I've been given very few hours to work on it outside of my regular duties so I've just had to deal with the terribleness of it. We recently got some money to update our tools and while we made something a little bit better for some tasks, the terrible foundation is still there. I'm going to look into this, it looks slick and sounds exactly like what I need. Just having the ability to dump whatever telem field I need would save me so much time compared with coding up a python script to pullout whatever from the GBs of telem we've been producing.
Prior to the sixth-gen consoles, there were no firmware updates. What made it out the door was it. I don't know if the PS2 or Dreamcast ever received software updates but the original Xbox included updates with newer games. Seventh-gen received online updates constantly. Toshiba was clearly just looking at what had come previously and didn't want to buck the trend.
The PS2 was basically the inverse of the plan for Nuon. The PS2 was a gaming device first and a DVD player second. Adding the DVD playback feature really got it into many of homes as the first DVD player for the household. If someone was just looking for a DVD player, why would they opt for the more expensive Nuon-enabled device than the cheaper DVD-only device? The only people that would have bought a Nuon-enabled DVD player would have been first adopters looking to actually buy a Nuon. Perhaps Nuon would have had more success selling a console that happened to play DVDs rather than a DVD player that happened to play games. Sony repeated the same strategy for the PS3 as a console that played Blu-rays and had immediate success with that too.
It's like trying to sell a commuter car with a souped up engine next to the cheaper commuter cars. Someone buying a commuter car just wants 4 wheels and an engine at a low cost. Sony sold affordable sports cars that just so happened to be capable of commuting.
As long as there are no known issues and everyone is healthy, a home birth is probably safe. A hospital is usually safe too but definitely more expensive.
We did our research through TrueCar, Consumer reports, and using free vehicle history lookups for anything that didn't already include a free Carfax report to find the exact used VIN we wanted to buy. The Carvana model is a neat idea but we found there was a little bit of a premium on identical models sold through them versus brick and mortar dealerships nearby.
Last time we bought a car, it was for my girlfriend. She was the one with the down payment and the one who would be the primary driver. She had already done all the research about what she wanted down to the exact used VIN she wanted to buy from them. When the salesman started directing questions to me, I simply would just look at her and let her answer. This quickly made him realize I was just there as a cosigner. Only thing I said the whole time was asking to see under the hood and about anything they knew about the car and it's maintanence that wasn't already on the Carfax report. She didn't have any technical questions for the salesman as she already knew what we wanted, just a test drive to make sure it rode fine, and then we bought it. The finance guy had me fill out some paperwork but all of his questions were directed to her.
I don't think I will ever go back to a car dealership without knowing exactly what I want. It is such a waste of time listening to a salespitch by someone that has a absolute interest in you maxing out your budget.
I'd prefer if radios meant for ham usage just stuck to the ham bands. If you want to build your own to tx/rx across everything, go ahead. My Baofeng lets me tx on all kinds of frequencies that I'm not licensed for but my Yaesu properly locks me out from transmitting anywhere that isn't 2m ham or 70cm ham.
I think its mostly people with Baofengs operating on MURS and GRMS bands. The prepper and tactical larper forums all talk about how to setup a Baofeng for unlicensed use at these bands. I hope all hams out there do their best to help monitor our airwaves and report any abuse.
PyBOMBS is probably the best way if you want to be able to handle out-of-tree modules. If you just want to play around with the built-in functions, using a prebuilt binary from a package repo is the easiest.
I have a special SD card made up that has all of the correct boot configs set and a small script to update everything and set up the Pi for PXE boot. After everything is configured, I take out the SD card and let it just pull boot images over the network. My main home server serves everything up over tftp. The only downside is that you can't get this to work over wifi. The wifi Pis get read only SD cards that are all configured the same so it's easy to reimage a new one if the card dies.
People work together on things during the day and also happen to want to be able to visit stores and businesses around the same time every day. Also people sleep at night because it's easier to sleep in the dark than in the light. It sounds pompous to act like the clock is some sort of religious ritual and how anyone that wakes up in the morning to go to a 9-5 job is just a sheep. Most people like being awake when other people are awake so every one can do things together. Just like how NTP helps synchronize devices across the internet, regular clocks help people do the same.
Right, if they think your "corporation" is just a shell to shield you from justice, they will just prosecute you instead of going with the charade of trying to punish your shell company. The feds rarely have trouble prosecuting someone when they want to, they've got somewhere between 95-99% conviction rate.
Use leaded solder and either inspect the joint for complete coverage or solder dip the part beforehand. Then, conformal coat the circuit card with sufficient thickness for tin whisker mitigation.
Conformal coat really is the saving grace for tin whiskers. It's not perfect, a whisker can push through sometimes but then the whisker has to push back through the conformal coat again which is much harder.