This is me and my girlfriend, it’s terrible. She is always cold and I’m always hot. She uses me to heat up, which sounds cute but involves ice cold hand and feet touching my bare skin. She has like 3 layers of thick blankets, if I crawl under those within five minutes I’m overheating, sweating and feel like I’m going to pass out. She turns up the heat all the time and I wanted to turn it down to begin with.

I feel like being aligned on heat is much better than being very unaligned.

One little snag: You need to be signed into Windows with a Microsoft account. Using local accounts won’t allow for the updates.

Sailors?

Second floor basement?!?

Yeah EU VAT opened up a whole can of issues. It’s super complicated and annoying, with all sorts of weird exceptions. The exact opposite of what VAT was supposed to be. EU countries should have just gotten their shit together instead of this patch work.

I’ve actually seen that fraud in action. People used to ship around huge amounts of phones and CPUs, because they were high value, but took up very little room. A truck full of pallets of tray CPUs could be worth a huge amount.

I think now most of the holes are patched. But for a while there were special rules surrounding phones and CPUs just because they were often used in the fraud scheme.

The real genius behind VAT is that it isn’t just applied to transactions between business and consumer, but to all transactions. The rule is normally very simple, it’s applied to all transactions, with few exceptions. The rate can vary, but those rules are also usually very simple. The trick is: When a business has a transaction with another business, VAT is still applied, but the selling party has to levy the tax and forward it to the government and the purchasing party can ask the government to give back the tax they paid on the transaction.

This may seem a bit convoluted, where the tax goes through the government only to end up back in the business. But this ensures the tax is applied always. Normally a profitable company would sell their products for more than the components they purchased. The difference between these two is the value added. And by getting back less from the purchases as what they have to pay for sales, the tax is only applied to the value added. And for consumers it functions as a sales tax, being applied to all transactions and no way around it.

This system is way harder to mess with than any other form of sales tax. The rules are simple with few exceptions and thus very easy to reinforce. It’s also a more fair system, where each party in the chain pays a part instead of the consumer paying for all of it.

In the end the consumer pays most, but as the taxes are supposed to be used to make their lives better, it seems like a fair deal? Now if you have a government that’s more about filling their own pockets than actually doing what they need to do to improve the lives of the people living there, well then you are going to have a bad day. But that doesn’t happen in civilized countries right?

It would depend on how fast it runs. The faster it runs the more times it’s right. So if we extrapolate, once you get a clock running backwards fast enough, it will be right all of the time.

Outer Wilds has taught me these dudes are larger than my space ship.

That’s because you’ve been rate limited trying passwords for an hour. When an attacker is randomly trying incorrect passwords, even the correct password will be rejected. Otherwise the protection wouldn’t be very useful.

Uhm AKSHUALLY it’s a cloak and not a dress. Jeez don’t lie about my waifu like that!

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Nah look at the sand on the top of the image. There are no buildings there, so why is it vividly colored in the top image and has zero colors in the bottom image? Someone has turned up the saturation on the top image to 11 and 0 on the bottom image.

Like what is happening in Gaza is terrible, but stuff like this just gives the other side something to shoot at. And I feel the image would hit harder if it were a fair comparison, so the same settings for both. The beach still being beach colored and the streets being gray with rubble would hit hard.

The reason he mentioned weight-loss is because it’s a trope that people showing before and after pictures of weight-loss often use techniques like this to show a more pronounced (or even any) effect. In the before they have bad posture, use an unflattering angle and reduce the colors to make them look worse. In the after picture they have perfect posture (often even holding in a breath and clenching muscles), use a good angle and crank up the saturation a bit.

I’ve seen the same or even worse. Pallets of stuff would be received, all wrapped up tight in an ungodly amount of plastic. The pallet would be unwrapped, plastic discarded and the contents scanned to confirm the correct items and number of items were present on the pallet. After each item was scanned and it’s serial number recorded, someone would go to validate the items. When validated and found to be correct, the items were again stacked on a pallet and wrapped by another ungodly amount of plastic. The terrible thing was, as I was outside of the distribution chain, I had a view on the bigger picture. Items would often go through several of these places, each doing the exact same. The amounts of plastic each item consumed in the process was huge. But it was necessary, errors were found often, so the steps needed to be done. And the pallets could often get wet, nobody would accept soggy cardboard, so it needed to be wrapped.

The issue is plastic is basically free and extremely good at what it does. A more permanent solution like encasing the goods in some other material, like wood or metal would be more expensive and do a worse job. It’s similar to asbestos, where the solution is so good, nothing else can compete. It took a mighty effort and strict laws to mostly abandon asbestos. I fear humanity has lost its will to live and won’t have it in us to ban single-use plastic.

Some places did use metal trollies instead of pallets, but the pallets were never really a problem. They were almost always made from sustainable woods, be re-used often, till they just about fell apart. After which they were sent out for recycling, either back into a refurbished pallet, or a stamped recycled wood pallet or other recycled wood product.

It would explain how all of them were Kung Fu fighting

Hmmm yeah it’s probably something internal to the camera that’s not playing nice at 30 secs. Maybe the sensor getting too hot or a noise reduction system which isn’t handling the long exposures.

Maybe 10 or 15 secs will fair better? Pretty sure the issue is camera noise, not the alignment.

I don’t think this is walking noise, that would result more in a blur across the image. This seems like you are pushing the sensor too much and its noise to signal ratio is getting poor. How many darks did you do? And how many light at what settings? I think you should decrease the gain and compensate with longer exposures. However this will increase how much the alignment matters.

My suggestion would be to bite the bullet and invest in a small guide scope with a cheap sensor. Make sure the guide scope is very fast, that way the sensor can be fast and cheap.

I have definitely seen TVs where there is a top transparant plastic layer that looks like protective film but is absolutely not supposed to come off. I’ve even seen two models of OLED TVs that are very similar, and have plastic on the metal backing. On one of them it says to absolutely not remove the plastic. On the other it says to make sure to remove it, otherwise the TV will overheat.

Even if you know a lot about these kinds of things, don’t be proud and just read the manual / quick start guide. It will tell you what plastic needs to be removed and what needs to stay.

Intel actually bought AMD Radeon GPUs for their Hades Canyon (Kaby Lake G) platform. It was a NUC mainboard with a full Intel platform, combined with an AMD Radeon GPU. The Intel CPU and the GPU (including HBM2 memory for the GPU) was all on one package soldered to the mainboard.

I think they did a couple of follow ups on that as well, because it worked very well.

I’ve experienced boomers as well. Texting with the keyboard typing noise set to 11. Video calling people on max volume and still shouting at each other.

The age in this meme is totally wrong. 40s are millennials who hate it when stuff makes noise. They keep their phone on silent, would put in earbuds when calling someone and go to another room if possible. Not like they would ever call anyone, if they get a call they just stare at the screen in horror. When it stops they text asking what’s up.

Source: Am 40s millennial

Please note our ancestors most certainly used a whole range of materials for their arts and crafts. It’s just that the clay pieces tend to survive best, so we found the most of those.