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Admin now know how it feels to be a bartender at 2:30am where no one wants to leave.

 

That’s a stored memory I didn’t know existed! Can vividly remember that like it was yesterday. Had to have been 15 years ago

 

More than that... I remember it happening while I was in high school (which was 25+ years ago). Went and looked it up on wiki, apparently they did it on both format changes, 5/12/92 (the one I was thinking of) and 3/??/96 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WENZ#107.9_The_End

Hmm... the clock is ticking down, and of all things to pop into my head, when 107.9 up in Cleveland switched from top 40 to rock/alternative format (is there really that much difference?) after being bought out, they played REM's "End of the World" on a loop for over a day straight...

I don't know if it's a good idea having two or what, but I started the discord. There's almost 40 people over on slack. I can stay on top of both, but I think it's like the Highlander, there can be only one.

 

http://discord.gg/v2RvXA9GCx

 

I have a slack login, but haven't actually looked at it in at least two years. Discord, though, I'm on something like seven or eight different servers in just one year, mostly FF7 modding, but also some 3D printing, some anime, and one DCIM.

Wouldn't have expected Hummers to be capable of wheelies

Oh man how exciting for you!

 

Shrug... less money on gas means more money for Hawaii and points further (Europe, China, etc)

Would love to trade in my Civic for a Prius Prime, but I doubt the supply will get to the point where I can have my pick of color/options

Good luck, man! I would suggest, though, keeping the trailer active (or at least well-maintained) for things like city home days festivals... great way to advertise

Snaggin' the full set, just setting up a time with Andy to pick up.

One thing I haven't seen anybody mention yet is music licensing... with a DJ (or just playing the radio), that's included. Doing it yourself runs into all sorts of public performance copyright infringement issues. Will the RIAA come beating down your door? Probably not, but it'll only take one grumpy piss-ant to land you in a world of hurt.

Talk to Marc. He did both of my purchases, and canexplain the pros/cons of several options. In your case, pre-paying PMI might make sense (it would have on our first/only had wifey not landed a tenured position barely a year after we bought), and definitely has on the second (which thankfully happened before TCJA screwed the middle-income homeowner landscape).

Talked to my brother today who is a Germain Subaru salesman and he has 3 new cars on the lot. 3.

I dunno if Subaru is the best basis for comparison, though... they're always lower production to begin with. When wifey and I bought the Outback two years ago at Ganley Wickliffe, they only had something like 10-15 new rides on the lot (though in their defense, they were also trying to clear space for the 2020 arrivals).

I too sort of want to sell mine due to the insanity, but I know I would have to pay the premium to replace it....so not worth the hassle.

 

Exactly my problem... would be a beautiful time to swap in my 06 Civic hybrid (204 on the clock, so the second traction battery is getting close to where I'm expecting to have to replace it), but last I looked, there wasn't a single Prius Prime in all of Cleveland.

Apart from some initial assembly hiccups (the Z arm wasn't perpendicular to the bed after assembly, seems common enough that a quick visit to the Prusa forums solved it in less than half an hour), these things have been coming out really nicely. Already have ten in the bucket and I think 7/day is a realistic target

Curious, what kind of brackets are these that are breaking? I'm in a datacenter environment and we don't have anything like that that breaks, then again all of our plastic stuff is panduit and seemingly unbreakable

 

Mounting brackets for these sensors.

Settled on Prusa Mini+... Seems to be the least likely to cause us headaches over time (sounds like a lot of others have either QC consistency issues, or "print this strain relief first!!" type crap), and half the cost of the MK3S. We'll see how this goes in a couple weeks

how many of these brackets are you going to need?

The initial run will probably be 100-150 kits

How often do they break?

Often enough that it's become a pain. Probably an ongoing run rate of 5/month. Eventually the idea is that all the OEM brackets will churn out, at which point we'd be printing nothing but the small fingers on an as-needed basis.

Would just using a printing service be faster and maybe cheaper?

We thought of that as well, but the problem there is having to go through the purchasing system every time we need a restock. With our own printer, it's only the original purchase order, an occasional expense report when I need to run by Microcenter for another spool of filament, and tossing a zip-lock bag into someone's car as they drive between markets.

Any "How to choose a printer" advice for office (data center) use, maybe some reviews/comparisons and personal experience with "This is great" or "Avoid this crap" as well? Our intended purpose is to replace broken mounting brackets, but we'll likely end up doing other stuff as our experience increases. We've had new versions of the bracket modeled up and prototypes printed that we're happy with, so now it's "move into production" time, but we need to actually get a printer first.

 

There are three pieces involved, a base and two L-shaped "fingers" that are interlocking mirrors of each other. The base is roughly 40mm wide x 70mm tall x 10mm thick, and each finger is roughly 15mm x 15mm on both the "back" and "riser" portions, 3mm thick. We're planning on using PLA+ for the filament. I haven't been given a budget yet, but $500-800 is realistic (more than that and the accounting group will likely balk and say "just get the OEM"). Most important (besides price) will be long-term reliability without having to deal with warranty issues, and functionality without having to mod parts or the firmware. An enclosed box would be nice to help protect it, but since the printer will be in an area with just myself and the facility operations engineer, not critically important.

 

The times I've asked this so far, people just go "Prusa i3" but don't really get into why... and that's a problem. My manager and I need to be able to specifically lay down why that particular model, and not, say, an Ender V3 or Creator Pro

I'm just kickin' around here waiting for dealerships to get enough Prius Primes (or equiv, which aren't many) on the lot that I won't be paying an assload just to have it... it's absolutely the "sweet spot" for my driving needs... round trip commute of only 20 miles (so pure electric on that), but retains the ICE for when I have to take work trips to CBus/PGH/Indy. Meanwhile, wifey gets the Outback for the shite Cleveland winters and any family vacations.

You might be surprised, I did a similar trip years ago with two jet skis in my loaded down 4Runner and only lost 1-2 mpg the entire trip.

Sounds about right... dad used to have an F-150 (somewhere in the '00 to '05 model range), and the thing absolutely refused to get anything other than about 15mpg no matter whether it was city, highway, towing the boat, hauling mulch... it always came out 15 when he added up the gas receipts.

Hard to beat the video of my brother pulling his two kids (7 and 5) on a snow-tube behind his pickup

Are there better websites for comparing cards & processors?

Tom's Hardware

Anandtech

Storage Review

If you can tolerate it, wait for spring. By then Zen3 and RTX3k/BigNavi should be pretty well established in the channels, pushing the prices of current generation hardware down nicely.

Sounds like the same idea behind NOPEC up here in Cleveland. Theoretically we get better pricing because "buy in bulk" but the units of measure between NOPEC, the state's "apples to apples" comparison site, and what's actually printed on my bills makes actually comparing stuff a mind-dizzying mess.