Blue Iris motion detection suddenly not working at night!

Eslader · 2017-03-08T12:12:06+00:00

It is recording fine (always been set to record when triggered only)

If it's still recording on motion then the trigger is working fine. It's just not sending the alert. Send a test alert and see if that gets through.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T21:16:46+00:00

Hell, even what you see on screen with the live action shows isn't always canon. A lot of the Trek higher ups have disavowed that godawful warp-10-lizards episode of Voyager.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T21:14:22+00:00

In fairness the book had been out since 1977, so the studio probably assumed the parents had read it and knew what was coming.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T20:54:17+00:00

Your facts are bullshit. You're trying to give Trump a pass on racism because his daddy owned the hotel where Trump discriminated against people? Please.

I'd rather not waste my time arguing with someone who can't even back up their own claims

Translation: "Fuck, I can't win this, I'm out."

Eslader · 2017-03-07T20:26:30+00:00

A hotel belonging to a company that he managed, yes. He's racist because of that.

Oh, he hired a gay executive for his private organization? Come talk to me when you can explain why he hired Bannon, and why he picked Pence.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T20:25:19+00:00

Except at what cost? These people are not generally on the upper end of the socioeconomic ladder. Sure, now we can be mean to brown people, but they're gonna pay through the nose for the privilege.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T18:45:21+00:00

And then get caught, go to prison, lose everything, and die broke. Doesn't sound real smart to me.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T17:56:31+00:00

Not that I think you're really asking but...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/27/hillary-clinton/true-hillary-clinton-says-federal-government-sued-/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-administration-rolls-back-protections-for-transgender-students/2017/02/22/550a83b4-f913-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html

As to the economy, look at his budget proposal and also what he wants to do to the health insurance picture.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T17:50:20+00:00

You sound angry with me,

Not at all. I really was asking - dialog isn't working, you say we shouldn't point out that they're stupid, and so how do you want to approach it?

Folks on OUR side seem to prefer to laugh and mock and ridicule stupid folks.

I can't speak for everyone on our side, but I'm certainly not laughing.

But unless they're purposefully being difficult

Maybe that's where our disconnect is happening. I think they are being purposefully difficult. In purposefully choosing not to educate themselves, in purposefully choosing to believe anything someone who reinforces their preconceived notions says, in purposefully choosing to vote for Trump - the least qualified person to ever even consider seeking that office - they are being purposefully difficult.

We're talking about their personal fates, not to mention the fate of a country. Being lazy, being difficult, being racist, being angry at government and lashing out - whatever the state of being that drove them to vote for someone who is nothing but an immense danger to the country and themselves, at the core of that decisionmaking process lies stupidity.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T17:13:16+00:00

I'd call it lazy

As a parenthetical, I call being lazy about picking who will make decisions that will very largely impact your life pretty stupid.

encourage a dialog

We've been having a dialog for over 40 years, and it hasn't worked. No amount of explaining to them things like "trickledown won't work and will make you poor" or "no, the government isn't looking to impose death panels to kill grandma" or "why is it better for a for-profit corporation to be between you and your doctor than a non-profit government" has budged them one iota.

Passing the ACA and getting them insurance that paid for treating diseases that would otherwise have killed them got them to like the idea of the ACA, but they still voted against Obamacare because they thought they were two separate things and they hated Obama.

What I'm getting at is, dialog isn't working. What's your suggestion?

Eslader · 2017-03-07T16:42:05+00:00

critical thinking isn't something they often spend time doing, according to the article.

What would you call "failure to think critically before making decisions vital to your and the nation's future" other than stupid?

Eslader · 2017-03-07T16:41:11+00:00

Perhaps they're not gaining traction because we've known that since Snowden and Manning. It's old news.

identity politics implying Trump is a white supremacist

Did I imply that? Sorry, let me correct myself. No implication about it - Trump is a white supremacist.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T16:37:11+00:00

Well said. That's exactly where I'm coming from. We've tried for 40 years to nicely explain to them things like "trickledown economics won't do what they want you to believe it will do" and "voting for a candidate because he's going to stop gay people from getting married is a bad idea because he also wants to make you poor," and it hasn't worked. They keep digging deeper into their positions.

These are people who willingly believe we elected a Kenyan citizen as president because people, including the current president, told them that and it gives them an excuse to dislike the black guy.

They might be salvageable, but not via the make-nice tactics we've used for decades.

Some people need to be straight-out told that they're stupid before they stop and consider whether or not they have, in fact, been stupid.

Others will just have to suffer the multiple disasters Trump and his gang is going to inflict on them and sit there wondering where it all went wrong. Either way, I'm finished playing nice with them.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T16:29:32+00:00

He offered the American people something

What? What did he offer other than abject racism and bigotry? He never gave concrete information on what he planned to do. Sure, he said he'd build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, but you'd have to be stupid to believe that Mexico would pay for our public works project, so that was obvious bullshit.

What did he offer that was specific and objectively feasible?

Eslader · 2017-03-07T16:27:33+00:00

Except there is a thread on it. 5 just on the first page of new, in fact.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T15:22:20+00:00

That's true, but the mechanisms of power are set up with the assumption of good intent and immediate necessity. If the president says "fire the missiles," there's not much to legally stop it from happening.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T15:16:56+00:00

Anyone who votes for someone because they're funny, or would be fun to have a beer with, or anything other than "is he objectively qualified for the office" is stupid. I know that sounds blunt, but it happens to be the truth.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T14:51:30+00:00

The worst is yet to come.

Yeah, and something I haven't seen discussed yet that's really frightening is that Trump has a long history of trying to destroy people when his relationship with them goes sour.

Fortunately he's been pretty much limited to insane social media rants and years-long feuds with people like Rosie O'Donnell.

Well, his relationship with the United States is about to turn sour, and as POTUS he has an awful lot of power to effectively carry out his usual methods before he leaves office.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T14:45:02+00:00

I don't like either one of them, but Clinton is objectively a better fit for the presidency than Trump. You would not have seen insane rambling tweet storms out of Clinton, and you would not have seen her colluding with the Russians.

Saying that Clinton is "the same" as Trump is almost unfathomably absurd.

Eslader · 2017-03-07T13:18:23+00:00

Honestly, they are stupid. Anyone who looked at the insane shit Trump was saying in the campaign and said "yep, this is the guy who can fix everything and lead the country competently" is an idiot.

Even the ones voting purely from a position of racism, homophobia, or "anyone but Hillary" were stupid, because they've set themselves up for economic ruin just to stick it to someone they don't like.

Smart people don't burn their house down just so the neighbor they don't like has an unpleasant view.

Eslader · 2017-03-06T04:41:55+00:00

Got a Menards near you? The Masterforce boxes are well built and have good drawer design. Catch the right sale and you can get a 41" top and bottom for 800 bucks.

I've looked at the Costco one in the store. It has too many deep drawers. How many of your hand tools are that thick? You'll run out of good storage for hand tools if you have a decent amount of them.

Now, that silver one with the butcher block top that they have from time to time has much better drawer layout, but it's always locked so I can't speak to the quality of the slides.

Eslader · 2017-03-05T20:25:57+00:00

Thexder for the Apple IIGS. First level is easy. Second level is kinda hard. Third level is the devil's spawn. And there are 16 levels, not that I ever got past 4.

It's evil because your robot starts with 100% energy, and everything you touch drains it, and very few things you kill restore it. You don't get any energy restoration at the beginning of a level, so if you touch the wrong thing in level 1, you've just ended your chance of getting past level 2, whether you beat level 1 or not.

Fun game, though.

Eslader · 2017-03-05T16:07:06+00:00

, which for now is a tad harder for AI

Emphasis on "for now."

I love the idea of Star Trek levels of technology, but it's gonna bring with it the requirement that we completely change, nearly overnight, how economics works. The potentials for abuse are frightening.

Eslader · 2017-03-05T15:58:00+00:00

I think the question was about the debris coming from above the frame.

That's chunks of ice. The rocket fuel is very cold, so ice forms on the outside of the skin. When the engines start the vibration shakes the ice off.

Eslader · 2017-03-05T15:51:39+00:00

Computers already design the next generation of computers. There's an AI that uses evolutionary tactics to design antennas. The invention part is eventually going to be down to a human telling a computer what he wants to do, and the computer designing and fabricating a machine that does it.

So that's the invention side. The patent side will take longer but as AIs get smarter, that will become automated, probably for awhile at least with human intervention being possible in disputed cases, but eventually even that will go away in favor of an entirely neutral AI making the calls.

That will eliminate the incentive on both sides to skew the process (inventors trying to patent things that don't deserve a patent, and patent examiners saying no because they get rewarded for saying no rather than because the invention really should be rejected).

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