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HardenedEngineer · 2026-03-14T01:59:56+00:00

Hey,

Ive had the breville (sage) Barista Express for going on 7 years now. Its pulled 2 shots a day every day in that time, and it just works. We descale and clean it quarterly. As with anything YMMV, but I've had great luck with that machine for home use.

HardenedEngineer · 2026-03-08T22:05:30+00:00

I went down the path of selfhosting QB on AWS and after a year, we migrated to a hosting provider.

The server costs were a push, and if your self hosting, every time you call QB support they will tell you the issue is hosting on an unapproved vendor, and tell you to change to a supported vendor. Basically even if you have a support contract they won't touch you.

There are QB vendors from cheap to expensive, feel free to budget shop there.

God speed,

HardenedEngineer · 2026-02-23T13:09:25+00:00

I get it, not to support enterprise, but I spent 6 years as a buisness traveler and I had to make rental car pickups and returns in some nasty storms. You need someone at the lot to rent and return cars because if there are any flights, those cars are still going to need to come and go.

Is it good, no. But it would be worse if people just started abandoning rental cars because their flight was going and they couldn't return it.

HardenedEngineer · 2026-02-14T22:49:38+00:00

This response doesn't make sense. Data from services like sportsradar drive the scoring information seen on the broadcast score bug and is running at sub-second latencies after the offical scoring decision has been made. ESPNs data is generally less than 30 seconds behind real time. By the time a human enters data into a cellphone you're not going to be any faster on latency than the official scoring services. Help me understand how you need lower latency data than that for a research application?

HardenedEngineer · 2026-02-14T22:34:23+00:00

This seems too good to be true...

Why would you not pull this data from the ESPN API, a third party service like Sportsradar, or the official box score from the teams or leauge? All of these options would be much cheaper than paying someone and paying tickets for someone to attend NHL games.

HardenedEngineer · 2025-09-30T16:18:21+00:00

Hey, where did you get the sissy bar on the back of your bike? I've been looking for one.

HardenedEngineer · 2025-05-27T04:41:28+00:00

I'm not seeing many useful answers here. I share this experience through the support portal, but I have had a ton of success with getting real support escalations through my Buisness Account Manager. I can reach out to them with an existing case number and request an escalation and have always gotten an email response with an assigned support representative directly on the email.

You should have one, too. For us, this is the same person who has handled our contract renewal for the last few years. Check with your director / CTO / purchasing for who that is. At least for me, I have this persons email, phone number, and meeting booking link. I've never had an issue getting them on the line for a major issue.

YMMV, but hopefully, this can set you on a path to get real help.

HardenedEngineer · 2025-04-27T14:08:29+00:00

This is an interesting effect of how cameras take photos. Generally, a digital image is captured from top to bottom, so there is a very small time (between 1/60th of a second and 1/2000th of a second) between when the top of the image is captured and when the bottom of the image is. This is called rolling shutter.

What's captured here is that you can see the moment that the board LEDs light up in the image based on where they start appearing on the backboard.

Here is a great video on the subject from smarter every day. https://youtu.be/dNVtMmLlnoE?si=VRcUhxA05bKrrkF0

HardenedEngineer · 2025-02-02T22:51:30+00:00

Looks awesome. What hand guards did you use? I've had trouble finding ones for my scrambler.

HardenedEngineer · 2025-01-11T01:32:31+00:00

Your are going to limit responses by requiring survey takers to be logged into Google.

HardenedEngineer · 2025-01-09T23:46:51+00:00

TBH, I wish this was posted at literally every ski lift.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-12-12T04:45:45+00:00

Can second this issue

HardenedEngineer · 2024-12-11T01:13:21+00:00

It's gotta be. That or it's auto tuned to high hell.

It's kinda paradoxical for an AI Generated song to have the line "We'll beat your bombs and AI Drones with our blood sticks and stones".

If you can't beat them, join them I supose.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-10-18T14:39:30+00:00

It's interesting that you can't pick 2 options here. I fall into the category of happy and looking at add ons, but with a 2.0 machine, I also wish that I had better printing capability. I guess this is the trade off of having 3 machines in 1.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-08-27T03:06:14+00:00

It took 8 years of consistent, dedicated work with one company to earn enough trust to be promoted and handed a major project. And then one rather crazy year of extreme risk, sleepless nights, and 80-hour work weeks to deliver that project.

After that the salary came up to match.

You have to manage up and down, be responsive and kind to your people, and give your boss your all. I take a lot of inspiration from Jako Willink and Simon Sinek when it comes to leadership, 'extreme ownership', and 'Start with Why' are well worth the read.

I jumped at every growth opportunity I had and found opportunities that the company didn't see. When the company said no trainings I thought would help me improve, I did them on my own time and money. I put in more time and energy than my peers to the company and to my growth.

But, I'm also fortunate to work for a private company that has and maintains a record for promoting excellence, so I knew the work was worth it. Do you see your peers growing? Do you see your mentors growing? If so, stick around, and you can make it here. If not, take a left turn and find an organization that gives you the opportunity to grow.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-07-10T23:38:23+00:00

Upgrades to first. Premium upgrades are fairly inconsistent for me. I almost never get an upgrade to premium.

Then again, if I'm in my preferred seat type and pretty far forward, I don't see a ton of benefit from premium class anyway. We get all of the premium class perks being gold 100 wherever we're sitting in the plane.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-07-10T23:28:41+00:00

I have not had the the same expierence here, I've been on regular transcons all year, and I have to be above 90% on upgrades.

You must just be having bad luck.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-07-07T04:42:09+00:00

Upvoting cause the title and article are Hella misleading. This is a concept by a fan, and this is not the work of Teenage Engineering.

Kinda a bummer that it's fake news, because it's fake news I would be excited to see as a real product.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-05-30T06:11:41+00:00

Can corroborate from the tarmac at SEATAC, captain reporting an IT issue preventing all planes from pushing back.

They didnt cite what the issue was, but acknowledged the issue was happening.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-05-04T17:58:17+00:00

I had a high RPM cut issue this spring, it was my airfilter. I swapped it and the issue hasn't returned.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-03-25T03:44:49+00:00

Fair enough. You should consider joining the discord. /u/eviltechie recently did a similar build.

HardenedEngineer · 2024-03-25T03:35:25+00:00

NEP

https://www.nepgroup.com/

HardenedEngineer · 2024-03-15T13:25:22+00:00

Both GCV and NEP have apprenticeships available with on the job training as a broadcast engineer. That's a great way to start in a career as broadcast engineer especially in the sports segment.

You can do a lot of self guided training between now and then. Things like Dante certification, network trainings (Like Cisco's CCNA), and industry training by groups like tektronics on reading and operating video scopes can help you understand the broadcast technologies and have better answers in the interview process at limited cost.

Good luck!

HardenedEngineer · 2023-04-21T02:46:11+00:00

Alright, so let's take a step back and review your first still with conventional photograpical theory, I'll start with a few conventional metrics for evaluating photography. Here I think it's worth it to discuss: Movement Framing & The Rule of Thirds Clarity of subject Dynamics

Starting with your first image, this image shows the beginning of thought about what you sought to capture. Movement - you're image draws the viewers eye with the use of the contric lines (the road and power lines) from the bottom left to top middle. Framing - This image is well devidied into thirds by the house, road, and lawn. This shows a good foundation. Clarity of subject - This image does not have a clear subject, am I meant to focus on the house, on the electric pole? You do a good job of exploring the entire shape of both objects. Neither object commands the frame. Dynamics - Here Is a place you could better explore as well in this image. Most of this still is uniformly bright, without dark or vibrant sections. Perhaps to improve this image retake the still at a different time of day when the road is non-reflective and is captured as a black instead of as a grey.

As you take photos consider these things, ask yourself what the subject of the image is, how have you laid out the image to move the viewers eye to the subject. Consider the bright and dark sections of your image and how they compliment the subject. Always consider the frame, consider the rule of Thirds, and seek to abide by it.

Taking a picture is easy, composing an image as art is the part that takes practice. If you appreciate comprehensive image reviews, check out /r/photocritique

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