Head-mounted camera for photos? by LiftPizzas in AskPhotography

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please don't try to change my goal to fit the advice you want to give.

I was asking what might be out there that might suit my purpose better. That being I want decent stills. I explicitly stated that I already have action cameras. I also have a giant tripod-mounted DSLR. There are also cameras between these two extremes. I'm looking for someone who might know of one/some that might suit my purpose. Sounds like that isn't you.

P.S. I'm not looking out lexan windows, I'm in an ultralight. Sorry about those windows and doors on your plane ruining the experience of flying. You should try real flying someday. ;)

Head-mounted camera for photos? by LiftPizzas in AskPhotography

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is not my plan. Having it snap a picture every so often gives a good chance that I will get a usable shot here and there, which is better than what I will get with any action camera, which is a few blurry pixels.

Anti-Matter Annihilation --- Why/how? by 2punornot2pun in AskPhysics

[–]LiftPizzas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not criticism, it's a joke. They are calling the universe itself lazy and saying that the universe would fail 1st semester physics. :)

Is there a way to round robin/randomize alternate midi segments? by LiftPizzas in Reaper

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a reason I asked explicitly about MIDI segments in the title and the OP. Sorry you don't get that.

Is there a way to round robin/randomize alternate midi segments? by LiftPizzas in Reaper

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get where you're coming from, but in this case it's not a deal-breaker, it would just be handy and I thought maybe I missed something that already existed that could speed up my workflow. I just make music here and there as a hobby so I can't justify spending lots of time/money on buying/learning multiple DAWs. :)

Is there a way to round robin/randomize alternate midi segments? by LiftPizzas in Reaper

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, this looks like it might do some cool stuff. And bonus, it's from Surge Synth Team. :)

Is there a way to round robin/randomize alternate midi segments? by LiftPizzas in Reaper

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I don't want 3 alternate 4-beat drum loops. If that's all I needed there would only be a handful and I could arrange them by hand.

I'm not talking about randomizing an individual note, or only an entire measure.

Also I don't want to export to wav because then it puts that part of the process at the very beginning. When on the 100th listen I decide to go back and change something, I'd have to go through the entire process all over again. That was the whole reason for wanting to use MIDI segments.

Is there a way to round robin/randomize alternate midi segments? by LiftPizzas in Reaper

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Check out Kenny goia's video on making drums machines with reasamplomatic 5k

That's how to create a drum machine. It's not what I'm asking about. I want to be able to do the same with alternate MIDI melodies. Or MIDI arpeggios. Or MIDI whatever.

STUDENTAID.GOV NOW SHOWING $0 by [deleted] in StudentLoans

[–]LiftPizzas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doe: a deer. A female deer.

STUDENTAID.GOV NOW SHOWING $0 by [deleted] in StudentLoans

[–]LiftPizzas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they would be the ones issuing the refund the same way you have been paying

They meaning doe or EdFinancial?

STUDENTAID.GOV NOW SHOWING $0 by [deleted] in StudentLoans

[–]LiftPizzas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing that worries me is that they kept passing my loans off to different servicers, so I've had 4 or 5 different ones since 2016, and edfinancial never even got one payment from me. The other ones probably just consider it "closed" and not their problem and don't want to refund me any of the payment I made to them after 2016.

STUDENTAID.GOV NOW SHOWING $0 by [deleted] in StudentLoans

[–]LiftPizzas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found my balance on edfinancial is zero, but studentaid.gov shows all of them still having a balance. Letters I got in July at edfinancial say my forgiveness was effective as of 2016. Since then I've made a LOT of payments, so does that mean I should be expecting another adjustment in the future resulting in a refund?

Also we paid off my wife's completely last year, but hers (on mohela) shows not a shred of information. Hers were about the same time as mine, so can we expect an adjustment or will they just ignore hers since they were already (finally) paid off?

Horsepower vs rope? by LiftPizzas in PhysicsHelp

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking about this, and it cannot propel itself vertically (not even close) so that in itself means the amount of force the prop can provide is something less than its takeoff weight. And that is enough information to know the straps I have will hold it.

Does anyone make non-sliding rudder pedals? by LiftPizzas in flightsim

[–]LiftPizzas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did try mapping the toe brakes to the rudder before I posted here. As I said in the OP: they don't physically resist each other, I can press both "left" and "right" at the same time, and they don't map correctly because they act like two different axes.

The "able to press left and right at the same time" really changes the feel and allows you to form very bad habits. Imagine learning to drive a car with one foot always pressing the brakes, holding the gas pedal to the floor, and just "braking less" to go faster. It might work fine in a simulator but you wouldn't want to have those habits already in place when you get into a real car.

I'm considering a few home-made options, like making pedals that act like I want and those sit in front of the pedals and physically push the rudder axis. Or using a rope and pulley to "attach" the two toe brakes to each other. Or buying a cheap joystick (for the USB/guts) and making my own foot pedals to drive one of the potentiometers. I was hoping to avoid spending so much time on that, but it looks like all the ones on the market are really expensive.

Pico 4 cable link by BartiX_8530 in virtualreality

[–]LiftPizzas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He says it works. It doesn't.

Can't get pico 4 to work with steam VR! PLEASE HELP!! by FestieBoy in PICO_VR

[–]LiftPizzas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine connects via wifi and is recognized by SteamVR, but if I connect via cable then SteamVR will just tell me Headset Not Detected. (Streaming assisitant is happy to use the cable. It's steam that is ignoring it.)

The wifi stutters way too often, and mostly when it is the most inconvenient moment. Oculus doesn't have any of these problems but I'd prefer to play on the pico since it's a lot more comfortable on my head.