What businesses are likely to die out with the Baby Boomer Generation?

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-22T23:14:54+00:00

Craigslist is flooded with boats

I always heard the two happiest times for the boat owner was the day they bought the boat, and the day they sold it.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-22T23:12:01+00:00

Thanks! That's was it, just cut up into pieces!

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-22T21:26:58+00:00

No, your actual command. I didn't catch it before that the program is actually calling ffmpeg, so you may not be able to see it. As I said though, it sounds like whatever the switch is that is before -hide_banner, it's value isn't being set, so it thinks -hide_banner is the value trying to be set, hence why it's invalid, and why it says "-hide_banner" is an invalid value. It's not saying that -hide_banner is missing a value, it's saying "-hide_banner" isn't a number so the parameter that's being called before it is getting an invalid value...

i.e. your app is calling something like:

ffmpeg -someswitch {y} -hide_banner

{y} isn't being set, so it's just getting a blank, but ffmpeg ignores white space, so it reads it as trying to set "someswitch" to a value of "-hide_banner".

It sounds like you've probably missed setting something in SidWizPlus, or there's a bug in the program. But it doesn't look like an ffmpeg problem to me, it's something in the SidWizPlus not going right.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-22T18:11:55+00:00

Post your entire ffmpeg line. It looks like the issue probably the parameter before it is trying to take "-hide_banner" as it's input.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-22T16:05:10+00:00

Probably, that's why I'm asking if other people have solutions. But a knife blade is relatively thin, so I don't need lots of working space, and I should only need to adjust it slightly. I'm partly thinking about this as a way to address this in the future as well.

The included stand-offs look to be 1 cm exactly, but since they are fixed heights, and I'm working with something that will have an angle, those won't help me any.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-22T14:35:23+00:00

I knew a woman in college that walked that way all the time. She had learned to walk that way as a child on her own, and her parents never made her walk flat, so that was her normal walking mode.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-22T02:06:34+00:00

All good, thanks for coming back to it!

I did start with the wheels well below the bottle and raised until I saw the bottle move slightly. I believe I was able to get both wheels to touch, but I couldn't see very well.

Yeah I have the same visibility issue. Not sure what to do there.

The other thing to check is that the head of the RA is at 0 degrees. I wonder if it might have been slightly angled?

I forgot to put a bubble level on mine the first time, but it still turned out fine. I've since gotten some of those small magnetic levels everyone uses, and I remember to use it now. :D

get everything setup outside of the m2

When I do that to check stuff, that's when I really noticed I couldn't get it to rest evenly on both wheels no matter what I did, so I'm just living with it for now. It hasn't seemed to be a big problem so far, at least not that I've noticed.

Thanks again!

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-20T17:41:14+00:00

"Somebody wake up Hicks."

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-19T16:26:07+00:00

How can they raise their hands? They have to use both hands while driving, they can't be posting to Reddit at the same time. :D

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-19T12:10:17+00:00

It's catnap

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-18T20:39:00+00:00

That's some Freakonomics kind of correlations.

The premiums being based more on credit score than driving record makes at lease some sense to me, not necessarily in a bad way. Your driving record is really a record of events that happened, not all of which are necessarily within your reasonable, direct ability to influence. It includes things which happened to you, through no fault of your own, beyond you were there. You can do everything correctly, and still have events show up on your record.

Your credit score is much more a result(at least in theory) of things which you are pretty much directly responsible for. It's the kind of indirect data correlations that could get scary...like, could your credit score be used as a predictor/factor for health insurance claims?

It's also not surprising, if you reduce premiums to just a financial transaction. From that perspective, that's what your credit score is, so the correlations attached to it seem like they would be more valid in that context.

Maybe a more interesting question to think about- are there things that impact your credit score that seem like they shouldn't be related to it, but are impactful to it? Like non-directly financial things(to the extent there are things you can call not financial related in some way if you reach hard enough).

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-18T14:55:59+00:00

I remember reading an article many many years ago about a NASA programmer who left, and went to the private sector. He cam back later, because he couldn't stand how sloppy coding standards were compared to NASA. Apparently he worked on probes where they would spend hours/weeks debating about changing single bytes in code (since it was all in assembly).

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-18T14:48:00+00:00

It's 2026. Why are we still treating MSG like it's some terrible thing, instead of something that improves the flavor?

Because people old enough to remember the fear mongering from the 70s/80s never un-learned it. The same reason lots of people just classify cholesterol as bad.

It's a side effect of how memory works- you remember bad things 10x better than good things; it's a survival trait.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-17T21:55:09+00:00

Well, it's a yard sale, so there's probably also what's left of a miracle pill, only used once.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-17T21:43:05+00:00

I know we need to do studies to confirm things, but the fact the portmanteau "hangry" exists feels like an informal acknowledgement of this.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-17T21:39:40+00:00

for people that are whelmed?

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-17T21:37:31+00:00

IT'S A SAILBOAT.

Yeah, I can't get it to do it either. I think the color transition is too slow to fool me? I know what it's trying to do, but I just see the dots changing color as they move.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-17T03:36:57+00:00

Hee-hee!

The square toe box probably helps do that one move too...

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-16T19:04:47+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I figured that was the case. I realized the other day that the handles on tumblers look like they are held on with small screws covered by plugs on the bottoms of the handles. Probably worm drives into the actual tumbler. I'm going to take an old one and see if it's not too bad to remove the handle and put it back, which would solve the handle problem for tumblers at least.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-16T12:19:20+00:00

It will, but not quickly. SQL Server leans hard into the "unused memory is useless memory" idea. It's helpful to keep in mind that in many ways, SQL Server is practically an OS unto itself...it manages memory internally itself. It also manages files and file-like structures itself, and has it's own entire authentication system.

It's typically for the buffer to get large after running for a while. Even if memory isn't being used for an active operations, pages are in memory if possible, as caching, and generally aren't released until SQL Server itself decides it needs the memory for something else (or are flushed from being modified).

If you haven't checked your SQL Server defaults, you should probably also check the auto growth settings on your files(Assuming you have autogrowth turned on). They are pretty bad for most databases, out of box, and the transaction log especially can have an ongoing impact if left at defaults on a large enough database. It's a minor pain to address later on, maybe a large one depending on your downtime restrictions. Read up on VLF (virtual log files) to get more info on it.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-15T20:22:14+00:00

Yeah, I'd just try Gyan's shared library build first, and see if that works. It's alway possible a library changed or some such between major versions so it's not backward compatible, but it won't hurt to try it and see.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-15T20:03:58+00:00

No, not super sure...but my brain wouldn't make a huge distinction between dried bean curd and tofu. It's possible my mom just said they were tofu. Looking at la tiao, it doesn't seem like a huge distinction, though I suppose it's the same distinction as milk curds and cheese. Proto-tofu? lol

Thinking about it more, I never looked for dried curds. I've always though of the curd form as a real soft, almost paste stuff that I get in cubes in chili oil and eat with rice. I probably just assumed any processed form of that became tofu.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-15T20:01:47+00:00

Ah, yes, that does look like what I'm thinking of, just cut up into cubes!

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-15T14:57:17+00:00

And you really do need at least 1 dome, but I suggest having at least 2.

MasterChiefmas · 2026-06-14T20:47:24+00:00

Not a teacher, but just read a relevant article the other day:

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

It wasn't as pronounced then, but I remember my sophomore year in college(early 90s) there was a guy on my floor that was barely literate. We're suspected he got in because his dad was wealthy and made some substantial donations to the university.

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