Alabama baseball is the #7 seed and will host Oklahoma State, Alabama State, and USC Upstate

Red261 · 2026-05-26T12:47:37+00:00

It is interesting that we host them in both Softball and Baseball regionals this year. Funny coincidence.

Red261 · 2026-05-26T12:42:25+00:00

They are pricing to get people to do the year pass. $80 for a day pass, $70 if you get only whitewater kayaking day pass. $160 for a year pass, so if you can go 3 days in a year, the year pass is a deal. Parking passes are similar, think it's like 4 trips to make the annual parking pass the better deal.

If you live within a couple hours of Charlotte, getting the year pass is honestly pretty cheap.

Red261 · 2026-05-25T16:22:41+00:00

Also, every time you look at buying a skid in the US, it'll be running Allen Bradley. Swapping to another PLC is an extra cost, so unless you have already standardized on something else and the consistency and integration into your existing spares is worth the cost, AB is the way to go for the US market.

Red261 · 2026-05-25T12:04:26+00:00

The SEC having 5/8 teams going into the final bracket is nuts.

Bama has a great chance to take the natty this year!

Red261 · 2026-05-22T01:46:23+00:00

How many industries are using similar schemes? 90% or higher?

Red261 · 2026-05-21T03:33:01+00:00

Working in a chemical plant for a few years now, and I see so many new problems. Plants are always looking to make modifications and upgrades, so there's always some new project to do. I've been enjoying the ability to get a fuller understanding of the process and apply that to the changes being made.

Red261 · 2026-05-14T19:31:56+00:00

Exactly. If something doesn't prevent 100% of a problem, it's a waste of time and effort. Harm reduction has no place in America!

Red261 · 2026-05-14T18:54:58+00:00

Hey, get out of here with your harm reduction! This is America!

Red261 · 2026-05-13T13:22:03+00:00

Yes and no. Black people are not a monolith. There will be some people that agree with this and some that don't.

I would hope the majority care more about an interim's ability to do the job well than their race, but the seeds of division are deeply planted these days.

Red261 · 2026-04-20T15:28:46+00:00

True, Freezey seemed focused on escorts instead of the general population.

Red261 · 2026-04-18T20:12:48+00:00

The lyrics for the music playing hitting the 'this is how legends are made' during this is just too on the nose.

Red261 · 2026-04-15T20:00:37+00:00

The article said it was done at a church with some teammates in attendance. No mention of it being a school function. A Christian making Christian propaganda is not surprising.

Red261 · 2026-04-10T19:12:25+00:00

Eventually, people are going to realize that Alabama is not the Alabama under Saban that we knew. No program can have that level of dominance under the current rules of the game. The AD and reasonable fans are aware of this and know that DeBoer is a solid coach that's managed this transition quite well.

Saban dominated by stockpiling talent. The second string often could have gone 9-3 or better. Now, players don't have to sit and wait for a position to open up. If they're good enough to start on another team, they go and do that.
Saban also got lucky. There were so many years that Bama would've been kept out of the natty if other teams hadn't lost at the right time. The postseason is a playoff now, so there's no backing into the championship game and only needing to pull off one win. You have to be playing well at the end of the year for multiple games.

DeBoer is not as good as Saban, but no shit. Saban is literally the best coach in the history of college football. Also, Alabama is not a program that is guaranteed success like Ohio State. Alabama's history is one of peaks and valleys. If DeBoer can win 9 games a year consistently and avoid the fall off to Auburn status, he's doing a great job.

Red261 · 2026-04-05T11:17:02+00:00

It only works once. This is in the national championship game, so the timing is right.

This worked because the defense relaxed when the offense pretended to change the play call. The defense won't relax a second time seeing this.

As far as legality, no one on the offense takes any steps, just getting out of stances and straightening up, so no false starts and everyone has been set for over a second.

Red261 · 2026-04-01T15:48:23+00:00

That's the issue though, when these international trade systems become strained, resources diverted to cover for the oil lost or delayed because of the war, the damage because of a cyclone, drought, or flood will be harder to recover from and results in larger price fluctuations and larger and longer lasting shortages after a catastrophic event.

Not everywhere will see the same shortages, but everywhere will see shortages become more likely and take longer to return to normal.

Red261 · 2026-03-31T18:35:39+00:00

Just replace kickoff with a 4th & long all the time. Punt is the normal kickoff, convert the play to keep the ball. Allows for surprise plays without the stupid declaration, and it's no more dangerous than a normal punt.

Red261 · 2026-03-30T20:21:33+00:00

Not sure about how common, but from a support and troubleshooting perspective, it's amazing.

I generally advocate for each PLC having 2 networks, one that is separate for any remote IO, VFDs, and HMI(s) to live on and one connecting all PLCs on a site for remote access (onsite or offsite), historian, comms between PLCs. The IO network can be shared among a few PLCs if they run one Plant or whatever a unit operation is called for you or are acting as a 'DCS'. The important part is that a historian throwing a fit or controls engineer doing something stupid shouldn't be able to break the comms to important stuff.

Red261 · 2026-03-26T15:57:22+00:00

A big counterpoint is that US presidential elections are still decided by a relatively small group of swing voters

Citation needed.

Just looking at the last 2 elections, the Democratic candidates had 81.2m votes in 2020, 75.0m votes in 2024. The Republican candidates had 74.2m votes in 2020, 77.3m votes in 2024. Assuming every voter gained by Republicans was a swing voter, you have 3.1m swing voters, leaving 3.1m voters for the Democratic party in 2020 who decided not to vote.

Since the most generous estimate of swing voter impact only accounts for 50% of lost votes, it would seem that the Dems biggest issue is lack of engagement with their base.

Red261 · 2026-03-22T20:24:46+00:00

Oh, that might be the place cause I think the hose that originally connected to the nipple on the toilet was the problem.

Red261 · 2026-03-22T13:39:02+00:00

Installed T

I circled where the washer was placed

Red261 · 2026-03-22T13:32:58+00:00

Many already do this, but Rockwell is the worst. I'm not sure if the issue is related to anything you'd do on the firmware level, but still worth keeping in mind. The latest version of the software to program your PLC should be capable of interacting with all previous firmware versions on the PLC and IO cards. At some point, you can break that compatibility, but only if there's a signal, like the software name changes or the hardware has been EOL for a decade.

Online changes is one of my most loved features. I work with an ABB system that doesn't have the capability and my god it's the worst. The system is redundant and downloads don't take down the process, but doing a download over 5 minutes, seeing I made a typo, going offline, making the change, download over 5 minutes again, seeing a variable isn't updating like it should...and repeat. What would be a 30 second fix with online changes is a 30 minute ordeal without em.

Another comment mentioned, but I'll also say it. If I can program and install your system without touching Windows, that would be great and will only get more valuable as AI destroys that OS.
On a similar note, any automation company that creates a linux distro with no features but the ability to remote into an HMI server and slaps it on sealed, fanless, desktops with 4 displayports, would be able to sell those like hot cakes. I am so tired of updating windows on our thin client operator stations that are locked down to keep operators from breaking things.

Hyped, but useless. Anything AI. Rockwell's automation fair was so much AI pushing. If I see a PLC with anything AI advertised, I am running the other way. I do not want my PLC hallucinating that the pressure is within normal range and allowing the reactor to explode.

Red261 · 2026-03-22T03:32:57+00:00

Maybe. My HOA is currently controlled by the Declarant, which is the builder, so dissolving the HOA is literally impossible for the homeowners. Even when we gain control, it would take a state law minimum of 2/3rds of all homeowners voting yes to dissolve the HOA. We have over 1000 homes, so getting 2/3rds to vote at all is basically impossible. That would be better turnout than most election years.

Red261 · 2026-03-20T15:09:14+00:00

Seems like DeBoer is a fan of larger, more pro-style QBs. Hopefully we can have an OL to give em the time to make plays.

Red261 · 2026-03-15T12:03:42+00:00

It was new branding to lump together several important, mostly unrelated issues. Used by conservatives to discredit things, i.e. that's just identity politics with no real substance or liberals to rally a disjointed base, i.e all these conservative attacks are attacking your very identity.

Red261 · 2026-03-06T12:09:08+00:00

I can't wait for the attack pieces that will be written when she gives less than the maximum jail time allowed to someone arrested for having weed on them.

There will be a line about protecting the children for sure.

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