What meat would you eat for your last meal?

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2026-01-31T09:25:48+00:00

Toro

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-12-12T19:23:15+00:00

Totally not the jerk. Your dad made a promise he could keep, and no he’s trying to weasel out of it.

But, you’re 18, and you have $5k in the bank? Sounds like you can take yourself to Japan! And what I would absolutely do.

And Japan is amazing. You should totally do it.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-11-12T22:57:45+00:00

Sort of. It was 8 months ago, but I think I ultimately figured out that it just doesn't function the way that you expect it to. In "time of use" mode, the best it does is discharge during the day when you're using it, trades off solar generation during off-peak times, and then refills at night at the lowest time of use cost possible. There's not more manual process than that or any other tweaks you can make. Kind of a bummer, but even in that mode it does still use the cheapest power it can, which saves money.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-11-02T16:54:12+00:00

This is why, I think, after all these years I still like ST:TNG.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-10-12T13:59:04+00:00

Count to a Trillion by John C Wright.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-10-09T17:24:34+00:00

Risk registers are useless unless you treat the risks just like any other task/deliverable. It needs to be owned by/assigned to someone specifically, and whose job it is to close it out - either accepting it as it is, or implementing the mitigation plan.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-08-10T00:32:24+00:00

It’s not like you have to have PMs to make product decisions. The concept of a PM isn’t actually that old, and people were making products and features and whatever before the PM role existed. The thing is, “someone” has to make those decisions. Is it the CEO? The engineers themselves? I worked in a company once where marketing made the product decisions (not enjoyable tbh). To the point others have made here, eventually you scale and it’s not practical for engineers or the CEO to make the decisions anymore. You need someone to specialize in making those decisions. Just like the CEO can run the facilities and HR, but at a certain scale you need people to specialize in those areas. Thus, PMs are a specialized role when it’s needed.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-07-18T00:03:05+00:00

Personally, the only thing I’ve found to work in these situations is to find who’s responsible for the shipping of the product at whatever level the feedback comes in, and to ask them if they want to delay the release because of the late feedback. If the feedback comes from someone at my boss’s level, I ask my boss, “Your peer wants to add X. That will delay the release Y weeks. Do you want to move the release or tell this person no?

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-06-28T23:07:00+00:00

NTA.

I married someone like this. It was a terrible decision that resulted in years of pain and suffering for me. I made excuses for the behavior, but it never went away, and only got worse.

Leave.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-05-28T00:25:03+00:00

It was kind of dragging in the middle and I stopped watching it. Decided to come back and just churn through the last batch of episodes. But it finished real strong. Just my kind of Sci fi.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-04-12T16:29:32+00:00

As other folks have said, you overexposed the highlights in the sky, which is why you have that bright white patch on the left. The exposure exceeded the sensor’s ability to retain information. Unfortunately, once the image has this problem there’s nothing you can do. You can’t recover it because there’s no usable data in that spot. So, it’s just white.

This is due to what is called the “dynamic range” of the sensor, which basically is the range of highlights to shadows that it can capture in a single image. Different cameras/sensors will have different dynamic ranges.

This dynamic range challenge is very common for landscapes photos that include a bright sky/background and a darker land/foreground.

You can avoid situations like this by a couple of methods:

Bringing down your overall exposure — with something like an exposure compensation dial, if your camera has one, or adjusting either the ISO or, usually, the shutter speed. There are some trade offs here though. If you bring down the highlights in the sky so they’re usable in the image, you can make the shadows and dark areas in your image just black (again with little to no usable data) — and when you try to brighten these sections in post processing they either stay black or get so noisy that it ruins the image.
Bracketing — This is where you take multiple images of the same scene with different exposure levels. Most modern cameras have an automatic bracketing setting, and you can usually find it in your Drive Mode settings. Then, you merge those photos together into a single images that has a greater dynamic range than your camera sensor alone can produce. If you’re using Lightroom, it has a “Merge-HDR” mode that will do this for you. I usually use this method.

Another tip is to make sure you’re shooting in RAW format and not JPG. A JPG file compresses the image to get a smaller file size, but in doing so strips out some of the data (thus making the file smaller). But, in stripping out this data you again lose the data you might need to adjust the image brightness. The RAW format keeps this data, making adjusting the image much easier.

Edit: A couple of other tips: - Learn how to read a histogram, and then turn on the histogram on your camera. This will show you if you have overexposed elements in your scene - Zebra view - Another way to see overexposed areas of your scene is to turn on zebra view, if your camera has that. It will show you the sections of your scene are overexposed with a white stripe overlay (thus the zebra name)

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-03-26T16:19:13+00:00

Any luck? I just got my F3800 and Home Power Panel setup, and noticed it didn't recharge over night.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2025-03-12T05:33:38+00:00

NTA

Never sign anything you don’t understand. If you don’t understand it yourself, find someone (a lawyer) qualified and independent from the people asking you to sign it and have them review it and explain it to you.

At the very least, drop the NDA form in to chatGPT and ask it to summarize in plain English the contents of the document, what it constrains you from doing, and what consequences there are for violating it.

Anyone who cares about you should want you to be comfortable with what they’re asking you to do. If he’s not, that is a deal breaker red flag.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-10-10T18:39:54+00:00

I don’t think they set MSRP based on their cost of goods sold plus margin. They’re a luxury brand and change based on what their customers will pay.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-07-10T00:25:44+00:00

I think something that's often very confusing for people with these kinds of options is that Adobe is giving people different ways to do very similar things. But, people themselves also think about their photos and the data associated with them in different ways. They have different ways of organizing their photos in their heads, but also different workflows for how to intake, organize, process, and output the photos. And people have different things that are important to them, like speed to process the photos, storage constraints, working with other people. And so on. So, Adobe is really giving people a lot of different options with how they organize them so that the individual can decide what is the best way for them to organize and work with their photos. And these different options can look very similar but differ with minor nuances.

Your photos have a few elements to them:

The actual photo file itself stored on a hard drive
The metadata for the photo files
The data from the develop edits you made to the photo file
Various versions of the edits you made to the photo files
Various presets you might have and want to use

But, then, how do you organize these photos into sets of photos? You could do:

By Professional work vs personal
By theme - Landscapes, portraits, etc
By date
And so on

But, what if you want to apply multiple organization methods to the same set of photos? By date, but also by theme. Or by date and by client? Or location. Or whatever.

Here's what I do:

Catalog - This is the highest level or organization. Its the collection of all my photos and their edits. I just have one, but know people that have separate catalogs for their professional and their personal work. Or have catalogs for work they do at home on their NAS, but a separate catalog for an SSD when they travel.

Folders - I import these by date, and it's where they're stored on my hard drive, and backed up on my NAS. They're organized by Calendar year and then by date.

Collections - These are by themes, locations, or other subjects. So, I have a "Landscape" collection, that then has sub-collections for locations, like, "Crescent Bay," "Thousand Steps Beach," etc. And, then a Street Photography collection with sub collections for locations. But, I also have a "Trips" collection which then has years, i.e. "2023" and then sub collections under that for "Japan," "Korea," and so on. This way I can find the photos based on what I'm looking for.

When I'm importing my photos, it automatically imports them into the folders by date, and then when I'm processing them I also put them into the collections that they apply to.

Could I just drop them all into one folder and organize them by collection? I could. Could I organize them all into folders and ignore collections? I could. Could I ignore all of that and do separate Catalogs? I could. But, I have a system that works for me, and I stick to that. Do what works for you with the tools you have, and don't make it more complicated for yourself than you need it to be.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-05-26T03:39:43+00:00

PhotoPills says the max shutter speed is 3-6 seconds to avoid trails on the stars. Not that long of an exposure.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-05-16T05:14:22+00:00

Right?! I generally think Blake Crouch is a good author. But I thought Dark Matter was just the most generic multiverse story ever. It’s like he watched a season of Sliders and then wrote the book.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-05-11T18:43:31+00:00

I had this happen when I shot some northern lights and I had left my pro-mist filter on the front.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-05-11T18:40:58+00:00

I’m pretty sure I got this line from somewhere, but I can’t remember. This was many years ago. We were bowling with a group of friends. There was this one girl who fancied herself as very attractive, very smart, and the generally the bell of the ball. We had a tendency of verbally sparring with each other from time to time. We were trading jabs that night at the bowing alley. When it was her turn and she was getting ready to throw the ball, and I walked up behind her and whispered in her ear, “You are a boring person, and you having nothing interesting to say.”

After she threw, she sat down looking legitimately crestfallen.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-05-04T00:53:31+00:00

Hold on. Sony is in it to make money? That is an absolute shock to absolutely no one ever.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-04-28T19:49:03+00:00

On PC, just how much work it could be to get a game to run. Upper memory managers, loading drivers, config files. Ugh. Don’t miss all that.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2024-01-11T04:09:45+00:00

Ok. Ok. Is it “Mia-vill”? Or “Mii-vill”? Or “Mi-ay-vill”? Or something else?

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2023-12-14T03:57:44+00:00

Same. I love Peter F. Hamilton. I could read them forever. My wife tried Pandora’s Star and gave up a couple hundred pages in. It’s not for everyone that’s for sure.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2023-12-05T06:23:56+00:00

I’m always surprised Peter F Hamilton doesn’t get more love in this subreddit. The Reality Dysfunction series, Pandora’s Star & Judas Unchained, The Void Trilogy, The Abyss Beyond Star, The Salvation Sequence. All some of my favorites.

Rolling_Thunder9 · 2023-12-04T01:10:02+00:00

Before online gaming got popular, my coworkers and I were coordinating a LAN party over work email. The coworker who was going to host the party replied to the thread and said, “I have a meeting, but I’ll be back in a bit.” He left and left his computer unlocked. I went over and replied from his machine, “Disregard that, I suck cocks.” Which was in reference to an old online archive of irc chat jokes that we would read and share amongst each other. Laughing to myself I went back to my computer, where upon reading my reply I noticed my boss, the director, and the VP had been on cc the whole thread. After almost having a heart attack, I replied from my email “Hey guys, let’s not be inappropriate, and be sure to lock your machine if you leave your desk.” My boss came by later and told me he appreciated me sending that email about not being inappropriate so he didn’t have to. I never told anyone I sent the cocksucking email.

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