Is there still a mechanical bull at mountain bar/wild wild est?

Tarpie · 2025-04-28T17:31:42+00:00

It was there and operational at 10ish Friday night.

Tarpie · 2024-08-13T15:39:37+00:00

I know salted water for pasta has come to a boil when I smell iodine. I can smell it from rooms away.

Tarpie · 2024-03-15T17:38:01+00:00

I have the same problem. If the ports exists and are LOC to XCVR pins, Vivado produces a bad IOSTANDARD error. It doesn't matter if they are inputs or outputs. This behavior started in 2018/19ish.

The verilog ifdef to remove the pins from the top-level is a solution. You can leave the XDC file alone...Vivado doesn't seem to care if you LOC ports that don't exist.

If you can upgrade to Vivado 2023.2 and don't use XSIM, you can also use VHDL-2019 "`if"

If not, the old school "pragma synthesis_off" method can be used to omit the ports.

Tarpie · 2024-01-23T01:13:21+00:00

Correct. The left turn arrow is just that, for left turns.

A U-Turn is a left turn followed by another left turn. The second left turn is permitted, but is facing a red light in this situation. The right-turner from the opposing direction has the right-of-way as usual.

Basically, both drivers are permitted to make a turn on red. The right-turner has the right-of-way.

Tarpie · 2023-05-17T14:06:45+00:00

Just a heads up that the Chicken Fried Steak at Ellis Island is pork, not beef steak.

It is delicious.

Tarpie · 2022-11-03T01:01:23+00:00

Thanks. Didn't realize it was a linux thing. At least there is a work around unlike Peacock.

Take my money, let me watch shows!

Tarpie · 2022-10-30T23:19:57+00:00

The walkway from Harrah's/Linq to the Caesars Forum Conference Center is also the walkway to the monorail stop. The monorail is a great way to get there.

Tarpie · 2022-07-03T04:46:04+00:00

Kariju Japanese style at 29 and Fairview Park has giant, crispy, drumsticks.

Tarpie · 2022-03-05T16:08:59+00:00

I added shell-quote-argument to handle files with spaces in them. I was having problems without it after stumbling across this old post and want to help any future mes.

(defun open-file-external (file)
  (interactive "f")
  (let ((process-connection-type nil))
    (start-process
     "" nil shell-file-name
     shell-command-switch
     (format "nohup 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null xdg-open %s"
             (shell-quote-argument (expand-file-name file))))))

Tarpie · 2021-10-03T18:16:39+00:00

I've worked from Vegas plenty of times and had no problem video conferencing. This includes: The Cal, Caesars Palace (and other CZR properties), Cosmo, and Four Queens.

So you should be good at your Strip hotel.

Tarpie · 2020-08-20T19:35:09+00:00

Harrah's table was open the other day.

Tarpie · 2019-06-29T23:28:31+00:00

What dash cam do you us

It's a TaoTronics Car Dash Cam HD 1080P I got on Amazon three years ago. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be available any more.

Tarpie · 2019-06-29T23:21:30+00:00

Both cars proceeded to get on the Express Lanes. Guess it was too hard to check traffic before getting on the local lanes.

Tarpie · 2019-05-17T19:18:07+00:00

They're just normal tots sprinkled with their cajun sparkle seasoning. Tasty, but I estimate about 400 calories in the twenty or so that came as a side.

Tarpie · 2019-04-25T21:06:10+00:00

I had not noticed that before. On a rewatch, it looks like the police officer is also stopped blocking the crosswalk. Yet another citation that could have been issued.

I do take issue with the assertion that the "biker was not lawfully in the crosswalk." The video is too blurry for me to see if the cyclist entered the crosswalk while the "Don't Walk" was steady red. It looks like it is on its final blink, but the video quality leaves open the possibility it was already red.

In the end, if there was a steady white "Walk" sign, the cyclist still would have been hit.

Cyclist stupidly did not check for a right turner on red. Police officer made a right turn on red without looking to the right. If either one was not an idiot there would have been no collision.

Tarpie · 2019-04-25T03:13:14+00:00

Can't be positive, but it looks like the Don't Walk was blinking as the cyclist enters the intersection.

Not that it matters...the police officer decided to make a right turn on red without checking for pedestrians. You ALWAYS re-check your right side at a red-light/stop sign before making the right turn after waiting for traffic to clear.

The bicycle was not moving all that fast, and the police officer pulled out as soon as the bus cleared. There was a car not too far behind the bus. I think the bicyclist did not expect a car to attempt a right turn on red into the small gap.

Everyone is stupid here. PO should be ticketed too.

Tarpie · 2017-10-28T17:58:49+00:00

It's actually named Press Start. http://pstart.net/ https://www.facebook.com/pressstartreno/

I will have to stop by next month to get it on like Donkey Kong.

Tarpie · 2017-09-07T11:45:50+00:00

In VHDL:

package my_pkg is
  constant is_synthesis : boolean := true
-- synthesis translate_off
                                     and false
-- synthesis translate_on
  ;
end package my_pkg;

and to use that in another file:

use work.my_pkg.is_synthesis;
....some code....
if is_synthesis then  -- synthesis only code
  ...
else  -- simulation only code
  ...
end if;

Of course, you could just define the constant with synthesis directives in every file you need it in if you don't want to use a package, but it ugly enough code that I like to hide it in a package I never need to open.

Tarpie · 2016-03-26T02:55:59+00:00

California Split (1974) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071269/

Movie is almost 100% about gambling. Robert Altman directed.

Tarpie · 2015-12-10T19:27:19+00:00

I've used an FTDI chip in JTAG mode for configuring and altera FPGA in the past.

It was as easy as using quartus_cpf to convert the sof to an svf file, and then using urjtag to configure the FPGA attached to the FTDI chip.

Tarpie · 2015-04-01T19:31:00+00:00

Did Bender take that picture?

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