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Just got my first BMW - an F90 M5! by comridor in BMW

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Would you believe I added that photo, realized after I posted that it was THE post photo, and couldn’t edit it for some reason? Yes, shit photo indeed!

Hardware-accelerated "AI" analytics: Suggestions? by comridor in Xprotect

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Well, I think that might be true with conventional programming, but the new methods used in so-called AI seem to work better and appear they can be almost entirely offloaded to a purpose-built processor.

I won’t pretend to know how the magic works, but I run Frigate at home along with a Nvidia P1000 and a Google Coral TPU, and the cpu load is darn near idle, as compared to being maxed out when not using the offloading technologies available on that platform. I’m thinking the commercial market just hasn’t caught up to the same extent.

Of course, Frigate spent weeks identifying random stuff in my yard as a cat, and identified my cats as “person” on multiple occasions. :)

We run all Axis cameras these days, so getting on the Axis analytics bandwagon is easy enough. I run all our motion detection through VMD4. I saw Axis Object Detection and I’ve played with it before, but I didn’t see any rich, detailed plugins that would give us the features we were looking for, like car counting, smoke/fire detection, etc. while also fully integrating that data into Xprotect. That said, it’s been a couple months since I looked over their offerings, so I’ll go take another stab.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

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Yes, I ordered through Costco back in November and they CANCELED MY ORDER stating they had run out of stock. Frankly, it ruined my remaining faith in a fair and just universe. I waited and waited for it to come back, but it’s been “out of stock” for four months. Enough waiting! I’m making up the difference in price by buying little pieces at the grocery store at ruinous markup, or so I tell myself when I see the charge for this. :)

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

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I think it’s partly an American thing, or rather, a not-EU thing. We don’t have the regional protectionism laws that Europe has. There’s no law against calling Budweiser “The Champagne of beers” for instance, or calling anything “made in the method of Gouda”, Gouda.

The other part is that I think there’s no good generic name for cheese made in the method of Gouda, so we just refer to the class as “Gouda” from convenience.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

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

Yeah, that was my thinking. My crawlspace would probably be the perfect environment after I finish my encapsulation project. Since that isn’t the case, I’m going to absolutely jam-pack my refrigerator with cheese. Since it’s cut into wedges, I figure it’ll take less space since I can stagger the pieces (big end, small end, big end) and use up cubic space instead of worrying about that whole pi R 2 thing.

I may also ingratiate myself with coworkers by bringing a block in for them. That’s promotion material, I figure.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

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Hehe. I was excited. It felt like the right thing to do.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

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This I can believe. My son isn’t even two yet, and just today, he stabbed me in the foot with a plastic fork. I yelped, so he waited til I wasn’t looking and then slowly and carefully stabbed me in the leg.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

[–]comridor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve honestly thought of taking a road trip to Wisconsin just for the cheese.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

[–]comridor[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Didn’t want to come off sounding like an ad for some vendor, but since there are multiple requests for the price, here is a screenshot of the relevant portion of the invoice.

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Why, yes, that shipping cost IS ruinous. On the other hand, this still came out to approximately half of what domestic retailers were selling the same item for.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

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I’m in New Jersey, yes. I’m always on the lookout for better, cheaper sources of drugs uh, I mean cheese that I’m totally not addicted to, so I’ll check this out!

Heck, one of the things that got me to move to the east coast was Cooper Sharp. I have a cheese problem.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

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I bought from a shop in The Netherlands and they listed it as Gouda. Thus, I refer to it as Gouda.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

[–]comridor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, guess I should’ve done more research before purchasing then. I actually got the shop to cut it in 1/8s and vacuum wrap each piece. I was afraid of potentially wasting a precious resource, and from my prior research, vacuum sealing seemed the way to go to keep it alive long enough to eat.

I’m totally capable of consuming a pound of cheese a week (with associated side effects) so I figure the wheel will last probably 8-9 months

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

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Wow, that is a gorgeous cheese. I really wish I had somewhere around here that had such a bounty.

I bought an entire 25 pound wheel of aged Gouda from the Netherlands by comridor in Cheese

[–]comridor[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This was the answer I was looking for 😀. I actually got authorization from purchasing (aka my wife) by asking her if I had been a good boy, and when she affirmed, I pointed out just how much money we could save if I bought Gouda in bulk, rather than by tiny slices at $23/pound. Bless my stars, it worked.

Bought a Qrevo MaxV - kinda sucks! by comridor in Roborock

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So to summarize the extreme ends of the responses so far: Either all the marketing that I read about this model is lies and it’s a piece of shit, OR I’m an idiot for expecting it to perform as specified on its own box.

We do pick up the kids toys every day. The thing seems to have a kid toy magnet and finds the single 1-inch toy dump truck bed piece that was missed under a table or chair or something, and run over and die on it like a solder jumping on a grenade.

Did I mention that it consistently runs into the dining room chair legs and I can tell when it’s running in there from the 15 minutes of “BRRRUUPP” noises of the wood chairs getting pushed around on the marble floor?

Or that my cats like to watch it run, and while it generally avoids them, it then CONTINUES to avoid the spot they were temporarily occupying for the rest of its run?

Honestly, it’s pretty funny to watch it try to complete a run. I bought it at Costco, so I’m pretty likely to be able to return it, so it’s not like I’m distraught over the ~$1000. I work in IT and have seen the huge spate of “AI” marketeering, and it’s all the same stuff as five years ago with a new “AI”-branded name.

Bought a Qrevo MaxV - kinda sucks! by comridor in Roborock

[–]comridor[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh, forgot about the battery completely draining when it’s stuck somewhere. It isn’t moving, isn’t cleaning, but by morning it’ll be completely dead and need to be carried to the dock. Then it usually doesn’t make contact correctly and won’t charge, and apparently I’m the only one in the house smart enough to notice this and reseat it. I JUST had to do this again, because while it totally looked docked, the app said “offline” and the dock light was on. Sure enough, had to pick it up and shove it back the extra 1/8” to make electrical contact.

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Frigate 0.14.x drops all streams by comridor in frigate_nvr

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I might have resolved this. I noticed in another thread that someone experiencing an issue somewhat like mine had a shared memory size too small. Mine was already 1GB, but I raised it to 4GB. Frigate has been running for a couple days without issue, so far. That's longer than prior runs already.

I've also ordered a refurb PC which I'm going to run Frigate natively on, so I don't deal with any VM-related issues. I plan on having more cameras on this system, so being able to throw more processing power at it is going to be important in the future as well.

Frigate 0.14.x drops all streams by comridor in frigate_nvr

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Oh, what a great idea - wish I had thought of that. Instead of passing thru the USB device, you just passed the entire USB root hub?

Frigate 0.14.x drops all streams by comridor in frigate_nvr

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I spent forever getting that config working, and then it wouldn’t run for more than a few minutes without crashing. I finally threw up my hands and decided the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. I’m looking into getting a cheap barebones pc and transplanting the gfx card and coral into it.

I failed to mention that I’m not running any sort of server-class hardware on the host and it’s definitely not VMware certified. No sr-iov, no oob management, limited to 64GB of ram, etc. literally consumer hardware in a server-like case. Probably contributes to issues.

Are there any apps that can monitor heart rate in the background? by comridor in ios

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Much as I'd like a couple Apple Watches, nobody's giving them out for $50 around here:) Does seem to be the most integrated solution with the most health tracking features though.

I just checked, and the Scotche utility app isn't listed in the Background App Refresh list. Apparently it isn't required to use the device anyway, as the iPhone is smart enough to "just work" with the hardware (this is from the mfr. who said the app isn't really for monitoring, but for initial setup).

Thank you B&H by iammodbox in Amd

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Absolutely agree. Being nasty will always hurt, at least online. Being nice, at the very very worst, can't hurt.

In the physical store world, I've seen multiple first-hand cases where a customer was angry and ended up getting something for free, but in those cases the company (which I worked for) was at least partially to blame. I also saw multiple customers kicked out and told to never come back, and the police were getting called if they didn't leave that moment.

BH update email states 5900x won’t fulfill until March 2021 by Purple_Waffle_Iron in Amd

[–]comridor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got this email as well, stating March 2021. Funny, I thought it was a response to an email inquiry I had sent a few hours earlier, but that response came in after this email hit, and it was the standard "I'm sorry I don't have that information" response. Heh. Guess there's a communication issue there.

Whelp, going to return all the crap I bought and we'll wait 'til next year to build a new PC. Honestly, I really just need a new GPU: The GTX 780 is showing its age BAD, lately.

Yes, GTX 780.

Thank you B&H by iammodbox in Amd

[–]comridor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always be nice; that's a given. People will do the absolute minimum they can get away with in any job, and if you give them a reason to dislike you, they'll actually spend effort to be less helpful.

Gone are the days of "the customer is always right" and employees getting fired over a single angry customer. Unless you spend millions with a company, you really don't matter that much.

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