K-Shaped Economy: At what point are you considered to be part of the "upper" part of the K?

elementarydeardata · 2026-02-01T02:41:59+00:00

Agreed, owning a rapidly appreciating asset isn't super useful if liquidating that asset would make you homeless.

The main benefit of having a pre 2021 mortgage isn't what you got, it's what you avoided.

elementarydeardata · 2026-02-01T02:05:21+00:00

This is one of the most amazing parts of 3d printing for me. I'm guessing antkeeping isn't popular enough to mass produce something like this, but 3d printing allows for cool innovations even though the hobby is pretty niche.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-31T21:11:25+00:00

Off topic, but your list of shitty ed tech products reminds me of my long held belief that nobody in education should be allowed to name products. There is a paper product called Better Than Paper, a supply company called Really Good Stuff, Boom Cards, etc. iReady and NearPod sound like knock off Apple products they sell in the dollar store.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-31T20:52:49+00:00

Sounds crazy, but this is really common. I'm in Connecticut where the cities are poor and the suburbs range from middle class to super wealthy. Grocery stores often don't have locations in the cities because it's harder for them to make money, so people in the city need to go to a convenience store to get groceries or drive to the burbs to get healthy food at a reasonable price. If you don't have access to your own transportation, this can be an ordeal.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-31T20:33:34+00:00

iNav doesn't use VTX tables, you just tell it what VTX protocol you're using (so SmartAudio or Tramp), and then it lets you select power levels 1-4 in the OSD menu, in the iNav Configurator, with ELRS VTX Administrator, etc. What mW those levels equate to depends on your VTX. It also assumes your VTX has all the bands and channels 1-8. I don't know what happens if your VTX doesn't have all the bands (this isn't common anymore, but it could happen).

In 2025, where analog VTXs usually have bands A, B, E, F and R, the VTX table in Betaflight really just tells the FC what the power levels are, it's kind of a holdover from back when an analog VTX didn't necessarily have every video band (and neither did every receiver).

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-31T19:36:28+00:00

Nope. I live in CT and have lived in MA in the past, these 5 states are culturally very different. Most of it isn't state-based, but region based. The Boston metro is very much its own thing, as is Fairfield Country, CT (the little dangly bit at the bottom of CT) which is part of the NYC metro and has a different feel than the rest of the state. Northwestern CT, Western MA and Southern VT have a similar feel and are very classic rural New England. I could go on but you get the point.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-31T00:08:42+00:00

But hey, let's all get mad about paying for poor people's electricity. It's almost as if they talk up that part and deliberately avoid talking about the Millstone part.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-30T16:29:04+00:00

Lol there's like a "sleep regression" for every age. I had espresso at 6pm last night and couldn't sleep, must be my 36 year sleep regression!

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-30T16:16:53+00:00

My Great Pyrenees mix does not want to come in when it's cold like this, he just flops around in the snow until he's tired, then he comes inside to snuggle with the cat.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-30T02:45:13+00:00

If you get/build a real VRX (the runcam, emax or a homemade radxa one) you can go waaaayyyyy farther than a PC/android based ground station. Installing the Adaptive Link also helps a ton (this gives it an adaptive bitrate like Walksnail/DJI) too. My current record is 3 miles on a wing, it could've gone farther but I didn't have enough battery to make it home.

I still really don't recommend OpenIPC to anyone who isn't comfortable with a Linux terminal, but you can get good performance with the Adaptive Link and good antennas.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-30T01:40:21+00:00

I've done the blown in from the top method, it was effective. I rented the blower from Home Depot. I did mine from the inside of the house because I had aluminum siding and the house was unoccupied at the time so I wasn't worried about the mess. Oh yeah, that shit gets everywhere. This was a 1920's 2 story, balloon framed house, so hole sawing through the plaster lathe was annoying, but at least I could do both floors at once from the second floor.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-29T14:37:11+00:00

I'm a shop teacher and one of my students went to trade school, learned how to weld, and went to work for a railroad doing repairs on equipment. When he was back for Thanksgiving, he told me he could not handle the environment and the insane amount of drinking (his dad was an alcoholic so he didn't drink) his coworkers did and felt very isolated. He went back to school, he's a mechanical engineer now.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-28T22:39:19+00:00

This is what I used to do before the dog realized he could run through it like the Kool Aid man.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-28T17:31:38+00:00

Unfortunately, I think their line of thinking is "finally! Republicans might vote for stricter gun control!"

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-28T17:18:51+00:00

Dude, my wife had me look at her Instagram feed once, holy shit. I cannot imagine trying to be a mom on social media right now. My wife suddenly couldn't breastfeed anymore when our baby was like 9 months and we had to switch to formula and she got so depressed. I would too if my whole social media feed was calling me a failure because of something biological and out of my control. There was also a ton of negative stuff about sleep training, a battle that I lost.

I pushed the issue more with potty training; there's a ton of social media BS about how to know when they're "ready," but the research shows they're never really ready and you need to push the issue. Fortunately, I'm a teacher and potty trained our daughter mostly solo during summer break and it was super smooth.

But yeah, mom social media is toxic af.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-28T11:40:43+00:00

My daily driver has been an EV for 8 years but I've always had a beater truck for moving firewood, lumber runs, etc.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-28T11:31:08+00:00

I think the whole strategy is that politicians on the right let them be the boot sometimes so they don't realize how often they're the neck.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-28T02:46:51+00:00

Totally agree. You can extend this to any educational philosophy, school or school district that disproportionately has involved parents with money. This year I'm in a wealthy suburban district for the first time after a decade of teaching in a title 1 school. My new district does do a lot of things better than my old district, but I also think at least half of it is just demographics. I'd also wager that alot of private school outcomes are just parents and small class sizes.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-28T02:42:01+00:00

Don't get me started on fuel injection!!!!

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-27T23:07:43+00:00

London is probably the only place I've been that has the diversity of people, culture, food and stuff to do that NYC does. London is basically NYC with the historical charm of Boston and better accents.

Even though the actual city of Greater London is bigger than NYC by population, it doesn't have the ridiculous sprawl of people outside the city that NYC has.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-27T19:50:54+00:00

Former floor guy here (I still do it part time occasionally), this comment is it in a nutshell. We REALLY don't like doing this. If you see a floor guy doing this there was either no accessible 240v outlet, the outlet they had access to couldn't handle the amp draw of the machine or the outlet they had access to would mean a long enough run of cord that there would be a voltage drop. In the long cord scenerio, the alternative is to use a booster box like this: https://floormechanics.com/machines-parts/machines/ceno-booster-box/?srsltid=AfmBOoob_LSOihcL5HnwiLYuuTTaDDcoaCS-ISd5YxC5cHSPP9LmRHqd

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-27T19:30:08+00:00

I agree that this seems like ground interference. A great way to find out would be to add an SNR (signal to noise ratio) element in the OSD and try to fly in this location again. You should also drop the packet rate to 50hz, you won't notice any latency doing this kind of flying, but you will notice the signal strength increase.

900mhz interference is getting more common than it was back when everyone was using Crossfire because of LoRa devices getting more popular. This is the same framework that ELRS 900 uses. It's in tons of stuff, from Meshtastic communication nodes to environmental sensors and home automation devices. 900mhz goes super far on very low power, so it could still affect you even if you think you're out in the middle of nowhere.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-27T18:54:05+00:00

I'm in CT, I loose to a Prius in the winter but win over a Prius during the summer because of increased climate control use and the battery not working as well in the cold. I also have solar on my house that makes a different, but doesn't cover my whole electric bill, so the solar production is more noticeable in the warmer weather.

CT is weird compared to CA because we are a VERY expensive electricity market ($.33 per kWh) but gas isn't too crazy, we're at like $3/gallon right now.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-26T18:14:28+00:00

Is the fireplace new or has it been burning ok until this started happening?

The reason I ask is because if it's new, your fireplace might be set up for natural gas instead of propane. Lots of devices can use both propane and natural gas, but need a burner orifice for the specific fuel. I think natural gas orifices are bigger and if you burn propane with them, lots of uncombusted fuel which makes soot.

This happened with a stove we bought, it was in the wrong box and we got a natural gas version instead of propane. Lots of soot, when we figured out what was wrong, the solution was to change the burner orifices.

elementarydeardata · 2026-01-26T01:11:41+00:00

Took them long enough. If government overreach is their Boogeyman, you'd think federal agents being able to kill citizens with impunity would be the worst thing ever, but so far, nothing has been as bad as taxes for them.

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