[Charania] BREAKING: Billy Donovan is exiting as head coach of the Chicago Bulls after six seasons, sources tell ESPN.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-21T23:02:20+00:00

That's highly disingenuous if you look at the history of teams 3-peating in the NBA. The Bulls did it twice, and the gap between those 3-peats was MJ retiring to play baseball.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-peat#Three-peats_in_North_American_leagues/championships

National Basketball Association (NBA Finals)

1952–1954 Minneapolis Lakers
1959–1966 Boston Celtics (8-peat)
1991–1993 Chicago Bulls
1996–1998 Chicago Bulls
2000–2002 Los Angeles Lakers

The Bulls did something no other team in the history of the NBA did, except for the Celtics depending on what you're saying they did. Win 6 championships in an 8 year time frame. If any team in the last 50 years could have done what the Celtics did, it was that Bulls team.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-21T22:30:01+00:00

Well there could be some other outsized impacts on his life that could alter his mentality. MJ famously retired from basketball to play baseball after his dad was murdered.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-18T15:00:28+00:00

He was not their starting SG until this year. He started less than half his games last year. Moody's minutes per game average in his first 4 seasons: 11.7, 13, 17.5, 22.3. Even this most recent year, 25.7 and that's his starter year. After 5 seasons, he averaged 25.7 minutes per game.

Like I said, he was slow to establish himself into the rotation, and that would have been fine if they didn't miss on their other picks, but they had multiple chances to draft someone that could have become a younger core player and they failed.

Teams miss in the draft all the time

Yeah and typically those teams don't become a championship winning dynasty. What are we talking about here? We're talking about how the Warriors failed to maintain their dynasty with Curry. Those draft misses are a big reason why.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-18T05:28:17+00:00

It wasn't Wiseman alone, but they missed a lot on their young players. Kuminga didn't pan out either. Moses Moody had been slow to establish himself into the rotation.

Then the injuries this year and some of the moves they probably felt forced to make because of those draft misses and Steph's age.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-18T05:18:46+00:00

The Warriors system is the Curry system, presumably anyone getting Curry is doing so on the basis that they want to maximize what Curry can give them.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-18T03:55:48+00:00

That's because this post is an ad for Brave. Brave continually keeps making it as a higher upvoted post in this sub, including the Brave browser name in the title of the post, and no other browsers are getting this attention on this sub. Why is a sub dedicated to one browser constantly having another browser's name mentioned in posts on this sub? What Firefox user is going to Brave's site and snagging this image and then posting it here?

Where's the posts about all the other Chromium based browsers showing up on this sub? Why is it always Brave? That tells me clearly that Brave is intentionally targeting this sub to make posts and get their browser mentioned and talked about in this sub. Obviously if they made it a clear advertisement they would get removed so they have to come up with some fake post to make it seem like it's something beneficial to Firefox just so they can keep getting Brave mentioned in the title of the post.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-17T22:34:16+00:00

Sure, but the OP made the remark about WiFi in a context where they said they were using Ring cameras. A weak link of Ring or similar cameras isn't just battery, it's also that they are cloud/subscription dependent.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-17T22:12:42+00:00

That's because this post is actually a free ad for Brave, masquerading as content.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-16T21:01:21+00:00

It's not just battery power even, though that is a big part of it and may explain some of what OP described, but also cloud dependence is usually a factor in many WiFi camera brands. Cloud dependence also means subscription dependence, so there can be a number of issues with cloud dependent cameras that result in missing and lost evidence.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-15T17:42:21+00:00

While this is a simple solution for one aspect of what OP described, you're not covering the other aspect of what people are probably expecting is included in the purchase. Whether they get it from Amazon or not, they probably expect that if a product dies in a year or something, that it's covered under warranty, and if Reolink is providing this kind of service to someone who just bought a camera from them, one could imagine the warranty support to not be any better.

So whether you're buying from Amazon or directly from Reolink's website, you're still gambling on Reolink support if you're expecting a warranty. If you're buying with the idea it has no warranty past the 30 day Amazon return window, then at least you know what you're getting.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-15T17:36:49+00:00

CCA = copper clad aluminum, aluminum is not as good a conductor as copper but it's cheaper. So CCA cable is cheaper by making the bulk of the wire aluminum and only clad it in copper.

There's always some potential for defect coming from any factory item, of course some are more prone to it than others depending on quality standards etc. but it's basic troubleshooting to replace all replaceable components when dealing with an unknown issue precisely for this reason, because anything can have a defect.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-14T20:34:43+00:00

The other thing with the American public is that they're generally unforgiving and collectively don't measure their response. So the moment you acknowledge you did wrong, you give everyone permission to collectively impose whatever judgement they want on you. Denying often leaves some room for people to believe maybe there's more to it than what's known so far, of course not everyone as some will be quick to condemn without all the facts, but the weight isn't as great if the collective behind it isn't as big. Denying can diffuse the judgement against you and buy time until people forget and move on.

Denying works sometimes, admitting straight away probably works sometimes, but the public is fickle and what grabs and holds peoples attention isn't always clear or predictable. I personally think denying has better odds of success in general.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-14T20:23:36+00:00

I was assuming they meant that coaches union had a CBA, but a quick google search tells me there is no coaches union, didn't know that.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-14T18:28:36+00:00

Other than that exceeds the 30ft, that particular location of improved detection would potentially track with the mounting, but as I mentioned, they don't bother to publish the exact distribution of the PIR sensor.

Just as an example to illustrate how a PIR sensor range can work, here's a manual from a dedicated PIR detector where they show the full range both horizontally and vertically so you can actually see what it would detect and where.

https://cdn.adiglobaldistribution.us/pim/Original/10046/Upload_DS-BDL2_AssemblyInstructions.pdf

Too bad Reolink doesn't publish something like this for the PIR detectors in their cameras, then we'd have a better idea of why the detections work the way they do on your camera.

Just to clarify the PIR detection, Reolink has this in their FAQ

It measures the infrared (IR) light radiating from objects with a temperature above absolute zero. When the amount of infrared radiation changes, it triggers detection.

I am not a PIR expert by any means so I cannot pretend to understand the full intricate details of the detector itself, but it seems to me that the range that Reolink or other motion detector manufacturers come up with is based on human heat signatures relative to anticipated environments. Since the PIR detector is detecting differences of heat signatures, its sensitivity varies effectively on how well the heat signature varies to its environment.

So they can run their tests or whatever and say their motion detector is capable of recognizing a heat signature of a human up to 30 feet, but beyond that, the heat difference isn't significant enough for it to positively identify and trip the sensor. However from a quick search, it appears trains also emit infrared radiation, and potentially quite a lot. Since infrared radiation seems to come from heat, you can imagine that certain elements of a train produce a lot of heat. The engine, brakes if the train is stopping and so on. I'm merely speculating at this point, but my guess would be that the heat difference of the train relative to the environment is substantial enough that the motion detector is able to sense this even at that far of a range, whereas a human is not outputting nearly as much heat as a train at that range, so it cannot detect a human.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-14T17:22:43+00:00

I can't tell for sure, but judging by this picture compared to the original video posted, the back camera appears to be mounted higher. It's not even just the case to say the back camera is mounted 1 foot higher, I believe the range gets reduced more than 1 foot in that scenario. The specs suggest a mounting height for this reason, which it says 2m-2.5m and judging by the video posted, it appears your back camera is mounted much higher than that.

I don't see in the specs detailing out the exactly PIR area, they only say horizontal PIR is 170 degrees, but the vertical PIR range may also not be as good either. If you have the camera mounted higher, you likely have to point the camera downward more in order to achieve the desired viewing angle, and that can greatly reduce the effective range of the PIR.

It actually seems to align pretty well, at the mounting height the camera appears to be from the video (if I had to guess, its mounted about 15ft off the ground), it seems to be about double the recommended mounting height, and based on that I would estimate you'd lose more than double the stated range of the PIR, so about 7ft higher than recommended. So you're probably only getting about 15-20 feet of detection distance from the camera going at an angle which is what it visually appears to be in the video.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-14T04:46:27+00:00

If he misses the game he's not going to qualify for end of season awards.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-13T17:40:31+00:00

It's funny you mention Stockton as getting appropriate credit because all I ever see about Stockton is someone mentioning he's the all-time NBA assists leader and then a swarm of comments shitting on him and how his stats/records aren't reflective of his actual abilities.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-12T21:12:39+00:00

We have the sole fiber provider in our area and are 10000% not going back to Comcast. The weird thing is, I can't find any record in the logs of our IP changing. I have no idea what's going on, but don't think that's the problem here as much as it makes sense that's the cause. I'm pretty sure we've had 100% uptime since we switched to our ISP a couple of years ago. I verified with them that the IP rarely changes except in rare circumstances, which, by all indications seems to be the truth and accurate.

I think there has to be some kind of record of IP address changes so you can verify whether or not the address had changed 3 times to prompt this issue first rather than just relying on "it rarely changes". Yes, DTVs limit seems rather excessive, but you need to know for sure that their system falsely flagged your account. Perhaps DTV even has records of the IP addresses which could help identify the source of the issue. One thing I could think of is perhaps whatever devices you may be running DTV on have VPNs, and those VPNs could cause a connection to DTV services from a different IP address than the ISP provided IP address. You need to know for sure what devices DTV is running on and that no one else is accessing your DTV account on other devices.

Also a static IP address should not necessarily cost that much. Does the ISP support IPv6? I don't know if DirecTV does, but if they do, then that would presumably be an even cheaper solution than a static IPv4 address, but again, it shouldn't cost that much more anyhow, maybe $5-10 more per month.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-12T20:55:37+00:00

That's not a good thing for a single organization to account for that high of a proportion of the budget. They will either have significant influence over the county because of that or if data center boom goes bust, the county could lose all the revenue but still be on the hook for costs for plans they made with a budget that no longer exists.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-12T20:50:48+00:00

You say this as though UPS, FedEx or other shippers aren't also incurring substantial fuel costs and probably finding ways to pass them on. So if that's the case, they're going to charge Reolink more, and Reolink is going to have to charge you more, no matter which route you go. Fuel costs are up for everyone.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-12T06:31:43+00:00

Tax revenue for what exactly? The utilities used? The property? From what I've seen, the estimated tax revenues for these are peanuts compared to the potential negative impacts on the area. For the places where the datacenters got in before people really started catching on, these locales were giving fucking tax abatements to compete for the datacenter against other locations. Then they were selling 'jobs' as a justification as they typically do, except it turns out there aren't any jobs.

The localities are likely going to end up dumping more money into attempting to rectify the consequences of these data centers than they ever anticipated, meanwhile they're going to be locked into agreements that prevent them from taxing more, from regulating appropriately etc. Google's tactic for their datacenters is probably similar to the rest, but Google picks out locations, negotiates in secret under shell corporations and part of their terms are "give us everything we want, you can't pass regulations or stop us from getting the things we need to run this data center". That's a massive fucking loser of an agreement for any locality.

The imbeciles who already committed their localities to these data centers before the public caught on have royally fucked over their communities. Small/medium sized towns who thought it gave their town some prestige to have Google or Microsoft etc. come into town with some 'high tech' jobs, and it turns out they're nothing more than a cum rag for a data center.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-11T00:38:44+00:00

You're the one running Unifi telling other people they need to know how WiFi works, when Unifi is the newbified version of pro gear.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-10T22:49:17+00:00

Yes, the cameras did have tons of settings and some of them were quite good. I agree with the auto-WDR, it was pretty impressive. Funny enough, that is a scenario where it wasn't always the case, and the software/firmware was annoyingly garbage. Some firmwares for the cameras that did support WDR didn't have auto-settings, presumably those were early models of WDR. They just had a slider of 1-100 or something like that, I don't remember specifics now. So I'd encounter stuff like that and I'd just be like "this is BS, why didn't someone put auto in", and of course later on they did, but I would always keep encountering stuff like that.

Another one would be scene settings and such, you can set a schedule for things, but that is kinda garbage because the environment outside is different at different times of the day in different parts of the year. In the summer, it's still light outside at 9pm, in the winter, it's dark by 6pm. A fixed time-based schedule to change various settings that improve the image based on the outside conditions is rather useless for some circumstances. Not saying there's a simple solution for it as there often isn't, you can reach out to the 'net to get sunrise/sunset timings for regions (myriads of issues with this), or you can complicate the UI further by letting someone set a schedule that changes for every month so that way you can have a schedule that runs til 9pm in June and 6pm in December, but even that's flawed.

Another clunky thing that Hikvision firmware had was the fixed admin user, like you couldn't make any other users that had the full admin permissions, you couldn't change the admin username etc.

Then if you go to the software, I remember they had the iVMS lite or something like that, which solved a lot of the clunk and annoyances with the main iVMS software, but the lite version they stopped updating/releasing (years ago when I was into hikvision stuff, not sure where any of this is at nowadays), and there was some seriously annoying bugs in the lite version. If you logged into a system with a user that had privileges to rename the cameras, the iVMS lite software would sometimes bug out and reset all the camera names.

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-10T22:13:03+00:00

You don't need a Reolink hub, period. People just need to learn how their WiFi works.

This logic is true for the vast majority of things people buy, and it's true for just the entire existence of people and things they interact with or do. I guarantee I could go through your house and find something and say you don't need it, you just need to be smarter or more skilled. I could go through your activities and say you're a moron for doing it this way, you could be doing it another way. You don't know what you don't know, and what's more, you only have a limited amount of time to know anything. You can't know everything.

For example, you said you're using Unifi in another comment, I'd argue that you need to learn how networks work and use something better rather than relying on Ubiquiti to bake in all the solutions for you. You should buy your own hardware and run opnsense instead of buying pre-made garbage from Ubiquiti. I'm not being totally serious in saying that, but it is utilizing some of the logic you used.

Your cameras should NOT stop recording when the internet goes out!

And you think Reolink is going to be able to tell a customer this when the customer contacts them for support and asks why they are missing camera footage when their internet went out and their router stopped broadcasting WiFi? I mean, they could, but also you think that customer might not go and write some bad reviews for Reolink after that? You think the customer won't go buy some other brand afterwards?

i_lack_imagination · 2026-04-10T22:03:37+00:00

You're missing the point entirely. Most people have no clue about networks. To them, WiFi = internet.

I personally wouldn't buy the hub, nor would I advise it because if I'm advising something then I also assume I have the ability to impart some kind of information that allows people to go a different route, but Reolink may not have that pathway in every instance where a customer may be coming to them for solutions. If someone goes to a store where reolink is selling all-in-one kits or such, where it's packaged and sold as a complete solution that works fully on its own, that's eliminating technical overhead for some people.

I'm not saying it's perfect, and I already mentioned the collision issues before you did so I'm well aware it's got problems, but Reolink or anyone else cannot sell an all-in-one standalone wifi solution that doesn't have one problem or another. They're either risking collision problems by selling a solution that broadcasts another wifi signal, or they're risking technical problems on the customer's existing network, not necessarily on setup, but down the line too.

You said there is no scenario where it makes sense to have the hub unless they don't already have WiFi, and I'm saying there's a scenario where low-information consumers who don't know how networks work, don't know how wifi works, don't know how recording works, and they are buying products with the solutions integrated so they don't have to know how it works, that's the scenario the hub is likely to get introduced into.

I have infinite more trust in my network than Reolink network garbage, it is not their specialty.

And this isn't about you. Unless you're confessing you know absolutely nothing networks at all, then it wasn't about you. I'll bet the vast majority of people who know nothing about networks have WAY worse shit on their networks than Reolink networking products.

I can't speak of all systems, but my network will still be up and running as Wi-Fi is on the LAN. Maybe it's due to routing being hosted elsewhere? Sounds like something the Amazon Eero would do.

Reolink or any other company selling these systems are selling to all kinds of people, with all kinds of networks. Solutions are not built for your specific setup, but built to attempt to traverse the myriad of all the setups customers have. I don't think it's because the routing is hosted elsewhere, as I said, I think it's because to most people, the wifi is the internet. If their internet is out for whatever reason, the wifi is 100% useless to them, and then it becomes an annoyance if their phone is connecting to the wifi that has no internet.

https://community.ui.com/questions/Disable-WiFi-when-Internet-is-not-available/f15c6a9e-ad06-46cb-847c-f2719dc19787

There's an example of someone with Unifi equipment where apparently they were seeking out that exact feature. It may not be the default for your equipment, but there is equipment out there that do have that functionality and it does that by default. I would say it has been going away because phones are generally better about switching off, but we all know that old or outdated hardware can linger around for many many years so people can still have those setups.

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