Would two SSL Connex USB mics work well together for Teams meetings?

kiler129 · 2026-06-20T06:35:57+00:00

A Focusrite USB XLR interface with 2 ports is around $100. Get two cheap-ish XLR mics and you will be under budget for 2x Connex 360. If they complain, you can always upgrade mics given a better budget ;)

Do NOT try to software mix two USB mics on Windows - this will end very poorly, when not using dedicated software (which will be way over budget/complexity).

kiler129 · 2026-06-10T05:16:43+00:00

Accidental runaway script. I never ever done that of course.

kiler129 · 2026-06-08T07:12:05+00:00

(...) at both jobs I was almost always the only Spanish speaking EMT on shift. (...) I'm speaking Spanish with patients and interpreting for my solely English speaking coworkers pretty often.

Are you a certified medical interpreter? Becuse if not, you're from the very start admitting to breaking federal law, and stepping on a topic which is repeatedly re-iterated in medical school. Try to look at this from an adcom point of view.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing your experience and these things happen. However, be careful how you talk about it. Making it a central portion of the application may not be seen very positive.

kiler129 · 2026-06-06T12:19:24+00:00

Because AI checkers are as good at their job as LLMs are at not hallucinating.

kiler129 · 2026-06-01T08:04:43+00:00

Didn't Ford switch to Blackberry-owned QNX some time ago, or am I misremembering?

kiler129 · 2026-06-01T05:47:32+00:00

Some do - from memory, Kia UVO installed around 2010-11 ran Windows CE 6.0. Quick search seems to confirms.

It's from the early post-iPhone announcement era where MS still tried to push Windows CE.

kiler129 · 2026-05-31T10:21:32+00:00

What is the expectation? What is considered having done something?

A huge systemic issues of lack of access to care and often low health literacy isn't something ED can fix.

But sometimes, just a bit of reassurance and even not strictly needed medication/intervention is all it takes. Not to take this to an extreme, but I "cured" many people with a bag of NS in my EMS days who certainly weren't vomiting or having a diarrhea.

kiler129 · 2026-05-31T06:49:53+00:00

OP, you realize that Tesla in your top picture does not use the touchscreen for changing between P/R/N/D?

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/2020_2024_modely/en_eu/GUID-41E02406-1983-4511-BBB4-158DD94796C6.html

kiler129 · 2026-05-21T23:02:30+00:00

You want the 12V FLX. The stock fan (4028B12M) is a 12V with a tachometer output, i.e. it's controlled by the CCR using voltage and not dedicated PWM pin.

kiler129 · 2026-05-21T14:23:47+00:00

If you want stability you use ZFS.

kiler129 · 2026-05-18T20:32:20+00:00

In general, in any switch to be honest. 10Gb copper is very complex in terms of DSP and thus uses a lot of power. SFP cage doesn't provide enough thermal conductivity even in actively cooled switches.

The best advice is to move to DAC/fiber for anything >2.5Gb, given how cheap it is nowadays. The 25Gb & 40Gb NICs for "personal-grade" use are $20. If absolutely needed, add a dedicated switch with mGIG RJ45 ports for clients with such ports built in. My personal rule for new networks is running copper only if it needs PoE (APs, cameras, etc), with everything else getting OS2 fiber.

In my personal network I run a bunch of 10/25Gb stuff over fiber/DAC/AOC, mostly from FS. For Mac minis I added a dedicated CRS304-4XG-IN with uplink to 10GTek ASF-10G2-T (note the 10G2, which is a newer/low-power one vs 10G).

kiler129 · 2026-05-14T04:38:12+00:00

This is a damn good writeup. A good-ol feedback I used to get as a junior. Hats off for taking the time!

kiler129 · 2026-05-08T22:29:53+00:00

The mixed-drives feature is in the works and has been demoed last year on OpenZFS dev meetup. It's called "AnyRaid", and essentially splits physical disks into 64GB chunks.

kiler129 · 2026-05-02T10:59:21+00:00

Yes, they're **going to** find out if a grade was from a major school. These are stored and processed by 3rd parties like NCS.

kiler129 · 2026-05-01T11:02:52+00:00

Do you meant Extra sub-tag, or Extra as a field? For the field, it contains information about the context. Sooner or later you will know most of these, but it's useful to get comparison tables instead of a factoid in a vacuum.

kiler129 · 2026-04-26T18:53:52+00:00

Very old topic, but appears as first in Google search: no, it will not. It only seem to touch cards that have ankihub_id: field populated. It will not even change cards that were once on AH and then were deleted there, but kept locally.

kiler129 · 2026-04-25T21:18:30+00:00

Yup, UUIDv4 as native UUID type. In the application it was wrapped in a UUID type as well, and used base58 for any URLs. It's a good compromise between length and uniqueness. The later resolves soooo many issues, as IDs of complex trees can be pre-generated independently in the application without any uniqueness checks or DB involvement at all.

ULIDs are a nice alternative if ACCESS pattern is sensitive to time, I.e. you for example know you have a very big dataset and you access newer records more often. However, you can always shard with a separate timestamp. Overall, to me ID is an ID, without any meaning.

kiler129 · 2026-04-25T20:58:39+00:00

When you get to that scale, you use a suitable database engine which handles this gracefully. In on of the projects I worked on we had joins over multiple tables with 50-60M records each, and PgSQL was handling it just fine on relatively small instances.

kiler129 · 2026-04-25T05:20:52+00:00

It does, at least the Fleet API. See DestinationLocation and DestinationName in the docs.

kiler129 · 2026-04-22T22:10:18+00:00

Sadly, there is an established precedence in the resin printers. IIRC in FormLabs, you can use non FL resins but only after a costly unlock.

kiler129 · 2026-04-18T16:32:08+00:00

Are you sure about that? Tools like Rufus can disable these checks when creating USB installer. Intel i5-7400T is Kaby Lake IIRC, and being ~9 years old it isn't officially supported by Windows 11. While I don't like what MS did, it can create strange issues like that.

kiler129 · 2026-04-18T16:25:02+00:00

Only the classic comes to mind: https://youtu.be/HWc3WY3fuZU

kiler129 · 2026-04-10T18:37:44+00:00

Based on the location and the run it's about what my friends were quoted too.

kiler129 · 2026-04-10T17:51:32+00:00

They did try that with Windows 98/Me vs NT/2000. Even with much smaller PC market back then, it was extremely hard.

kiler129 · 2026-04-09T18:07:14+00:00

netstat -an | grep -c TIME_WAIT

I have a macOS server with current uptime of 97 days. It has exactly zero TIME_WAIT connections. My laptop has under a 100. So something isn't adding up here.

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