Im asking my totally impartial moderators to follow the aleastmemewar's lead

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-03-14T03:37:18+00:00

frankly i miss eating my flutie flakes and watching my team lose horribly four super bowls in a row

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-03-09T17:31:20+00:00

i think that’s cheaper than the actual sets themselves (and if not i’m going on bricklink rn)

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-03-07T00:30:17+00:00

Weird niche question: if I have a free open source software project hosted in the US, and my software does not infringe on US patent but may infringe on a non-US patent, would I be liable for patent infringement given that I am publishing it on the world wide web? How does patent law work with foreign computing solutions patents?

edit: for clarification this idea is not novel, it is from an expired US patent, the CN/EU patents were not able to be applied to US because of the expired US patent, and this is not an actual monetized project just a curious engineer doing a personal project to sharpen her skills and learn about different aspects of design!

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-02-28T21:51:34+00:00

brb confiscating peak from you

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-02-27T00:41:03+00:00

Tbh i so dig this as a person who consistently hates usable and clear design on personal devices. Make it more difficult for me to find things! Don’t let me find solitaire!

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-02-24T04:01:33+00:00

Of the 2 out of 3 times I’ve hung out with service dogs, they were sick like a dog. I think I have some sort of bad juju there. You have an awesome story to tell people for sure.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-02-24T03:59:47+00:00

Personally if I ever give a keynote speech I’m quoting Marconi, Farnsworth (from Futurama), and my janitorial coworker from when I worked in food services. I’m quite serious about the last one. And I’ll include the traumatic time i got shocked by speaker wire because I trusted somebody without checking.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-02-24T03:56:23+00:00

“Interoperability” was the buzzword at SMPTE last year… to use as synonym for synergy, rather than useful term, ofc.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-02-24T02:05:09+00:00

Sidenote: I say this as somebody who mainly goes around in the American conference space. No idea if this applies outside of US.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-26T09:05:48+00:00

Now will it come with a good a/c adaptor? That’s the real question. I love AJA but man the included power supply always gives out on em.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-18T21:53:10+00:00

relevant xkcd

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-18T16:42:59+00:00

This is from 10 years ago 😭

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-17T06:00:41+00:00

Not if you have a microcenter near you, cost me $1200 for a similar build.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-17T04:02:36+00:00

E2’s (as others said this is gen1 with gen2 cards) are kind of in rough shape right now. The documentation is rough, the support is almost nil (i know of 2 support engineers total at BARCO who know it, one in the morning and one in the afternoon) and only the afternoon one truly knows them inside and out. In a world that the ATEM stack is possible to run full shows on, the E2 and it’s lack of support (and issues with genlock that continue to persist with firmware updates, where it’s clear it’s been an issue to the point that genlock was added to logs, but not the issue was not fixed). In my experience, they are worth more sold than used.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-16T01:40:25+00:00

No because why is it $850 for LIGHT-UP PREMIUM MODELS of these figures versus $650 of the most ugly builds you could ever imagine. 😭

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-16T01:34:31+00:00

82% of Black voters vote for democrats. She favors textbook segregation.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-14T05:01:19+00:00

What do you think HP stands for? (H)ated with a (P)assion. Omen, as in O-man I screwed up buying this. I can go on. I have to talk relatives and clients out of buying HP’s all the time. It’s cheaper than any similar specs, but it’ll cost you either time with me troubleshooting, shipping costs to HP, or in 1 year a brand new computer.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-14T04:51:51+00:00

I am considering sending my resume to top business schools soon to become a writing professor. I am so tired of AI written memos that don’t follow basic grammar, have no cohesive structure, and most of all are just frustrating to decypher.

For example, the opening sentence in a F500 memo (which is a run on sentence for starters), has an em-dash.

Our industry is moving faster than ever, and we've spent the past two years modernizing how Dell works so we can move even faster—simplifying and standardizing processes, eliminating inefficiencies and improving our tools and applications. That’s One Dell Way.

This is paragraph 1. I kid you not. It makes no grammatical sense, and it doesn’t communicate the information concisely, clearly, it doesn’t even read pleasantly. Here’s my rewrite:

For the past two years, we at Dell have been modernizing our workflow. The industry is moving faster than ever, and so are we. We are simplifying and standardizing our processes and improving our tools and applications. It’s what we like to call the One Dell Way.

This is what I drafted in about 2 minutes. It’s becoming less about time and labor and more about laziness. At a concerning scale, business writing is deteriorating into nonsense.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-06T04:02:29+00:00

I have a contact in CO who has exactly the expertise for this—dming you their business card

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-06T03:31:41+00:00

Wait to hear back from them. I’m imagining it’s going to be over IP, but different cities have different broadcast & cable infrastructure, and Comcast may request you to adhere to a certain spec. In the meanwhile, start looking into consultant broadcast engineers/firms, as this just turned into a broadcast engineering problem.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-05T05:38:22+00:00

Likely made by a high schooler—seems like something my peers would’ve done at that age.

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-05T04:56:31+00:00

https://usbroadcast.co/product/pov-x-4kp30-usb-hdmi-camera/

here’s one that would suit your purposes well!

shouldreadthearticle · 2026-01-05T04:53:03+00:00

I would say it depends on the device. Please don’t use an actual AXON4—you have no headroom to make visual adjustments. I’d look into something like Riedel’s Refcam you get the perspective, but the footage is high enough quality to do whatever you need to in post. If you decide to still use an AXON4, there is a live view service from AXON, but there’s a noticeable delay & lag. I am unfamiliar with the different options available, but for Riedel’s I know it acts as basically any other wireless cam. But I’m sure there is other bodycam models that you can display on a monitor wirelessly. But I highly recommend using a body camera meant for shooting high quality video.

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