Reminds me of Coffee Stain Studio’s trailer for the release of Goat MMO Simulator:
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15·7 months agoI would check two things:
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Is it a QLED tv? Those are very efficient with the backlight power. QLED only have a blue led backlight and the “quantum dots” in the panel between the backlight and the LCD panel absorb the blue light and emit the red green and blue needed to create the full color spectrum.
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How many nits of brightness does it produce? I’d check for the specific model on RTINGS. It won’t help OP much if the TV is efficient, but so dim that it’s unusable in their case.
Reflectivity also helps with brightness when viewed in a bright room. The less reflective (matte) the less brightness the TV needs to overcome distracting light sources reflecting on the screen.
Edit: Had to look it up to be sure, normal LED panels use filters that filter red, green, and blue light from a white light source. This means roughly 1/3 of the light from the backlight is filtered away, hence the energy inefficiency vs QLED which uses the energy from the blue light to create the colors.
Intestingly, some DLP projectors use alternating red, green, and blue light sources which strobe on the DLP chip which takes turns modulating the intensity of each color. Less efficient (and bright) DLPs use a single white light source and a color wheel (rotating color filter).
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How old is this house?
In 1971, the US National Electrical Code (NEC) required grounded receptacles in all locations of the home (effective January 1, 1974).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_plug#Use_in_residences
You can check with a $6 electrical receptical tester.
It could be that the electrical system was grounded to the waterlines that enter the house (those should definitely be copper).
The ball is in the DEA’s court. Some say it should be rescheduled by Spring:
https://mjbizdaily.com/a-look-at-dea-role-in-marijuana-rescheduling-process/
How long the DEA might take to form a response is an open question, though experts told MJBizDaily that an initial proposed rule could be issued by the end of the year and the process finalized by next spring.
What the DEA cannot do is reject the HHS recommendation outright, said Howard Sklamberg, who once served as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s top enforcement official.
This means marijuana’s days as a Schedule 1 drug are ending. It’s only a matter of when.
Even better, find someone who talks in an American accent who wants to speak in your old accent.
Agree to bump into each other hard in front of your friends, when you get up, switch accents.
Alternative, celebrate your birthday together and each can wish for the others accent.
Also, server side anti-cheat computation costs the gaming company money.
Though you’d think some forms of cheating would be computationally inexpensive to detect, like teleporting and such.
It depends on when you were around and reading geeky news sites. FUD came up often on Slashdot in relation to Microsoft:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt#Microsoft
and the SCO v. IBM section are relevant.
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“Print Recipe” works better when available. That puts the ingredients and steps in one page (usually).
You can also print it to PDF if it’s a recipe you want to keep.
First off, the water would need to be desalinated or you would ensure the land would be unsuitable for farming (and really growing anything) for generations.
Also, sand doesn’t hold water. In fact, when planting trees and other bushes, if you want more drainage, you typically add rocks and sand.
Second, most plants need non-sandy soil to grow on (palm trees and other beach bushes and plants aside) though those grow in areas that have lots of rain already.
Thirdly, the soil will need bacteria to aid the plants in obtaining nutrients and breaking down waste (dead leaves, dead plantlife, etc).
The way to do it is to look at a couple of projects that are fighting against desertification in Africa:
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The Great Green Wall https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-green-wall/
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Using compostable waste to fertilize soil https://jstories.media/article/greening-the-desert-with-trash
You’ll notice that many of these projects start at the edges of deserts. Instead of relying on pumping water onto sandy soil (which would just suck up the water as sand doesn’t hold water that well) they focus on extending the non desert ecosystem onto the desert so that the new soil will absorb water better, the weather over the newly terraformed area will be less dry, and it will eventually be self sustaining.
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2·1 year agoStill looking. Closest I’ve found so far aside from the Widex app is this web page based generator:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/acousticPianoSoundscapeGenerator.php
They also have other background noise options:
It’s free with optional donations.
They have an android app but it’s out of date.
Edit: Theres also Nature space but likewise, their android app is out of date (unsupported on newer devices)
To note, 13% of Americans may be deficient in B6:
So if you are one of the 1 in 8 who are deficient and consume an energy drink with B6 then you’ll feel more energetic just from the B6.
Then there’s the caffeine, taurine, and other B vitamins as well.
That said you can make your own “energy drink” by mixing (safe) levels of B complex, caffeine, and taurine into your favorite beverage.
That or take them separately if you know you’re deficient.
Magnesium is also worth trying as if you are deficient you can experience several symptoms including brain fog. It takes effect fast (within 30 minutes). If you take too much Mg then you’ll just accelerate the contents of you alimentary canal.
I know on the hearing aides themselves it’s called “Zen” which includes white noise options, narrowband white noise, and the fractal tones. I also think there’s an option for combining white noise with fractal tones. Don’t know if there is a “notched therapy” option (play white noise or other sounds but excluding the frequency of your tinnitus.
The fractal tones can also be tuned by average frequency and the number of tones played per time period per channel. I know mine plays more tones on the ear opposite where my tinnitus is.
I’ll post another reply if I can confirm a good fractal tones app. I did a short search in the past but gave up when I came up empty.
15·1 year agoPotentially better sources. Somehow in the last couple of days the value of the air defense system went up 700M:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-destroys-russian-air-defence-083306512.html
It was already activated, Musk ordered it shut off during an Ukrainian operation meant to take out those ships. The same ships that have been launching missiles and hitting civilian targets.
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”
As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.
Source:
He did in fact “pull the rug”
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”
As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.
And they apparently sell the majority of fish to Sushi restaurants in the US:
Liftoff user here, can see all comments. For those that want to check, here’s the post in question:
It is fact:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/essays/irs.html
On 1 October 1993, the Church of Scientology obtained tax exemption from the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This ended 26 years of what the Church itself has described as a “war” against the IRS, in which it used extraordinary and in many cases illegal tactics - bugging of government offices, theft of mountains of classified files, private detectives pursuing senior government officials, thousands of lawsuits, full-page attack adverts in US daily newspapers, and so on.
So perhaps it is not such a great surprise that the settlement itself came about in some very unusual circumstances, raising questions about the actions of both the Church of Scientology and the IRS. Neither party has been willing to provide answers, with the IRS refusing to disclose the terms of the exemption agreement in defiance of a court order and US taxation law. But with the leak in December 1997 of the secret agreement, the relationship between Scientology and the IRS is under greater scrutiny now than ever before.
Do a search for you server OS + STIG
Then, for each service you’re hosting on that server, do a search for:
Service/Program name + STIG/Benchmark
There’s tons of work already done by the vendors in conjunction with the DoD (and CIS) to create lists of potential vulnerable settings that can be corrected before deploying the server.
Along with this, you can usually find scripts and/or Ansible playbooks that will do most of the hardening for you. Though it’s a good Idea to understand what you do and do not need done.