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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    One theory is that doing so much so fast doesn't give time for the fake news to lie about what's going on. By the time thy'er ready to publish their false reports, there's something new they have to report on instead. A type of denial of service attack on the fake news?
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    Plane down in DC

    At 17:37 in the above video he states that TCAS and ADSB use the aircraft's altimeter pressure (QNH) setting. I believe this is 100% incorrect.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    An example of not happy is anybody who has done a Roth conversion. A few years ago I began to ask a tax lawyer a question, it started out as "If they don't change the tax laws....", at which point his laughing drowned out the rest of the question.
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    Plane down in DC

    The ATC radar altitude display is corrected for local barometric pressure so should match what the cockpit altimeter says. With a little more research I've learned that TCAS does not issue RAs in an aircraft under 1000' radar altitude, so it would have been out-of-play in the DCA accident. It...
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    I've tested it in our Subaru, and it seems to work, but I've not been willing to trust it. It follows too darn close for me even at its furthest distance setting. I didn't like the one time it slammed on the brakes with absolutely nothing in front of me on the road. Had somebody been on my...
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    Plane down in DC

    "Data from the jet’s flight recorder showed its altitude as 325 feet (99 meters), plus or minus 25 feet (7.6 meters), when the crash happened Wednesday night, National Transportation Safety Board officials told reporters. Data in the control tower, though, showed the Black Hawk helicopter at 200...
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    Dahua model number decoder?

    This is probably partially obsolete by now but could still be of some help. The models #s don't help with the low light aspect. You need to look at the illumination specs and sensor specs for that.
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    Plane down in DC

    I continue to be aghast at what they do at DCA. Even if everybody is following the flight paths exactly, there's only about 200' of vertical separation between the helo route and the runway 33 short final. To me, an obvious accident waiting to happen. The press likes to call separations that...
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    Plane crash in Philly

    These things often come in threes. I hope this time it's an exception.
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    Plane down in DC

    Less than 8 minute video than answers a lot of the questions. He explains how flying this approach correctly requires total concentration by the jet's crew, and and how the helo pilot was 100% responsible to avoid the jet. On the CA, I'm guessing they see those regularly with all of the helos...
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    Plane down in DC

    This is exactly the sort of thing that TCAS avoids 100% of the time. Even if the controllers are asleep. There must be a lot of gross negligence on multiple parties here.
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    Money & Economics

    It's certainly not new. When I was in that age group in the last century (literally), there was a generous one-time bonus where I worked. I put in in the bank. Most others spent it right away, some on new cars they didn't need. Same with the employee stock purchase plan, that let one buy a...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    You and just about everybody else! My family took it totally seriously until contradictions started leaking out, things like certain businesses could be open but others not. Then when there were jab mandates for the common people but not the elites, it became obvious that it was all about...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    I made a split PVC sleeve to cover the gap between the pipes, and made sure the cracks between the sleeve halves were well filled with PVC cement. Dirt flowed into the pipe only a few inches and I was able to get most of it out. I dug because of a break in the white irrigation pipe, finding...
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    Can an Axis camera send a .wav file from Blue Iris on an Alert?

    Answering a different but related question, with the 4k-x you can download an audio file which the camera will play through its speaker when an IVS rule is triggered.
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    My house, new construction when I bought it, has a 100 amp buried line to a shop (in PVC conduit). The top of the conduit is about 6" deep, a code violation I believe, and I found by accident a ~1" open gap between pipe sections. The conduit is also full of tiller gouges from when the grass...
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    Can an Axis camera send a .wav file from Blue Iris on an Alert?

    I don't know what sending a .wav file means, so maybe answering the wrong question. I can hear the audio from my Dahua cameras connected to BI using ONVIF . Some models are 5442 fixed focal, and 541R fixed focal.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Agreed! The scan, ultrasound, and pathology reports list so many bad things that it's a wonder I'm still breathing. Turns out that most of these things are perfectly normal, or at least common, at my age. It is a bit of an initial ego hit to read that things about me are unremarkable :).
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    Wildlife Observation - Latest Recommendations?

    When the S3 with animal detection came out I thought it was the start of a trend for Dahua. Now I'm having doubts, thinking it might be a one-time special just for Andy. I have no inside information, just spouting off.
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    How to wire 2 cameras on 1 cat6 without any extra devices?

    I've done this many times with homebuilt and purchased devices similar to what's linked in the above post. The cameras use the green and orange pairs. When you build your own cable or adapter, just use the blue and brown pairs in the green and orange connector positions, on both ends, for the...
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