Yes, but the federal government uses far more than just Office.
Microsoft is very far from being at risk of failing, but if it did happen, I think it's very likely that the government keeps it alive. How much of a national security risk is it if every Windows (including Windows Server) system stopped getting patches?
In your experience, how does VC-2 compare to JPEG XS from a quality perspective? The JPEG XS resources I’ve seen say JPEG XS has higher visual quality, but curious what it’s like in practice.
JPEG-XS is an almost direct successor to VC-2. They use the same techniques and if you read JPEG-XS's whitepaper they explicitly cite VC-2 as an inspiration and a target to surpass. JPEG-XS is an improvement, there is not doubt about that, but unfortunately they decided to patent it for all uses. In both cases, the publicly available software implementations are very few, CPU-based, and the ones that aren't are implemented in hardware inside business AV solutions.
Another good option is U-Pack if you have more things that can fit in PODS. ABF Freight drops a container off on your street and you have a couple days to fill it. Then they pick it up and drive it to your destination. You only pay per linear foot you use in the container.
The downside is that it’s a little slower than PODS or traditional moving because the unused space is separated and then resold to a local freight partner going to the same destination area. If you can live with that constraint, the process was very smooth and the U-Pack customer service was extremely good and responsive.
We hired local movers on both ends to just load and unload the container (did the packing of boxes ourselves, left furniture to the loaders) and paid a little under $6K to move a small 3BR house from the midwest to the east coast a couple years ago.
John DeMarsico directs the SNY broadcasts for the NY Mets and sometimes posts behind the scenes for how all the cameras come together into a production. I think they are pretty interesting to watch.
The main difference is that it's rendered client side so you can control the camera for yourself. You can watch in real time during the season, the latency is around 30 seconds behind live action.
If you participate in charitable donations and are able to itemize deductions, after a period of capital gains you can also donate the low basis shares and then rebuy the shares with cash immediately. This is effectively donating cash while stepping up the basis of the asset.
I’ve been doing this cycle for a bit now and while it doesn’t produce life changing savings, it does motivate me to donate more.
Donor advised funds make donating shares pretty easy to do.
I haven’t used a bandsaw a lot, but I have seen some photos of gnarly lost fingers.
I use a table saw quite a bit and think there are more ways things can go wrong, most of which stem from kickback which happens in a split second. The wood will either fly back and hit you, or your hand will be pulled into the blade and you will likely lose a finger.
Both machines can be safe with the proper precautions. That said, I still enjoy my SawStop as insurance for my fingers since I still write software for my day job.
> I use a table saw quite a bit and think there are more ways things can go wrong, most of which stem from kickback which happens in a split second. The wood will either fly back and hit you, or your hand will be pulled into the blade and you will likely lose a finger.
One of the more horrifying things I've witnessed second-hand with kickback was a lucky third scenario. It was high school woodshop and one morning the teacher pulls us all over to the miter saw bench and points at a huge chunk that's missing from it. The bench surface was two or three layers of MDF glued and screwed together. He explained that someone had been cutting something on the table saw 8 feet away from it, had a kickback, the kickback missed but the piece of wood shot into the miter bench and that was the result. Thinking about what that same piece of wood would have done if it had hit a human... yeesh, I definitely treated kickback with a lot more respect after that day.
Lots of discussion inside the comments about how this could have happened, and whether OP just made a careless mistake. Thought some people here might find it interesting.
I’m running into a similar situation with an electric Ego lawn mower. 1 year old mower stopped turning on, took it to the authorized repair center for warranty work, some PCB needs to be replaced but it’s back ordered for months. I ended up having to buy another lawn mower for the summer.
I’m grateful for the easy warranty process that Ego has, but it’s got me thinking if shifting to electrical means harder to come by parts for repair.
What’s strange is that it’s just a PCB. It should not be an issue for them to stock or quick-build a circuit board. They can’t possibly still blame the chip-shortage bogeyman.
Interestingly, this is one of the theories for why Tesla's parts situation sucks.
While you could also argue that they make things complex for themselves by having these rolling updates rather than using a Model Year system...
Elon, as is well known, is FANATICAL about the quarterly numbers. Burn the midnight oil to pump up the deliveries, etc., etc.
The thing with that, every part that's on a shelf waiting to be sold for warranty or accident repair is a part that can't go on a new car and boost the numbers. Wall Street doesn't give a shit what your parts market numbers look like, it's "How many Teslas did you build this quarter?" so there's a lot less incentive to fully stock that market - Tesla already has the sale booked and the money in their balance book.
> Hertz rented a ton of EVs to people who were only used to the acceleration curve of ICE cars.
Maybe, but I am not as sure. I've not ridden in a private 3, but in a Y and S, and I had a Hertz Model 3 for a week.
I don't know if there was a firmware difference or such, or just my individual model, but the acceleration on it was garbage. I'd stop, put my foot all the way to the floor, and wait half a second or more for ANY movement, and when it did move, it accelerated like my girlfriend's A4, if not slower.
(Or, perhaps, things happened as you described, and as a result, they nerfed the acceleration - this was last year).
Tesla passed 1M sales of Model 3 alone in 2021, and cumulative sales of 3/Y are now well into the multi-millions. Unless Hertz drivers are orders of magnitude more crashprone than new Tesla operators in general, I dont think Hertz's 100k units should have made a major impact on Teslas repair pipeline.
I’ve entirely stopped caring about warranty as it’s only ever left me in this situation. I’d rather just buy a new thing or pay for an out of warranty channel to fix it as quickly as possible (often possible with non-one parts).
To be fair, the only gasoline engines with this kind of lifespan have had significant maintenance over their lifetimes. Regular oil changes, spark plugs and air filters and other servicing. The idea that gasoline engines are inherently more reliable than electric just doesn't match the data.
For what it’s worth, I bought a new gas mower at Lowe’s last summer, and had to buy a new one this summer because I couldn’t get the old one started.
Granted, I probably could have spent a few days figuring out how to repair the old gas powered mower from last year, but it was oozing oil everywhere and I would have just been following YouTube tutorials and endless trips to the hardware store or waiting on parts from Amazon.
(Just sharing this anecdote since neither gas nor electric are perfect!)
A friend of mine spends an hour or two rebuilding or cleaning his gas lawnmower every year. Another friend had a brand new one fail the first time he fired it up. Meanwhile my Ego has gone several years with literally zero maintenance other than five minute blade sharpening.
My dad's gas trimmer was constantly unreliable and never easy to start. My Ego trimmer once again has been fine for several years without any maintenance other than winding the string.
