Posts by dewman

    dewman check out the motorcycle luggage sites on line. There are a lot of sissy bar bags and leather like or Tourmaster bags that you might like and will fit your style as well.


    I am currently on the lookout for a more rectangle and taller bag that I could take when we are touring that enable us to pack more.

    I will, thanks for the insights.

    I'm three miles or so from RDU, and can give you a hand if you need one.

    I was hoping to start construction on my new shop at my cabin. Excavators scheduled for 7 am Tomorrow. But woke up to this


    On a clear day, you must have an awesome view.


    Enjoy what remains of the day today, and prepare to be a kid again tomorrow playing with the excavator.

    Yep they go thru a few years or absolute evil. They just wake up one morning and it starts........but I can tell you they come back. I talk to my daughter most every day now. But I am still waiting for that one time when she tells me I was right about something. Just have to have hope!

    My oldest is 27, and now and again she admits that her cocky old dad is right now and again, but it took till her mid-20s to reach that point.

    they already admitted they don’t know the answer to that question.....


    being a lab rat is above my pay grade.....

    Better a lab rate than having them strap a ventilator on you. Once that goes on, the likelihood of it coming off with a positive result is not favorable.

    Oh, it's real, and given the alternative, I'd take it today without reservation.


    I just hung up with a buddy that had Corona months ago and his sense of smell still has not come back. Fortunately, he's not suffering like the thousands of long haulers out there who have been debilitated by this disease.


    My best friend called me Monday as he had just tested positive. He's a builder by trade, a few pounds overweight, and on the diabetic fringe, and I'm really concerned for him.

    Yeah, this quote from that story is particularly interesting:


    "In a study of more than 43,000 people, the vaccine prevented 66% of moderate to severe cases of Covid-19, according to a company statement Friday. And it was particularly effective at stopping severe disease, preventing 85% of severe infections and 100% of hospitalizations and deaths."


    So this means that of the people who receive the Johnson and Johnson vaccine and then are exposed to Covid, 34 out of 100 will get sick. And 19 of those who do get sick will have a moderate case, while 15 more will see a severe infection, but none will result in hospitalization or death? It sounds better than nothing, or even wearing a mask, but it's not ideal.

    Tripod and DJohnson thank you both and all the others who read this and have served for your service.


    While I've not written code for self-driving systems, I've built, written code, and been intimately involved in high-performance computing, mostly on the networking side, for the past two decades (IBM, NEC, Myricom, Solarflare, and Xilinx soon AMD). For the decade and a half before that, I was at IBM Research, focused on making PCs available and easier to use.


    I've pondered retrofitting an existing four-node Raspberry Pi4 cluster into my SS, each with its own camera, as well as additional third-party sensors, to initially provide a security system and eventually collision warning. Recently I assisted my son in building a motion tracking system using Pi3s to study the movements of snakes in response to a stimulus for his wife's Ph.D. Also, now with access to affordable FPGAs (PYNQ-Z1) and some new open-source systems enabling Python programming on them their also a viable option.


    My point is this technology is evolving very rapidly. NASA sent a new rover roughly the size of a SS to Mars last May and Xilinx provided the fully autonomous self-driving technology. Xilinx has been providing the FPGA logic controlling the Mars rovers since the first one touched down decades ago. This new rover makes all the driving decisions, NASA just provides the destination, the rover decides how best to get there.


    https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/


    What an exciting time to be alive.