Ryan Hunter

Chaotic-Neutral INTP.
WA mountain man.
TIG (Stainless+Al) enthusiast.
D1.1 FCAW certified (Unlimited thickness any position).

[Ryan Hunter @RyanHunter1115]

If anyone is looking to put a certified welder into space to build a space-station or a base on the lunar surface, I know a guy who's great with aluminum and improvised solutions. He's also cool with the hazards. HMU.

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It's also not even when the last slaves were freed. It's just inconvenient to point out that New Jersey didn't ratify the 13th amendment until Jan 23rd of the following year. They still had enslaved people in the state until then, and it took a Republican winning the state Gubernatorial and assuming office on Jan 20, 1866 to push through concepts like "all men are created equal". The prior governor Joel Parker supported the union war effort against the south but felt that the emancipation enforcement in his own state by the federal government was overreach and refused to ratify on those grounds.

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@philthatremains Dude, right? I bought what I could through the IPO. I'd love to weld for them, but I'm not super tolerant of hot environments. I'm regretting not sucking it up and moving to TX in about 2020 with my wife and my welding hood.

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@MarioNawfal Saw this one time.

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@Timcast Like... When a breeze blows over, does it sound more like a flute or like the mouth of a jug?

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@Timcast Must measure gapiness caused by gay penis. Should probably also check the depth of commitment while they're in there.

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@MarioNawfal @christopherrufo I wonder. When Gavin inserts his unlubed tool, do you think he also gauges the depth of the commitment too?

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@MarioNawfal @christopherrufo They measure the gapiness created by the gay penis.

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They probably already have signs printed for protesters for when the day comes that somebody tries to pop the hood and look inside. "Hands off my (innocent legitimate program/system with massive amounts of crime and fraud hidden inside)!"
They know the vast majority of people are incredibly easy to dupe into believing that the "other" is out to get them and they need to do something about it.

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@philthatremains Everybody loves Flannel-Daddy.

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@MarioNawfal So you're saying that the helmet doesn't actually help?

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@elonmusk I also love the people of SpaceX. Someday, I hope to make more stuff for the company, having only ever worked on one project with a former employer. I'd seek employment there if it would provide me an opportunity to ditch this communist hell-hole (WA) and go to Idaho.

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@philthatremains Chris Helali (commie) at DD Geopolitics got himself put on a no fly list. More of this. This is what I voted for.

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I just finished another concrete forming attachment. This one was far more complex than usual. It consisted of three separate radii, two rolled parts, three parts cut from pipe and tube, a bunch of flat pieces cut out on the plasma table, and one piece bent in the press. Our press is too weak to bend big stuff like this, so the hopper had to be made from separate parts that were welded together. Normally we cut the top and fold it up to fill in the top part of the form where the concrete settles while being vibrated, but this shape didn’t have a one-size-fits-all solution for that, so I designed a flat component that intersects the mold form at the hopper instead. I don’t think it’s to 1/64 accuracy on this one, but it’s still well within the 1/16 tolerance I was given. I think the sloped piece with the strange cut came out really nice. It fit up better than the tube pieces did, since those tend to banana on you when you slice them.

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With everyone always complaining about thermal optics in @Battlefield, I wanted to put in my two cents and include a video to help explain what I’m describing here.
In the video, I have several clips showing color scenes alongside the exact same scenes viewed through an actual FLIR optic. There are also two still images taken from the optic to illustrate how Automatic Gain Control (AGC) works. These stills include the black-to-white histogram present in the frame so you can better see how the scope renders a living target.
The first still shows a dog in full daylight under direct sun. The second shows a man walking at night with a rifle (there is no accompanying video for this one). That image was captured in complete darkness at the same location as the daytime clips. It was taken during an investigation into a late-night firearm discharge. It was raining steadily that night, and those conditions made the man’s IR signature far more visible than in the daytime examples.
A thermal scope is fundamentally different from a standard optic. Most modern FLIR systems use Automatic Gain Control (AGC) to map the full black-to-white gradient to the infrared emissions in front of the sensor. This often includes digital zoom, while higher-end models feature specialized lenses for true optical zoom and a much sharper image. The system continuously adjusts so that the coldest areas appear black, the warmest areas appear white, and everything in between shows as shades of gray.
Because it adjusts automatically with every frame, details can appear and disappear as you scan across a scene. In a hot, sunny environment, cooler spots—such as shadows on walls—become clearly visible, while hot spots reflected off IR-reflective surfaces stand out. Conversely, cooler areas tend to wash out into a dark, low-detail image. If you scan into those cooler regions and exclude the warmer parts of the scene (for example, in a forest), more detail emerges. If you look up at the sky, which is essentially non-emissive, the warmer forest below can wash out into a bright, low-detail white area.
Warm environments make spotting living things difficult. Even on cooler days, direct sunlight heats up rocks, tree trunks, stumps, cars, debris, and sun-facing building surfaces. These warm objects can obscure people and animals in the thermal view. They also create opportunities to hide from FLIR by masking or blocking your own IR signature.
If any Battlefield developers are interested, I’d be happy to capture additional specific FLIR imagery and video in a variety of environments and weather conditions. This could include different times of day, seasonal variations, urban vs. rural settings, rain, fog, snow, or other challenging scenarios that would be especially useful for a more realistic and thorough overhaul of the thermal optics in the game. I saw some work was done to this in the most recent update, but it can always be better, and in a hypothetical remake of a map like Dawnbreaker (BF4) it would be interesting to play matches where FLIR optics start as a useful item, but become less useful as the match progresses and the sun rises.

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@Timcast

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones is testifying on Capitol Hill today and has plead the fifth to all of the following questions:

Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats?

How much fraud is too much fraud?

How many foreign contributions did you accept?

How much did you receive from Russia?

Why did your legal team quit?

The Democrat party really is entirely propped up by fraud.

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@Timcast Lol.

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@RealGrapedrop I'd drive one. For now the '89 diesel flatbed is the best I can do.

[SpaceWeatherNews @SunWeatherMan]

Hideous. Hopefully this is wrong.

Full analysis coming tonight on YouTube

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@michaelmalice @balajis This but in space.