1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Awesome

 

Some say that welcoming everybody in the new member forum is the quickest way to 50 posts.

 

Hey! Don't steal my cred!

 

My bad

 

New member intro threads don’t accumulate any post counts, or did you know that already

 

Sly like a rabbit

 

First to driver should be 2/4wd, second should be fwd/rwd and third is high/low

 

haha

 

Are we shit posting again?

 

Are we ever not?

 

You guys, I just bought a DJI Avata drone. Got a good deal on it but it’s for the drone only. Just ordered the goggles and remote control from DJI….ooofff. Guess it’s not gonna be that cheap of a deal after all. The wife is gonna be pissed.

 

Let me guess... I'm assuming the ni_ prefix is for National Instruments? Those guys don't know how to make small packages for anything

 

Yep, It’s for Labview. New software installs now take anywhere from 1-3 hours to get done nowadays.

I literally took 1/2 day to download and install Intel’s Quartus Prime software for FPGA development. Whole program is 50 Gbytes to download and install.

 

Got my gas tank filled, battery disconnected and some window/door plastic wrap insulation for tonight. Need to drip both hot and cold water in -7 degree temps. Figure I’ll keep the heat at 60F so I’m not doubling my heat usage for the month with just 1 day.

If anyone asks me to come into work, I’ll tell them I’ve got a sore throat and am working from home. I don’t want to know how to kill my starter at sub-zero temps.

 

We used NI's TestStand stuff for an test automation platform we were hashing through in Munich like 15 years ago now. I remember it being super flexible, but not necessarily user friendly. Engineering tools designed by engineers, for engineers, and none of it was intuitive for non-engineers.

 

My son had one of those DJI drones when he was in Navy pilot training in Corpus. He had permission to fly it at the airfield but that stupid smart drone decided to auto land thinking it was at an airport and ended up at the bottom of a lake on the aerodrome

 

I'm going to vote TRD manicure set & a pair of white TRD gloves.

 

https://youtu.be/bq3ivjp4mjA

 

Yea we’re looking at -48 with the windchill. I’ll probably burn a cord of wood in the next 48 hours

 

Damn that’s crazy. Y’all stay safe!

 

I'm not even going out tomorrow. Stocked up on food, beer and coffee.

Although if I was going to put in a new starter, it would be fun to see if it would turn over in -10 degree weather.

Reading up on fluids, only gear oil has an issue at -10F supposedly but that's a generic number.

 

Stay toasty my friend

 

I’ll be delivering boxes out of an aluminum shit box til about 2200
I probably won’t be able to make it out of work lol

 

If its under 50* much longer i'm going down to mexico. Everything shut down when it was in the 20's here in dec.

 

It was -10 to -20 here last year? 2 years ago? For about a week straight and the Tundra started and drove just fine but it did get an extended warm up during those days.

 

You know what's awesome? When your brain is too dumb to know what a day off is so it wakes you up at 545 as usual, with no alarm or anything. I swear, if it was a work day and I forgot my alarm, I'd sleep till 7.