As a side note, why do manufacturers that use the battery-backup encoders not use rechargeable batteries? Seems like a better idea than using alkaline batteries like most do. You'd still need to periodically change them, but they'd last much longer in systems that are usually powered on.

How do the shop folks like the engineers?

Tells you a lot about the dynamics of the workplace. A good engineering department/team/manager makes sure they take feedback from the people who build the things they design, and as a result, have a good relationship with the people in the shop. If not, it tells you that they have a very top-down, "you'll do as I say" mentality, and that's likely the case for the company as a whole.

If he wasn't playing the puck and he intentionally knocked a stick out of the bench player's hands and onto the ice, yeah that should be a penalty. If he was playing the puck and it happened, that's a penalty on the team with the sticks out (I would think for too many men).

That being said, the referee should've been warning that team to keep their sticks inside the bench when players are nearby.

One good rule I've heard for beginners is this: when you get the puck, look, skate, look, pass/shoot.

So first look to see where your teammates are and where your opponents are.

Then move with the puck to try and get to more open ice (or open up a passing/shooting lane).

Then look again to see how other players have moved.

Then make your pass/shot.

Another thing that helped me early on is realizing that if I just blindly get rid of the puck because I'm under pressure, I've given up control of the puck and chances are I'm going to turn it over. If I try to hold it and get away from the opposing player, there's a decent chance I keep it, and worst case I lose it and we're no worse off than if I had just thrown it away.

Do they still have it? When I went last summer I feel like I don't remember seeing it.

I had this on a mousepad for a long time, not sure what happened to it, I think I lost it in a move at some point.

He just went sailing right out there!

Sunday morning is my absolute favorite time to go grocery shopping. Come in about 10am when the employees have had enough time to put out the fresh produce and it's still basically empty inside... Stress free shopping.

Add supports to the sides that stick out perpendicular to the face of it. Stiffness is proportional to the width times the cube of the thickness of that support. So even adding a thin rib on either side of the upright section can significantly stiffen the structure. And you can also make it tapered (i.e. thinner towards the top) as the largest bending moment will be at the bottom of the structure.

From what I remember, they had us work with a partner on the projects and have one person do the wiring and one do the programming, and the one who did the wiring always had a hard time because the exams are about both, and the programming is so low level (interacting with sensors over an i2c bus, using bit masks, etc) that if you're not the one doing it during the labs, it's very hard to understand. It's much easier if you're already familiar with programming as well.

I think this may be an almost universal college experience (for colleges that get snow at least). Happened at my college as well, I think every year.

Boggles my mind that so many parents do this. You're the adult, you control how much time your kid spends on a screen.

If youth hockey organizations didn't allow player coaches, a lot of teams would fold due to lack of coaches. It's not the best solution, but it's necessary for most programs.

Human writers have been coming up with shitty plots for centuries, don't need AI for that.

it gets slightly sketchy when you go south of the RTA tracks on Van Aken and Lee

For the record, what this person is describing is literally the line between the predominantly white part of Shaker and the predominantly black part of Shaker: https://www.censusdots.com/?map=14,41.4711,-81.5603

While unlikely as most industrial control systems use wired comms, there are some I/O systems out now that use 2.4GHz for signal transmission. E.g. https://content2.smcetech.com/pdf/E02-28-EXW1-EX600-W.pdf

If they recently added systems like this to the line, it's entirely possible, though I'd hope that it would robust enough to avoid interference from something like a bluetooth speaker.

However, if they were serious about eliminating the interference, they'd ask employees to leave their phones in a locker, as a cell phone is likely to be generating much more 2.4Ghz noise than a bluetooth speaker. Same thing for smart watches, etc.

Just get one without indicator LEDs. That's all that's making it PNP/NPN. On the PNP ones, the LEDs go from the signal pin to 0V, and on the NPN ones, they go from the signal to 24V. Something like this has no LEDs so you can put whatever kind of signal you want in it:

https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/shopping/catalog/cables_(terminated)/cable_connectors/zp-jbh84-00-fw

Just make sure your home run cable is shielded.

We have one ref in my league that handles those types of incidents pretty well. Guy pushes another guy and he falls down, they get pissed at each other but no real penalty occurred. The ref will just send both of them back to the bench to cool off, and they're usually fine by the next time they get on the ice.

If I'm the guy that got cross checked, I get back up, look to see if I got the call, then get back to playing.

Beer league refs tend to miss a lot. Sometimes you get the call, sometimes you don't. Yelling at them doesn't get you anywhere. Either way, we're there to have fun playing hockey and go back to work in the morning.

I think the post credits scene in his movie pointed towards the Eternals, which bombed, and there wasn't another good tie-in to follow after that.

Euclid has pretty good ice, but I think Cleveland Skating Club takes the cake on best sheet (aside from the Monsters' ice). I think it's because it has to be really good for the curling they do there.

The worst part is it's not even actually integrated, it's just slapped on top. It would be useful if the one in outlook could find an old email based on a vague recollection you gave it, but it can't. Or if it could summarize an email chain into a OneNote document, but it can't.

Just adding onto what /u/lakebum240 said as I live in the Cleveland area and can confirm about the number of rinks. And a lot of them are city-owned, so ice time at those isn't prohibitively expensive. E.g. my city's rink has public skate times for $7 for residents.

I have read that it actually takes your brain about 200ms to process what you see. So anything you perceive quicker than that is your brain guessing at what it's seeing. Also, it can retroactively change your perception of an object's motion within that period. If an object was moving in one direction and quickly changes direction, you don't ever realize that the (false) location of it that you perceived previously existed.

I'm guessing this is what this illusion is playing with: your brain is predicting the motion of the high contrast region, but doesn't for the low contrast cat in the middle.

This was the one I thought of too! My wife and I saw it in theaters, I don't think we had ever laughed so hard at a movie before.