We got back on the boat two months ago. Spent 6 weeks putting her back together and fixing things (new autopilot computer, gps, engines overheating, ...) and then left for the Keys. Spent a few days each in the Everglades, Marathon, Islamorada, and now in Miami. Miami is crazyville for boats. We rolled into our anchorage a few hours before sunset and there was at least 100 power boats from 20 feet up to 150 foot all partying. They left after sunset and we've now got the place mostly to our selves.
Same day or 24 hour test results are possible. I'm hoping to travel to the Bahamas next month and they require a negative test result 5 days or less before arrival. There are a few labs that offer 24 hour results in Miami/Ft Lauderdale. The difference is that those labs are doing the test in-house vs CVS/Walgreens send them off to be tested elsewhere.
I didn't dig up the patents so I'm not 100% certain but I believe I remember seeing one was for a much more efficient filter that allowed the water to be turned over a lot less frequently than a normal pool. These things are huge and turning them over at a normal pool rate (2-4 times a day) would require massive pumps, filters, and electricity.
There's a housing development in a north dallas suburb (The Lagoon at Windsong Ranch) that has one of these. Same company builds all of them as they have a few patents on the design. Looks kinda cool but I wonder about the long term maintenance required particularly when the pond liner needs to be replaced.
My parents spoil the shit out of their grandkids so we have about 30+ nerf guns as a result. They've got everything from the tiny single shooters up to the dual 25 mag dual barrel machine gun.
I'm not a fan of the guns with clips as once you've blown your load you're a dead man. My favorite is the Double Down as it is fast to reload, cock, and fire:
Google didn't copy the implementation. If I recall they specifically did a clean room implementation.
Here's a simple example from java itself. The java.sql package is an API: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/sql/package-summary.html
Database vendors implement this API so java apps can use their databases. Here is PostgreSQL's implementation https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/publicapi/index.html
Is PostgreSQL infringing the copyright of this API? Can Oracle (also a database vendor) sue PostgreSQL for copyright infringement?
What PostgresSQL did is the exact thing that Google did, only Google implemented a much larger API.
Fuck Oracle. Google is in the right.
Some APIs don't even provide an implementation and it's up to 3rd parties to provide one by design. If I write an implementation for such an API am I infringing the copyright? I would love to know what percentage of an API I need to copy for me to infringe the copyright. Is it 1 method? All methods? Somewhere in between?
We have friends that lost their sailing cat (sister boat to ours) in that storm. My heart breaks for them knowing that they've put a couple of years into building towards a dream and it's gone just like that.
This reminded me of the last time I went to gamestop when the first WoW expansion came out. "Did you preorder?" "Nope!" "We only have copies for those who preordered."
I went to bestbuy down the road and they had a pallet of expansions 15 feet past the entrance. How does a company that sells washing machines do a better job of serving gamers than a game store?
Frontline released "Once Upon a Time in Iraq" last week which tells the story of the war by Iraqis that lived it.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/once-upon-a-time-in-iraq
Fuck Bush.
That looks nice. How often do you polish the stainless?
I think we do it about twice a year and pretty quick at that.. there's just so fucking much of it.
Manheim shares some high level car sales data at https://publish.manheim.com/en/services/consulting/used-vehicle-value-index.html.
"Wholesale used vehicle prices (on a mix-, mileage-, and seasonally adjusted basis) decreased 11.41% month-over-month in April."