![]() Put simply, this is the calculator I wish I’d had from freshman year on up, and the one I still use every day. It comes jam-packed with all sorts of unit conversions, simple solvers for quadratic and cubic functions, and can even numerically integrate a lot of problems for you. At that time, the TI-36X Pro was the most expensive, at all of about $18. Not knowing any better, I checked out the price range. NCEES allows any TI-30 or TI-36 series calculators on that exam. When I was starting to study up for the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination, required to get your Engineering-In-Training (EIT) License, I headed over to check out what calculators are allowed on that exam. This is the calculator I’ve used since junior year of undergrad, and I highly, highly recommend it. Best General-Purpose Calculator: Texas Instruments TI-36X Pro My top recommendations are the TI-36X Pro and the Casio equivalent FX-991EX. It pays to get a calculator that’s on the NCEES-approved calculator list, to ensure you can use it on your licensing exams down the road. Make sure to grab one of these cheap beater calculators to always have in your backpack, and odds are it’s going to just keep kicking well into your engineering career. This is where your good, lightweight, general-purpose calculator comes in. Other times, especially in Calculus classes, calculators that can do the problems entirely for you will be banned. Oftentimes professors will ban fancy Computer-Aided Algebra Systems calculators, or those with keyboards, from being used in exams to try to prevent questions walking off. Professors are sometimes a little paranoid about students stealing exam answers, and given some of the fraternity test bank scandals I heard of in my undergrad career, I can’t say those fears are entirely unfounded. ![]() Runner-Up Graphing Calculator: Casio PRIZM FX-CG50.Best Graphing Calculator: Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus CE.Runner-Up General-Purpose Calculator: Casio FX-991EX.Best General-Purpose Calculator: Texas Instruments TI-36X Pro.
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10/5/2023 0 Comments Far away from home karaokeHandheld top-addressed mics (where you point the top of the mic toward your mouth) are ideal for karaoke, allowing the performer to hold the mic more naturally. You can also belt out a tune close to a dynamic mic and still get a good sound. Microphone Type: To capture loud vocals in a potentially noisy room as opposed to a studio environment, dynamic mics are a great choice. Here are some of the key specs I looked for. Since microphones range so widely in terms of price, I put together a selection that includes top-quality mics for singers whose love of karaoke is a cover for a secret ambition to be on “American Idol” or “The Voice,” as well as more affordable mics perfect for shout-laughing lyrics with your friends at a party. Best Overall: Shure BLX288/B58 - Best for Adults: Shure SM58 - Best Wireless: Tonor TW-820 - Best Budget: Bonaok Q78 - Best for the Car: Singing Machine Carpool Karaoke 2.0 How We Picked the Best Karaoke Microphones Here’s what you need to know in order to choose the best karaoke microphones for your machine to have a fun night in, or as part of a journey toward professional live performances. While many microphones can capture your voice and turn it into an electric signal that can be recorded or amplified, certain types of mics stand out when you’re belting out a power ballad or pretending with a couple of friends that you’re 3/7ths of BTS. ![]() Karaoke microphones transform singing along to your favorite tunes into a polished performance that might just awaken your inner rock star. 10/5/2023 0 Comments Lil sip of sunshine beerThis was part of an AMAZING run of gift beers I’ve been on….this, Heady, and 4 Bourbon Country in the last few weeks. And now that Gilmer County has loosened up its laws, you’ll find Cartecay Sol among other Georgia craft beers at Cartecay Vineyards’ on-site tasting barn.Quick update on this beer before the review. The latest batch of Cartecay Sol was brewed earlier in 2021, but Fennell waited until the season was just right to put it on tap at his Blue Ridge tasting room and beer garden, where you can enjoy an ice-cold glass in an open-air environment reminiscent of a German Biergarten. You’ll also find it on tap at Cartecay Wine & Craft, Lykins’ tasting room with locations in Downtown Ellijay and Blue Ridge. He also plays around with the complementing ingredients with each batch, sometimes switching wildflower for clover honey or changing the proportions of saffron. “The main ingredient is Cartecay’s grapes, so the grapes are going to differ from year to year,” Fennell explains. The flavor profile has also changed a little through the years, just as you would expect with different vintages of a beloved wine. “I best describe it as a ‘sitting-poolside-on-a-hot-sunny-day’ type of beer,” he says.įennel adds, “It’s a very clean, easy-drinking and unusual beer.” Though Cartecay Sol is technically a beer, Lykins says it ages like wine, so each new release really reaches its peak as the season slips into summer. ![]() “I have a lot of people who come to the tasting room who say they don’t like beer, but they like wine,” Fennell says. “As far as I know, it’s relatively rare and doesn’t get done very often,” Lykins says. The result is a beverage that appeals widely to both beer and wine lovers. In fact, unlike pyment (a blend of wine and mead) and braggot (a blend of mead and beer), this sort of beer/wine hybrid doesn’t even have an official name. ”But is it beer … or is it wine? Legally speaking, because of how it is fermented, the final product is classified as a beer, but it’s a rather unique offering you won’t find in many other places. in Rabun County along with barley and saffron. “It has hops in it, but very little,” Fennell explains. He then turns over the must-the unadulterated unfermented grape juice-to Fennell, who works his magic at the brewery, adding honey from Blue Ridge Honey Co. The process begins at Cartecay Vineyards, where Lykins harvests, crushes and destems his estate Vidal Blanc grapes. ”So, when Fennell approached him several years ago about collaborating, Lykins was all in. The result? Cartecay Sol-which means sunshine-the perfect local brew for those hot summer days. As the first vineyard in the area, Lykins has long been a champion of synergy among local businesses, particularly as other vineyards have emerged, helping to make Ellijay into a flourishing wine country. “I really believe that as the water in the harbor rises, all the boats rise,” he says. “Everybody works together-the more the merrier. ![]() But Fennell’s version would also pay homage to North Georgia with as many ingredients as he could source locally, including grapes from nearby Cartecay Vineyards in Ellijay. “I’m a big proponent of sourcing local stuff and doing stuff together locally as much as possible,” says Larry Lykins, Cartecay Vineyards’ owner. in Blue Ridge in 2014, he was eager to experiment with ingredients that blended his two favorite beverages.įennell drew inspiration from a beer called Midas Touch by Dogfish, which incorporates the ingredients found in the 2,700-year-old drinking vessels of King Midas found in the Middle East-barley, grapes, saffron and honey. Though he eventually turned his full-time attention to beer, opening Fannin Brewing Co. Tom Fennell was on one of the first crests of the Georgia craft beer wave when he started brewing in 2012, but before that, he toyed with the idea of opening a winery and even planted a small vineyard at his home in North Georgia. It’s an adventure full of creativity and endless possibilities-for both the beer drinker and the craft brewer. THERE’S NO DOUBT the craft beer craze is here to stay with more than 150 breweries and counting across the state of Georgia, there’s always something new brewing, and the possibility of stumbling across something unique is always just a sip away. Yes, now we provide SSH access to the VM. access over SSH:įinally, let’s add SSH access now, at least within the VNet subnet: Notice, it has only that single private network address:Īnd, the inbound ports are not usable for e.g. But, because it has no inbound ports or public IP addresses, we cannot access it. ![]() This will result with these resources:Īt this point, we have a running VM. There are no public inbound ports.Īlthough not needed for this exercise, I encourage enabling auto-shutdown for test VMs to limit extra costs: So, it’s not accessible (attackable) from the outside world. We place the VM within the subnet named ‘FrontEnd’, part of our VNet. We will add SSH access later on.įor now, we continue with the Networking settings: This will render the VM to be useless at first but it also provides the insights we do not offer public access. Notice that we do not offer public inbound ports… So technically, two layers of credentials will be in place. There you need to pass additional ADD credentials for Azure Portal access. Yes, the VM has its own credentials but later on, we will see that the VM is only accessible using the Bastion connection. I create the Linux VM having a name and password. If needed, adding a VM with a full Windows operating system and RDP access is possible too. Note: because this VM has only a command line to access it, we will use SSH to access it. We start with a separate resource group (I use ‘jumpbox-vm-weu-rg’) and add a Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS VM: The outside world will never know it exists. We will add a VM that has NO public endpoint, inside the VNet. Let’s add a Virtual Machine that will act as a jump box later on. The VNet is still empty, it has no devices (Azure services) yet. ![]() Note: basic DDoS Protection is good enough for us. Note: here we are offered to add a Bastion Host already. Regarding security, we leave everything for now: This results in adding this one subnet within the wizard: This way, you better understand what resources are living where.īoth to satisfy the VNet creation wizard (you need at least one subnet) and because resources (like the VM we are about to add) need to be part of a subnet, we add this ‘frontend’ subnet within the VNet:Īfter filling in the (smaller) range, click the Add button. Note: it is advised to use another IP address range than your own local range. VNets can be peered when the private IP ranges do not overlap. This is from another unrelated experiment within the same subscription. I provide an address space of 10.1.0.0/16 for a sufficient range of IP addresses: Give it a nice name and resource group:Ī virtual network spans a certain range of (private) IP addresses. We start with setting up a virtual network in Azure. your security officer, company policies, penetration testers, or your mom □ Set up a VNET Note: although the solution is known to be secure, please check everything with e.g. This results in a VM that is only accessible for those having access to the Azure subscription: Later on, we look at securing connections to the next device. Let’s set up a jump box in Azure in a number of blog posts. ![]() Azure Bastion only works while using the Azure portal. Using Azure Bastion, only people having access to the Azure portal can make use of that service to access other specific Azure resources (living in the same virtual network, on one or more subnets). Last year, I wrote this blog post about Azure Bastion already because it is a service that we can use for exactly this: The jump box should be made accessible using other credentials apart from the other connection.Įven better, if these credentials are put in AAD so the login credentials are related to the user logging in, access can be revoked once people are not part of that trusted group of users anymore (e.g. The trick with a jump box is to work with multiple layers of security.įirst, you have to log in to one device. Still, credentials once remembered by a user, are hard to forget. Think about an RDP session or using an SSH connection. ![]() Yes, you can probably access devices in some sort of secure way already using device-specific credentials. This is a device in your network that supports access to other devices in a secure way. When you work with Azure and Azure IoT, at some point you have to think about a jump box (aka jump server). 10/5/2023 0 Comments Darkest legal tint in azYou can then bring your receipts to court with your vehicle to show that you have fixed the problem. You should return to a merchant or store that installed your windows if you have been stopped by officials. So this means that you need to correct the dark shade and get a more compliant shade. This means that you only pay a small fine while proving that you have repaired your vehicle to eliminate the infraction. Arizona has a repair ticket called the Equipment Repair Mandate. As soon as the officer determines the darkness of your windows, you will receive your ticket. Most officers can use colorimeters on their vehicles. While it would be nice to have our cars as shaded as possible for comfort, in AZ there are only certain levels of car window tint that are allowed by law. Ask a local and they`ll tell you that tinting car windows in AZ is essential to prevent our famous hot and bright sun that can ravage our cars and bodies while we park in downtown Phoenix or make our daily commute along crowded highways like I-10. For safety reasons, we must comply with the Arizona State Department of Transportation`s window tint regulations. If you don`t, you can pay a fine of up to $250. ![]() You only pay a small fine while providing proof that you are removing the tint from the glass to eliminate the violation. If you end up getting a ticket, Arizona State has a «repair ticket» called an equipment repair order. 10/5/2023 0 Comments 1967 thunderbird for sale ebay![]() ![]() Glad we can look back and laugh at ourselves now. So yes, they did make 4 doors, and they were gas eaters. By the time he got through scaring and badgering the hell out of us, we turned the car over to him for FREE, and I believe we even “thanked” him for “helping” us out of our dilemma. No brainer…we gotta sell this thing !!! But to WHO ? Finally my dear old dad (rest his soul) shows up at our house with a “friend” who’s a used car dealer and is willing to “help”. Odd, even days, long lines, outrageous price increases, and often enough you couldn’t buy a drop of gas no matter how much you were willing to pay. Anyway, we paid $800.00 for the T-bird, installed a $200.00 complete exhaust system and within weeks,…the “GAS SHORTAGE” hit. ![]() There is a 390 V-8 with an automatic transmission to power you along. According to the seller this car has 38,000 actual certified miles in total. This is one of the 37,422 which listed for 4,704 in ’67. Small claims court judge awarded us $2.00 per week from this little SOB. Listed Carbondale, Illinois is this like new 1967 Thunderbird Landau with a negotiable price of 14,900. It’s Spring 1973, married less than a year (struggling), and we found a 68 T-bird, 4 door, to replace my bride’s 66 Mustang which was hit and “totaled” by a 15 year old, “uninsured” motorist who took his grandmother’s car for a joy ride. If you want a clean T-bird, it may make sense to contact this owner. You are asked to make contact for additional details. The owner will show you the car by appointment only. We don’t know how often the car is started and/or driven. The owner does not let us know if this car is a driver. The present owner purchased this car in 1981 from the original owner, drove it home and parked it in the garage. This car is wearing the original factory paint. Is that the original spare sitting there? We don’t know and it isn’t mentioned in the ad. In the beautiful original red interior you have, power windows, a tilt steering-wheel, A/C, and the factory installed radio.Īll appears to be in order in the backseat as well. This is one of the 37,422 which listed for $4,704 in ’67.Īccording to the seller this car has 38,000 actual certified miles in total. Listed here on craigslist Carbondale, Illinois is this “like new” 1967 Thunderbird Landau with a negotiable price of $14,900. This “T-Bird” has spend the last 34 years in the garage. 10/5/2023 0 Comments Git stash apply vs popAs we tend to find out in our day-to-day programming, real-world use-cases aren't usually that simple. In the examples above, we used stash in the simplest context. $ git stash applyĪnd just like that, you have your changes back. We're back to where we started as if we never made the changes at all! Now you can go off and fix that bug.īut what about restoring your changes? To get them back, we can simply use the apply sub-command, which takes the last-stashed changes and puts them back into your working directory. To verify, look for changes using git status: $ git status Saved working directory and index state WIP on master: bbf6ef9 Initial commitĪs you can see, HEAD is now back to our last commit, which in this case is the initial commit. To avoid losing the current updates you've made, you can just stash the changes instead and get them back later without messing up your commit history. However, the changes aren't finished, and you need to switch to a different branch to quickly fix a bug before continuing on with the current feature. No changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") " to discard changes in working directory) Let's say you're working on a new feature and you made some modifications to your code, and you now have one or more files with uncommitted modifications: $ git status The stash command takes the uncommitted changes in your working directory, both the updated tracked files and staged changes, and saves them. Luckily, Git provides a mechanism to handle cases like this through the command git stash. However, you don't want to lose the changes you've made already, but they're not yet ready to commit the updates since they're not finished. Stashing just the index (staged changes) in Git is more difficult than it should be.If you've been working with Git long enough, you've probably had times where you made changes to your codebase, but needed to switch branches or work with the latest working version of your code. ![]() ![]() This answer is therefore obsolete for Git 2.35+. UPDATE January 2022: Git 2.35 has been released, and stash now supports a -staged parameter. $ git stash pop # to finish work on the saved changes $ git switch fixup-branch # switch to another branch $ git commit -m 'Massive' # commit fully tested changes $ git stash push -staged # save these changes to the stash $ git add -patch foo # add unrelated changes to the index Only the commit ends-up being in the stash and not on the current branch. This is similar to committing the staged changes, Unrelated issue that you don't want to forget to fix, you can do theĬhange(s), stage them, and use git stash push -staged to stash them When you are in the middle of massive changes and you find some Git stash now includes in its man page: Saving unrelated changes for future use The -patch option has priority over this one. This is similar toīasic git commit except the state is committed to the stash instead Stash only the changes that are currently staged. This option is only valid for push and save commands. Git stash now includes in its man page: -S -staged Unlike ' stash push -patch', -staged supports use of any tool to select the changes to stash-out, including, but not limited to ' git add -interactive' ( man). This mode allows to easily stash-out for later reuse some changes unrelated to the current work in progress. ![]() ![]() (Merged by Junio C Hamano - gitster - in commit 44ac8fd, ) stash: implement '-staged' option for 'push' and 'save' See commit a8a6e06 (), and commit 41a28eb () by Sergey Organov ( sorganov). So this is now officially supported (8 years later). With Git 2.35 (Q1 2022), " git stash" ( man) learned the -staged option to stash away what has been added to the index (and nothing else). Then you can add another alias and run git move-staged: git config -global alias.move-staged '!bash -c "git stash-staged git commit -m "temp" git stash git reset -hard HEAD^ git stash pop"' If you do not want to keep staged files and want move them into stash. Git stash save -patch # for older git versionsĪnd git will ask you for each change in your files to add or not into stash.Īlias for DOUBLE STASH: git config -global alias.stash-staged '!bash -c "git stash -keep-index git stash push -m "staged" -keep-index git stash pop you can stage your files and then run git stash-staged.Īs result your staged files will be saved into stash. With latest git you may use -patch option git stash push -patch # since 2.14.6 This is similar to basic git commit except the state is committed to the stash instead of current branch. Here you can find how to stash only unstaged changes. Create the alias for this command: git config -global alias.stashs 'stash push -S'. 10/4/2023 0 Comments Roadblock wcw theme![]() ![]() Instead, we just cut to Piper coming out as if this was modern day WWE. Usually they would cut to the announcers for a brief intro and then go right into the action. This felt so strange because this was indeed a change to the formula of these Nitros. Rowdy Roddy Piper started off the show with a long promo to set up the rest of Nitro. That show felt like filler when compared to this show.Ĭommentators (First Hour): Tony Schiavonie and Larry ZbyszkoĬommentators (Second Hour): Tony Schiavonie, Bobby Heenan and Mike Tenay There was hardly any follow up on the big Sting angle from last week so it’s not really worth me doing a recap of that show. There were good matches baked in with some horrible matches which is typical WCW at this point. The crowd was hot, the big segments were hot and there were fabulous promos up and down the show. It just felt like the stars were aligned for a big WCW day where they can get the upper-hand on the heels for a change. They booed the heels of the nWo and cheered for the heroes of WCW as intended during this show. This was also the first time in a long time where the New World Order was mostly hated by the fans. This show in particular felt like a big show with the returns of Rowdy Roddy Piper, Ric Flair and Kevin Greene in “Horsemen country”. It’s time for WCW Monday Nitro in Charlotte, North Carolina which was typically a big city for WCW. Links to the previous posts are at the bottom of this post. This post is part of an ongoing series where we’re reviewing every episode of WCW Nitro from start to finish. This is where we’re taking a stroll down memory lane at wrestling history. 10/4/2023 0 Comments Polycarbonate pergola roof![]() It’s not the cheapest project, but it’s worth it!! I do have friends who live with a lot of sun and they haven’t experienced that either. We don’t have enough sun here and haven’t had that happen. When the polycarbonate is attacked by the UV, it can turn yellow. WILL THE POLYCARBONATE ROOFING TURN YELLOW? ![]() The only time it is a little louder is when it hails. It really isn’t super loud, I actually love the sound of it. WHEN IT RAINS DOES IT MAKE A LOT OF NOISE? Really our deck stays protected year round with just a little rain on the edges. I talked above about having the polycarbonate panels stick out more and the front of the deck would be protected more – so it depends on that. We don’t bring in any of our furniture or cushions. They let in a lot of light, that is why we went with these and so happy we did! IS THE DECK PROTECTED FROM RAIN/SNOW WITH THE COVERED PERGOLA?įor the most part it does. CAN YOU STILL SEE LIGHT THROUGH THE CLEAR PANELS? They do have a little we need to clean off, but this is from 2 years of not cleaning them. You can see in these photos that they are still clear from debris. DO THE POLYCARBONATE CLEAR ROOFING PANELS TAKE A LOT OF UPKEEP? You DO need to overlap so take that into account. Make sure to get it right the first time so you don’t have any unwanted holes. Now the install, make sure to predrill each hole before using the screws. I do have to say I still don’t regret it. It probably wasn’t the best option for all the rain we have and if we did the longer it would be less rain on the deck front. We went with the first one, honestly for looks. You can see here the three different lengths. Installing the panels – it was so hard to decide how long to do them in the front. Looking back, we wish we did more closure strips to help with the corrugated panels longevity. Since our pergola was white, we painted all the closure strips to match. * PAINT AND SUPPLIES IF YOU NEED TO PAINT. * TUFTEX WHITE GALVANIZED SELF-DRILLING ROOFING SCREWS *First you must have your pergola built, and figure out the size of covered area you are doing then buy accordingly. It’s really that EASY! Let me show you all the details though! WHAT SUPPLIES ARE NEEDED: I won’t be doing a step by step tutorial, because we did it so quickly and in the dark. Today I am sharing what we used and answering all the questions I get including how they last after years of use! I will tell you that we are SO happy with using the polycarbonate clear roofing panels. If you are thinking about adding a roof to your pergola, but there are different options and you don’t know what to choose. We covered ours using clear roof panels and so happy we did! I will share with you what we used and how its held up over 2 years! Are you wondering how to cover your pergola, but don’t want it to feel dark and enclosed. 10/4/2023 0 Comments A muse of history![]() Polyhymnia was the Muse of sacred hymns and agriculture. Euterpe was the Muse music, melancholic poetry. Her representation symbolizes history, embracing all places and times. She carries a trumpet in her left hand and a book written by Thucydides in her right and is frequently associated with a globe. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. The Nine Muses were named: Calliope was the Muse of epic poetry. Clio, to praise or sing, was the Muse of historians The Muse Clio. ![]() Clio, sometimes referred to as 'the Proclaimer', is often depicted with an open scroll, book, or set of tablets. She is sometimes considered the mother of Hymenaios or of Hyacinthos, the son of Pieres. She is usually protrayed with a scroll or with books. Calliope (also spelt Kalliope) is the Muse of epic poetry and heroic song in Greek mythology.She is considered the leader of the Muses and the most honoured of them all. Clio is depicted here writing and surrounded by. Clio or Cleo, is one of the Nine Muses of Olympus. Let’s meet these 9 so inspiring creatures Apollo and the 9 Muses Dancing by Baldassare Peruzzi (14811536) The 9 muses They are 9 muses and each one is linked to some scientific or artistic component. Clio, the Greek muse of history, is the daughter of Zeus and Titaness Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. It was the 9 muses that inspired the name of the Museums. ![]() If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The 9 muses are characters from Greek mythology that inspire the arts and sciences. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. |
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