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  1. ShakyJake

    Humans

    Really love this series. That was a very powerful scene when Max was praying to God. I fear this show is too cerebral for the average American viewer, though.
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    FireTV Stick

    Okay, found this post on Reddit: This fixed my issue. Video now looks great. HOWEVER, now I have no audio for some files. I'm noticing some media's audio is listed as "Unknown (AC3 5.1)" and these are the ones I'm getting zilch. I do not have a receiver, just using the TV's stereo speakers...
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    FireTV Stick

    Yeah that's not the problem. The Firestick is literally 5 feet away from the wireless router. I have zero problems with Plex streaming to the Chromecast and a WDTV Live which is on the other side of the house. Not sure how others aren't experiences quality issues unless they're either blind...
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    FireTV Stick

    Yeah, I can tell the bit-rate is being set way too low. For example, you know the HBO snowy-TV screen intro? It's super blocky during that sequence. I can't find any setting that controls the bit-rate other than the Plex setting. The Firestick network settings claim that the network quality...
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    FireTV Stick

    I picked up a Firestick during PrimeDay. I already own a Chromecast and that pretty much worked right out of the box. I use Plex as my mediaserver. However, the Firestick video quality looks like absolute shit - close to a VHS tape. I've tried setting the Plex App video quality option to...
  6. ShakyJake

    The Strain

    Premiere was awesome, in my humble opinion. Blind kids buried in dirt was creepy as hell. I still don't understand why they are having Corey Stoll wear that wig...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Actually, I read (most) of that book a couple years ago. I distinctly remember the "only one return statement" edict. I use Resharper and it often suggests using return statements to reduce nesting. It does make code look cleaner, but I can see where it could get confusing. Although I...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Our application? Entire methods are wrapped in try/catch blocks (oh, and these methods are often dozens of lines).
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    Amazon Prime Day - July 15th

    Heh, I just happened to look at Slickdeals and saw the post on $25 Firesticks. "Hey, that's a good deal". Clicked buy and purchased. Didn't mentally register the "94% claimed" when I had hit add to cart.
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    When does all this shit start?!

    You sure about this? I'm reading elsewhere that X-Files isn't until early 2016.
  11. ShakyJake

    Group tour recommendations?

    That's fine. I misspoke when saying "guide". Trip organizer is more than adequate for my needs. Thanks for the comments!
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    Group tour recommendations?

    I have my eye onUtah Parks Circuit, Wild Western USA, America's Cowboy Country. I really want to see Monument Valley.
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    Group tour recommendations?

    Does anyone here have experience with group tours? Specifically, I'd like recommendations for any good tour services that offer these. I've run across "TrekAmerica" and "IntrepidTravel" in my Google searches which appear to have mostly good reviews. Currently I'm mostly interested in tours of...
  14. ShakyJake

    Suits

    Rachel has chicken legs. Pretty face but that's about it. Personally, I like Scottie the most.
  15. ShakyJake

    Trove: Scott's Trion on voxels

    It must be awesome because I'm here sitting in a 1 hour queue..
  16. ShakyJake

    Dark Matter

    Episode before last stated that clones have a "shelf life" of a couple days. Unless these are super clones. Anyway, I continue to enjoy this series. Likable cast. Love the android.
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    Terminator Genisys (2015)

    Sat down to watch T2 last night which I actually haven't seen in quite a few years. Such a great, great movie. The special FX and action scenes are still thoroughly enjoyable. Soundtrack is also amazing.
  18. ShakyJake

    Terminator Genisys (2015)

    He was laid off before he had the chance.
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    Terminator Genisys (2015)

    I saw Genisys yesterday. I was really pumped to see Arnie reprise his Terminator role again, but this was just so 'meh'. I think my biggest disappointed was in the action scenes. One of the things that define Terminator movies (at least in 2 and 3), is the over-the-top destruction wrought...
  20. ShakyJake

    No Man's Sky

    My concern is that, with it being procedurally generated on such a massive scale, that eventually you'll start seeing the same old shit over and over again with just slight differences. I LOVE open world games and have been dying for an awesome space exploration simulator (hell, I spent days...
  21. ShakyJake

    No Man's Sky

    But, theoretically, you could tell your online pals to meet up at planet "X" and you'd all see each other?
  22. ShakyJake

    No Man's Sky

    Wait, I thought this was a single player game with some co-op? Certainly not a "MMO".
  23. ShakyJake

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Haha.. what the hell is this from?
  24. ShakyJake

    Windows 10

    Sooo..has anyone seen a RTM image floating around yet?
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    Naked and Afraid

    Glad Ms. Vajayjay's secondary hut efforts were vindicated. Hey, at least she wasdoingsomething rather than lying around complaining (which she admittedly kinda did the first two days but she obviously had an allergic reaction to something). Surprised they lost so little weight. They must've...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'm too much of a perfectionist. I'd start rewriting people's code. And if someone rewrote mine a fist-fight would ensue.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

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    Wayward Pines

    Wait, what? No, there was no memory implant. Po cutting the oil lines happened in the past - in 2014 or whenever. Mom and son were then put in deep freeze and woken up two thousand years later.
  29. ShakyJake

    Tyrant

    Wow, three days in the desert without water. Impressive.
  30. ShakyJake

    Tablets

    I updated my Nexus 7 to Android 5 (is that Lollipop?). It's slow as shit now. I've performed a factory reset and cleared the cache which improved it some. But it's still close to being unusable.
  31. ShakyJake

    Jurassic Park 4

    I did like the idea of using raptors for the War on Terror.
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    Looking for a list of movies

    2010: The Year We Make Contact If they have an interest in space exploration. Otherwise probably will be boring to them.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    The issue is that our guy is assuming a value will always be present in a data set. Since our application allows the user to do custom naming, then it's a situation where the query may not find what it's looking for, returning null. The code is acting on that null value assuming it's, well...
  34. ShakyJake

    Jurassic Park 4

    Saw Jurassic World today. I liked it, but i think I enjoyed it a bit less than 3. Although it's been so long I can barely remember much about it, other than I liked it. Sam Neil may have made it better than it was, perhaps. I think part of the problem, as others have mentioned, is that we've...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Yeah, I realize that. That's why I try and offer an alternative approach in a friendly way and don't push the point if they decline. However, in this case there is a fundamental flaw in the way he's designed his class that WILL throw an exception. Yet he'll always respond with, "That'll never...
  36. ShakyJake

    Home buying thread

    Thinking about looking for a home. First time buyer here. Is there anything inherently wrong going with something like QuickenLoans for, well, a loan?
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Fucking code reviews are the bane of my existence. This one guy refuses to listen to anything I say. And I am trying my best to word my comments in such a way that they would not be construed as attacks. He always falls back to "it's consistent with the rest of the application." Yes, but...