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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    rofl. a weed farm?
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    no worries had to go out for ~hr to get my new deck boards delivered 31 20' boards- those will go up next week after the 4th, then stain/paint
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    ya reading the readme ya, cuz it goes, creates a temporary tin...shrug no idea if you want you can shoot me over those lidar text files and i will look at the text file to see if i could just import straight and then i could dxf the resultant file. or you could cut and past a couple of lines...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    looking at lastools you using las2dem? never used this but let me see if i got this right... no idea if this is right so bear with me from reading this bit in the read me: las2dem -i lidar1.txt -i lidar2.txt -iparse xyz -o dem.jpg -hillshade -last_only creates a temporary TIN from...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    looking at qgis & lastools .tin is a file type - my autocad topo files are - caveat i use autodesk's land development desktop 2006 since we have had no need or desire to upgrade our cad system -paid one price, have it installed on cough cough 1 system cough cough....until the city of boston...
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    Doctor Strange (2016)

    Personally never did a comic-con - yet. My kids wanna go to one and/or pax east i did do EQ fan fests - boston's vegas and one other. and i did do gen con twice back in the 1980's..had fun. met hickman, weis, gygax and others. looking forward to the movie. looks good at least so far.
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    One thing i noticed with pix4d the few times i used it, there is your flyover box, then inside the box is a circle, that circle is where you get the highest level of detail/focus of the flyover,(well that and the first few times i tested, when i got the initial sketch from the cloud, the focus...
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    Road Trip!- Boston area to Minneapolis Mn

    Buying the fast pass plus for cedarpoint that way we can be those Dicks that skip most of the line. ....trip planned except for 2 nights that we are not sure how far we are getting reservations made for all the main stops- day 1 - stopping somewhere between rochester and buffalo, then 2 nights...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    1. good question, no idea personally i try to keep all the files under 30 meg total. let me look it up, give me a couple of minutes 2. no idea
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    grats on the comment about selling, that thing about being 6 feet off..other drone guys obviously were not as ...meticulous in their preparation as to how to run it right. btw so his topo he got from you.. everything is checking to under 5 INCHES (0.42 feet is 5 inches)(most likely...
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    barnes and noble settlement stuff

    if you guys use/used B&N for ebook purchases, you probably/might have a balance now due to the apple settlement payout (again). B&N just tossed 113 bucks into my B&N account due to this-
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    ya lidar is better-goes thru tree leaf cover, but the unit is pretty dang expensive. the velodyne lidar "puck" is 8k. routescene is another company doing drone setups..they use velodyne lidar products in their "pod" told you it would be fine bandwagon. fitting tight to me = they...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    those properties sell themselves, heart of boston, near the hospitals etc about a 10 minute walk to the charles i'm more into the photogrammetry aspect of the drone (taking pictures to get topography)
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    so now all a drone operator needs to do is pass a operators test vs having a pilot's license.. very nice. i'll be looking into taking the test in the next year. problem with my company is we are so busy, with all small sites(last job we did was a 2000 sq ft lot- the brownstone sold for 2.4...
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    Home Improvement

    BURREN one of the latest arch styles for deck railing is the wired style, either vertically or horizontally like what lurker did. i considered it but did not go that route. it looks good. my deck project is on pause while the damn deck boards are - apparently- backordered/out of stock ...
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    Pete's Dragon (2016)

    Looks decent. loved the first one but sort of wish they had gone more for the animated look/style for the dragon like the original.
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    Home Improvement

    just be careful lurking...fucking conservation agents/epa might get up in your ass about building one. esp if you use an existing brook/stream to help form it
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    Home Improvement

    framing is 2x8. posts are 4x4 pt. i think he is going to notch a 2x8 mortice similar to all the other posts on the deck, they all- except for the replaced one- have the joint cut and then to the inside- so outside 2x8 is flush with the 4x4. and the inside 2x8 is in the mortice as a tenon my...
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    Home Improvement

    just waiting on the decking then we can finalize the rebuild of my deck. contractor goofed and had to cut the addition by 6" so that the overall frame was 19'10" so we could use 20' boards, he had goofed and made it 20'4". images pre build as you can see the decking is in sorry shape...
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    Voltron: Legendary Defender

    I Watched the first episode, it was ok. will watch the rest when i have time.
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    ya 1200 sf is nothing.. like what 50x24 technically you COULD do it automatically just not really worth the hassle it would be to set up correctly. plus if something goes wrong... you have power? can run some ethernet cable? get somethign like monoprice's 4 camera setup for 245, then...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    ROFL A good check is... the inbetween stuff roadway width check (should be an inch or two) the bridges the distances between the buildings etc. if your control points are good (and you made them good) and you have a decent triangle setup of control points (that way you get n-s and...
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    Home Improvement

    phoenix, cinder block... can you lose said 3" or so? (if you could lose 5. can slide in r13 insulation., you need some insulation-not to keep the heat in, but to keep the heat out. since north facing walls get the most sun... alternatively...plantings outside to shade the wall? shade= no...
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    I do not believe in equality

    everyone has the same "Basic" equality opportunity in the US, what they DO with that is the difference. some of it is education, some of it is living environment, but most of it is.. each individual's drive -effort- desire. that effort would reflect into the other aspects for the opportunity-...
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    Home Improvement

    so what is that wall made up phoenix? if a hollow core/sheetrock and wood style...put a hole in each hollow between the framing and get some polyfill to blow in... if a solid type wall, could you stand to lose ~3 inches of room? frame a fake wall inside the wall with 2x4's glued/nailed...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    no that is good., you forced the distance because that is what it was supposed to be now THEY need to go out and ...check the limits of your flyover to see if the distance from say near the nw corner of the northwesterly most house to the bridge on the se side road is also within acceptable...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    NO worries, the only thing - for YOU to worry about is the control points the surveyor lays down- that is his "control tie" between what he does in cad. and what YOU do in whatever program you use to convert into a 3d mesh (or whatever you are giving him) because the surveyor will know that...
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    Home Improvement

    It all depends on the contractor. i know contractors that cut corners ALL the time- we try to avoid working with them i know a contractor that does such quality of work that he gives 10 year warranties on the construction that contractor is now looking for another gut job in boston..he...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    oh ya happy birthday a bit late, my 50th (ugh) is 2 weeks from friday it is just precision/accuracy.. how precise the survey is. for survey it is error of closure - usually it is our survey traverse and the ties to the control points are determine precision/accuracy- the control lines and...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    TENTH vertical or horizontal? if vertical, awesome, Significantly more precise than a normal topographic survey would get-mainly due to the "coverage" of the topo. a survey that large would get -along the road, MAYBE 1 shot every 30 feet plus any structures signs etc, with the pictures, it is...
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    Bandwagon's Drones Thread

    Damn........... sweet. edit: what was the ultimate accuracy you got for the map? looking at it, horizontally looks good to me- but not knowing the record distance from "point a to point b" i have no idea how close to that you got. we term accuracy/precision in terms of error acceptable...
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    Home Improvement

    Oh hey floating planks. Way easier. I did my bathroom with a "floating" plank style 12" tile 12 years ago, still looks great. After the first row is in and squared correctly, except for cut pieces, rest of the floor(whole planks) goes down in like 10-20 minutes maybe a bit longer if room large.
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    Home Improvement

    or its an, i'm too busy, give a high quote so i don't get the job quote. as for that style flooring. not that hard just go slow and be sure of your measurements before gluing/adhering it down. dryfitting first and making all trims before gluing works too but it's been about 20 years for me...
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    Home Improvement

    I thought that drain was the end , the discharge point. If it goes beyond, great, no worries. Palum, how old is the house? new? Old? cracking probably mean settling, those are definitely load spans, if the house is new, the post supporting said beams- may be inadequate- or the post in the...
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    Home Improvement

    RE: the weedguard stuff. works great, while i have not used that particular product, there are several different types/brands and i have used one of those, provided you keep the openings small, they last for years without weeds (though you do get grass/weeds starting to grown on/in the...
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    GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 announced available May 27th

    i'll be nabbing the 8gig, probably to replace my 390x (just because), moving the 390x to my wife's computer(newer case- better airflow-slightly older card-plus brownie points with the wife) moving her card to my son's computer (no fricking clue what he has in there-gotta be at least 5 years old)...
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    Home Improvement

    if i was modifying the deck i'd go most likely right towards the garage- more room- If you do not move that ac unit i whipped this up in about 10 minutes or so: i am guessing that the top of the deck is 2 foot off of the ground, if it is 1.5' then remove a step, if 2.5' add a step...
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    What did you just read?

    I'VE been reading kindle unlimited stuff, some good, some notso good, decent alt supernatural- series i've read has been the tome of bill series(8? books so far i think)- very enjoyable series- at least for me- find his humor and writing style fun to read. another couple i liked are -...
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    Smokers / Grills

    What temp did you take it out to rest? Mine Saturday came out great, I did mine at 275 (9lb)for 7hr until Internal temp hit 180, then 2hr in foil until 200, rested for 45 minutes then shredded/pulled/ate - one book I have said to rest for 2 hrs before pulling. I used a North Carolina vinegar...
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    Smokers / Grills

    Great that it turned out well. Bbq guru came today, just in time for the pulled pork attempt tomorrow, and, Sunday my parents are having a cookout at 2 ish, so I am going to grab some ribs from the butcher tomorrow and bring 3 finished racks of ribs to the cookout wrapped in foil in a cooler.