Piecemeal Puns

I really want solar energy at our place and we have the space for it and my husband can DIY it, but I can’t fork over $50K all at once. Is there a reason why we couldn’t plan for the system we want and then add on as we have cash available?

So I paint on canvas, medium to large sizes. I had previously bought one of those portable air brushes you find on Amazon for around $70, and HATED it. I spent most of my time cleaning it and it was a sputtering mess.

I’m trying to start out on the right foot this time, and have heard Paasches are no nonsense workhorses; and a fantastic painter Michael Whelan uses one. Budget is $2-300. Should I get a kit with a compressor or buy everything separate ? Any recommendations would be great.

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The next discussion will be posted at 5 pm EST on Monday December 6th, covering MAG 15 (Lost John's Cave) and MAG 16 (Arachnophobia).

MAG 13: Alone

Case #0161301

Statement of Naomi Herne, regarding the events following the funeral of her fiancé, Evan Lukas.

Summary: Naomi visits the funeral of her late boyfriend, Evan Lukas. It's held by the Lukas family, and after Naomi spends some time watching Evan's body, the family asks her to lesve for the burial. She gets into a car crash where some spooky things ensue. She stumbles around for a while before getting hit by a car, clutching oart of a headstone with the words 'Forgotten' on it.

MAG 14: Piecemeal

Case #0112905

Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate Paul Noriega.

Summary: Lee wants revenge on a former coworker, Paul Noriega, who screwed him over and got him in jail. He seeks out an old lady, Angela, who then places a curse on Paul. Noriega meets with Salesa and shortly after Lee kills him. He notices that Noriega had some missing parts that had healed. Soon after he gets a box with a finger in it, and he trips and falls, accidentally cutting off his finger. The wound healed as if it had happened years ago. He gets another box containing two toes right before his tv falls on his foot, severing them. Lee loses a few more parts of him, including most of his toes and his eye. After going to get back at Angela, he reaches towards her and winds up chewing off his own hand. He got a box earlier that included a tongue. Jon's an asshole who is willing to sacrifice Martin.

I have three direct consolidation loans, $1k, $10k, and $25k. I paid for two years (Dec. 2010-Dec. 2012) on the standard plan (Great Lakes was the servicer) before consolidating and sending in my first ECF. Fedloan credits 104 PSLF payments for all loans, before the waiver.

I received a letter on Nov. 12 saying that, as a result of the waiver, my $1k loan has been forgiven. I believe all are eligible for forgiveness under the waiver but I can't understand why they touched my file but didn't review all the loans. Are they handling loans separately, even within a single borrower file? Anyone else experience this?

I am looking to build my first mechanical keyboard.

I am interested in the KBD67 MKII for its aluminum frame, RGB backlighting and gasket-mounted tray. Unfortunately, the kit is sold out. However, it appears that all the components are separately available. Is the list below all I need to build this keyboard, assuming I separately purchase switches, keycaps and cable?

Parts

• KBD67 V3 GASKET MOUNT ALUMINUM CASE
• KBD67 MKII RGB V3 PCB
• KBD67 LITE ANSI LAYOUT POLYCARBONATE PLATE
• KBD67 MKII CASE FOAM (Do I need two of these?)
• GMK SCREW-IN STABILIZERS (60 or 87 kit)

Please let me know if this sounds right, or if I am misunderstanding something. Thanks in advance for any help.

Wondering if I can piecemeal a Dominion setup together. So I'd buy the base cards and then go on ebay / classifieds and buy individual stacks of kingdom cards, maybe pick up an expansion or two and just go from there. Would this work? Anyone done something similar?

Hey everyone I’m looking to buy parts over time. Is there parts I should start with so that when I’m done the least amount of pieces have been replaced with better tech?

So, Ultimate Combat had the rules for Piecemeal Armor.

I kind of like them, because I really love the look of it for certain characters who are less orderly than a Cavalier in Shining Armor or a disciplined fighter. I wonder, though... is there any actual use for it? It might look super cool but except for adding quite some amount of complexity, is there any use for it? Any tricks or uses for it that I am not seeing? Looking cool just doesn't seem to justify such an amount of additional bookkeeping (especially as it would basically force that on everybody else, too).

It makes painting not viable because my 3d scans import in odd pieces.

"No record exists of Joseph (Smith) teaching the full theological backdrop for plural marriage before coming to Nauvoo, and two years would pass before he attempted to explain it to Emma (Smith). He would do it then only after she had confirmed her suspicions about him and had confronted him. Emma's friends learned from their husbands that Joseph had received a revelation outlining a new order of marriage, but Emma came to it piecemeal over a number of years through circumstances that hurt and shocked her." ("Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith," pg. 100)

Maybe go item by item: like super-speed internet - I think everyone can see the need for infrastructure that is future-proof, so 20 years from now when the internet is billions of times faster our rural communities will still have access.

Slow internet speeds are a death sentence for our rural communities and agricultural industry, so this feels like a no-brainer.

Waiting for private interests to fill the gaps could take decades and would give the people who build the networks total control to charge whatever they want for internet access and block out competitors. Publicly funded fiber optic networks will allow multiple companies to compete to offer data on the same cables.

And maybe the Dems can get the Republicans on a few others priorities, like childcare and compulsory pre-kindergarten for all Americans. Starting school earlier massively benefits the kids, and easy access to childcare allows parents to offload their kids so they can go to work and make money and buy things. Win-win-win.

And anything the Republicans fail to agree on, like eldercare and replacing lead pipes from our drinking water systems - that can wait till 2022 if Dems can keep the people's support.

Is that a viable way to pass this kind of legislation?

The Dems would have to make it clear that all of these measures are tied to increasing taxes on the rich - no user fees or siphoning money from Covid-relief and out of the pockets of middle-and-lower-class Americans.

The Dems would also have to play hardball: give Republicans enough chances to prove they can compromise and come to an agreement for the good of the nation, but be prepared to axe them out of the equation without a second's hesitation and move on because nobody has time to play games forever.

The world isn't going to stop advancing while we fight in the mud going nowhere. Both the Dems and the GOP promised their own Infrastructure Plans and were elected on that promise. They should be united in bringing this urgently needed Plan to reality that Americans demand.

I know PVP could get a lot tougher as I start rolling these two up to champ level what with my BRB hanging out there. Will they pull their own weight enough to contend with that?

Over the last six months, a massive amount of DD and brilliant information about the GME saga, naked short selling, and criminal stock tactics has been discovered by apes. Much of the DD is quite comprehensive and impressive, some of it has been disproven, and nearly all of it has been scattered across hundreds of excellent posts on this sub.

Given the nature of Reddit, though, that information gets thoroughly buried within a few days. I know there’s a god-tier DD link in the “about” section, and that’s a great start.

But I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what the next step is. For the last several months, I’ve been an advocate of the “leave it the hell alone” mindset — if the hedgies’ disgustingly corrupt manipulation is the reason we’re all about to be fabulously wealthy, and the MOASS has probably doubled in size over the last few months alone, why would anyone want to go tattletale to mommy and daddy to get the party shut down? Every dollar and day this drags out is more money in my pocket.

For a bunch of random apes to badger the SEC had never sat right in my book, maybe because of the “emergency comment rule” debacle. In a lot of ways, for random apes to present the “authorities” (who are complicit in a whole lot of ways) with whatever half-baked information and wishful conspiracy theories they have has seemed to have a lot more cons than pros; at worst, it could paint the retail market in a dangerously immaculate light.

But recently, I’ve grown to believe that the reason GG and/or other “bigwigs” aren’t fully clued into this situation is because they genuinely don’t know the full picture, or the picture at all. The way the sub currently is, it’s difficult to see the entire forest clearly without spending hours each day sifting through memes and shitposts. (There’s nothing wrong with memes and shitposts.) To a certain “professional” generation and class, Superstonk is completely inaccessible.

See, the thing about GME is that is sounds exactly like a conspiracy theory. But it’s not, because we have the evidence to back it up. The fact that all the legit DD supports the MOASS theory is something I think a lot of apes take for granted. It’s not wild speculation. This is real.

Still, the one thing we’re missing is a fully comprehensive report of the magnitude of fraud. A document that’s easily digestible, well-written, and professional, with highly specific information (data tables, charts, screenshots, other activity),

I'm a beginner golfer that is just starting out. I've done some range time and a few lessons with a very old set of thrift store clubs that are in absolutely terrible shape. I'm looking to put together some clubs now and I was wondering what set up do you guys think? So far I'm thinking Driver, 5w, 4H, unsure of irons or wedges, and putter. Any input?

Edit: This commission has been filled - thank you very much for all of the interest!

Hello,

I’m looking to build up a Warhammer 40K Night Lords army over time. This is a dark blue paint scheme with brass/bronze trim and free handed lighting bolts - I’m looking for the iconic scheme.

Because I can’t afford to do this all in one fell swoop, I’d like to find a painter who is willing to piecemeal it out, e.g. I’d commission 1-2 units at a time over the course of several months if not a year.

To get started and figure out my projected cost (and therefore timeline), I’d like to request quotes for 1 box of raptors (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Chaos-Space-Marine-Raptors-2018)

I would like the price to include purchase, assembly, painting, and shipping (California, USA). As this is a collection, I am looking for better than tabletop standard, but not display quality (except a few large models down the road)

Along with the price quotes, if you could provide examples of past work (especially if you offer different levels of work), that would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I am several months into a formal deep dive into computer vision. I am a long term developer (40 years) with significant computer vision experience, but no formal computer vision training.

I am formally learning the computer vision and trained algorithm development processes I picked up on the job previously. To do this, I am taking the same computer vision and machine learning courses in both C++ and Python simultaneously. Learning through Python and building optimized versions in C++ is very fun.

<digression> Learning the actual meanings of the $400 phrases the ML Developers throw around is amusing - scientology anyone? This crap is just applied statistics, yet give some people fancy words and they will confuse outsiders with them endlessly. </digression>

But ANYWAY, as I plug away learning the words for what I know how to do already, I am having to compile from source a series of libraries such as OpenCV, DLIB, and a few others. These libraries make reference to facilities such as CUDA Toolkit, BLAS, LAPACK, TBB, etc... I am installing, compiling & installing and whatnot all these requirements piecemeal. Does any open source project, really nice person, or a company produce any type of a "Machine Learning Developer auto-compile-your-dev-environment" walk through, or comprehensive installer? Getting the basics with unoptimized libraries is easy. Tracking down all the correct versions for a complete optimized development pipeline is a job in itself. I'm currently working in Win10, but that does not matter. I have all the OSes here...