I'm genuinely surprised by how many people have no idea about the 1959 husky in the center. Yes, folks, that is an actual UConn logo. Once in a blue moon you can find a shirt or sweatshirt using this logo.

That is the UConn husky. It's sometimes called the 1959 husky or "derpy husky". You even can, on rare occasion find UConn swag with that husky on it. The bookstore in Storrs Center had them a few years ago and I made sure to drive over there and buy a shirt.

I'm a hard no. I'm not even native to this state but I have had to live with my hockey team moving to someplace that has no business having a hockey team. That's a tasteless cash grab. It's like when I was in a bar a while back (probably pre-pandemic) and they played Brass Bonanza in the stadium after the Hurricanes scored a goal. Nope. You're dead to us.

That's the way it is in most states - you have multiple tiered systems. The top tier is the "University" then the "State" system, then the community colleges. While there are a few states where the "State" system rivals the "University" or is better, like Florida and definitely Ohio, if you look at states like Minnesota, Washington, California, Texas, Colorado, etc - they all have similar tiers (this is done from memory, so I could've made mistakes here).

The general difference is that the "University" system is designed to be a research focus, while the "State" systems do more education and some research, and the community colleges are almost exclusively education.

The primary job of faculty at UConn is not teaching. That doesn't get you tenure, that gets you a professor-in-residence position.

(note - lots of generalizations here)

Living in Connecticut, particularly closer to Hartford, isn't like what most people describe when they talk about East Coast living (i.e. New York and Boston). We've still got relatively affordable homes, especially relative to salaries at the health center.

Hartford itself is small. If you're coming from Nebraska and doing medical, I'm guessing you're coming from Omaha and the medical center there - it will seem similar in scale. Although Hartford is 1/4 the population of Omaha, the Hartford area has about 50% more people.

CT has a lot more rural parts than people think. Especially in Fairfield and Windham counties. It's also a lot hillier than people think coming from outside of the state. This leads to some great outdoors activities.

All that being said, figure out where to live first. Given that you mentioned graduating recently and working at the health center, this probably means West Hartford for you. Which is great. It's got a nice downtown, some good food, and is a little more upscale. You can choose to live in Hartford, but the additional commute would be annoying. Other towns in the area such as Farmington and Avon are going to be more expensive and cater primarily to large single family homes. From there, start looking for things to do and see.

I trust iCloud a whole lot more than I trust a random service to store my content. I also trust iCloud more than Google Drive. I also have all my photos in iCloud - so yes, I trust iCloud.

That's why I was suggesting just saving the index to iCloud files. You're not providing the synchronization nor do you need to provide servers to handle more people. The data stay secure in iCloud.

I also want to add that I really like how you've managed to do this in a way that is privacy centric. It also has a nice side effect of making things much more scalable - you just need to provide someplace to download the models, which are infrequently needed (likely only on a new device)?

I used one of the codes to start poking around (X6RPT3HALW6R). I was optimistic about it working with M1/M2 Macs too. Downloaded the iPad version onto my M2 iPad Air and started a query and it crashed after I clicked to have it start indexing the photos.

Currently playing with it on my iPhone. Seems really neat. Would be great if there were a way to synchronize the indexes across devices through iCloud (or even iCloud drive).

I've had similar thoughts but doing something with X-CLIP to search the videos on your phone for when you're looking for a specific video (I take a lot of short videos of my family).

I drove down 6 early this morning around 4am and was wondering why Apple Maps kept on trying to make me go around a section of road. I just ignored the redirection to the side streets. Got to a spot where there was clearly an accident with a bit of a mess left on the eastbound lanes, but largely cleaned up. Meanwhile, the mess for the human will continue for a while. Condolences to the woman who passed away from the crash and her family and hopes that the trooper recovers quickly.

They kept on extending fee waivers for former People’s United customers. Now they’re bringing them in line with the rest of their rather mediocre service.

>* CT families purchase majority stock in Eversource and force it into submission. > >* We buy enough stock that dividends cancel out the electric bill.

That doesn't work from a math perspective. Eversource has a market cap of $28.46 billion. There are 3.6 million people in Connecticut. A controlling stake (50% + 1 share) would require every man, woman, and child to purchase $3722 of Eversource - and that's before the price starts to go up as people realize they can sell for more.

Eversource currently pays a dividend of $0.6375/share/quarter - or $2.55/yr for a little over a 3% yield. For the math on the dividends to work out they would need to collect 97% of their revenue from sources other than home electricity.

> * Every single family home gets a Solar roof and two storage batteries. Then setup another panel and shut off the one for the utility killing it for good.

The economics on this are staggering. For panels and three Powerwalls, that don't even cover all of the electric needs in my house, especially during the winter, I paid $32,000ish before incentives in 2020. Prices have gone up since then. A solar roof is even more expensive. Plus the replacement cost of batteries. Even I admit that financially it didn't make sense for me to Powerwalls, but they're cool toys and I don't like losing power.

This plan, even if you could get enough panels and installers, and enough people had good roofs, would be incredibly expensive. There are about 1.5 million residential homes in Connecticut of which 1.3 million are occupied and 900,000 are owner occupied - I'm leaving out apartments because their math gets difficult. At $30,000 a house for just the owner occupied houses, we're at $27bn, which is, purely coincidentally, the market cap of Eversource. And such a plan does NOTHING to help out renters who are often in need of more help because of generally lesser quality housing stock. In fact it would almost certainly hurt them as individual solar deployments typically have a net negative externality on the grid because their spikier demand.

I love how CT has these large green areas. The Last Green Valley and CT River Valley both bring a little bit of rural to an relatively urban state.

Then again, if you live in or close to the Last Green Valley (I’m on the edge of it), it does not feel like Connecticut is a very urban state. Feels very rural and quiet.

Don’t try to “split the difference”. Find a location that works good to great for one of you and make it so only one person has pain. Pain from commuting is non-linear with time (i.e. the pain increase from a 2->3 hour commute is less than a 1->2 hour commute). This will allow at least one of you to have more of a semblance of a normal life.

It’s going to suck, a lot, but it can work. I’ve done this for most of the time I’ve lived in CT - with jobs up and down the eastern seaboard, but I’ve never had an employer in CT or RI.

Three, at least at one point. Mayor of Vernon. Vernon Police. CT State Senate.

Perhaps the whole Mayor of Vernon and CT State Senate at the same time is why many people didn’t think he represented them.

As another person who has had to deal with Dan Champagne do very little for the last few years, except collect yet another paycheck from government and once say the quiet part out loud about making it harder to search vehicles, I feel your pain. The text message from him was the most I’ve heard from him in months.

Dogs show up inconsistently at BDL. They’re not there every time and their presence is unrelated to other steps in the TSA security process (i.e. the rest of the process isn’t simplified when the dogs are there). Most of it is they are sniffing for explosives and “other contraband” which is usually drugs and large amounts of cash, which while it’s legal to fly with a large amount of cash, the government may try to find ways to claim it.

Need more bears.

Right now we don’t have any sort of voting early or vote by mail aside from absentee because of the state constitution. Our absentee statute isn’t even “no excuse” absentee. Prior to the changes for COVID, where they allow to specify “sickness” to get an absentee ballot, you were signing an oath stating that you were gone for one of a few reasons. Connecticut is one of four states that makes it this hard to vote - along with New Hampshire, Alabama, and Mississippi.

It wasn’t a huge deal, but it became a big deal when you found out about travel less than a week before the election and the absentee ballot deadline had passed. The emergency absentee ballot guidelines did not list travel as a reason to get an emergency absentee ballot - it’s only unforeseen illness or being in a hospital. Thus, if you found out that you needed to travel or even had a large change in shift (let’s be honest, employers generally do not provide time off to vote), you would be disenfranchised for the election. I had this happen twice in six years - once for work and once for a funeral.

This is in contrast to other states where once I found out I just went to a county building and cast my vote early. Easy, peasy.

Also, remember, there’s an item on the ballot this election that would change the state constitution to allow for early voting. Connecticut is, even after Public Act 22-2, one of the hardest states to vote in. That’s because without a change to the constitution we can’t allow early voting like 46 other states + DC have.

Here’s the Ballotopedia link for more information on Connecticut Question 1 on Early Voting.