helloterence

Within the last week, Google Home no longer shows the accurate state of switches/plugs when they're triggered either physically or through another interface (e.g. Alexa). I have tomanually click on them on the app for their accurate states to be updated. I have disconnected/reconnected linked apps, firmwares are updated, restarted router, etc. Undoubtedly an issue on Google's end. Anyone else experiencing this?

Hi all, my wife and I recently noticed Alaska was walking a little funny with her hind legs and decided to take her to the vet to have her looked at. She is almost 10 months old and as far as we can remember from picking her up at 10 weeks, she has always swayed/waddled a lot while she walked, but never thought much of it. Her mom was recorded to have good hips. The only "odd" behavior we have noticed related to anything with her hind legs would be that she would occasionally stretch them out after a long nap. Not sure how to describe it other than she's standing on all fours and will kick back one of her back legs as if she's stretching it.

The vet says she does not seem to be exhibiting a

Hi all, I have a 4 month old Samoyed that seems to understand the concept of going potty outside. She is pretty consistent about going pee in her spot especially after naps and meals. However with temperatures starting to hit the 90's, I am having trouble getting her to go in this heat when she is awake and I know for a fact that she needs to. Instead of just going, she will lay down in a shady area of the grass and simply refuse to get up. If I'm lucky enough to get her up, she'll manage a couple of steps before laying back down. We will do this diddle daddling for about 5 minutes before I just end up taking her back inside. Rinse and repeat 2-3 more times and she'll eventually go in the ho

My 11 week old Samoyed's nipping/biting habit has become very frustrating. I understand that it's normal puppy behavior but I have tried just about everything to redirect/lessen it. It's gotten to the point where she's essentially playing tug with peice of clothing and or body part...

Methods I've tried:

• Holding her snout, telling her "NO" and redirecting her with a toy. The issue here is that once she's grabbed ahold of whatever peice of clothing or body part, she's simply disinterested

• High pitched "OW!" and immediately turn around and stop playing. The "OW!" doesn't phase her and she'll simply just run around me and continue.

• Distracting her with a treat. She will generally foll

My fiancee and I are first time dog owners and recently just picked up Alaska, a now 11 week old Samoyed puppy. Over the past week and a half, we think we have made great strides in terms of crate training and would like to check in with some more experienced dog owners.

Her crate consists of a towel, several toys, and the occasional Kong. We have been feeding her meals inside of her crate since we got her.

Positives:

• She is able to sleep through the night in the crate with little to no whining at all. We are currently sleeping on the couch in the living room where she has a direct line of sight of us, and are hoping to eventually move back to sleeping in our own bed.

• When the door

I have been reading SONET/SDH Demystified by Steven Shepard and am stuck on an example he presented in regards to Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) encoding.

Eight segments are above the line and eight are below (one of which is the shared zero point); each segment, in turn is subdivided into 16 steps .A bit of binary mathematics now enables us to convert the quantized amplitude samples into an eight-bit value for transmission. Let's consider a negative sample that falls into the thirteenth step in segment five. The conversion would take on the following representation

1 101 1101

where the initial 0 indicates a negative sample, 101 indicates the fifth segment and 1101