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i did some math (though with poor measurements and a lot of ballpark estimates, its really hard to call it such) to figure out how much mining it would take to be able to live on it alone. i would only need like an 8-10 x increase in available hardware to make minimum wage. im currently using about 200-300w (estimated, dont have any mains watt meters on hand). going up to 3kw. this would cost roughly a buck an hour at current electric rates. this is less than a one hour commute to work in a modest car. in fact i could make 2-3x minimum wage before my energy usage is more than the commute alone. ignoring the kind of wastages that companies tend to be known for. and a good portion of that money would go into keeping the hardware up to date. might be a stretch when you factor in the environmental cost of manufacturing and shipping the hardware, but i think its better for the environment that i stay home and mine.

about damn time.

im not a big fan of over-regulation and the state of california is big on that. but thats getting into politics territory so i will leave it at that. but i think miners have been somewhat of a scapegoat lately. semiconductor shortages are due to both the pandemic shutting down manufacture while large stimulus payments and a need to work from home have really hiked the demand for computers. but they are not the only thing in short supply. to blame all that on miners is a gross exaggeration at best. ive turned to mining as a means to make my computer hardware, which i do game on, pay for itself. im not a big fan of nvidia gimping the eth hash rate on their next gen of video cards because that screws me over and doesn't do a thing to large scale crypto farms. they will buy dedicated mining cards which still takes a bite out of manufacturing capacity and will inevitably become e-waste. or they may stick with gpus and just buy more of them, however with the intention to sell them pennies on the dollar once they have been replaced with next gen cards. miners do care about efficiency because that directly affects their bottom line. gpu manufacturers are leaving a lot of money on the table by not keeping up with demand. only for bitcoin. etherium is whats eating gpus. im mining it now. eth is intended to be asic resistant. the problem with asics is that the manufacturers of same end up becoming the gatekeepers of the currency, which trends it towards centralization. this goes against the spirit of cryptocurrency.

i think the wrist strap thing is old hat. modern semiconductor devices usually have esd resistant i/o pins. esd hasnt really been a problem since the mid 90s. i remember the tool kits we got in our computer technology class had wrist straps but also had tools to install and remove dip ram, which has been 10 years obsolete by that point, and that was nearly 20 years ago. were talking 486es and older when your cpu cache was in the form of banks of dip chips. but yea its easy to waste power. leds, unnecessary water cooling, overclocking, buying a thousand watt supply when you only need half that, running crysis, etc. power supplies in particular have different efficiencies at different loading conditions. the curve usually has an efficiency bucket at some percentage of its rating. you are better off figuring what your typical power usage is and selecting a supply that is most efficient around that value. this is how oems can get away with lower wattage supplies where most pc builders tend to over spec (which can be really bad for your idle efficiency). its all about doing the right testing and applying the right numbers. and if you build a one off computer every few years like i do, you usually dont bother. you figure out what it should need, overspec by a couple hundred watts and power wastage be damned.

i live like 2 or 3 short blocks from the water. perhaps 50 feet above sea level depending on tide. should i remain in this town for the next 50 years, i suspect that down town may be under water. in fact the collapse of ocean front property has been somewhat of a regular occurrence around here as boathouses fall into the sea. but in 50 years, what will have happened is that the next street over becomes the new down town, all the businesses and people living down there will relocate. this will happen slowly over decades as keeping water out becomes more expensive than simply moving. but things will be ok, and people will still claim that climate change is a myth. the rate of sea level rise will be slow enough to not be catastrophic, or even noticed by most people. at least for cities currently located above sea level. were not going to instantly have more water on top of us. of course that's only one aspect of climate change.

i find myself having minecraft dreams, but i dont recall me using a computer, im in the world doing minecraft things, not playing games on a computer. though i did have a nightmare once involving the linux terminal. im not typing at a screen or anything, i seem to be willing commands to appear in void space. they keep failing, i keep typing ls but my files keep disapearing, i keep getting the case wrong, i keep forgetting sudo, the horror, the horror. or was i awake. i always say the real nightmare starts when you wake up. i think my most disturbing dreams are actually about my brother's ex wife.

the density of stars close to the galactic center might make solar systems significantly less stable in the long term.

the alaskan version of this is to stick a bunch of rocket motors on your kayak. that way if you ever find yourself on fire, you can jump in the water and die of hypothermia instead.

3 also isnt very fault tolerant. with 4 you can have an actuator fail and still have 3 axis control. you can keep adding fins but at some point you are just introducing a lot of unwanted drag and structural weight.

back in high school i won a rocketry contest we had in science class by using 3 relatively large fins. they had kind of an ogive profile as i used a compass to draw a quarter circle on a strip of some kind of thick card stock, which i folded accordion style to keep it all together. i then cut out the curve and then used a paper guillotine to cut out maybe a third of the profile, and also to even out the trailing edge. somehow i screwed up and one fin was mangled in the operation, i had intended 4, but ended up doing 3 instead. i think we were using c motors and the contest was for altitude. i won by virtue of my rocket staying pointed at the sky for most of the flight. so many rockets spiraled out and exploded that they decided to never do model rockets again. interesting thing was that since science class was last hour, we got all the fat tubes as the earlier students used up all the choice materials. my rocket turned out to be the fattest rocket in the contest. but i did have the smarts to use a plastic easter egg as a nose cone, with a foam adapter i made with a file. of course after the contest we still had some rocket motors left over, and i tried launching with a d motor, which blew up my rocket, it was like ksp before ksp. moar boosters is not always the best option.

its actually not a terrible idea. this is probibly one of the smartest game communities out there. lots of young minds who are ahead of the game in the stem fields. if you are an innovator these are the kinds of people you want. limiting to the game devs only might be a mistake as this community has a lot of really bright minds to draw from. not mine mind you, i turn 40 next month and have probibly done some things to make me stupid over the last 2 decades. of course nothing elon didn't do himself. i think iter is going to be the first, unless the skunkworks secretly has their reactor working. fringe fusion concepts were kind of intriguing, but were usually in the form of "were 10 years away and not 30, oh and by the way we need money". iter has the money, has the plan, an honest timetable, and has the machine, a cash sink though it may be. fusion changes everything, no skylon or reusable booster will will compare with what that brings. but we need it to work first, and then we need to refine and miniaturize the technology.

i use metric until i need to go to the hardware store.

i think you end up getting to a point where even smaller ships are incapable of evading the warp missile (as described). i think you would be better off putting a few limits on the missiles. perhaps they require their host ship's sensors and computers to plot the relativistic targeting solution in near real time, effectively "painting the target". light delay between the launching ship and the missile itself would then be a factor to consider. so evading the missile would involve putting distance between you and the ship to increase the sensor lag. alternatively you can go for the ship and try to take it out first so its missile doesn't know what to do with itself. even if the missile has its own guidance suite, distance between the target and the missile is going to have light delay. so depending on distance you have a bit of a blind spot in which to maneuver without the warhead knowing what you are doing. employing some deception tactics and decoy tech, like ecm or sensor spoofing or jamming. either blind it or make the missile think you warped off in one direction while you go the other way. this might also work with the previous scenario, where having a second set of sensors, even considering the light delay involved, is essential for combat. possibly add things like sensor buoys and probes and make the battle more about maximizing your detection capabilities. perhaps they can only make a certain number of jumps, say they only have a certain amount of antimatter on board, for both the drive and the warhead. if you burn it all in jumps, or in sublight, you reduce its yield until you just have a kinetic impactor (which may still be sufficient to destroy/disable the target). however at that point you can no longer make course corrections. nerf your op weapon.

seafood is good, when its fresh. it i significantly less good when its been one ice too long, and i wouldnt eat anything off of a factory trawler (idk if its a good idea to destroy the ocean over something as lame as a filet'o'fish sandwich).

thing is if you think you're not eating bugs, you're wrong. same goes for rat droppings. food production is not as clean and controlled as you think it is.

various meat jerky.

unfortunately this kind of thing happens enough that songs have been written about it.

im the oddball who uses both pronunciations interchangeably because i aint got time for these shenanigans. it also confuses the living hell out of my enemies.

id figure to guess that its about the same distance from las vegas to the nevada test site.

seems you would want negative pressure ventilation in the lavatory. negative relative to the inside of the station, not the outside, that would be rather hard.

got the 5800x in the mail. had enough bitcoin to order a mobo. went with this one, the gigabyte board i was looking at didnt have a front panel usb-c connector and the asus didnt have enough usb ports (i need lots for my ch controllers) . still need ram and a new psu. i have several old psu's and i might be able to use them fitment permitting. the case is designed with sfx supplies in mind, but it came with an atx bracket. but i eventually want to get this supply since the 600w version has been solid for several years now. should be enough for a middle tier next gen card. will try to get that in october or whenever we get our pfds this year (they were early last year due to covid), im toying with the idea of going red this time (dont like nvidia's policy of artificially throttling hashrates and can take advantage of resizable bar this way as well). its going to take about 50 days of mining to get a 32 gig kit (barring any spikes/dips in the price), which i will pick out when i have the funds.

theres that. though there is the possibility of actively cooled landing pads which can handle some pretty nasty thrust. there are a few situations that might warrant landing even with large ships. maintenance and scrapping for example or disgorging large amounts of cargo from a large freighter. i imagine all these would be done at low gravity depots (say the moon for example). delivery to a ring station or even to a freight yard orbit might also be options. would be very situational. say you are delivering freight to an outpost without a lot of infrastructure. say they dont have any orbital infrastructure at all. if you are just dropping off, orbital drop pods would probibly be adequate. but if you also had to bring freight up the well, then a lot of back and fourth flights with a few onboard shuttles would take an eternity and would end up using almost as much fuel if not more (you need to get your shuttles back up for the next load with exports in tow, multiple times). a destination with more infrastructure might just have a terminal in orbit for that kind of thing.

landing large space craft really doesn't make a lot of sense.

fixed. you could probibly use the stuff as rocket fuel.

i thought it was a pylon building simulator.