#garfield Logs

Nov 26 2013

01:54 katsmeow-afk so a gallon of gasoline and 39.4 kwh of electricity equal the same btu
01:55 katsmeow-afk so $3.20 gasoline and $5.12 of electricity equal the same btu
01:56 katsmeow-afk so it's cheaper to heat with gasoline than electric resistance heaters
03:36 katsmeow-afk 1kwh = 9amps @ 110vac for an hour, and to get the equivalent of a gallon of gasoline in btu would require consuming the 9 amps for 39.4 hours
03:37 katsmeow-afk that's easy, but doing the reverse (burning a gallon of gasoline so slowly that it lasts 39.4 hours) isn't as easy
03:38 katsmeow-afk the smallest central furnace burner jet i can find is large enough that it will take only 1.3 hours to burn the gallon
03:39 katsmeow-afk .41 of a cup of gasoline per hour
03:41 katsmeow-afk to burn that little, the .75gph fuel jet can be on only 2.03 minutes per hour
03:44 katsmeow-afk burning the entire gallon in 1.3 hours is like butchering a cow to make a couple days of meals and then burying the other 598 lbs of rancid cow, and being hungry the next day
03:53 Tom_itx kero
04:09 tsmeow-afk
04:10 katsmeow-afk still, 1/2 cup per hour? that's like heating with my lil kero lamps, which actually burn slower than that
04:10 katsmeow-afk The Europeans are now building an exascale system using ARM chips designed by British semiconductor firm Arm Holdings, and hope to deliver the system by 2020.
04:10 katsmeow-afk "It's not that Europe just wants an exaflop system," said Alex Ramirez, the computer architecture research manager at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. "It wants to be able to build the exaflop system and not buy it from a provider."
04:10 katsmeow-afk Europe has already committed to spending the equivalent of $1.6 billion, in contrast to U.S. funding, which has been slight and is waiting for action from Congress.
04:11 katsmeow-afk Kimihiko Hirao, director of the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science of Japan, said in an interview that Japan is already discussing creation an exascale system by 2020, one that would use less than 30 megawatts of power.
04:12 katsmeow-afk 30Mw = 125,000 amps at 240vac
04:13 katsmeow-afk ....because new technologies are needed to achieve exascale. DRAM, for instance, is too slow and too expensive to support exascale, .....
04:15 katsmeow-afk i dunno where dram/sdram/ddr/etc went off the wheels and became engineered to be more like a harddrive in it's operation, but it is totally unuseable as (strictly speaking) RAM
04:18 katsmeow-afk New supercomputer uses SSDs instead of DRAM and hard drives
04:18 katsmeow-afk The new supercomputer, called Catalyst, has 281TB of SSD storage
04:19 katsmeow-afk Every node has 128GB of DRAM, and 304 of them have 800GB of solid-state drive storage. Additionally, 12 nodes have 3.2TB of SSD storage for use across the computing units.
04:21 katsmeow-afk the truely funny thing is that it's not the drams themselves that are making the ram modules slow, it's 1) how the tech is used on the module and 2) how the core of the dram chip is accessed to the outside world
04:25 katsmeow-afk We serve over 150 Gb/s from McDipper forward caches in our CDN. To put this number in perspective, it's about one library of congress (10 TB) every 10 minutes.
04:26 katsmeow-afk Samsung has started making flash storage chips that it claims will be twice as fast and up to 10 times more durable than the current flash storage
04:26 katsmeow-afk Samsung is already producing the new flash chips in volume and has shipped units to companies for qualification and testing.
04:26 katsmeow-afk The 3D memory differs markedly from conventional NAND flash, in which storage modules are placed side by side. Samsung has stacked 24 NAND layers in one chip package, with each stack connected by a proprietary interconnect
04:26 katsmeow-afk The 3D stacking also helps build flash products with greater capacities, Weinger said. The initial products could be available with capacities ranging from 128GB to 1TB.
04:32 katsmeow-afk my plan for a cpu was a brick, with pin grid arrays on all sides, making a computer was simply plugging bricks together, bricks could be core(s), rams, io ports (pci, etc), hdd banks, or more cores
05:26 katsmeow-afk It's called espionage. It's this new thing human beings have been doing for thousands of years.
05:40 katsmeow-afk Three years later, a contingent of German pilots flying their latest Typhoon fighter have figured out how to shoot down the Lockheed Martin-made F-22 in mock combat.
05:45 katsmeow-afk The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the military�s expensive main warplane of the future, has a huge blind spot directly behind it. Pilots say that could get them shot down
05:55 katsmeow-afk A German company has developed and flown a scaled-up version of the electric quadcopters normally seen darting around parks and fields, but this version will carry two people and could fly for up to an hour.
05:55 katsmeow-afk http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2013/11/VC200_oben_T_A-660x362.jpg
05:57 katsmeow-afk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNulEa8LTHI#t=15
06:22 katsmeow-afk http://i.imgur.com/fmG0HmM.gif
06:32 katsmeow-afk http://i.imgur.com/Q9zBwyS.gif
09:19 rue_house thejester has fibromyalgia
09:19 rue_house the doctors ignored him
09:20 rue_house so since he's been like 10 he's been on a steady stream of pain killers
09:20 rue_house which has destroyed his kidneys
09:44 katsmeow-afk otc pain "killers" ?
09:45 rue_house yup
09:45 katsmeow-afk tylenol is just a poison with a side effect of reducing light pain, imo
09:45 katsmeow-afk you give him that url for me?
09:45 rue_house yup
09:46 katsmeow-afk i find that red pepper capsules help a lot, they act directly on pain nerves
09:46 katsmeow-afk they are also a sorta-caffine that your body cannot get accustomed to
09:47 katsmeow-afk don't take with ulcers tho, have your ulcers separately
09:47 katsmeow-afk cayenne, the source of capscacin
09:47 katsmeow-afk acts on unmylenated C-afferent nerve endings, the very kind the report mentioned
09:48 katsmeow-afk stops ion exchange across the cells
09:49 tsmeow-afk knows this stuff because she'd read encyclopedias from end to end as a
09:50 katsmeow-afk i was distilling capscacin uta peppers, told a pharmacist, he "retired", and went to work for a brand new pharma company down the road, and he made $millions selling CapscacinP in stores, i got squat
09:52 katsmeow-afk from out of a 24 volume encyclopedia set, 3 sentences in 3 of the books struck me one day
09:53 katsmeow-afk but the rub-on creme didn't help internal pains, hence the capsules
09:54 katsmeow-afk interesting they have a link now to explain it in medical terms
09:55 katsmeow-afk the very nerve endings causing a constriction that retains lactic acid in the muscle and blood vessels, which is the same pain you get after over-exercising, when it hurts to move
09:57 katsmeow-afk ironically, if yu constrict the muscle tightly, externally, equally around, not from one side (which usually hurts a lot worse), blood flow is affected and pain lessens
09:57 katsmeow-afk but this is akin to applying a turkeyneck,, err, turniquet, so is contraindicated for pains above the shoulders, or chest
09:58 katsmeow-afk i so wanted to play with hyperbaric chambers and fibro, but no one was interested
10:02 katsmeow-afk my theory is that if the pressure of normal air was suddenly increased, pain relief may happen, and then may hold if the pressure was slowly dropped before blood-gas chemistry was changed much
10:03 katsmeow-afk possibly cycling the pressure would help , for a few hours ata time, which may be enough to break the body's cycles of pain
10:07 katsmeow-afk snow is in the schedule for later today, and solid rain/sneet/slow till tomorrow, so i think i won't work on the car today
10:07 katsmeow-afk damned battery charger not charging for TWO DAYS
10:12 katsmeow-afk so i could not move th etruck and get the car under roof
10:20 katsmeow-afk Veterinarians say the animals are suffering from dehydration, rapid heartbeat, slowed reaction times and are unable to walk properly after swallowing feces left in the park by junkies in the park.
10:21 katsmeow-afk i think that would be true swallowing *any* feces left in the park,,,,,,,,,, why are people letting their gods eat feces from unkown sources?
10:27 katsmeow-afk Four puppies found doused in gasoline in Arizona street to be put up for adoption
10:27 katsmeow-afk The German shepherd mixes were found shivering in a gray plastic bin coated in diesel fuel
10:27 katsmeow-afk Four adorable puppies that survived being doused in gasoline
10:29 katsmeow-afk the story keeps switching from gas to diesel, idiot reporters
10:30 katsmeow-afk they have anotehr story on an adorable puppy that looks exactly like Hitler, altho i don't recall Hitler being called adorable
10:34 tsmeow-afk ponders two oval planetoids circling each otehr very closely and rotating such that at certain times the gravity pulls all non-rooted stuff off one planetoid onto the other, and then later, vice v
10:55 katsmeow-afk usps says they delivered th epackages yesterday, so someone is stealing things outa the mailbox
14:13 katsmeow-afk what does it mean when a front wheel of a front-wheel-drive car feels like the brake on it are being hit really hard once per tire turn?
15:03 katsmeow-afk ok, car is parked for the duration, truck is insured
17:17 Tom_itx bad CV joint?
17:17 Tom_itx really bad warped rotor?
17:20 Tom_itx the noise showed it's ugly face today
17:20 Tom_itx replaced the battery
17:58 katsmeow-afk if it's a warped rotor, it got warped without me brakeing, at 65mph, then it got bad at 50, and then 25, and i got to my driveway at 15mph
18:00 katsmeow-afk those axles are fairly new, i replaced them maybe 6 yrs ago, made a few trips to Fla on them, that's about it
18:01 katsmeow-afk which noise?
18:26 tsmeow-afk looks for a nap to take, under the warmfooti
20:24 katsmeow-afk ..
22:28 rue_house I'm still catching up
23:10 katsmeow-afk ...
23:35 katsmeow-afk http://www.livescience.com/40899-drone-pilot-challenges-faa-on-commercial-flying-ban.html
23:49 katsmeow-afk BEIJING - China will land its first probe on the moon in early December, which will deploy a buggy to explore its surface, an official said on Tuesday,