#garfield Logs
Jan 23 2014
#garfield Calendar
05:36 katsmeow-afk .
06:26 katsmeow-afk We'll also be adding three petabytes of storage capacity per month to our data center, so there's new data to be collected," he said.
06:31 katsmeow-afk At the end of 2013, we had 27,134 consumer-grade drives spinning in Backblaze Storage Pods.
07:07 Tom_itx 8° F
08:00 katsmeow-afk ouch
08:00 katsmeow-afk robots are not a significant source of riboflavin.
08:02 katsmeow-afk so i found a flaw in the scheme i was hoping to use to bank and use all these harddrives: each raid of 3 drives was to have it's own power
08:03 katsmeow-afk means if one raid loses power, the otehrs don't,, it also means if one raid loses power, it's pretty instantly stopped where it is
08:18 katsmeow-afk 23f
08:20 katsmeow-afk they are saying that the rain in Louisiana now will turn to snow
08:22 katsmeow-afk usually, by now, the temperature map of the usa will show the effects of sun, and the lows would be receeding back up towards Canadia, but not today, the cold front is still pusing suth with no slowing
08:23 katsmeow-afk We treat the “relevant aspect of reality” as a Cartesian product so that we can talk about changing one component and leaving the others unchanged. This would be straightforward if the Cartesian product structure existed in the world; <<== what i luv about theorists, they talk about it like it exists, but they know it doesn't
08:23 katsmeow-afk "syncategorematic"
09:05 rue_house tire check paint, huh
09:14 rue_house I wonder how large a level pad could be made before its curvature could be noticed
15:05 Tom_itx http://www.electronicproducts.com/Analog_Mixed_Signal_ICs/Communications/Internet_providers_can_now_control_what_sites_you_visit.aspx
15:06 Tom_itx http://www.electronicproducts.com/Test_and_Measurement/Panel_Meters_Data_Loggers_Monitors_Process_Control/Nearly_6_000_natural_gas_leaks_discovered_under_Washington_DC_with_a_few_dozen_listed_as_explosion_risks.aspx
15:06 Tom_itx we could only hope
16:37 katsmeow-afk after an apartment explosion in Bham, the public housing authority gave everyone vouchers to move, and AlaGasCo saying everything is safe, while coincidently replacing 6 miles of pipeline
16:47 katsmeow-afk http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/12/investigators_suspect_leak_in.html
16:51 katsmeow-afk http://www.cbs42.com/news/more-gas-leaks-in-gate-city
16:53 katsmeow-afk as if exploding public housing isn't enough: January 23, 2014 at 4:19 PM
16:53 katsmeow-afk BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- An oversized vehicle struck a girder of the Interstate 65 northbound bridge just ahead of Malfunction Junction, according to the Alabama Department of Transportation.
16:55 katsmeow-afk I-65 thru Bham is a nitemare from 5am till 11pm on the best of days ,,,, it's usually bumper to bumper with idiots everywhere, you *must* drive defensively ,, humans will hit the brakes in front of you, speeds vary for no reason between 35 and 90, and there's wrecks every day on the uphill and downhill,, Malfunction Junction is usually a parking lot
16:57 katsmeow-afk and a few yrs ago they replaced a bridge there brought down by an asshole in a 4-wheeler in front of a fuel tank 18-wheeler, the bridge girders were melted right down to the highway off the support columns
16:59 katsmeow-afk http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/01/falling_through_the_cracks_tho.html
17:17 katsmeow-afk ...........
17:17 katsmeow-afk states are allowed to recover the cost of health care after someone's death by seizing their assets. It applies to Medicaid recipients who are between the ages of 55 and 64. The law has been in place since 1993, when Congress realized states were going broke over rising Medicaid expenses.
19:38 rue_house sweeet the lm386 arrived!
19:38 rue_house 100pcs
19:39 katsmeow-afk going to drive the heck outa some fets?
19:40 katsmeow-afk how little did yu get someone to let you have them for?
19:41 rue_house $7
19:41 rue_house for 100pcs
19:41 rue_house er 9.30 w/shipping
19:41 katsmeow-afk nice
19:41 rue_house wrong line
19:41 rue_house 11.84, which is still ok to me
19:42 rue_house :)
19:42 Tom_itx no more dollar a day things ehh?
19:42 rue_house no I'v bought all the $1 crap
19:42 Tom_itx sell it back for 2
19:42 rue_house ha, costs $8 min to ship it from canada
19:43 rue_house and none of it is worth that
19:44 katsmeow-afk i dunno how they do it, but spruce from Canadia to the usa beats home-grown usa spruse or pine for studs and osb in price
19:45 katsmeow-afk in Georgia, a loooong way from Canada, spruce still beat Georgia pine grown right down the street
19:45 rue_house the world dosn't seem to have noticed what shipping costs
19:46 katsmeow-afk then how are they making money on it?
19:46 rue_house they aren't
19:46 rue_house its called working for a job
19:47 katsmeow-afk but a job brings home money?
19:47 rue_house not always
19:47 rue_house some people pay to work at their job
19:47 rue_house even tho they dont like it
19:47 rue_house in canada, for a single parent, it often costs more to have a job you have to drive to than to be unemployed
19:48 katsmeow-afk oh, same in usa, especially if you figure in health insurance
19:49 katsmeow-afk arg, bbiaf
19:49 rue_house at 7 I'm going back to work
19:49 Tom_itx 2x fuel
19:49 Tom_itx do it all the first time sir
19:55 katsmeow-afk .bak
19:55 katsmeow-afk reschedule it for morning
19:55 katsmeow-afk is that 2x the ferry trips too?
19:56 katsmeow-afk yanno, if you could make your own free fuel, you could make a fortune as a taxi/courier
19:59 rue_house 7pm I'm on again
20:00 rue_house no ferry trips to work
20:00 rue_house its a work van
20:01 katsmeow-afk woo, ebay just got hackable : http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=lm386%20100pcs <<== top two items beats your price of 100pcs for $11.84
20:01 katsmeow-afk actually, they all do
20:02 rue_house huh
20:03 rue_house meh, I still think its an ok price
20:03 tsmeow-afk
20:03 katsmeow-afk you prolly got faster shipping too
20:04 rue_house registered package
20:04 rue_house and ali holds the money in esctrow till you get the package
20:04 rue_house and say its ok
20:04 rue_house so YOU GET YOUR PACKAGE
20:04 rue_house unlike ebay
20:04 rue_house where you MIGHT get your package
20:04 tsmeow-afk nods, because atm usps is not deliving a pac
20:11 katsmeow-afk <cough>
22:43 katsmeow-afk ...
22:58 katsmeow-afk Glennon crunched some numbers and figured that in 2012, roughly 50 billion gallons of western water—enough to supply the annual household needs of half a million families—were exported to China.
22:58 katsmeow-afk Not literally bottled up and shipped, but embedded in alfalfa crops grown with irrigation water. And that's just to China, which still trails Japan and the United Arab Emirates as a top destination for American alfalfa.
22:59 katsmeow-afk "We do it in the form of wheat, soybeans, and corn," he said. "The midsection of the country has traditionally used millions of tons of water to grow crops that are shipped by rail to ports and shipped all over the world."
23:00 katsmeow-afk a staggering trade imbalance between China and the U.S. creates an incredible advantage for any American producer to ship anything at all to China, even bulky, heavy bales of hay. For every two container ships that bring those iPods and T-shirts to California ports from China, one goes back empty.
23:00 katsmeow-afk As a result, "it costs less today to ship a ton of alfalfa from Long Beach to Beijing than it does to ship it from the Imperial Valley in California to the Central Valley," explains Glennon.
23:05 katsmeow-afk Atlanta (CNN) -- Some of CNN's social media accounts and blogs were compromised Thursday.
23:05 katsmeow-afk The affected accounts included CNN's main Facebook account, CNN Politics' Facebook account and the Twitter pages for CNN and CNN's Security Clearance. Blogs for Political Ticker, The Lead, Security Clearance, The Situation Room and Crossfire were also hacked.
23:35 katsmeow-afk 21f here