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mircea_popescu: they have a sort of sea paragliding here, i have half a mind to try it sometime
mircea_popescu: but man, and kid also, can drown just fine in 5 meters of water.
mircea_popescu: now, the floor is very smooth and the incline very forgiving, so you wouldn't be much deeper than maybe 5-10 meters even then.
mircea_popescu: but i lost my 2nd pair of slippers, through the procedure of sit down in car, forget to pick them up. i guess im buying a half dozen next.
mircea_popescu: surfers lose the occasional leg. rarely actually eaten, ocean typically only wants a taste.
mircea_popescu: mod6 they actually have riptides here, moderately bad. also stingrays, and sharks, AND CROCODILES.
mircea_popescu: well, it varied. i go where the ocean sends me, you know ?
mircea_popescu: that's another great thing to watch, girlibutt going from paddle to standing. she's got one second to lift lift lift!
mircea_popescu: but most people just you know, ride it a few meters and faceplant.
mircea_popescu: there was a guy that was pretty good, Z-d counter-wake with great agility.
mircea_popescu: there's a macaw tree ; and hundreds of pelicans fish in the wake.
mircea_popescu: i threw one a crumb of sandwich, he spent like 5 minutes trying to stuff it into his hidey-hole
mircea_popescu: lobbes it's like 22 celsius. pleasure to step into. literally.
mircea_popescu: hey, come over. i'll show you where it is. odds of girlybutt > 100%.
mircea_popescu: it's great to watch young woman butt on board paddling, you know ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes there was this bunch of hotties surfing on their own btw...
mircea_popescu: well, broken as in no longer working, not as in fragmented bones.
mircea_popescu: but in other "mp's bed, bath & lifestyle", teh hos got this dr teal's epsom salt body scrub" somewhere. best thing to rub on your legs when you've driven them to literally collapse from sheer exhaustion.
mircea_popescu: so i broke off my legs again, had to be carried off teh beach. MAN I FUCKING LOVE THE OCEAN!
mircea_popescu: not to say we won't rack old school disks someone ships ; but i think that's about as far as that goes.
mircea_popescu: or, for that matter, in a civilised house. because how the fuck would this work, modernity is built on airflow like the roman empire was built on running water.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-07#1782314 << well, i'd expect airflow at all times driven by the dc HVAC. i dunno you'd want to buy space in a dc with no internal airflow. i've also never been in one that had no internal airflow. then again i've never been in a clean room that had no internal airflow either.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: but, in any case, more of a curio/bikeshed than anything i think. overclocking isn't likely to have more than a 1% if tyhat impact either way in bbisp affairs.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they don't. and for the other thing... really ?!
mircea_popescu: this is a little like saying "hospital's no place for imunosupressed patients, they should be in their car, which people keep clean"
mircea_popescu: the idea that desktop towers are well cooled is ridoinculous on the face. i dun think half of them are, tbh.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: re cooked : i don't expect anyone's getting cooked. half-decent run DC has no hotspot over 50 anyway, no matter what.
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah, i have no clear model in my head of what's going on. but, i expect most load other than trb will be apache or something like it. and in my experience higher clock beats more cores once you have more than 4 or so, there.
mircea_popescu: eh, there's cpus that are made for overclocking. such as this one. it'll run fine for years, if kept cool.
mircea_popescu: not clear yet, intuitively there's a ~600, a ~1.5k, a ~4k and a ~9k chunk. but we see.
mircea_popescu: well, if you're stuck with an overloaded rack for the few days till you get the other one up for instance, it's nice to know you've got a 20% afterburner you can run on.
mircea_popescu: lobbes wouldja be interested in ordering parts for phf's trip btw ?
mircea_popescu: TomServo ok, but i'm more interested in... do you have some way to discern whether more cores or more clock speed are more valuable ?
mircea_popescu: to my (admittedly aloof) reasoning, even if filled with 20 of these, the rack would have plenty of swim space on the sides, and should at least theoretically be ok. i dunno, i guess we find out.
mircea_popescu: as to the vertical exhaust, it was more of a "do you have it" curio than anything.
mircea_popescu: so the mini's tiny when compared to the hefty micro. because why the fucknot.
mircea_popescu: (for the confused : microATX, introduced cca 1996, is 244x244 mm ; same witdh but shorter than the plain ATX ; meanwhile mini-ITX is 170x170, whereas mini-ATX is 150x150 mm, so even smaller.)
mircea_popescu: this is officially the dumbest standard i ever encountered. i am officially giving up trying to use the words, will use the numbers.
mircea_popescu: the (consumer) motherboard is miniATX (the somewhat intermediate one, 10x10) not mini-ATX (the smaller-than-ITX novel thing, 6x6).
mircea_popescu: the (consumer) motherboard is microATX (the somewhat intermediate one) not micro-ATX (the smaller-than-ITX novel thing).
mircea_popescu: take something like
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1782012 : if you did actyually put 4 to the mobo, as they theoretically can suffer, and somehow stuffed all this in 1U, and attempted to put 40 such units at half a kW each inside one rack, i'd fully expect the whole thing melting down within the hour. not even water can take out 20KJ/s out of a (stationary) rack. we're talking like, car engine sorta coolings by now.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: so i'm kinda trying to outsource the heat knowhow to the dc, in this passive manner. kinda why i got a low W cpu. i'm thinking i'd have to worry more about some modern 500W bs "single"t or multi-cpu than about this basically 125W max power item. how much can it possibly heat...
mircea_popescu: but in principle, gear can't produce more heat than the electricity it gets. so i expect at some point they'll start whining about "Gotta get another rack, we can't go over 4kw/per" or w/e they do. no ?
mircea_popescu: very theoretically could fit 20, and perhaps the dc can provide the extra wattage. but gotta see somehow.
mircea_popescu: well, i expect draw in the 200-250W. that means at most 10 per rack at current power.
mircea_popescu: mod6 for the sake of nitpicks, it's buenas, cuz somehow la noche is feminine. buenos tacos / buenas noches.
mircea_popescu: cabinets often come with them preinstalled, but then again that's more a mid/high market thing ; yours may be barebones-er than this.
mircea_popescu: (you put one or two blowing in at the bottom, and same number blowing out at the top)
mircea_popescu: basically they are a face for 3U, blow air out of the rack.
mircea_popescu: were you going to publish some pix at some point or what came of that ?