blasdel
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Comment · 2 years ago
Read the book first, in 2010 a UK man built one from scratch as best he could
Comment · 5 years ago
If he were an American, that time would put your father in La Société Charly Miller: https://rusa.org/pages/CharlyMiller
I had fun the whole time!
Mentally I don't really suffer anything, though I did cry like a baby while riding through misty valleys at dawn the third day. I had realized I'd crossed into Normandy, and got emotional from working out from first principles why I new that detail of french geography. In the first town I passed through in daylight the locals were hanging up large banners for their 75th Anniversary of Liberation by the US Army.
I had a few serious physical setbacks from my ankle, losing a cleat bolt, a wrong turn — but it was easy to run into old friends out on the course to regroup and make new friends along the way helping each other out of predicaments.
I lost a lot of my endurance abilities from Covid, so when I do it again I will definitely be shooting for a different goal: https://adrianhandssociety.com/
Comment · 5 years ago
Haha I just kept gallivanting around Paris afterwards, I spent 10 days in France and cumulatively slept maybe 30h total.
I hadn't done much riding that summer because of a broken ankle and actually re-fractured it mid-ride from vibration/stress while descending into Brest. The biggest trouble was that it was impossible to get any ice for it, but I found nice self-adhesive bandages to immobilize it the next day and was fine completing the ride.
Comment · 5 years ago
My personal fastest 24 hour split was about 600km, while riding the first half of the Paris-Brest-Paris brevet in 2019. I had my first sleep after that in Brest and took much longer breaks for the return journey for a total ride of 1240km in 78:02:21 (with ~26 hours spent stopped).
I'd done many 600km brevets before that comfortably in 35-37 hours with a ~4hr sleep in the middle, but at PBP there were thousands of other strong riders and it was fun to work together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randonneuring is a lot more "normal" of a way to ride your bike all day than the Ultracycling approach in the article. Instead of grinding out laps of a racecourse solo, ride from town to town on pleasant backroads socially.
Comment · 5 years ago
A programmer that doesn't make websites is like a glass artist that hasn't made bongs
Comment · 5 years ago
Randomized admissions were the implicit thesis of the satire we get the word from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
Comment · 5 years ago
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Comment · 5 years ago
Don't forget that Rome also has a wildly nonuniform interconnect between the core complexes, and the system integrator gets much less control over it than Intel's UPI links. When you really need to end up with a very large single system image at the application layer, the bigger architecture works out to be much cheaper than 256gb DIMMs or HPC networking.
8-socket CLX nets you 1.75x the cores, and 3x as many memory channels vs. a 2-socket Rome system. It also scales to a single system image with 32 sockets if you use a fabric to connect smaller nodes:
* 4-socket nodes: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/superdome.html
* 2-socket nodes: https://atos.net/en/solutions/enterprise-servers/bullsequana...
That's 48tb of DRAM with all 128gb DIMMs, or 12tb+128tb when using 512gb Optane PDIMMs.
Comment · 5 years ago
Now Tayne, I can get into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk
Comment · 6 years ago
> And that if there are evidence or facts that overturns their current belief, they'll gladly accept it. There are no such equivalence in religion.
It is explicitly the role of a Prophet, Messiah, Bodhisattva, etc. to do such things — introduce new evidence that overturns or convolutes current beliefs
The day to day practice of all established religions involves reasoning through a historical lineage of commentaries on existing evidence and continually appending to it with new instances. Religion exists at the intersection of jurisprudence (what should be?) and the scientific method (what is true?). Both Law and Science are human philosophies that directly descended from religious primitives.
Comment · 6 years ago
When done with video it looks like a real-world raytracing demo: https://www.stratusleds.com/aerial-leds
Comment · 6 years ago
The /mysql/tmp/greetings.txt trick was cute
but do kids these days not know about https://linux.die.net/man/1/wall ?
Comment · 6 years ago
More reasonable VMMs use the word "hypercall" for these paravirtualized interfaces
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
In a previous life I wrote code that only ran in Cygwin, it depended on a dummy networking driver to talk to the WinCE core of a sonogram machine.
Running Windows VMs as kernels for Cygwin environments felt less weird than most modern container architectures.
I normally go by 'blasdelf' (last name, first initial) on the internets (reachable @gmail.com). I mistyped when creating this account and didn't notice for over a month.