Stuff you didn't know and probably don't care about

[JujuFish]

Apparently, density is up to almost 30TB. Well 28TB but . . . . give it a minute . . . OK, now 30TB

A basic 5 bay raid enclosure only gives you 150TB

Woo-hoo - almost halfway there.

For a paltry $15k per, you could get a few of these https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16820318203

 

[Charmonium]

For a paltry $15k per, you could get a few of these https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16820318203

I didn't scrutinize the page but it looks a little light on performance specs. I mean, sure, 122+ gigglebytes is impressive but not if you and your children grow old and die while you're waiting to fill it up.

The R/W times probably aren't awful but . . .

 

[Charmonium]

To think, in the 90's, that many MB would have been a lot.

Oh you spoiled, spoiled chilluns. You need to try to think in kb. In fact, I think the first IBM PC had less than that in total ram - 640kb if memory serves.

 

[IronWing]

Bighorn sheep kick each other in the nuts before headbutting.

Forward to 23:20.

 

[lxskllr]

Just heard a song on somafm. Ray Anthony and His Bookends - Your Christmas Kisses(1961). Song kind of sucks, but I looked up Ray Anthony. I was wondering if I had the right listing. He's the last surviving member of the original Glenn Miller Orchestra, and the oldest living recorded musician at 103. Still not sure how a swing trumpeter can make a song like Christmas Kisses, but here we are :^D

Ray Anthony - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[KMFJD]

man builds mouse pad aim assist so family can play him in fps games

https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/microcontrollers-projects/motorized-mousepad-aim-assist-system-is-so-slick-that-noobs-swear-theyve-got-skillz-a-cannibalized-grbl-drawing-system-and-computer-vision-software-work-in-harmony

 

[IronWing]

A new hybrid sailing cargo vessel completed its maiden transatlantic voyage.

Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?

The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry

www.theguardian.com

 

[lxskllr]

The next advancement will be oarsmen as the other part of the hybrid system :^P

 

[IronWing]

Yesterday's 35-30mph west wind created a "wind tide" lowering the water level of Lake Erie at Toledo by over six feet.



The spaz news version:

 

[nakedfrog]

Start at 2:00 -

Nice to see I'd already disabled this.

They did some analysis of the archive and found some interesting trends

Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of...

annas-archive.org

• Spotify has around 256 million tracks. This collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of tracks.
• We archived around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size.
• We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks

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I wonder if opera and choral are seemingly over-represented due to crediting the various performers, since the chart is showing "artists per genre" at the top.
For example, looking at Der Fledermaus / Act II: No. 11, Finale. c. Genug damit, genug, there are 11 artists listed for that track.

 

[stargazr]

R. Crumb in 1967

 

[lxskllr]

R. Crumb in 1967

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I award a score of 50% for the prediction :^D

 

[KMFJD]

I can't get the large scale version to upload but here's the link -

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1pj5bz6/after_a_year_of_work_and_a_publishing_deal_heres

 

[KMFJD]

i was not aware of this black magic wizardry

https://imgur.com/a/dpDirgD

 

[snoopy7548]

i was not aware of this black magic wizardry

https://imgur.com/a/dpDirgD

 

[lxskllr]

Lucky lemon pigs are a thing. I want one.

Lemon pig - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Red Squirrel]

i was not aware of this black magic wizardry

https://imgur.com/a/dpDirgD

Woah, it really does work. I never knew this. lol.

 

[stargazr]

There is a hexagon shaped cloud formation around the North Pole of Saturn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon?brid=iYGWbVk6Up0fVMeDvaBP-Q

 

[William Gaatjes]

i was not aware of this black magic wizardry

https://imgur.com/a/dpDirgD

I recently learned this :

Do a CTRL+ C for to copy a text with formatting.

Press CTRL + V to paste text with formatting.

Press CTRL + SHIFT + V to paste text without formatting.

 

[lxskllr]

Europe's tree of the year 2015 was an Estonian oak located in the playable section of a soccer field...

European Tree of the Year 2015: A Stadium-bound Estonian Oak | International Oak Society

www.internationaloaksociety.org

I fucking love that idea as a concept. Mandate planting trees in sportsball venues to make the lame ass game more interesting, and add challenge. Trees should be randomly placed, and not have the locations codified. Makes it harder to plan around, and adds randomness to the games.

 

[sdifox]

There is a hexagon shaped cloud formation around the North Pole of Saturn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon?brid=iYGWbVk6Up0fVMeDvaBP-Q

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Ikea planet

 

[William Gaatjes]

Ikea planet

There is a hexagon shaped cloud formation around the North Pole of Saturn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon?brid=iYGWbVk6Up0fVMeDvaBP-Q

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Perhaps something similar is going on as can be seen with a Chladni Plate i guess. Standing waves and such.

Chladni Patterns: A Visual Representation of Acoustic Wave Mechanics

RESONIKS | AI-Powered Acoustic Resonance Testing

www.resoniks.com

 

[IronWing]

In searching for something else, I came across this 1896 photo from the University of Arizona.



The brick part of the building is "Old Main", the first building constructed on campus. Old Main is still in use. In 1896, it housed all the classrooms, prof offices, everything but the library and sleeping quarters. The wood addition is the mine engineering department's brand new stamp mill, used to crush ores using banks of drop hammers. Someone thought that attaching the pits of Orthanc to a classroom building was a good idea. I wonder how long the arrangement was tolerated.

Interior view, the vertical rods are the tops of the hammers (stamps).

 

[Red Squirrel]

I recently learned this :

Do a CTRL+ C for to copy a text with formatting.

Press CTRL + V to paste text with formatting.

Press CTRL + SHIFT + V to paste text without formatting.

I wish "without formatting" was the default. I have never ran into a situation where I wanted to keep the formatting when pasting text from one place to the other. Good to know about shift though... did not know about that shortcut either.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I wish "without formatting" was the default. I have never ran into a situation where I wanted to keep the formatting when pasting text from one place to the other. Good to know about shift though... did not know about that shortcut either.

Me too. I also wish that paste without formatting was the default.
I have been copy pasting into a simple ascii editor to remove all formatting for years.

I just recently learned this method.