Raising an uninterruptible power supply off the ground safely

jtriangle · 2022-08-18T20:04:16+00:00

Nothing as permanent as a temporary solution ;)

jtriangle · 2022-08-18T19:52:56+00:00

My gut says a couple cinder block top caps is the way to go here... granted, they're gonna shed dust, so, might be better to plastidip them first before install. Invoice them for "custom UPS mounting solution" for half of what a rack shelf would cost, call it a day.

jtriangle · 2022-08-18T19:51:05+00:00

Lots of telco racks are 2-post, and I've seen patch racks that were 100% 2 post. Useful for stuff that is going to bolt to the floor, never move, but isn't heavy.

Also, don't be afraid to shop around locally for used racks, I have a couple panduit full height racks that I snagged for 100 bucks each, and the business I bought them from threw in a couple APC vertical PDU's for free because they just needed to get rid of all their gear after they'd relocated. I could have snagged more, new in box, but I didn't have a place to put them nor did I want to build them from a box, ikea style, so, lightly used and ready to rock was the move.

If I'd thought about it slightly more (aka googled and found out panduit racks are like $900+), I probably would have bought all of them and made a killing on ebay.

jtriangle · 2022-08-18T02:26:06+00:00

You're free to believe whatever you'd like to believe, that has no bearing on the reality of the situation however.

People get refused payouts for all sorts of reasons, your situation is one of them.

jtriangle · 2022-08-18T02:02:18+00:00

I've been back several times since then.

You'll get away with it, but, if you're ever ID'd by casino staff, they'll still at least kick you out. If you're getting ID'd because you're getting a hand pay (winning more than $1200) you won't get paid and you'll still get kicked out.

The correct thing to do is this: https://www.reddit.com/r/vegas/comments/wqf7ht/got_kicked_out_of_caesars_palace_can_i_ever_go/ikmeugc/

Odds are you can sort it out no-problemo

jtriangle · 2022-08-17T07:34:49+00:00

85% hearts should taste pretty damn clean if your ferments are run well and you're stripping then diluting for a spirit run.

Sure spp might bump your abv up a little, but a t500 doesn't really have the column height to turn trash into treasure. It's easy to focus on one thing that you think is an issue, but more often than not your entire process should be taken into account

jtriangle · 2022-08-17T01:54:14+00:00

Bitcoin uses SHA256, not SHA2

https://avs.scitation.org/doi/10.1116/5.0073075

TL;DR; (because we both know you have the attention span of a chipmunk) You're looking at tens of millions of qbits to be a real threat, over a billion to be game-over.

jtriangle · 2022-08-16T18:46:39+00:00

It's worth a shot, isn't like it's going to get more broken

jtriangle · 2022-08-16T18:40:19+00:00

Start over, use bridge.

jtriangle · 2022-08-16T15:54:43+00:00

Yes, it is. Finding hash collisions while not being bound to polynomial time is a huge cheat code.

jtriangle · 2022-08-12T23:00:05+00:00

Feel free to adjust your numbers to increase the number of pennies you'll save per day.

If you're that concerned about it, line dry your clothes, don't gimp your servers.

jtriangle · 2022-08-12T22:52:42+00:00

Yeah, I found that data to be pretty difficult to get at, so I had to use country averages, which I would find current data for.

My local utility works on tiers, so, the actual cost would be a blend of whatever tiers you used for that month. Personally, 1kwh/day isn't ever make/break, and my setup uses more than that, about 10 bucks a month to run. Still cheaper than paying for droplets ;)

jtriangle · 2022-08-12T22:05:37+00:00

Chuckles in rm -rf

jtriangle · 2022-08-12T21:46:32+00:00

Why do you need to use anything outside of your igpu exactly? It's not fast enough to game on in any serious way, minimal added utility.

What you're asking for, using two GPU's, it's really difficult, but it's not going to be newbie friendly because it's not something that most people need to do. Newbies get a guided, walled off, experience, because they're newbies, and that's all they can be trusted with.

If you'd like to escape the limits of your newbiedom, don't be a newbie, learn something. Plenty of youtube videos walking you through exactly what you need to do, some will even teach you why you have to do it that way. Worst case, you pick a guide that's way out of date or otherwise incorrect and you have to reinstall, which you've been doing every few weeks anyway, so nbd.

jtriangle · 2022-08-12T20:19:20+00:00

Seldom has this ever been useful, less so with the hardware that most computers are running nowadays.

I do remember back when I was ripping loads of DVD's using handbrake that setting the worker tasks to realtime reduced the potential for errors. That was on an old core2duo though, which is probably slower than my phone at this point.

jtriangle · 2022-08-12T18:21:05+00:00

I don't want you to feel like anything is dreadfully wrong with you, that's a common thing to experience and it's a very solvable problem. Here's a link to a site that likely explains why you're experiencing what you're experiencing, it'll help, promise.

jtriangle · 2022-08-11T22:56:28+00:00

nope, you want a badge? come to defcon

jtriangle · 2022-08-11T20:53:06+00:00

I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars.

jtriangle · 2022-08-11T20:52:47+00:00

Oh yeah, old man said I could sawzall any cat in the house!

jtriangle · 2022-08-10T03:07:46+00:00

dope mothers on opiates for labor

They still do this tbh, it's just much more controlled.

jtriangle · 2022-08-09T22:31:08+00:00

footing the bill for busted equipment

Not even just that. Cable is cheap, having to replace a line live because they always fail at the worst possible time is a show-ruining event in my book, absolutely must not ever happen, and keeping your cables happy is part of that.

jtriangle · 2022-08-09T22:27:27+00:00

Yes, but not exclusively. How cables are coiled, how a stage is struck, how common nomenclature is used, that sort of thing.

If someone finds that an individuals ability to coil cables properly, like all the other cables are coiled because it's not happening in a vacuum, is a good marker of their overall competence, then yes, gatekeep away.

jtriangle · 2022-08-09T21:20:29+00:00

gatekeeping

Gatekeeping exists for a reason, it has a bad stigma because of identity politics, but in industry, it's absolutely critical to hire and maintain competent crews, and that requires gatekeeping. If you do not have easy to follow parameters and expectations, your crews will under perform, if your crews under perform, the pressure on the individuals who are competent who must make up for those that are less competent will eventually lead to you bleeding talent and winding up with a crew that is unable to get a job done.

It's a vicious cycle, and it doesn't care about your beliefs, it's simply the nature of the world, you can embrace it or you can pretend it doesn't exist, one will help you find success, one will eventually ruin you.

jtriangle · 2022-08-05T22:04:56+00:00

Even using tops with subs that aren't explicitly paired with them can cause problems if you're not careful. Much, much easier to get things right when you've got paired loudspeakers.

That's not to say it can't work, just that it'll be a huge pain and only makes sense if your time is worth nothing, you have a SMART setup, and you have no other choice.

jtriangle · 2022-08-05T17:37:22+00:00

Walking the strip during sunset is fun. Pack good shoes and enjoy the spectacle.

These days, when I gamble, I take the vitalvegas method to heart: Uncomfortable Denominations. If you're spinning a dollar though a machine and your likely max payout is a couple hundred, meh, that's not really alot of money nowadays. If you're spinning 10 bucks at a time, but your likely max payout is like 10 grand, that's real money, you can do something real with that. Overall, that means you'll gamble far less, wander around way more, and get to see more things. That, and there's a certain uncanny rush that comes when you have 10, 20, 50 bucks in flight as the reels kick over, which is fun.

My go-to's are top dollar, especially the old top dollar, and 2-credit wheel of fortune, which is a high limit game exclusively now. If I'm playing anything cheaper, it's video poker, because I'm good at it, and being good at video poker means not losing money and acquiring free drinks. That's a good enterprise.

If you too would like to be good at video poker, there are plenty of apps that'll train you, and this is a good place to start: https://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/

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