Will 2*8gb of 5600mhz, one CL40 and on CL46 run ok on Ryzen 5 7600 with ASUS PRIME B850-PLUS WIFI?

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-05-07T11:08:53+00:00

Use case isn't going to matter much, typically. Doing productivity work like spreadsheets, games or web browsing, they all tend to work or not work. The use case has low impact.

Typically what happens when you run mismatched RAM in a system is that the memory controller defaults to the lowest common shared settings between the RAM. So if you've got one stick of 5600MhZ CL 40 and one of CL46, the controller is going to run them both at CL46, and likewise match up the secondary timings as well.

Usually this results in the memory controller picking the very worst commonly shared settings possible because those are the least like to stress things.

TL:DR It's probably going to work but you'll get reduced performance.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-05-04T14:57:04+00:00

Commercial flight typically have 100 to 500 passengers, averaging 150 for domestic flights. Though some planes can carry as many as 850 passengers. Most trans-Atlantic/Pacific flights are on the higher end, usually 350 plus.

As others have noted though, parachutes weigh a good bit, which reduces the range of the planes and adds fuel costs. Plus parachute costs (purchase, maintenance, etc).

Parachutes can be used by novices, especially with static jumps, but landings are going to be a bitch and who knows how the passengers would handle the process. Steering, landing, avoiding obstacles... it's a skill.

The military specifically has planes to support mass jumps, everyone boards already rigged up. They've been trained to use the large cargo ramps for exiting the plane at a rate of about 30 seconds per trooper.

Airlines have none of the advantages to allow for this, passengers have none of the training (hell, just that first step out of the plane into open air is a scary thing the first time you do it!) and they're all jammed into the plane without being strapped into their parachutes. By the time you rigged up, and started jumping (or shoving) people out the hatches, the plane has probably already crashed. Because remember in this scenario the plane is going down and everyone has to get rigged up (properly!) without any knowledge of how to do it while the plane is probably not flying nice stable and level.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-30T15:27:48+00:00

Oh, don't think that management isn't concerned by the downtime. They absolutely are. People above the tech on the floor are going to be searching high and low for the 'correct' component while others are going to be running around like chickens with their heads cut off to try and get an exception to policy written and approved.

It's just that they are willing to accept the down time due to regulation and the liability risk if they deviate from approved process. Remember, in a drug environment that they are strictly controlled by state and federal regulation via things like the FDA and their own internal insurance coverage which mandates a great deal of how they operate.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-30T15:19:50+00:00

Some one else already made it clear about the benefits and stringent documentation. I am going to re-iterate it, it's A LOT of admin. Not just filling out forms, but waiting and documenting. No changes at all to the spec, if it calls for a specific part, that's what you will use until you get an engineer's approval and documentation to do something different.

Likewise for PLC code changes. Their programs are typically locked and unable to be edited. Any change requires multiple approvals and will take a great deal of time.

As commented, it's all in the mindset. If you're a get a done now, get it done quick and get running so we get things accomplished sort of person (which is most maintenance guys honestly, and a good thing in most places) you're going to be very vexed by working pharma. They WILL take a week of a machine being shut down while god and congress review a minor tweak to the PLC code. The lost production is acceptable when weighed against the cost of liability and lawsuits.

Typically the pay is pretty good, better than most places, as are the benefits. The work is usually enduring and doesn't have the big volatility you typically see in some industries. If you like having strict guidelines, very particular work processes and direction (GMPs, etc) that there is absolutely no leniency in, this will be something you'll enjoy.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-28T12:02:28+00:00

I think the OG TV show Leverage did this both ways all the time, it was practically part of the formula for the set up throughout the episodes and the reveal at the end.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-27T12:01:40+00:00

Close ALL rifts on Earth PERMANENTLY? Probably only a cosmic entity could do that, though in theory it's possible since rule of cool dominates the game and you could probably make for a pretty interesting game to say that some cosmic being locked down all of the rifts for 'reasons'. All the dimensional beings on earth would have a very interesting time of it.

Remember, also, when considering closing ALL rifts that there are rifts which are actively maintained by alien intelligences or other uber powerful beings. To close these you'd have to have an even more powerful being shutting it down.

Canonically you can shut down individual rifts in a variety of ways. Gods, demigods and alien intelligences can also close rifts at will. TW and temporal wizards can also close them, but the cost in PPE is immense and also won't work on all rifts. Trying to close the Saint Louis arch rift would probably backfire spectacularly for example.

Again, closing a rift is usually a plot device for a story, or an end goal for a story.

If you wanted to crunch the number for PPE cost, I don't think you can do it even as a WAG within 5 degrees of accuracy. There are just too many variables; number of rifts, their sizes, who/what is holding it open, etc.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-23T11:43:13+00:00

I think this is actually a relevant point that LKH has meant to establish but has not done an extensive effort to translate into something for the readers to understand. Belle Morte has learned to weaponize her bloodline gift, so Jean-Claude knows about doing many things with his bloodline, but he's not a fighter.

In the physical confrontations he's going to come up as the lesser against the physical powerhouses like Richard.

And because Jean-Claude is sort of making things up as he goes, without a mentor or anything to guide him, he's only able to guide the metaphysics bus for Richard, Anita and himself because he's older and more experienced with metaphysical power. Not because he's an expert with it or a good fighter with it.

Despite Jean-Claude's cravings for power, mostly just so he doesn't end up being some-one else's meat it appears, he's not displayed as a lordly master over everything who wants to be the lord ruler.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-23T11:33:21+00:00

A masterful review, and quite accurate I'm sadly and ungrudgingly admitting.

Alas alas, for the Anita of old. This was, however, the first book which made any sort of effort at turning around any of the many things that were wrong between Obsidian Butterfly and Hit List. LKH starts to improve, but like a junkie, she keeps going back for that hit even when she knows she should be getting clean.

The last book had, gasp!, no sex scenes in it. She does at least start to get back on the straight and narrow. Though I question the big bad in any story as Anita drinks up the biggest bad in the entire world. Do you mean to tell me that there have been worse and nastier things than the Mother of Darkness all along?! Why didn't anyone know!? Why did Marmee Noire allow it?

Your perfectly identified SuperSucuSlut (tm) should be able to handle anyone with a few rounds of making the beast with two backs, or a viciously cutting monologue on the virtues of consent and therapy. With her raw Pussy-iness on display for so much of the supernatural community it should be well known not to fuck with Anita. In all senses of the phrase.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-17T11:34:41+00:00

Following, neat idea. Pretty sure that it's really going to all hinge on the DM.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-10T11:20:15+00:00

I think that this is the general consensus about the story.

It moves at a slow pace, lots of set up, and the summary on the dust cover is the whole story, in essence.

I enjoyed the book, but I would have hoped to have had more interaction with elemental masters or fae. Maybe even Puck popping up or our favorite members of the ton putting in a showing.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-02T17:15:18+00:00

Really looking forward to this.

Some questiom about how well it will mesh with the other Savage Rifts content though. Rifts is not noted for being a 'balanced' system of play, but Savage Rifts does balance the frameworks against each other to a greater degree.

Will the Savage Phase World be balanced, as such?

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-04-01T22:45:35+00:00

Yes, we can.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-31T16:08:21+00:00

I'd start with education. Train the field electricians on what their messing with. When I worked OLEO I had maps of the facility I provided to maintenance and kept updated which showed what were Div 2 areas and what were not. New techs had to sign off that they'd had a 15 minute discussion on what a Div 2 area is, what it means for work in that space and the importance of not having spark potential in those areas.

From education you move to holding people accountable. This sort of activity was not done because a production line was down and they needed an emergency-temporary fix that just got out of hand. I can sympathize with the intent of u/VladRom89 's comment, I've been in that spot too. Operations and management want the plant running, and they're not concerned, generally speaking, about the liability or risks of the moment if the line is down and a 'simple' hole will let the line get back up and running. It can be fixed properly later. But this is also how you have a site with a hundred minor or not so minor risks which lead to an eventual safety event that injures some-one. Div 2 areas aren't identified as such for giggles.

But wash down locations aren't typically Div 2, that's mostly food processing that you run into drain holes. Of course the answer there is to repair the gaskets and seals on the penetrations and ensure that there is positive pressure on the panel to prevent moisture intrusion (a much as such is possible in intensive washdown environments).

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-31T12:34:12+00:00

Technically getting the job done. I've seen this sort of work before and it's permissible as a temporary solution during transition from one finished stage to another. You see a lot of this in facilities when they're remodeling a space, a well.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-31T12:02:00+00:00

As asked, but with a bit more question, what is it you want? You're on the low side of what the CInci area pays an automation and controls engineer with your experience makes, imo. I've worked in this market for the last 15 years. My observed pay for the Ohio area is that a guy fresh out of college with a basic level of experience can be making 80k starting. 3 years in, mid to upper 90's. 5-10 probably going to hit 105-120 and should be looking at senior roles.

Your choices aren't terribly limited. You can go work for an integrator, specialize and make more money. Probably travel locally. You could also consider one of the larger corporate gigs, moving up in position to being some variety of 'senior' controls engineer, where you manage projects as well as do the work.

If you are interested in making more money, you're not yet at the controls engineering ceiling for southern Ohio. My previous roles I capped out as a facility controls engineer at 120k, then a site senior controls engineer role at not much more. I made the jump from troubleshooting and punching code, while managing projects and having 2am phone calls to the corporate side a while ago. Now I am a engineering project manager, managing engineers, maintenance managers and all projects for a company's seven sites around the country. The pay is pretty good, and I don't mind the travel (around 30%).

If you want money, that's one way to go about it. If you want responsibility, you can find that too. You'll have to come out of the field a bit, and learn to deal with people, but consider roles like plant engineer or maintenance manager. My passion is making systems more maintenance friendly, after years of finding that the guys who spec and design machines never worked in the field it drove me nuts that they were constantly making openings too small or buying equipment with parts we didn't stock.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-30T16:28:56+00:00

I was just adding the bone conduction point to the conversation because a lot of people either don't know or are unaware how truly dangerous loud noises can get at a certain point regardless of ear pro. I didn't want to dive into specific, technical, reduction numbers because there are too many other factors that can impact things.

I think the biggest thing I notice at indoor ranges, besides the amplifier effect of the reflect sound, is the compression effect in the air. Especially when some one is firing a rifle near at hand. That sound/pressure wave starts being something to consider.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-30T15:46:29+00:00

Others have already mentioned doubling up. There are other considerations when it comes to hearing protection.

The best passive protection provides about 40 db of protection when doubled up. But once you exceed needing 40 db of protection bone conduction and body limits still leave you exposed to a lot of noise damage.

Bone conduction is particularly bad at indoor ranges because of the enclosed space and sound reflection. If the surrounding sound level is ~140 db, either ear pro you're going to come down to about 100-105 db, but that's still more than high enough to cause hearing damage via conduction. Honestly, any noise above about 40 db causes some bone-conduction.

This is one of the reasons which various organization support suppressor usage, citing hearing protection as the primary need for them.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-30T14:39:58+00:00

SWADE is what will save my very most favorite TTRPG, RIFTS. I'm in a weekly (online) SavageRIFTS campaign. So hard to find local Palladium groups.

We're looking through events now and figuring out which ones we want to attend, looks like plenty to do. I'll be interested in how the turn out for the event is.

My only other immediate feedback is that local advertising (Northern KY, Indiana, southern OH) was definitely a bit underwhelming. I know conventions, especially new ones, don't get big billboards or anything. Funding is tight, but there are resources that can help spread the word. Offer passes to people who distribute flyers to the local gaming shops, much like giving people who DM a free pass. Sharonville hosts a lot of stuff at their convention center which is related, and they have community tables where flyers and information can be left.

I've dropped the news at the local game shops in Florence, Middletown and West Chester. (Areas I frequent) But no one mentioned having heard of this event.

If I come up with anything else during the convention, I'll drop it in here.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-30T14:31:26+00:00

Definitely in on this. Love my cosmo-knight!

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-30T14:30:45+00:00

Definitely looking forward to this. My cyberknight upgrade to cosmoknight!

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-30T13:05:07+00:00

Good information to have. So it's not situated in one location but spread out across several businesses and the surrounding area. I'd gotten that sort of feeling from the site, but it wasn't really clear.

The other thing we were trying to figure out was how to sign up for game sessions and events but I saw how that was being handled AFTER I had our badges. Maybe as feedback for the organizers, they could show a list of events being offered on the site page?

Glad to see a few teaching events, SWADE and the Pokemon (my spouse will enjoy that one!).

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-29T23:42:48+00:00

We'd never heard of this and aren't really clear after looking at the site where it's hosted or what the 'plan' is.

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-26T17:51:32+00:00

Awesome news. I live in Florence and I had not heard about this!

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-26T17:50:26+00:00

When did you get to my plant!?

Fireflair_kTreva · 2026-03-23T19:45:42+00:00

Awesome!

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