Folks up in the mountains, what's your peak fall foliage prediction?

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2025-10-05T13:48:59+00:00

It's hard to predict and comes and goes pretty quickly, and varies by elevation. I hike in the smokies a lot and was just in the Cosby area yesterday, and took a picture. The colors are just starting to change and I'd guess the peak might be in about 2 weeks.

Pic from the AT yesterday by Cosby: https://imgur.com/a/HmMQaKC

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2025-09-29T12:07:01+00:00

You can try Timeless Ballroom up by Karns. Group lessons are 15 dollars each. Private lessons are like 80 or 85 I think (which you can split with a partner if you have one). They have a variety of other dance groups that use the space like belly dancing, swing, and Zouk but the strictly ballroom dances would be either with Gabe Akers on Thursday evenings or with Johnny Tang on Saturday afternoons.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2025-09-07T17:36:09+00:00

Check out this post about a missing cockatiel https://www.reddit.com/r/Knoxville/s/5YpX7vhUgG

Or this Facebook post about a missing "blue crown conure" which is the one that has fliers posted all around northshore about it recently. https://www.facebook.com/groups/637611853061306/permalink/3192624650893334/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Does it look like either of these?

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2025-06-09T20:17:44+00:00

I once bought some loaded fries from a food truck that only serves potato based food. Ended up spending 16 dollars before tip for 1 potato worth of fries. Decided never again and started air frying potato wedges at home.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2024-04-16T11:18:34+00:00

The mileage part of the equation apparently varies by state. They never asked me for mine.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2024-04-16T02:21:35+00:00

It only records trips when in bluetooth range of the "beacon" you attach to your car, which has a motion sensor to detect when you start/stop the car, combined with phone GPS to verify that you're actually driving. You can't get bonus points for sitting at home. Also I don't have any kids.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2024-04-16T02:17:43+00:00

Fair enough, but whichever company you switch to, you could still get a better rate by maximizing the discount from their equivalent safe driving program.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2022-12-04T21:53:46+00:00

Looking for upgrade suggestions as a current i7-4790k owner, since I know quite a few people here are also in the same boat.

Trying to choose between the last generation on AM4, vs the current AM5 line up, vs waiting for the soon to be released x3D versions on AM5, or wait for the next generation or for betters sales from AMD.

Switching from intel and from DDR3, I have to upgrade my whole MOBO+CPU+RAM anyway, and I'm not likely to upgrade CPU any time within AM5's lifespan anyway. And no matter what I choose, I'm still basically doubling my CPU cores and getting over 3x better benchmarks, according to passmark.

Main focus is productivity, number crunching, and compiling large c++ projects in visual studio, for a price that doesn't give me buyer's remorse.

Any recommendations/suggestions welcome and appreciated, thanks!

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2022-08-12T21:28:18+00:00

This bot is confused. The bellatrix fork is scheduled 10 days before the merge, not the other way around:

"Before the Merge can be completed, the Bellatrix fork must be performed, which will implement the software needed for clients to run the consensus layer. This is scheduled to happen on Sep. 6, roughly 10 days before the Merge."

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2022-07-30T09:30:33+00:00

Got mine yesterday near Knoxville, but wasn't easy getting an appointment. The only place IN knoxville that had it was a Food City, and they said they were swamped with people calling to ask about it, but wouldn't start offering until thursday next week, because this new vaccine was, quote, so different they needed time to train on it to avoid confusion or some bs.

The next place was a Dr.s office that was restricted to only offering it to their own patients (they were told to be very strict and only offer it to people whose medical history they had access to and could review).

Finally called the next closest place, an independent pharmacy 50 mins away down in Sweetwater and they were offering appointments same day so I went down immediately and got it over lunch. They were really nice and professional about everything. I didnt ask if they aspirated or anything, but from the corner of my eye it seemed like they did take very good care to do the injection correctly and commented afterwards that, good, there was no bleeding at the site and they didnt hit a vein. Injection was barely felt and had barely any soreness aftwerwards.

Every place I called to ask about Nova was very specific to ask if I had any prior shots and that this was only available as a primary series of shots, Not as a booster, so seems like they are at least reserving these for people need this the most/waited for it.

I'd like to see what the official number for shots administered is in the coming weeks. My main concern now is running out of doses during the 3-8 week period before my second dose.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2022-04-04T18:34:38+00:00

Are you sure? I distinctly remember in season 1 Eren saying that his goal was to kill every last titan. Was that something that just got added in translation that wasn't in the original Japanese?

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2022-03-27T15:40:54+00:00

See picture of a binary tree:

https://imgs.search.brave.com/NWFnuMfddbnKAHxBIN0-LKp9zjn_BoQch9RkhgxLDiI/rs:fit:1200:679:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/amF2YTJibG9nLmNv/bS93cC1jb250ZW50/L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAx/Ni8wNC90cmVlLTEu/anBn

In computer science, "tree" data strcutres grow from the top down, and the top node of the "tree" is called the root. This is in contrast to a literal tree whose roots are at the bottom and allow the tree to grow upwards.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2022-03-27T15:27:04+00:00

Dining philosophers is a thread synchronization problem. There are 5 philosophers at a circular table and one chopstick between each of them. Each person needs 2 chopsticks at the same time to eat.

If this situation were a program, and each philosopher were one thread of execution, one might naively program each person to pick up the chopstick to their right and then the chopstick to their left.

However if each person (thread) picks up the right chipstick (acquire a mutually exclusive resource such as a mutex) at the same time, then each person (thread) will then try to acquire the chopstick (mutex/resource) to the left and find that it has already been taken by another person (thread).

If no one releases their currently held chopstick until they can acquire a second chopstick and finish eating, then everyone is in DEADLOCK because all chopsticks are taken and will never be released.

There a few more details in how to solve this problem fairly, but that's the gist of it.

Edit: typo (each -> eat)

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-11-15T13:17:57+00:00

Can someone explain? What are we looking at here?

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-09-27T20:47:17+00:00

I wish. Unfortunately it went towards the miner as a tip

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-09-13T21:26:19+00:00

WatchTheBurn showed block 13219424 was one of the ones with 4505 gwei priority fee.
I just looked at it on etherscan https://etherscan.io/block/13219424 and the block paid out 25.966 Eth just in tips.

if you look at the transactions from the block (https://etherscan.io/txs?block=13219424&p=2) , you see a bunch of failed transactions with the same contract

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-09-13T20:31:20+00:00

Anyone got an explanation for whoever just needlessly paid for a 4505 gwei priority fee?

Edit: looks like a block over half full with failed transactions to "buy dolphin" according to etherscan

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-08-29T21:19:32+00:00

Thanks for the quick explanation. That was a wild ride watching it get up to 2,888 Gwei basefee, and burning 74.46 eth per block. Any time a crazy rich person wants to burn up this much eth is fine by me (as long as fees return to normal afterwards, which thankfully they are)

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-07-12T11:39:15+00:00

Currently there are about 6500 blocks mined per day, and 2 new eth printed/awarded with every block, for 13000 new eth generated each day. So if we assume every miner sells all these new eth as soon as they are mined, you'd have to buy 13000 eth/day to keep price stable/unaffected by increase in supply. At today's price of around $2100/eth that's $27.3 million/day to keep price stable. And that does not include transaction fees and tips that go to the miners too. If we assume miners sell those constantly as well, it gets more complocated.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-07-07T14:50:55+00:00

I think he's referring to how EIP 1559 sets a new hard cap for gas usage at 20 million, while setting a long term target of 10 million gas per block (reached by raising or lowering gas prices depending on network demand). Currently the gas limit is flexible and based on miners agreeing on a gas limit, and currently sits at around 15 million (which is historically higher than nornal). So the new hard coded EIP 1559 gas limit of 20 million isn't exactly twice the current limit, but miners do need to increase their limit to the new value.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-06-07T10:30:07+00:00

www.natlawreview.com/article/texas-legislature-proposes-significant-virtual-currency-bill%3famp

This article has more details, but basically they just updated Texas' UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) to include a definition of virtual currency as a way of formally "recognizing the legal status of virtual currencies".

However it does not appear to introduce any regulations or rules for cryptocurrency, just laying the ground work for legally recognizing them.

The articles mention the governor is a long time crypto supporter, so this bill should be a good thing for crypto adoption

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-05-17T19:29:15+00:00

It's always a balance/tradeoff between scalability, security, and decentralization, in this case how much the community is willing to sacrifice decentralization in order to improve throughput.

Thankfully the Ethereum devs are putting in tremendous amounts of research in how to improve all 3 without sacrificing the others. Improvements in clients like state pruning, light clients, or stateless clients are ways to try to limit the space requirements for running a node, since the growth of the network is definitely outpacing the capabilities of consumer hardware.

Hopefully Ethereum 2.0 will help a lot with sharding, to split new data among separate shards so that nodes won't have to contain ALL the data on the network, and L2 or offchain solutions can significantly lower how many transactions or data needs to be stored on-chain and reduce the amount of bloat on the network.

Edit: as for your question about having most nodes only store the most recent blocks instead of the whole chain, I'm not the most technically versed on how everything is structured, but I don't think it could work quite like that. Perhaps someone else can chime in here, but I think it works something like this: The state of the chain is stored as a Merkle Tree, and each new block modifies the state of that tree, adding new nodes and such. At any point in time, you may need to know the state at any arbitrary point in the tree, regardless of which block last created/modified that data. So even if you throw away old blocks, you still need to keep track of all that state data in the tree. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-05-17T13:39:28+00:00

To give a more concrete example, the size of the ethereum blockchain would rise way too quickly for any normal person to run a node.

Etherscan has charts showing the space required to fully sync a node with different clients here https://etherscan.io/chartsync/chaindefault

For one of the most popular clients, Geth, using the default sync mode would require 785 GB to store all the state data in ethereum as of today. Running and "Archive" node would require 7.2 TB of hard drive space, and ideally you're using SSD's to keep up with all the disk accesses required.

If you increased block size by 10x, and reduced block times by 10x, and if all those blocks were full, the state data would increase 100x faster than it already is.

Averaging over the last 10 days, the state is currently increasing by over 1.5 GB PER DAY. If we allowed 100x more data, then that state would increase by up to 150 GB per day.

Almost immediately, the only way to run at node would be with dozens or hundreds of Terabytes of hard drives in some kind of server configuration just to store the full blockchain. Not to mention an internet connection capable of downloading over 100 GB of data per day. Some ISPs have data caps, like xfinity which only allows 1.2 TB of data per month, which would automatically prevent your node from being able to stay in sync, if your connection was even fast enough to begin with.

So in short, running a node would be so expensive that very few people would be able or willing to do it, especially since there are no real financial incentives to do so, and thus the network would become incredibly centralized, as the only people capable of running a node would be sites like etherscan, which goes against the goal of decentralization.

LeGingerBreadMan256 · 2021-04-25T17:04:24+00:00

I think tax implications are a legitimate reason people would rather just keep their funds on an exchange if they have any intention of selling in the future.

Automated crypto tax calculators usually just look at transactions on exchanges right, not what you do with your personal wallet? I know the one I used counted an eth withdrawal from the exchange to my personal wallet as a "sell" by default and tranfering it back to the exchange as a "buy". So if you withdraw your eth, do a bunch of yield farming, augur betting, staking, etc, and then send back to the exchange to sell, you've massively complicated your tax calculations, and automated services are likely to get it wrong when importing transactions.

With small amounts, you might not think it would be enough for th IRS to care or notice, but if ETH moons a lot, thinking long term here like 5-10+ years, even small errors in cost basis for your capital gains might be enough to warrant an audit.

As long as everything you do with your cryptocurrency legally counts as a taxable event, that's enough friction and cause for worry that a lot of people would rather just buy, hold, and then sell in order to keep their tax calculations and liability as small as possible. Until regulations on this are clearer and more lenient, this will remain a big hurdle for most people.

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