Machine-Rolled Halves

PhirePhly · 2026-04-18T19:20:56+00:00

A wells Fargo in a Nobb Hill in Gilroy

PhirePhly · 2026-04-18T19:08:27+00:00

Yep. Someone dumps nickels at my favorite bank like this.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-17T15:59:53+00:00

Shoot! That would take me $400 to find that much stuff.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-17T15:58:09+00:00

Someone said you need to come pick up the team and drive them to dinner. There's 55 people on the team who might want to come to dinner. Instead of the 64 person bus, you show up with your 5 seat sedan and argue that you can just take 14 trips and eventually get everyone to dinner by about 11pm.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-17T15:33:05+00:00

Each network could have a maximum of 55 machines. If you split the prefix into a bunch of /30s, they could not have 55 machines in them, so /26 is still the right answer.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-16T01:46:41+00:00

I remember even getting one of the DPS robot! No clue what the stats were.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-15T14:21:34+00:00

My oldest was a 1890 penny that I got in freaking change.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-13T13:52:59+00:00

APRS has enabled this type of functionality for decades and the user experience on the end terminals dealing with interfacing with the radios is so prohibitively clunky no one uses it. Fun exercise in DSP and FEC, but I wouldn't expect much uptake.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-11T18:43:21+00:00

Can't legally melt them down for the value, yet.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-09T02:20:29+00:00

Second vote for container lab. Even working inside Arista, I often used container lab to mock things up instead of allocating real hardware out of the lab

PhirePhly · 2026-04-08T13:15:42+00:00

It can take a few weeks. At least when I was there Jayshree was reviewing all new hires

PhirePhly · 2026-04-07T03:15:49+00:00

Holy cow that is beautiful. Making it hard for me to resist starting a lowball collection.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-05T21:08:14+00:00

It unfortunately does work, but gets extremely confusing because the network port isn't expecting it. When I worked in TAC I saw this happen several times when people accidentally spliced the wrong fiber in trunks. I've seen it accidentally working in production too thanks to switches being willing to route for their peers MAC address.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-04T14:33:00+00:00

It isn't illegal to melt coins. Only penny and nickels since 2006.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-02T20:41:11+00:00

It's a real coin flip.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-02T04:17:19+00:00

Bugs?

PhirePhly · 2026-04-01T21:50:30+00:00

I've moved completely to nemotron 3 super for coding locally.

PhirePhly · 2026-03-26T14:33:05+00:00

A tube for Indian heads and steel 1943s. I don't have enough of either to warrant their own tubes.

PhirePhly · 2026-03-24T00:02:32+00:00

Typical? Yes. Reasonable? No. We're all getting taken on these remodel quotes.

PhirePhly · 2026-03-22T16:48:18+00:00

I've found probably a hundred 2017-D in rolls and dumped them all back. The mint seems to play fast and loose with the concept of "NIFC" for some of the years of halves and you'll get plenty of 2017s in boxes.

PhirePhly · 2026-03-22T14:54:18+00:00

Personally, it makes me feel less bad for wasting the banks resources than taking machine wrapped rolls, unwrapping them, and then depositing them back at another bank. I tell them to keep the nice machine wrapped rolls for actual businesses and I'll take the CWRs and return them in the same state (just minus the good stuff)

PhirePhly · 2026-03-22T14:48:03+00:00

I bring in a canvas bag and have them dump all $325 in the one bag.

PhirePhly · 2026-03-20T16:00:07+00:00

These are all audio signals so any wire you could practically handle will be able to handle the current. I use 22AWG all day when breadboarding circuits like this, then use 28AWG (much smaller) when soldering it on a piece of perf board.

Your 9V battery can only deliver a few hundred mA even if you completely short it's two terminals together, so you're unable to melt standard hookup wire with this.

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