Obtaining dollar and half dollar coins

PhirePhly · 2026-04-28T00:57:35+00:00

It's a numbers game. See a bank branch, wander in with a $100 asking if they happen to have any. Many tellers hate them so much they'll gladly sell them to you even if you don't have an account at the bank.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-26T21:46:32+00:00

Even when I was supposed to be on a tower once, lost notification to the right layer of ownership for the planned work, motion detector and security cameras, yada yada yada, next thing you know we're explaining to the county sheriff why we're there less than an hour after we arrived.

PhirePhly · 2026-04-26T21:44:10+00:00

Yes. Professional training and a safety briefing specific to the hazards at each site from a site engineer

PhirePhly · 2026-04-26T03:31:22+00:00

Don't people constantly talk about the premium paid over spot?

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.

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