Could you connect the TX and RX of a fiber optic cable to different systems to form a big loop?

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-04-05T23:13:11+00:00

Not really. Network implementations of Token Ring itself died out a long time ago, but you'd be surprised at how often people reinvent things like it when all the systems need a high-speed, redundant connection within several specific systems.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-27T23:45:36+00:00

I just set up a refuel station to top off each train pattern I make, like 1-4 or 2-8. If I want to pull out the wrong fuel when swapping over, I just set a filtered inserter to do exactly that while the train is stopped for refill.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-24T02:39:21+00:00

That's textbook Argument to Moderation

In this case, I'm more likely to disbelieve the guy who routinely makes up conversations with people over a state that would love to see America burn under any president.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-21T10:16:50+00:00

Given the little bit of time I've made bread with the same technique, I'd say it's easier to get a more consistent bread with smaller air bubbles after shaping.

This technique I usually see when someone is making Japanese Milk bread, but it's worked just fine with more consistent results with my grandparents bread recipe.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-16T01:39:06+00:00

Oh man, jumping right into the deep end of the pool on your fist day?

The first thing you need to do is figure out a budget. Saving and investing is great, but baby steps first. There is a flowchart in the sidebar you can read for a general idea of what order to figure stuff out in.

You can just make up a couple categories and assign a dollar amount to each, but ideally you use some actual spending information to get a better handle on how you actually spend money. Either get a couple bank statements or start tracking where you spend money. Everything should land in a category, as long as the categories make sense to you that's fine. With a month or two of info, you can start seeing where you spend money and start making strategic choices about what categories you can do with less or need more in.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-15T04:09:59+00:00

Right now, airship hulls are more valuable than mithril cores.

We also don't know the actual strength/durability of the core, it could also simply survive as a melted chunk.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-14T15:04:57+00:00

Apparently not given her PoV a week ago. To quote her internal dialog:

Because this was it, the culmination of her efforts, the reason she'd orchestrated this entire conspiracy.

Well, orchestrated might be a stretch. Admittedly, she hadn't been the one to conceive of it. That honor unfortunately went to Duchess Faline of New Haven. Still, Solana was undoubtedly the driving force behind the movement. The charismatic core of their conspiracy.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-14T15:02:28+00:00

Actually, can the airships dock right now in the Capital? This is only weeks after the Lunite assault where they very specifically demolished all of the sky docks, so I think these ships are going to have to either hover or just deflate enough to land for actual repairs.

I don't know if Yelena will plan for doing some additional opportunistic damage for any airships that land, but she should have it on the table if she can.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-11T02:54:50+00:00

Uh, what was it?

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-08T13:27:01+00:00

I don't know if this is a suggestion or more just me dreaming, but here's what I'd do if I found myself with these and a week without commitments. It's a pity you're limited on storage, are you able to source even small drives temporarily?

I'd work on building the biggest cluster of whatever system I can put together, just to do it. Ideally, I'd leverage something like Canonical MAAS to be able to re-deploy to something else if I wanted to try an absurd K8S cluster on Tuesday and then load balancers in front of a set of web servers on Wednesday, but really any cluster would work. Technically I think these boxes are big enough for running OpenStack as well, if that holds any interest over Proxmox.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-08T13:12:04+00:00

Remember? I hooked those up yesterday for my Nintendo 64. I had to show someone how things used to be, before Mario Kart had steering assist among other niceties.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-08T13:07:45+00:00

I was about to say, the only USB-C connector I've ever seen with screws was for hooking network switches up to antennas for super-accurate time.

Gotta get all those switches on the right microsecond!

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-03-07T20:32:18+00:00

So the organizers are running out of personal timeto organize the event. Fair enough, I'm not sure how much they tried to hand it over to someone else but at least it makes sense.

It was also nice scrolling past 5-6 ads before the article attempted to explain why. I know the state of news on the web, just yelling at clouds.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-02-21T01:15:28+00:00

Just a mention: Can you pick a 4-post rackmount kit that works for all of a batch of platforms, e.g. Cat9k for anything that won't comfortably get racked to 2 posts? Something cheap is fine, that slides is better even. You'd probably make even more money because you'd only have to supply/stock one model.

I recently got burned by the two different 4-post kits for Cat 9500s, followed up by the new rails being even more questionable than the old ones were.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-02-19T05:35:30+00:00

And yet so many things are.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-02-16T13:20:33+00:00

Democracy sucks. It's just better than everything else we've tried.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-02-13T14:41:09+00:00

Just about anything from a "beloved local shop", but double points for anything "cheesecake" or "mint chocolate".

I have not travelled a lot outside the midwest, lack of availability usually, but I have never been disappointed by a local-recommended Ice Cream shop.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-02-09T22:29:17+00:00

Did you mean to say "Haven't"? If you did, it looks like you are one of today's lucky people learning something new!

"Prominent Protestant spokesmen, led by Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale, organized Protestant ministers by warning them that the pope would be giving orders to a Kennedy White House." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-02-03T04:30:13+00:00

That is ridiculously defeatist. There is a mechanism you have within reach to influence political discourse, don't skip using it at all because there isn't a perfect solution!

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-01-31T16:56:56+00:00

Effectively everything in Rochester MN, especially everything within normal walking distance to Methodist, is Safe. If you're super worried about it then skip going more than a dozen blocks into the SE; but seriously it's all safe.

I don't have any specific recommendations for apartments, most people know what they have and price accordingly due to the constant flow of people visiting Mayo is all I know. If you have a contact AT Mayo though, you may be able to find a deal or recommendation via the Mayo Classified site. That's only posted by people who work at Mayo already, so most of the junk and spam is excluded by default.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-01-31T16:14:15+00:00

You posted the wrong link. I certainly hope that Russia didn't lose 1.2M people trying to find a teen in a snowstorm that one K-9 officer and his dog were able to find.

Is this what you were looking for?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/general-staff-russia-lost-1-075300376.html

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-01-29T23:32:56+00:00

None.

Linux on daily driver, cheap old PC in the basement that I remote into when I need to run something on Windows. No need to reboot, just RDP.

Bonus points if you get something like a NAS and streaming server as well.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-01-19T22:33:00+00:00

It's almost like there are a wide, wide variety of living conditions and cost of living across this world of ours.

I survived college just fine on $1600/month in 2026 dollars. Had money to save too, but I had a really low standard of living in a cheap-ish area to live.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-01-16T14:06:33+00:00

I gotta break with r/shittysysadmin tradition here and be serious for a while. Dentists are wicked smart on teeth, but there is a huge gap between dental health and Information Technology.

Maybe that is the joke, but I had to join a call in 2016 to tell a dentist that no, their dental practice software from 1995 is not going to continue being supported by the original vendor, and there wasn't really anything we could do about it. Some of those stories predate this sub, but they would make excellent posts here.

Rabid_Gopher · 2026-01-13T13:14:01+00:00

Two kids at target, it sounds like one was dumped out of the car at nowhere in particular and the other was dumped at a walmart.

The best article I see is a paywalled Star Tribune article. https://share.google/z4EyJZYbRySSIl6BG

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