fjelltorsk posted:

yesterday, august 28th at 1335 hours, the year of our lord 2015 i was declared cancer free. there is no evidence of mutation anywhere in my body. i am done....
76 doses of chemo, 6 surgeries and 184 radiation treatments is behind me...

T-Square posted:

A new indoor electric kart racing place just opened up down the street from me a few weeks ago, exactly the same thing as a K1 Speed, if anyone's familiar with it. Same karts and everything. Every time you go in there, all you hear is "Dude I'm going to spin you out right away" "Duuude I'm going to smash into you so hard!"

Pham Nuwen posted:

HPC is super boring though, hope you like tweaking the same set of loving PDEs for your entire career! If you want something more interesting you can work on the operating systems or programming models, but the problem is all the application programmers have their 20 year old FORTRAN+C MPI codes that they'll never ever re-write so you have to support legacy bullshit forever.

CornHolio posted:

My little brother is an immature poo poo who's getting a new car...

BrokenKnucklez posted:

Ranger with a 3.0 Vulcan. Indestructible, slow, and reliable.

CommieGIR posted:

I'm waiting for Fallout 4 and Dishonored 2

CornHolio posted:

By hardbody do you mean Frontier or XTerra? Either might be good for him. Haven't thought about those.

MustardFacial posted:

MustardFacial gets in a huff about the games industry.....again.

14 INCH DICK posted:

The blackest burn I have ever seen went something along the lines of "with how many horrible tragedies happen almost daily in the United States, you'd almost think it was built on the top of thousands of ancient Indian burial grounds."

some texas redneck posted:

Fitbit

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Kingsmen. Great simple action and also hilarious. The church brawl has to be seen to be believed

Cakefool posted:

I stopped on the way home to look at an NB mx5 and it didn't excite me on the slightest. Am I broken? Will I feel different when my garage is useable rather than packed full of poo poo and inaccessible?

Motronic posted:

MustardFacial posted:

LS3 on the left, miata engine on the right:

kimbo305 posted:

Test drove a Factory Five 818. Tomorrow is the 348.
Going into it, it's Spyder > 818 > Evora. The Evora was nice and cheaper than the Spyder, but the 818's price proposition is insane.

Rhyno posted:

Have they worked out some sort of telepresence robot arm thing so you can jerk people off over the internet yet?

Thelonious posted:

Yup. About two years ago they closed up on a Saturday afternoon, locked the doors and that was it. A fully stocked hardware store sat untouched.

iwentdoodie posted:

Yep, rained in socal

Quite A Tool posted:

So I finally got Torque Pro for my phone. Any recommendations for an inexpensive Bluetooth OBDII dongle?

CharlesM posted:

I don't know but usually stuff is supposed to show up on release day.

MustardFacial posted:

It's ok to like bikes as well as cars right? Like the two things aren't mutually exclusive right?

fjelltorsk posted:

it insane, 3 months ago we where 3 partners and one employee. buy the end of next month we will have 15, and will probably have to hire someone to do all the admin poo poo aswell...

keykey posted:

A friend of mine is sitting through an A+ cert class right now since his work paid for him to do it since they want all their techs A+ certified. He has been writing nuggets of wisdom all week that the instructor is giving the class. I'm pretty sure his instructor wrote the screenplay for hackers. Enjoy: https://twitter.com/aplusblowhard

iwentdoodie posted:

One, will water hurt a cylinder head? No valvecover, hydraulic lifters. No solvents or high pressure, just with a garden hose to clear gunk and poo poo off it.

Two, cheap impact? Is the HF one decent enough? Just need it to remove a crank pulley.

MustardFacial posted:

The amount of sound advice I've gotten from this forum of car nerds astounds me to this day.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

1250kms on the bike in just 20 days. I'm going to see a massage therapist. I am not looking forward to this at all it is gonna hurt

Somewhat Heroic posted:

So I skipped some 400 posts. Y'all move too fast but I will say that Utah is the prettiest state so suck on that. With regard to gas chat I swear I've been paying just under $3 for premium from chevron for months. I haven't seen it get near two bucks in like a year.

fjelltorsk posted:

I paid 6 bucks for a gallon of diesel today. and you guys wonder why i drive a EV...

Somewhat Heroic posted:

Right at the south end of the Salt Lake valley, about 15-20 miles from downtown Salt Lake. I wake up every morning and look at the awesome Wasatch Mountains.

Somewhat Heroic posted:

That is in Sandy, about 10 miles south of Downtown off of I-15. That photo was taken in April before everything turned nice and green. I didn't have any good mountain view photos on hand. I grew up slaying the canyons in my old E28 528e during high school I love this place and will probably never leave. Only thing we don't have is a beach, but we have plenty of lakes.

Super Aggro Crag posted:

You guys are forgetting that 95% of white girls under the age of 40 only drive Jettas.

iwentdoodie posted:

Cause I suck at pictures. I'm always too dirty to pick up my phone.

T-Square posted:

Tonight I went on an awesome date, with an awesome chick I've never met before, and we just drank beers and talked for like three hours and it was awesome.

Also, I will probably be hungover all day tomorrow. Worth it.

blk posted:

Lawnmower shopping - Consumer Reports really likes Honda but all the user submitted reviews from people who have owned them 6 months + say they used to be good but are unreliable poo poo now. Anyone have experience in this area?

InitialDave posted:

To find that it's just, well, a switch, effectively, that runs a different map? That's a disappointingly simple solution, and as both Germans and engineers, they should feel bad.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

gently caress 2015.

That's all

Enourmo posted:

its september

Backov posted:

So you immediately 'ed and walked out then?

T1g4h posted:

So you're gonna make her an AI Cool Dude, right?

LloydDobler posted:

I dated a goon girl once, she stalked all my posts. How's your post/probation history?

Raluek posted:

The aquarium owns, but that's all I remember about Monterey.

nm posted:

You know our oceans aren't warm right?
I barely knew there was a beach in Monterey, just a kick rear end aquarium and Laguna Seca.

keykey posted:

Pretty good, lots of good beaches, bring some sunscreen though. People always go to lovers point on dates, pretty drat cliche.. Drive further down to Pacific Grove, they have better beaches that don't smell like sea lion piss. Also fog in the morning usually burns off by 11-12:30. If you do end up going to the aquarium, have breakfast at Coco's on the corner of David and Lighthouse. You're going to need to eat and they offer all day parking to paying diners and it's only 2 blocks down to the aquarium.

blk posted:

Those of you with more cars than garage space - how do you determine which cars go in the garage? Just had a...discussion with the wife about this and am curious how other people do it.

KozmoNaut posted:

I'm going to an advance screening on the 5th, and I'm so goddamn hyped about it.

kastein posted:

I think they might have a problem with that. But we should probably go and debate auto vs manual, diesel vs vortec, and/or superchargers vs turbochargers in a D&D thread at some point.

e: or maybe a motor oil recommendation thread, that's always great for getting the greybeards spun up

Adiabatic posted:

I'm postin from a power station in West Virginia, where I've been poking around a bunch all morning. I have no data out here, but rest assured there's gonna be some loving cool pictures in here once I get back tonight!

Anyways, poo poo owns. Go renew a passion. Hope everyone's day's great!

Adiabatic posted:

POWAHH

Adiabatic posted:

Power

CommieGIR posted:

Reactor 2 that went into the new Watts Bar plant.

MustardFacial posted:

This is awesome. I want to do this.

Adiabatic posted:

As someone who's never seen a supercomputer before, this owns and makes me want to learn about them. Also those mural-cover-things are delightful!

Sigma X posted:

Cray has been doing wierdo furniture/art computers for as long as they've been around. For example, the Cray-1 and XMP was built with a couch attached to the side of each half-tower, the Cray-2 had plexi sides and illumination so you could see the memory boards, the Cray-3 got a plexi, liquid-filled box on the top...the YMP8 got more couches. They had a few "boring" systems, especially during the SG era, but they're their own company again and getting back into the display stuff.

88h88 posted:

Yup, I'm having trouble putting those numbers in a manner I can understand.

Also how much power do those fuckers suck down and what are they being used for?

mariooncrack posted:

So what are those super computers used for? Mastering chess?

Geoj posted:

Anymore its as much for technical accomplishment as anything else, distributed computing has largely eclipsed individual supercomputing (and FWIW most new "supercomputers" are largely just a distributed computing setup with everything in the same datacenter.) I'm sure there's some things that need a shitload of raw processing power and can't be split up into smaller pieces of data to be processed by someone's home PC's spare CPU cycles or offloaded onto multiple purpose-built machines, but the need for a single god-tier supercomputer isn't nearly what it was 15-20 years ago.

CommieGIR posted:

Simulations. Like 'Simulate every atom in a reactor' simulations, or simulating weather patterns where you want to create tens of hundreds of variables.

Great Beer posted:

A class I was in did a tour of ORNL a while back and we got to see Titan just after it had been installed. Very cool poo poo. Do they use still use those fuckoff huge flywheels as part of the backup power supply?

Sigma X posted:

I worked as a contractor to SGI for a while, helped develop the software environment of and then on-site support'd some equipment they sold. Lot of folks nowadays don't even know who they are, but both Cray and SGI are still up to some really interesting things. In my opinion, it's really difficult to split development of HPC systems between "completely custom" like back in the 70s/80s and "modularized generic" like the Beowulf cluster caused the advent of.Anyone who's spending several million bucks on a system generally wants SOME customization, and when you (as a supercomputer company) start saying "no", they get upset. Conversely, the more customization, the less economies of scale you get.

MustardFacial posted:

Obligatory victory shot

Liquid Communism posted:

Yeah, those are a heck of a lot prettier than the walls of fiber optic runs that are the fronts of the racks I'm cursed with.

IOwnCalculus posted:

My company's datacenter consumes about half that for somewhere around 4-5x as many cabinets. I wish more of our customers would even entertain density like that.

Sigma X posted:

A particular government three-letter is the largest consumer of power in Maryland*. In 2007, it used 65-75 megawatt-hours and was expected to increase by 10-15 megawatt-hours in the next year, according to BGE (now Constellation Energy)*. HPC is a really big energy sink, both for the systems, and for the cooling facilities to deal with all the heat.

Boaz MacPhereson posted:

I passed a semi hauling a blade for one of these things. It was the single largest object on a trailer I've ever seen. After seeing it that closely, I'm just in awe of those things now.

MrChips posted:

I don't understand that sentiment one bit; I personally think wind turbines look cool as heck and are very relaxing to look at as they turn.

Great Beer posted:

There's a cluster of them near oak ridge, tn sitting on top of a mountain and Hawaii has a bunch of them on the big island. They're big but the USA has a lot of otherwise useless space.

keykey posted:

Add more 0's, you poors.

Geirskogul posted:

Well, let's figure out, from the pictures, which really specific, required tool I have yet to purchase.


It worked after much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then both jacks fell onto my ankles, but I was so happy about the victory that I didn't care.
For the tie rods, I'm thinking about picking up one of these. Does anybody know if they're any good?

MrChips posted:

While my car is in the shop for hail damage, the rental company gave me a Ford Taurus as a loaner. It's too big, with too much wasted space, you sit too high and it wallows like a whale.

Sigma X posted:

If you have Google integration on your Samsung, when you sign into your account on your new phone all your contacts will be imported. Google store apps will be available to download under the "My Apps" section of the Google Play store.