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I've got a few samples, looking forward to 4k BluRay for a good source of 4k content.

A couple years ago I upgraded the electrical service at the house to 200A. 200A @ 240V is (IIRC) 48kW. Gas is cheaper around here than electricity for heating things (house, water, clothes), but I'm converting to electric as I plan to go solar. Once I have all the appliances electric I'll be...

Where are you finding good 4k video?

Then I am legitimately wasting energy. Not that direct resistance heating (computer) isn't 5-10x less efficient than my heat pump anyway...

950W? Something like that.

Thanks! No idea how long it will last, the house is pretty darn warm at this point (super-insulated, the whole house is 30F warmer than ambient just from F@H).

I understood that it was called the joy-nipple. A much better name, IMHO.

Neat. Liquid nitrogen is actually easier to get around here. That would be one way to jump-start the cooling process...

Absolutely. My kid (2.5yrs) is pretty handy with a smart phone. By 7 you should be able to master it easy. Lack of pockets might be an issue, though.

The new ThinkPad touchpad is clearly inferior to the old one; having the entire surface move is disconcerting and not having dedicated buttons adds uncertainty. I use a mouse much more than I used to.

Running a peltier on the CPU or GPUs has also interested me, but that is certainly a more tricky install. I have plenty of capacity in my water loop, so adding one would be simple. Just not sure how exactly to size it and seal around it (to prevent condensation). At one point I played with the...

Exactly that for exactly that reason. Thanks. JTR, I remembered you had done the project. Might be fun, but I just don't have the time for anything at the moment. Just finished work for the night and I'll be starting again at 2:30AM. Been working a bunch of 14-18 hour days lately plus the kid.

Inflation and variations in cost of living and property values can make some numbers seem funny to some people. That is why you go back to the numbers for perspective. ;)

I've always been interested in Peltier coolers, but never played with them. Tempted to get this monster and build a mini-fridge for the office. Putting an AIO water cooler on the hot side and a tower cooler (with fan) on the cold side would do it I suppose. Temperature control would be the...

I'd forgotten that HP bought Compaq. HP Proliant still sounds wrong to me.

The current plan is to mount a radiator adjacent to the heatpump enclosure for the water heater and pipe that to a heat exchanger in the wall next to my desk. That way I can have a small, easy to manage water loop with the components and a larger loop requiring less maintenance.

I have and use Veeam on ESXi as well. I can agree with Merc's sentiments. From arrays of SSDs with 800MB/s+ transfer rates, over 10GbE, to arrays of HDDs with 500MB/s+ I'm seeing 30MB/s and it is claiming the bottleneck is the source. I do have the basic licensed product, and will be upgrading...

The bulbs I put into my house were ~$50/ea. IIRC there are 50-ish in the house. The $2500 spent on bulbs is probably about the same as I spent on the Insteon control system I put in while I was re-wiring the house. As a percentage of the value of the house (1.3%?) it is insignificant to the...

Fun fact: My new "Home 1" rig is capable of 1.3M PPD. In doing so it becomes the most expensive space heater of all time. Hoping to be able to couple it directly to our new water heater and get some of that back...

Just get Hue bulbs controlled by your smartphone (and get a smartphone) and abandon your wall switches altogether.

Nice work. Asking for and being denied resources is always a great way to cover your ass. Moving to virtual is awesome, but AD can make restorations more of a PITA than they should be.

I'm afraid I can't be of much use, I disavowed myself of managing any e-mail system about 7 years ago. That said, MS per-incident support cost is low enough ($500?) that tasks that are rare and high-risk (this counts) are worth calling them in advance and having them do it.

Please let me be smart enough to not try to use the built-in waterblocks on a motherboard again. ASUS or Gigabyte, their quality is clearly not good enough and led me to cleaning Titan X cards with alcohol. That said, I suspect the radiator is large enough 3x3 120mm.

This page features a RAID card that has room for 4x M.2 SSDs.

DJI is the big dog in this market, but the 3DR Solo is tempting as well. All the components I have for my larger fixed-wing drones are from 3D Robotics, and I was really impressed with the build quality and software interface. For me to consider one of these it needs to have very good "hands...

Looks cool. All of that footage was shot within 30 miles of my house; I wonder where they are based? They seem to want ~$1k for that, for a little more money I feel there are better units out there.

All of these dim well with normal dimmers: Link: http://amzn.com/B00WQFNCAW Link: http://amzn.com/B00AH2OXFE Link: http://amzn.com/B0094BDAYE Link: http://amzn.com/B006MNHZIO

Yup. I have the no-charge option of them doing a 24-hour burn-in. No charge, but it delays shipping by a day (obvs)

Wow. I haven't had any issues so far, but I don't have that many servers in production (10?). I also get them from a local authorized re-seller (IT Creations out of LA) that has all the parts/service in stock. Really great service and delivery time with very little additional cost.

Exactly this. Now any time I get near the thing she stops me and makes sure that I know the fan is a "big owchie".

IIRC, lumens are total light output (all directions?) and LEDs tend to be significantly more directional. Less wasted light?

The kid has learned not to put her fingers into fans, and not to pull cables that dangle from my desk. The computer has been sitting like this for over a week in the middle of her play area without issue. Pretty stoked that we've made it to that level of development. The big thing in the back...

Some builds are less professional than others. My own computers least of all.

Sorry, my post above should have said "unsubsidized". It is completely independent of any employer. Curse you spellcheck.

Mine is completely covered by my company. Currently paying $800/mo for the wife and kid through an unsubsidized Blue Cross "Platinum 90" plan. The benefits are really remarkable, and considering how frequently my wife takes the kid in (having hypochondria and being a doc is a nasty combo), I'm...

Having health insurance tied to a particular employer is a stupid way to do things. That said, most places do. The crazy part is that nearly all of the plans (plus administration fees) cost considerably more per employee than the private insurance through the ACA.

Processing 9999 RAWs at the moment. In case anyone was wondering, the interval timer built into the 7DII stops after 9999 shots even if "continuous" is selected and you have 2x 128GB cards in there. I need to get a faster computer or find a way easily farm out some of the processing to another...

45MP or so would allow capturing 8k video (7680x4320). That strikes me as the place to be in the next couple years (in a properly competitive marketplace).

20MP should be enough for anybody? I expected them to hold at closer to 50MP.

Been playing Prison Architect for the last 6 months or so on and off. With the current feature set (just got out of beta) I can manage 800 prisoners with a capacity of 1000 before things start to go off the rails.

And that lens is a 24/1.4 with no lens cap....so not exactly cheap.

I swear I'm not doing it on purpose ;)

I suspect he meant my 100-400/4 II.

How none of the beer or bubbles ended up on the camera is beyond me.

I can get on board with most of that. I think the simplest bit would be that if a corporate entity commits a crime that, had an individual committed it, would have led to jail time the major shareholders spend an amount of time in jail proportional to their interest in the company. That was...

Of course VW cheating is a bad deal, but to me it brings up a broader issue. Is diesel too dirty to burn in cars efficiently and cleanly? Are there just too many nasties in the fuel to start with?

Not the only ones: Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi, Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, Fiat, Volvo, Jeep, Citroën also found in violation.

Here is a playlist of all of the Leonard Susskind @ Stanford lectures. I'll see you in a month.

JTR, not sure if you've been keeping up with the news for the last half-decade or so, but you are no doubt eligible for highly subsidized health insurance through the ACA. I went through Covered California for my wife and kid as it was cheaper (even without subsidies) than adding them to my plan...

Where the Ubiquiti solution really shines is in multi-AP installs. Once you have the software going adding another AP takes under a minute.