Shout out to the vandal who trashed one of our field day antennas but didn't steal anything. In unrelated news, an extremely long open-ended piece of coax on some grass can tune up and transmit shockingly well!
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honked back 27 Apr 2025 07:55 -0700
in reply to: https://glauca.space/users/eval/statuses/114409331022914911
@eval Across the entire field, it's about 750-800MW. Up front costs aside, it's a fantastic base load! Given the local substation is linked up directly, I'm pretty confident that I'm running off of it almost all the time.
Got to see the Geysers geothermal complex again today. Still surreal to see the steam we use to generate power be acquired simply by drilling a deep enough hole.
More datacenters should have creatures dedicated to keeping the halls bug free.
Recently bought a Supermicro H11SSL and was saddened when a BIOS update caused it to fail to post. It's got two variants - 1.01, which is Naples only, and 2, which supports Naples and Rome. The major difference between the two is the size of the SPI flash: v2 is 32MB while v1.01 is 16MB. It turns out that v2 just has two copies of the data - if you take the second 16MB of v2 and flash them onto a v1.01 motherboard, it'l happily support a Rome CPU.
