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Congratulations fjelltorsk on beating the poo poo out of cancer and continuing to have an awe-inspiring life! Computer chat: I'm learning about registers and assembly language in my class and my mind is being blown. Tell me all of the related poo poo because wow.
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Not in my anime dreams where I live in Japan as an otaku.
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Aug 31, 2015 18:55
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 TwoFire posted:What platform? It doesn't really matter because they tend to work similarly, but there are strange things about different architectures. Memory addressing in real mode x86 segment:offset is kind of neat (when first starting out): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8694950/how-does-the-segmentoffset-addressing-scheme-work ARM Cortex-M3 is the one they have us learning. As far as kastein and I have discussed, it differs from x86 quite a bit and does this weird thing (it's probably not actually weird, just new to me) where it has an instruction shift of 16b on a 32b machine. You just point to the second half constantly. fjelltorsk posted:speaking of time, its still august 
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Aug 31, 2015 20:03
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meatpimp posted:gently caress this fake September thread started in August. Get in line, Adiabatic. You okay, buddy? Wanna talk about it?
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Aug 31, 2015 20:58
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Also it's probably been posted here before, but I happened across this in BFC and it's hilarious: http://bitcalc.beepboopbitcoin.com/
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Aug 31, 2015 21:00
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meatpimp posted:Hi, September thread. Nice title, Adiabatic. (you're still a cheater) I'll be sure to let you make October, bud. Sorry for triggering your autism! September should be a pretty good month. Ezoo is next weekend! Anyone going?
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Sep 1, 2015 13:01
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meatpimp posted:Autism recognizes autism and not jokes, apparently.   
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Sep 1, 2015 15:09
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Tusen Takk posted:Same, i saved up 40BTC and bought a stack of $10,000 in $20 bills off the darknet, but now it wont let me choose a mining rig or whatever There's a pink box in the top right corner
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Sep 1, 2015 16:10
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corn nooooo this isn't TRP bro you missed the turn
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Sep 11, 2015 13:33
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literally a fish posted:Should I make a thread once I have the new engine to chronicle the engine swap shenanigans? Do people care? I care. Never not project thread.
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Sep 11, 2015 13:38
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Ozmiander posted:You're a loser who smokes animal poo poo, lives in a hovel and threatens violence at low effort trolling. Maybe you should take an internet time out. Hey there buddy, everything okay? You can PM me if you'd rather not talk about it here
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Sep 11, 2015 14:33
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kastein posted:It's fun and people fall for it? That's a problem? kastein posted:Can you, bape/a5h, track day bro!, and your other butt buddy Breath Ray, don't think you aren't loving obvious, seeing as you started low effort trolling about 5 minutes after the other 3 got probated, post exactly the same aimspeak byob/fyad-lite spew as the others, and are just as useless just go be shitlords somewhere else? That would be awesome thanks.  UHHHHHHH
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Sep 11, 2015 18:15
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beam trolling, otter trolling, side-by-side trolling, outrigger trolling, stern trolling...
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Sep 11, 2015 19:35
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Not huge on apple products. I gave it the ol college try with an iphone 4s for a couple years, but between itunes and the restrictive apps, I went and got a Galaxy S6 a couple weeks ago. Haven't looked back.
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Sep 13, 2015 02:20
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Doing homework in a recently cleaned house while the new girlfriend does lesson plans. It's a good life.
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Sep 13, 2015 22:58
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meatpimp posted:Wait... what did you do the the old girlfriend?  Would ya just look at all that space...
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Sep 13, 2015 23:16
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lmao over $800 for a 2 night stay in Ocean City, MD for a bachelor party. Just the hotel room. "Hey is that okay? We already have the rooms booked." These guys have no sense of financial planning, and they're all financial planners.
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Sep 14, 2015 16:00
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Really, anything having to do with the cost of weddings boggles my drat mind.
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Sep 14, 2015 17:42
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My sister is up to at least $50k for a wedding with 150 people. Her dress alone was $8k I think. It's this weekend, and everyone's super stressed out and I'm just eating popcorn from the sidelines.
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Sep 14, 2015 18:16
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I choose to believe she was just a huge fan of Die Antwoord and Apartheid.
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Sep 14, 2015 18:36
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Bajaha posted:Of all the huge wastes of money, hiring a wedding planner/coordinator for the wedding day itself was the best thing ever. Every little issue got handled in the background and we didn't have to do anything but enjoy our day. This, and the photography, are the only two services that I didn't feel like we got fleeced on. Everything else My sister has 2 wedding planners and is still freaking the gently caress out. It's a super interesting narrative to look at from very, very far away.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:16
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for your highway robbery pricing and half assed services.
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Traffic around Baltimore/Washington is the worst in the nation. I hear that Baltimore in general is not a great place. The race riots you may have been hearing about are occurring there. I've never lived there personally, but plenty of people I know have, and boy do they complain.
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Sep 16, 2015 15:33
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Living completely in the moment all the time is nigh impossible, but the short times you are able to do so make the struggle completely worth it.
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Sep 17, 2015 04:56
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RVA has some crazy bike race next week (UCI?) and people are flipping poo poo all over the city. Guess I'll be hanging out in the suburbs next week. It's pretty cool that RVA gets something like this, but it's gonna shut the city down. My class is canceled for the duration, and I'm forever grateful to not work downtown.
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Sep 17, 2015 14:58
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Looking for new roommates, I put an ad up on Craigslist. Vince sounded cool and super excited over text. Vince in person is a late 40s methy looking fellow with a missing tooth, and plenty of stories about his bitch of an ex-wife and his equal bitch of an ex-girlfriend. Seriously we spent at least 20 minutes with him ranting about drama in his life and me sitting there nodding. This is why you meet potential roommates at Starbucks.
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Sep 21, 2015 14:02
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Tusen Takk posted:Haha, it means that at least you get something out of putting down a load of cash on a house Oh god you're one of those people that say they live in Detroit aren't you. Where do you actually live? Flint-town fo lyf
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Sep 21, 2015 14:11
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Tusen Takk posted:I used to live in detroit, now i live just north but nobody knows where auburn hills is so I just say detroit haha  Green is people who say "YO I'M FROM DEEEE-TROIT" like they bad. Red is people who actually bad mamma jammas. VVVV No he didn't, but he's using the city as an excuse on his housing chat when the suburbs surrounding the D crater are some of the richest areas in Michigan. Adiabatic fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Sep 21, 2015 14:19
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Tusen Takk posted:they're wealthy, yeah, but there still is nothing to do here compared to elsewhere. it's all suburbs here filled with scared white engineers who only go to detroit for Wings, Lions, and Tigers games or when they're called the GM HQ Yeah it's a dumb derail that I shouldn't have started, TT. I just saw the subtle references and flashed back to the jungle with Charlies everywhere in D hats fronting in Flint like they're hard when they live at their parent's mansion in Novi. It triggers the 'tism.
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Sep 21, 2015 14:42
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Sounds a lot like Flint, unfortunately. They have the state police doing local crime prevention and no one goes north of Flushing Rd. Downtown is starting to become okay with U of M Flint and Mott CC, and Kettering is doing alright just with all the industrial brown-zone surrounding it, but the amount of boarded-up houses and barbed wire everywhere really paints a dark picture.
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PaintVagrant posted:I have them a nice lecture about paying for the god damned gps update they have never done since 2004 Wait does GPS take crime into account when routing?
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Moxie Omen posted:So I finally bought a house and moved and now have a garage and a garage catte Congrats Moxie! You still in RVA? Let me know if you need any help with the move.
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Sep 23, 2015 12:23
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Hey guys what's up?! 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! I just renewed my passion for power gen by coming here. I kept looking at screens and spreadsheets and lost the tangible part of what I'm doing. Being near all this equipment has stimulated my curiosity and I now know I need to get out to a station frequently. Also, it's started a deluge of questions I'm asking myself. I got to a level doing research where I was running out of questions about the major systems and processes, and this morning has brought a shitload more questions to now go back and answer. It's difficult to know what you need to know without looking at the fucker. Anyways, poo poo owns. Go renew a passion. Hope everyone's day's great!
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OH poo poo I thought the work computer blocked USB data transfer but hey I was wrong, so enjoy these cool pics of a generic coal power station with no affiliation to any one company in particular: Parallel coal mills/pulverizers:  There's 15 of them in a row. Pretty bad steam leak out of a pump seal:  It's a smaller pump (like only the size of my torso) for an aux system so they're running anyways. Giant 3 story condenser:  This big guy sits under the low pressure turbine and condenses the steam back into water via cooling water from the lake. 1st extraction feedwater heater:  This guy extracts steam from the turbines and uses it to heat the water before it comes into the boiler, via shell/tube heat exchangers. Think a giant circular radiator. There's 6 of these. Per boiler Three boilers here. That valve hand wheel is about 6 ft in diameter, by the way. Shot of the outside of one of the units:  The corrugated 12 story metal building to the right is the boiler. Everything you see outside here is emissions equipment working the boiler exhaust. It actually draws a lot of parallels to car exhaust emissions, interestingly enough. Here's the inside shot of those ducts, as they come off the boiler and go out to the stack:  Forced draft fans:  8 of these per boiler, and they're huge. Not only that, there's another 8 on the exhaust side. Using the FD fans to push fresh air into the boiler, and using the Induced Draft (ID) fans on the exhaust, they can adjust the pressure in the boiler to very slightly below barometric. More to come from my afternoon jaunt. The turbine room is insane. INSANE.
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The Locator posted:So awesome. Out here in the middle of the desert, we don't have handy lakes to provide cooling water for the power plants, which made me wonder - how does the power plant cooling affect the lake? Is the temperature increase significant enough to change the ecosystem, or is it a large enough heat-sink that it has a negligible effect? Just asked one of my mentors about this after I had a semi-related question. One of the units has both the giant lakewater condenser in the previous set of photos, and two ~10,000 gallon shell & tube heat exchangers acting as condensers in parallel. I asked why they would need this, and he says the lake is too small and heats up too fast to just use the lakewater as a cooling agent. They had to tack on the exchangers and some small cooling towers, which is the way you normally do it without a large body of water. Apparently the inlet and outlet temps on the lakewater condenser have a differential of around 15°F, and can and will heat all or part of the lake, depending on its size. Anywho, as promised, a couple pics of the turbine room: Here's the low pressure turbines:  The steam runs into the High pressure, then intermediate pressure, then low pressure turbines, then goes straight down into the condenser located on the lower level. At certain points, a small portion of steam will be extracted to preheat the feedwater at the feedwater heaters in the previous set of pictures. This is a weird setup where the HP and IP turbines are on one generator, and the LP turbines are on a second generator. Here's a view of the HP and IP turbines on the left, and the LP turbines on the right:  The steam crossover is the big pipe above them. The non-piped "huts" in the foreground are the two electrical generators, connected directly via shaft. Here's a nameplate off ONE of the generators:  Remember, there's two of them. Per unit.  VVVV Naw, as long as no company names are on things I can use photos for educational stuff. They've let me use them for classes where they're teaching related stuff! I think it's mainly because it's very very old tech. If you look at that nameplate, the turbines were built in 1965. Adiabatic fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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Also here's a neat diagram of the Rankine cycle of a power plant, with bonus personal shout out:
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Holy gently caress that's a long start-up. From first fire to generator breaker closure usually takes us 10-20 hours, depending on the unit 
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CommieGIR posted:You'll notice the first critical took longer than the second restart, because the first critical has to go through a 'test' phase where they confirm containment vessel structural safety at load before applying full power. I'm being dumb Two thirds of this 5,000 person engineering center are just for the 5 nuclear units. Y'all have some intense regulatory hoops, and rightfully so.Tusen Takk posted:true :p: I can understand where you're coming from, but these plants are all laid out exactly the same. Anyone who wants to know the layout is much better served with a power-point diagram of a coal plant. CommieGIR posted:Reactor 2 that went into the new Watts Bar plant. 
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Sep 24, 2015 14:09
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CommieGIR posted:That's the reactor vessel for that same reactor. This is porn. This cannot be work-safe.
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Sep 24, 2015 14:15
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Tusen Takk posted:i was thinking more in the lines of national security etc etc http://www.nexteraenergyresources.com/what/gas.shtml Oh no national security leak! 
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Powershift posted:I don't think so. I think the fix for older cars is a richer fuel mixture, hotter DPF burn and installation of a urea system. They should just take a page out of Coal's book and inject limestone into the combustion chambers.
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