2023-02-22 08:04:36 <veltas      > KipIngram: on the other hand, the bible is the root of all western literature
2023-02-22 08:05:15 <veltas      > And so if we talk about angels it's with an understanding that it can be interpreted as relating to the bible, and to christian tradition broadly, but not strictly
2023-02-22 08:38:21 <KipIngram   > Well, sure, and in point of fact there's nothing wrong with someone making an assumption that the writer is going to make heavy use of that cultural material when writing his books.  My point is just that the level of certainty they project about it in statements like the above strikes me as unreasonable - there is just a difference between "it would probably be this way because he's probably basing all this
2023-02-22 08:38:23 <KipIngram   > on standard mythologies," vs. "it's definitely like t his because he said so on page 208 of book seven."
2023-02-22 08:38:48 <KipIngram   > I regard it as a guess, and just typically find that folks don't present it as a guess at all.
2023-02-22 08:39:34 <KipIngram   > I've got my own theories about that series, and I sometimes talk about them, but I'm always careful to note that it is in the end just speculation, and things might go in a totally different direction - we just don't know yet what the guy is going to write.
2023-02-22 08:41:35 <KipIngram   > I'll put it this way - if the writer did in fact write future material in a way that totally contradicts that guy's comment, I don't think the guy would be able to accuse him of being inconsistent, because he just hasn't boxed himself in on that topic.
2023-02-22 08:42:39 <KipIngram   > In fact, if he's actually said anything definite, it's the opposite, though I don't regard those lines as so precise as to define how a "combat situation' would go between those entities.  I don't think we'll SEE a combat situation between a Queen and an archangel.  It's just not the way the books are headed.
2023-02-22 15:19:20 <gordonjcp   > Hunar: yay
2023-02-22 15:19:29 <gordonjcp   > Hunar: you made it :-)
2023-02-22 15:20:13 <Hunar       > Thanks gordonjcp :D
2023-02-22 17:03:20 <KipIngram   > zstd compression seems pretty interesting.
2023-02-22 19:13:23 <KipIngram   > Damn it all.  I was just going over to my mother-in-law's house to haul in her trash bins from the street, and just outside her neighborhood my shift cable snapped.  With the car in fifth gear.
2023-02-22 19:13:55 <KipIngram   > I just had the wondrous experience of managing to get it back to my house, riding the clutch away from every stop sign and red light.
2023-02-22 19:14:04 <thrig       > and that's why you should say in forth
2023-02-22 19:14:09 <KipIngram   > :-)
2023-02-22 19:14:15 <KipIngram   > Ok, that helps, thrig - thank you.
2023-02-22 19:14:20 <KipIngram   > That's good humor.
2023-02-22 19:14:31 <KipIngram   > No telling what I did to the poor clutch, though.
2023-02-22 19:14:52 <KipIngram   > This is a design weakness on this car - it's 12 years old (not quite, actually), and this is the third failed shift cable.
2023-02-22 19:15:07 <KipIngram   > So I'll be going to my fourth one in the life of the car.
2023-02-22 19:17:10 <KipIngram   > Anyway, I'll have to have it towed to my favored garage.
2023-02-22 19:34:10 <Zarutian_iPad> what kind of car is it?
2023-02-22 19:35:14 <Zarutian_iPad> the only manually gear controled cars I have driven have the usual gear shift stick
2023-02-22 19:38:04 <KipIngram   > It's a 2011 Porsche Cayman S.
2023-02-22 19:38:24 <KipIngram   > It has a stick - I've never actually seen this cable - it's down in the guts.
2023-02-22 19:38:59 <KipIngram   > I love this car with a bloody passion.  I have an aftermarket turbo on it, and that baby will boot scoot.
2023-02-22 19:39:36 <KipIngram   > It can play in the same performance range as the 911 flagship line (which is why Porsche doesn't offer a factory turbo option on it).
2023-02-22 19:39:45 <KipIngram   > And it's mid-engine, so it handles oh so well.
2023-02-22 19:40:28 <KipIngram   > It's the same frame, engine, and so on as the Boxster.
2023-02-22 19:41:53 <Zarutian_iPad> you run it on avgas?
2023-02-22 19:42:08 <Zarutian_iPad> that is aviation gasoline?
2023-02-22 19:42:31 <KipIngram   > :-)  No; just standard premium.
2023-02-22 19:42:50 <KipIngram   > Is that something that can actually be done, or were you joking with me?
2023-02-22 19:42:54 <thrig       > leaded gas is probably problematic
2023-02-22 19:42:56 <Zarutian_iPad> 95 or 98 octane I take it
2023-02-22 19:43:10 <KipIngram   > Yes, the highest octane grade I can pump.
2023-02-22 19:44:00 <Zarutian_iPad> naah, just been bingong on Everydays Astronaut stuff on. rocket engines and fuel mixtures
2023-02-22 19:44:28 <Zarutian_iPad> binging*
2023-02-22 19:44:30 <thrig       > rocket engines are also problematic on cars
2023-02-22 19:46:32 <Zarutian_iPad> thrig: what about electrics using triphasic self magniflux electric motors?
2023-02-22 19:46:53 <KipIngram   > Long as you've got a good quality flux capacitor.
2023-02-22 19:47:01 <thrig       > I don't remember that episode
2023-02-22 19:47:27 <Zarutian_iPad> KipIngram: a CED disk ya say?
2023-02-22 19:48:18 <KipIngram   > Hmmm?
2023-02-22 19:48:52 <Zarutian_iPad> see Tech Connections video on that old wierd media
2023-02-22 19:49:10 <KipIngram   > You know, I was just thinking a couple of days ago about how it had been a while since I'd put the last shift cable in.
2023-02-22 19:49:28 <KipIngram   > I'm just really glad I was in a "relatively" residential area when it went.
2023-02-22 19:55:20 <Zarutian_iPad> talking about machinery I just recentlyish looked up a hydraulic powered motor AvE showcased in one of his videos
2023-02-22 19:57:17 <Zarutian_iPad> I did not know you could put so much torque in such a small device
2023-02-22 20:08:37 <KipIngram   > Yeah, hydraulics can move a lot of "effort" around.
2023-02-22 20:08:57 <KipIngram   > Getting really high pressure out of a hydraulic press is another example.
2023-02-22 20:09:43 <KipIngram   > I don't know hydraulics very well, unfortunately.
2023-02-22 20:12:34 <KipIngram   > Wow - my daughter (high school senior) is taking music theory this year, and is over at the breakfast table doing her homework.  I get the impression that they are getting REALLY deep into it.
2023-02-22 20:13:14 <KipIngram   > My wife and I both know some theory (my wife more than me), but she's getting into stuff that neither of us are very familiar with.
2023-02-22 20:13:31 <KipIngram   > But apparently their teacher won a Grammy award at some point in time, so... I guess that helps.
2023-02-22 20:18:49 <thrig       > Neo-Riemann operations on set classes might be slightly off the deep end
2023-02-22 20:23:14 <KipIngram   > Hey, any of you still where you can see it, the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus are putting on quite a show.
2023-02-22 20:23:23 <KipIngram   > They'll set soon here in Texas.
2023-02-22 20:25:09 <KipIngram   > Jupiter is really close to a nice crescent moon; Venus is a little closer to the horizon, but still nearby.
2023-02-22 21:11:40 <KipIngram   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBt5NuNsoII
2023-02-22 21:52:04 <KipIngram   > ^ that is interesting.  It's kind of a hybrid of B-tree and log-structured file system.
2023-02-22 21:52:15 <KipIngram   > It handles small random inserts well.
2023-02-22 21:52:56 <KipIngram   > Instead of storing only child pointers in internal  nodes (which requires you to traverse all the way from root to leaf before actuall inserting a new write), you split the nodes between child pointers and "buffer space."
2023-02-22 21:53:09 <KipIngram   > Initially, when you write you just store the data in the buffer space of the root.
2023-02-22 21:53:22 <KipIngram   > And you  keep doing that until that node's buffer space is full.
2023-02-22 21:53:36 <KipIngram   > Then you move those items to the buffer space of the next level down.
2023-02-22 21:53:53 <KipIngram   > But the trick here is that you'll get to move a bunch of items in one operation.
2023-02-22 21:54:25 <KipIngram   > The main payoff here is that it reduces seek operations, though, so I'm not sure how much benefit it would off on flash-based storage.
2023-02-22 21:54:37 <KipIngram   > It may be mostly a spinning disk payoff.
2023-02-22 21:54:43 <thrig       > or tape!
2023-02-22 21:55:16 <KipIngram   > On reads, you may still have to go all the way to a leaf, if that's where the data is, but you check on the way down to see if it's in any of the internal node buffers.
2023-02-22 22:00:06 <KipIngram   > I like the way this raises the optimum block size for disk operations to a relatively high level.  He says that building I/O around 2-4 MB operations works well in this approach.
2023-02-22 22:01:20 <KipIngram   > I don't think this would pay off, though, in a "personal size" system like I'm envisioning.  I expect you'd reap the real benefits in very large scale database operations.
2023-02-22 22:53:11 <KipIngram   > https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_oct15_05_bender.pdf