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  • There is a much cheaper way that doesn't use hard drives. It uses magnetic tapes, LTO-9 tapes specifically.

    Each LTO-9 tape cassette can hold up to 45TB of data (compression is used to store it on the raw 18TB).

    An LTO-9 tape drive can cost $10,000. Assuming you get the full 45TB per tape, you'll need 2223 LTO-9 tape cassettes to store 100PB. Assuming you buy in bulk, you can get each tape cassette for $150 which puts you at $333,450 for the tapes.

    Since the tapes don't use power when not in use, this concludes the total cost. None of this accounts for storing all 2223 tapes or maintenance to ensure data is still intact on them but this comes out to $343,450 in total to store 100PB using magnetic tapes. While the cost is much cheaper, it's much harder to access the data as it's not immediately available since you have to fish out the drive you need and plop it into the tape drive then wait for it to read.

  • Let's assume you have all hard drives and in a setup with absolutely zero redundancy in case a drive fails.

    We're using the Seagate Exos X24 (24TB) drive which is roughly $700 each brand new.

    You'll need 4167 of them to store 100PB. Which puts you at $2,916,900 just for the drives.

    Let's assume you already have the enclosures, racks, and servers for a small datacenter ready to go.

    A drive can use 4-9w of power when spinning so assuming all drives are active (to ensure quick data access and data repair) that'll be roughly 27086w for all the drives at 6.5w per drive. Every month (30 days), that is 19502kWh of electricity used. 40 years is roughly 349,680 hours so that comes out to around 9,471,433kWh used.

    Assuming you get some damn good electricity rates at $0.12USD per kWh, it'll cost $1,136,572 to run just the drives.

    So in total, assuming you already have a datacenter with the capacity to install all the drives that runs on absolutely zero power, you'll spend roughly $4,053,472 over the course of 40 years.

  • One month ago: ~$3.29

    Yesterday ~$5.49

    For 18 eggs: ~$7.19

    They only have grade A eggs that come in the fancy compressed paper boxes so that's what I normally get. Though eggs have been getting harder and harder to find since they've been struggling to restock them.

  • x86 is the architecture, amd64 is an extention on that architecture so it's still x86 just with an instruction set extension that allows for native 64 bit computing.

    x86 was designed to be nearly fully backwards compatible back to the i386 or even the 8086 so whatever code that could run on those CPUs would work on modern "amd64" CPUs.

    Pretty much x86 is a snowball rolling down a hill. It keeps picking up new things and growing as time goes on but the core of it will always be the same.

  • Ginger Chicken

    Preparing

    Cut some chicken up into strips a bit under 1cm (0.4in) thick and against the grain if using beast (more of a thigh guy myself).

    Put chicken in bowl and wet chicken with equal parts rice vinegar and soy sauce. I used around 1.5 (22.5ml) tablespoon rice vinegar and 1.5 (22.5ml) tablespoon soy sauce for around 0.6kg (1.3lb) of chicken. Hand mix the chicken until the vinegar and soy sauce are worked in.

    After around 5-7 minutes, the chicken should soak up the vinegar and soy sauce and leave little to no liquids.

    Add in about 1.5 tablespoon (22.5ml) of shaoxing wine and enough corn starch to turn the liquid into a thick-ish white liquid but not enough to dry it out. It should have roughly the same consistency of an egg white. Once it's hand mixed, put in some black pepper and sprinkle a little bit of MSG if you have any and mix it again. For pepper I put in around 1 tablespoon (15ml). For MSG, I used what I could grab with my fingers which would be like 1-2g.

    After doing that, chop up a sweet onion into crescent moon shaped slices and set it aside.

    Let the chicken marinate for about 30 minutes.

    Prepare the sauce

    Go in with the mindset of making teriyaki sauce.

    Mix together:

    • 5 tablespoons (60ml) of soy sauce
    • 2 tablespoons (30ml) of brown sugar
    • Three microplaned garlic cloves (~1 tablespoon, 15ml)
    • 2 tablespoons (30ml) mirin

    At the end, fuck up and add 1 tablespoon (15ml) of ginger powder instead of the 1 teaspoon (5ml) you were supposed to add.

    Now you have ginger sauce.

    Cooking

    Get large carbon steel or cast iron pan (stainless might work but I've never tried it since I don't have any. Non-stick will not work) and fill it so there's about 2mm of vegetable oil in the pan. Pre-heat at low-medium heat.

    Before putting in chicken, coat the chicken in a layer of corn starch, kinda like breading it. It should feel dry and not sticky after coating.

    Prepare about 1 tablespoon (15ml) of butter in a spoon (or butter knife or whatever, you'll be quickly throwing it into the pan while cooking) and have a clean plate large enough to hold the cooked chicken ready.

    Pre-heat until oil is just starting to emit thin wisps of smoke then turn heat to medium high the dump chicken in the pan and keep it moving until the outside is browned then throw in the butter and stir until the butter evenly coats the chicken and then cook it for about 20-30 seconds more while constantly stirring it.

    Remove the chicken and put it on a plate using a slotted spatula to limit the amount of leftover oil and butter from soaking into the chicken and making it soggy.

    Put in sliced onions and stir fry until decently and evenly browned but not charred.

    Turn heat to medium, add back in the chicken, then pour in the sauce and keep mixing until the sauce thickens and sticks and soaks into the crust of the chicken.

    Best enjoyed with some fried eggs and rice.

  • I know it's not much compared to everyone else's stuff here but it's the easiest to post since I actually have picture of it.

    Made some ginger chicken after experimenting with making the chicken tender and crunchy without deep frying. Turned out very good.

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  • Three teabag types were purchased online (Amazon and AliExpress) or in a local supermarket. The online-purchased teabags were ordered empty (with no tea inside) and with a known polymer composition

    The third teabag type (sample 3), bought in the supermarket, was a regular tea brand of green tea

    300 teabags were transferred into a 1 L beaker (pre-washed and sterilized) containing 600 mL of Milli-Q water at 95 ◦C with constant stirring (750 rpm).

    It sounds like they were using a magnetic stir bar rather than a spoon or rod but still, 300 teabags, most of which coming empty from Amazon or AliExpress in 600ml is ridiculous.

  • I've a massive blob like this one time when the nozzle got clogged and the extruder created enough pressure to push the filament through the threads of the hotend block. It was on an Anet A8 and I ripped a lead off the thermistor trying to get the plastic off so I ended up replacing the entire hotend.

    You can try to heat up the hotend to a fair bit under the melting point of the filament to where it's soft and somewhat pliable but not runny or sticky and then trying to peel it off. Though you'd risk damaging any leads to the thermistor, heater, or your hands if you're not careful.

    Good luck on fixing the printer and getting back to printing again. 3D printing is a really time consuming hobby