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Tech-Gore - Seen this happen in a small scale development startup in a test case:
As an undergrad 2002-2003 ish seen Cisco lose several purchases in offsite/colo usage, the GUI and remote management broke the VLAN teaming/linking to a single machine. If I recall Cisco lost nearly $5k :exploding_head:
Even in non-GUI stuff, several brands had bugs that you can’t link or team outside of certain port ranges
 ex: 48 port managed device, several OEMs split VLAN management in 8 or 16 port blocks and fiber ports are isolated from that limitation. :grimacing:
Link: Untrained techie botched big sale by breaking client's ERP ‱ The Register

The customer liked that idea, which is how Kane found himself at its offices one Saturday morning trying to fix a VLAN-related “partial outage” that had taken out much of its SAP implementation.

You’d think that when a giant global hardware vendor sends in a techie to fix that sort of thing, they’d be well-trained.

And Kane was very well trained – but on the new kit his employer hoped to sell and not on the glitching switch.

“I decided to show the customer how to make the changes with the web-based config pages,” he told Who, Me? “I’d never been told not to use the GUI so I saw no problems with using it.”

Unbeknown to Kane, the GUI was buggy.

“I ended up causing a Layer 2 broadcast storm that brought down most of the network,” he confessed.

SAP was now unable to reach its external storage and looked, at first glance, to be utterly dead.

Haunted Left Field:
Interesting headline trend. Might not be the Bonds curse, could be tied to having a less than perfect CF
 Chili Davis, Brett Butler and Andres Torres gave the most stability. Bonds just avoided relying upon a CF and Matt Williams had been the closest to a Boggs in fielding radius.
Source: Who plays left field for the San Francisco Giants? - McCovey Chronicles

Dirt ball to Meatball Ratio
Ever like to get a sense of a batter having a chance at HRs, count the number of dirt balls to Changeup ratios may it be a starter or relief. Often the meatball clocks under 85 MPH or drifts into the batters’ squared up contact zones. No this can’t help you do those Topps HR Challenge crap but its entertaining to make comments in a group setting. Maybe its a DH observation thing or something. Don’t know of any pitchers seeing this or saying something before a HR.

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Another infielder adopts moving to pitching Dave Stieb Style:
Above average batters make very good pitchers, if you can read a batter reach the K rate gets interesting.
Source: An Unexpected 98 mph Pitch Could Lead to a New Career Path for Longtime Minor Leaguer

Mejia’s fastball tops out at 98 mph. His four-seamer averaged 20 inches of induced vertical break in his most recent bullpen session, which would put him among the highest in baseball.

It’ll be interesting if the ability to hurl a Split and Sinker has deeper movement. Guessing the arm angle is nearly 24 degrees or so based on the clip. A shortstop could adjust that angle to get faster and stable velo at less shoulder strain. 2B/SS types can hit 99-100 at 11-22 degrees.
Example of an infielder turned pitcher, no data on his batting but a good batter can flip that info to pitching style


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Seems There Is Odd Leaks At Gambling Services:
This person might have a person using similar personal info like an advisor, encountered a shady repo agent that requested access to game used gear “relics” and offsite storage lockers. Can’t name my situation but someone that stole a childhood team photo thinks I’m related to a certain above average pitcher
 that pitcher as far as I know never played football/hockey :grimacing:
Source Link: DraftKings Extortion Case Proceeds to Court

AMD GPU Marketshare Boost:
Keeping this marketshare on sales is going to be tricky, once AMD moved an IGP to Ryzen desktops there is less room for yield mistakes.
Source URL: Even AMD is surprised by how fast it’s gaining on Nvidia | Digital Trends

More GPU Price Hikes on RTX 50-series:
Board makers have been pushing more premium variants than base models, ever since EVGA exited the market they hinted it had been more about custom cooling development takes a chunk out of profit margins.
Source: More RTX 50-series price hikes show scalpers aren’t the only problem | Digital Trends

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Those Holes In Packages Might Be Linked: Stolen Phones
As a student ordered several items around the time period of a family member changing out a phone pre-iPhone. Boxes torn from certain hubs.

How Bribes Helped a Crime Ring Steal Thousands of iPhones From Porches

The group created software to scrape FedEx tracking numbers and bribed AT&T store employees to get order details and delivery addresses, according to a criminal complaint filed in New Jersey. The group then sent thieves to pick off the packages and bring them back to destinations like the Brooklyn shop.
Source: MSN

NFL Predictions By Media: QBs are going to slide to 2nd Round
Take predictions of this kind as ugh.

Headline: Three Quarterbacks Predicted To Be Selected Inside Top 10 Of NFL Draft

Dart has the required skill set to be a starting NFL quarterback, possessing good accuracy, arm strength from different arm angles, and overall mobility to serve as a threat on the ground. But his anticipation and processing are still a work in progress and he doesn’t come from a pro-style system.

Source: MSN

As many past top ranked QBs that handled playbooks poorly, advanced technical playbooks and awareness is the area most QBs stumble. Read the opposite team poorly and not change a call, instant sack. Anyone that has seen and attempted a practice QB playbook, you got 18-25 sec to hurl that ball inside 12 yards
 bad line, closer to 10 sec to hope the short pass is caught by the CB :grimacing:

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Have a strange theory its more than speed: Distro Ditches RISCV
Source: Chimera Linux project drops RISC-V support ‱ The Register

I had obtained a SiFive HiFive Unmatched board in October 2021 and this proved to be useless for builds as the performance of this board is similar to Raspberry Pi 3.

In a mini side project that got scrapped, one developer kept increasing core count design to 64(2x32 core chiplets) cores or going from a base 2x8 cores to 2x16 core chiplet combo. It scaled poorly to the requirements may it be for small office or mixed CPU-dGPU encoding for sports ball duty. Fair disclosure, my RISC-V project had been backed on the soccer and tennis training side and ball movement can be yikes.
That is as far as I’m speaking about the gore details that stays inside a NDA.

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I don’t think q66 had any other reasons for ditching RISC-V other than speed. They worked with POWER 8 and 9 systems, from Raptor Computing and these things are beasts compared to the meager risc-v boards. If you want a server to natively compile your distros packages on, you’re not going to do it on just a single rpi 3 level of performance. Maybe if you can have a compiling farm and run make in parallel, it would work, but then, you’d need a bunch of these and these don’t come in cheap.

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My theory its about multi-core encoding, one bug an outsourced dev found early on is some cores go out of sync under heavy load
 couldn’t verify it stateside.

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Real Tech Gore of the SSD Kind:
This ranks up there to Linus haunted hardware. After W11 2023 builds clean installs fail to a boot or random hang at the login, doesn’t matter if its AMD or Intel, if you update from H2/22 the reported stalls start at 2H/23 and disabling caching isn’t a fix. At first it seemed to be NVMe Green/Blue variants, seems like the SATA is firmware level than controller chip. Odd thing is the SanDisk X400 that the Blue SATA is based on doesn’t have the issues.

Haunted Sports Gear:
Some fans often ask about traded players dumping jackets or other stuff into garbage bins or donation bins. The logic is you don’t mix old team stuff to recent items. Some are known to keep using the same catching glove or batting gloves. I pity the fool that stole my old batting gloves, they likely jinxed themselves :thinking:

Strange “haunted” gear of mine:
My glove from HS has cursed more players that tried to use the glove in pickup games if scouted by AL teams exclusively. Forget the fielding error rate, some even had batting averages drop to Rob Deer levels unless they stuck a Cal or Larry card in their batting helmet/hat :grimacing:

Sports coach forced me to change my jersey number, the long running joke is the old number had still been marked on several items so a number change didn’t matter. For laughs I used the older season hat several times to test that theory and my batting average increased.

Someone in a batting cage used a bat given to me after a live BP, have no idea if the poor guy had been scouted or drafted by an AL team but he whiffed 50% using a 32 oz bat
 gave that bat to an exes dad, rumor is his friend asked a NL player to test it in a batting cage and his whiff/K rate aligned to me/Will Clark/Chipper Jones.
It does align to the theory of why Mike Trout is afraid to jump to any NL team, NL pitchers can be brutal
 take a look at the higher number of pitchers in the NL that have nasty Splitters:

NL pitchers rank higher in Split usage, some of them alt to a Sinker so the lists overlap:
Estrada -Padres
Parker - Nationals
Blalock - Rockies
McGough - DBacks
Imanaga - Cubs
Pagan - Reds

Also some that seam shift sinkers can do a nasty alt Sweeper for a fun face movement, an ex that asked me to do live pitching to her called it the Ghost Sweeper as it moved more than a Slider
 ex release it higher it’ll break harder inside or outside depending upon arm angle and it could shift across four strike zones.

Edit: Yes, anyone that has DH-ed often do research their own batting flaws so if they manage to pitch it can be a can opener experience at other batters.

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Tracking A Theory Of Used Batting Hats From Batting Cages:
Been digging into batting averages of AL teams thinking somebody gave my used batting gloves to someone to create a Buckner error rate. Someone from the Mets joked something ain’t right in the AL.
Nick Swisher seems to have either crossed paths of a batting glove or a chunk of a bat from my HS/college era, .219 :grimacing:

Matt Stairs .227 (2000), Oakland A’s

Missing hat tracker:
Odds of Cal Raleigh crossed paths with my missing vintage hat or a chopped up hat from the 90s seems likely, those are some nasty batting averages and aligns to a NL bad vibes. Someone should give him a Cotto card for luck, yikes. My theory an Astros player or fan did that if they seen me wearing that hat in a certain batting cage
 AJ Hinch is that you?
Vintage 80s Pirates hat crossed paths of Pedro Alvarez in 2011 after my pet bird had died, never wore it but somebody stole my dads hats in the past.

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Experimental ITC on a Family Members Bible:
Placed the bible into a RF blocking bag and a recorder double shielded.
The results are yikes, my mom had been drifting in and out of consciousness at the hospital as my dad got sick from some sick person that spiked his drink and she heard a debt collector named Eric had been doing stupid stuff. Might be the same person a nun saved my life elsewhere.

There is an old folklore if you steal from someone or their family the scent of roses is equal to unleashing the banshee. One concerning detail I never disclosed on this forum is the gold bars that a certain South Carolina company returned and someone that stole past mail to spoof another company. The 30 bars of gold began to smell like roses and likely released some kind of curse that gone after the Eric guy. Other bars gone missing in California and North Carolina.

Having said that theology realm overlaps the Psychology realm, you try to debunk stuff and avoid being bias.
The ITC results had been horrifying to be honest and I’m sure the Catholic Church is investigating it as the person that took those gold bars may of gotten the Eric experience :grimacing:

Recorder just captured blank air
Recorder 2 had been an Ovilus 2 based or style puck that uses temp/vibration sensors.

Captured info had been:
Grave, Stone, Casket, ice, cement, roses, Eric(debt collector), Jay(debt collector), Larry(debt collector), Amanda(debt collector), gold, alter, church, ashes, branch, sky, angel, etc
Have no idea if the Catholic Church sends scribes that believe in Theresia von Avila notes of trying to read soul or vibrations from a grave. May of seen a certain Saint that rattled me from sleep.

Having said that, don’t steal from the dead or do fraud from the dead as the rose scent can turn into a banshee or kick off a Derrick chasing those that handled those objects/cash. If you get suspected haunted items, talk to a priest as you may have evil after your soul.

Ref for those that never heard a banshee: The Legend of the Banshee: Ireland’s Eerie Harbingers of Death | by Eve S Evans | Dark Abyss | Medium
Shorter summary of that link:

Under this folkloric interpretation, banshees are not ancient Irish pagan gods living on as fairies, but the ghosts of dead family members.

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The Great Dot Com Bubble Again:
Day 2 of the stock market correction, not exactly a crash as some analysts are screaming about but a correction and bear market. Back in the 2000s the smart ones moved out of tech, shifted to stable companies that didn’t chase unicorn profits.

Lets see the reasoning:

GPU prices are messed up like 2015, data center usage has soared due to Sony doing cloud gaming to play classic PS3 games, XBox and others jumped to cloudy gaming so the demand of GPUs have exceeded supply. And you can’t setup a Nvidia cloud gaming account in most markets from the shortages.

Companies are using VMware Cloud than local gear due to GPU shortages, some are using VMs to bridge the gap of legacy OSes.

Bubble of IoT junk has been piling up, that digital pin company recently gone like Fitbit of the product is dead but the core guts are reused.

This Looks Ugly Once Commercial Companies Get Concerned:
US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
Source: US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts - Bloomberg

There are 2 highly active volcanic areas that can snarl travel. Increasing earthquakes from a long period of inactivity of quakes above 5.

Opensource Trying Cloud Again:
SaaS or Cloud Storage pricing is the area that many have failed at, Office 365 Family had been popular as it had been cheap to increase user adoption. The old days students used the Skype credit for calling.
Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival
Source: Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail ‱ The Register

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Experimental ITC on a New Bible:
Decided since my childhood bible had been bought by my mom it’ll make a poor “test ITC” for a baseline experiment. Similar place bible/recorder into RF bag and compare.

Recorder just captured blank air
Recorder 2 had been an Ovilus 2 based or style puck that uses temp/vibration sensors.
Recorder 3 Ovilus 2

Captured info had been:
Pray, wheat, fields, blue, kind, farm, levitation, Kansas, etc.
2 out of 3 results had been similar to the air recording ITC tests so its possible to capture and get ITC out of a blank recording of that fixed state of time.

Think I got a hint of the nun that saved my rear from a drink spike before I touched the glass, she vanished near a church too :thinking:

Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience:
The summary by Bing is better than translations out there, it explains it in a more focused summary.

Mathematical or spatial time and real, lived time. Mathematical time is measured, divisible, and used in science to quantify duration. However, Bergson argues that this is an abstraction—it doesn’t reflect our direct experience of time. Lived time, which he refers to as duration (la durĂ©e), is fluid, continuous, and qualitative.

A much more detailed and PDF is here:

Tech Gore:
The abnormal usage of the starting blocks of SSDs on cacheless SSDs seem to impact Kinston A400 series like WD Blue. A400 has controller cache but seems to use the faster blocks on the SSD to act like an accelerator. A400 seems to have the bug creep up on W11 2023 builds and W11 prefetch cache disable seems to be a temp fix. Have no idea if this is just the 2 different revisions or if later models had been fixed, some very strange model support so it means there is a slightly different variant or part revisions.
Firmware Revision SBFKB1C3 – Dec 19, 2018
Firmware Revision SBFK71F1 – July 10, 2019
Firmware Revision SBFKB1H5 – Jan 16, 2020
SA400S37/120G, SA400S37/240G, SA400S37/480G, SA400S37/960G
SA400M8/120G, SA400M8/240G

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Passive ITC Bible Experiment Gets Very Interesting From History:
The location has zero connection to either my mom or a Saint in those passive ITCs. Did some research and it might be a mystery nun that saved me from a drink spike as a student.
The bible has managed to change pages by itself and seems to take confessions. Each time a confession like moment occurs there is an odd change in scent of the bible. The baseline 2nd bible had similar scent changes if I placed it at the similar area and recorders picked up some talk near/above the bible. That 2nd bible is going to end up being given to a nun in another country.

“Pray, wheat, fields, blue, kind, farm, levitation, Kansas, etc.”
Kicked off some deep digging, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda may of traveled to more than a single area than documented statements.
As far as debunking, roaming around far seems to get a certain Marian chatter on a more European level.

Tracking Sports Ticket Prices:
Last baseball season people had been estimating prices are dropping. Normally you don’t see tickets drop past $15 until the May-June time frame. Similar trends in Hockey has had prices drop faster than baseball, hint the cheapest ticket hadn’t been the Sabres.

Twins vs Mets: Dropped to $2-5 based on various places
White Sox vs Athletics: Dropped to $3-5 based on various places

Tracking corp laptop pricing:
This Thinkpad E16 drops to the range of several other similar Ryzen 5 7530U models out there, $629.00 isn’t too bad from the base price of $759.00
Newegg link: https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000E-1B722?Item=9SIB0GJKCB9017&cm_sp=SP-_-2865323-_-BEST%20DEALS+-_-4-_-9SIB0GJKCB9017-_--_--_-56
Seems like the L14 series got Core Ultra 5 starting at $918.40 before coupons
Source URL: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadl/thinkpad-l14-gen-5-14-inch-intel/21l1cto1wwus1

Never seen this stuff on the 'Egg before as AsRock Rack is rarely stocked:
AsRock Rack B650D4U Micro-ATX Server Motherboard Single Socket AMD EPYCℱ 4004 and AMD Ryzenℱ 9000/8000/7000 series Processors (LGA 1718) B650E PCIe 5.0 Dual 1G Lan
Not bad for $299
Link: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rack-b650d4u-supports-amd-ryzen-7000-series-processors/p/N82E16813140100?Item=N82E16813140100