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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Oof, that’s a lot of juice.

    I’m running a UPS, Syno720+, old gaming laptop as a portainer host, my wifi, router, cable modem, and switches, and that’s only using about 50w for everything. Pretty sure the Synology is using the bulk of that power, but I don’t have data to back that up.

    I’d like to upgrade a few things, but I’m really trying to keep it below 75w. Ideally below 50w if I can. I think my old laptop is good for now, just want more flexibility in my NAS if I can do it without bumping up the power budget.















  • https://youtu.be/zsyGRDrDfbI

    New math came out of it, they figured out more and more efficient ways to figure out the solution to “is this prime?”

    Those same math techniques can be used for other problems, and possibly learn something that solves a problem you actually care about.

    Research is important because you never know what weird problem someone is working on might solve. Maybe it will provide a new math solution that creates better CGI, maybe it’ll finally create a technique to solve fusion.

    Maybe it’ll just be something that we know now that we didn’t know before. There are FAR FAR FAR more wasteful things in the world than some nerds trying to solve big prime numbers.