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[Colif]

There was a Superman movie when I was a kid where he traveled backwards in time by doing this. If I remember correctly, Lois Lane had been killed, so he flew around the earth as fast as he could and ended up right before the murder. Even as a child I was annoying and explained to someone why that wouldn't work.

He was reversing an Earthquake., from memory... looks. Think Lex wanted to nuke the fault in California and she was a victim of quake.

it was probably the last Superman movie I saw.

 

[Zed Clampet]

He was reversing an Earthquake., from memory... looks. Think Lex wanted to nuke the fault in California and she was a victim of quake.

it was probably the last Superman movie I saw.

It's definitely the last Superman movie I saw, and I saw it in the theater, so it's been awhile. It makes me laugh now.

 

[BeardyHat]

I used to like philosophy when I was younger because I mistakenly believed there were answers. There are no answers. Every philosophical school can, and is, argued against with the same level of authority that its adherents use to argue in its favor. Even ethics, which one would might casually assume to be immutable, has many different schools of thought ranging from idealism to pragmatism, neo-pragmatism, meta-ethical relativism, romanticism, and on and on.

I find this funny. Not because it's untrue, but because it is.

Honestly, that's the fun part. Picking it all apart and trying to get to the core of something. Guess I'm just a fan of taking things apart, whether that's cars, computers or ideologies.

Think I mentioned (my memory is awful and I'm lazy) I setup a new PC for my oldest and I've been watching him play on it. He thinks I'm actually watching his game, but I'm actually neurotic and watching the performance metrics and trying to think about how I can squeeze a little more out of it, especially for stuff like Teardown which can drop to the mid-high 20's for FPS when lot's of stuff is happening.

I'm kind of thinking I might drop a little money on it. Upgrade to an i7-3770 (k or non-k?) from the 2500k and to a GTX 1080 8gb from RX 570 4Gb. I think both together would give it a massive performance boost and be less than $200, possibly less than $150 if I don't bother the unlocked processor.

 

[BeardyHat]

Alright, maybe scrub that.

I ordered some new DDR3 RAM for $20. I have 16Gb in there already, but it's mismatched, so I can't OC and can't enable XMP. So I'll see if I can wring out the extra CPU performance via OC and go from there.

Still may pick-up a 1080 though.

 

[Colif]

if you lived closer I would give you my old 2015 PC. I was giving to a friend but things happened that make me think he won't want it. Its specs were:

1. 16gb ddr3 (2x8)
2. Asus Z97 Motherboard
3. I5 4690K with intel cooler
4. No GPU as I killed it (GTX 980 still works, runs hot. still in case)
5. 256gb ssd + hdd (can't remember its size)
6. Seasonic PSU
7. Silverstone FT02 Case (main reason I still have PC)

But well, you not even in the same hemisphere.

Think I just take it all apart and dispose of the parts but keep storage/ram. I don't really need the data on them and no one else gets whatever it is anyway. I never turned it on again once I got my last PC.
Mum wants the space anyway...
might keep case in garage.

Not this weekend, but one day. Busy enough this weekend.

Need to find a better spot for all my spare parts. But then all my drawers would be empty

See if a friend knows how I can sell the parts I don't need.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Honestly, that's the fun part. Picking it all apart and trying to get to the core of something. Guess I'm just a fan of taking things apart, whether that's cars, computers or ideologies.

What my version of philosophy is missing is an appreciation of logical ideas that can't be proven but may still be useful. This is because I'm a "can't see the trees for the forest" type of person. To me it's kind of like this: let's say that every year you get a single Christmas present. The first time that you open it and find that it's an empty box, you are very disappointed. For years you look forward to receiving your Christmas present and hope that this time there will be something in the box. For me, this culminated in my eventually losing all interest in getting the present at all. I experienced existential anxiety from a very young age, and I looked to philosophy as a potential cure for my nausea (thanks, Sartre). Unfortunately that doesn't exist.

None of this means that I'm completely uninterested in philosophy or that I wouldn't happily debate it with someone for hours. It just means that I'm old and tired and cynical.

 

[BeardyHat]

Hey, I've been cynical for a great many years, also since I was a kid.

My own Philosophy can be summed up as, "No meaning but what you make." Ultimately, I will die and be forgotten about in two generations or so and that's that. Actually been thinking about death a lot lately; being in my 40's now, I'm seeing more of it in my peers and relations, so there's now the real realization that yeah, that's gonna happen to me at some point and it scares the hell out of me.

So, in making my own meaning:

Here's my engine yesterday:

And today:

Good progress and makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something. I do think I'll have to remove my power steering pump again so I can fit the coolant return tube in the water pump, but that's only 3 bolts, so shouldn't take much effort.

I'll probably do that tomorrow and then start working on hooking up my wiring harness and battery cables. Fuel lines next and then maybe put the radiator and fan back in, add some oil and see if it starts.

Still lots to do after that, need to put the transmission, transfer case, rebuild the driveshafts and put them back in and then...I think I'm done? 6 years of my life.

 

[BeardyHat]

if you lived closer I would give you my old 2015 PC. I was giving to a friend but things happened that make me think he won't want it. Its specs were:

1. 16gb ddr3 (2x8)
2. Asus Z97 Motherboard
3. I5 4690K with intel cooler
4. No GPU as I killed it (GTX 980 still works, runs hot. still in case)
5. 256gb ssd + hdd (can't remember its size)
6. Seasonic PSU
7. Silverstone FT02 Case (main reason I still have PC)

But well, you not even in the same hemisphere.

Think I just take it all apart and dispose of the parts but keep storage/ram. I don't really need the data on them and no one else gets whatever it is anyway. I never turned it on again once I got my last PC.
Mum wants the space anyway...
might keep case in garage.

Not this weekend, but one day. Busy enough this weekend.

Need to find a better spot for all my spare parts. But then all my drawers would be empty

See if a friend knows how I can sell the parts I don't need.

Oh yeah, that 4690 would be a solid upgrade.

You could always keep it and turn it into a server of sorts. I actually happened across "Immich" the other day, a self-hosted replacement for Google Photos. I think I might actually throw my 4tb drive back into my main PC and use that as a cloud photos storage drive so my wife and I can get off Google owning that portion of our data.

You could build something like that or a PiHole to block ads in your house. I love mine.

 

[Zed Clampet]

...gonna happen to me at some point and it scares the hell out of me.

Despite the fact that everyone I know thinks I'm crazy when I tell them, I am paid up at Alcor. It's a longshot but the odds aren't 0.