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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Light is actually photon based, not wave based.

I will have to partly disagree with you here. Light is an example of both. Light moves as a wave but when it is absorbed by something it becomes a photon. The wave kind of collapses into its photon counterpart.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

I know waves are hard to define, but I'd be careful using a definition that requires a medium.

Well some types of energy do require a medium though. This is why there is no sound in space, because there is no medium compatible for sound waves to travel through. I understand what your saying though. The early philosophers were quite off in their ideas on certain things for sure and aether theory is certainly one of them. They were reaching for something but it was just too early so they made up this artificial construct to help describe their world.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

The sun isn't actually our only source of heat.
You are right, it is not. I need to correct that. That was a mental lapse when I wrote that. It is at least 99% of our heat though.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

But wait, didn't we just determine that you'd not looked into this at all yet and hadn't done even cursory research on the subject? Something is off here.

You determined this yes. It never came from me. I am just modest in what I say about myself. I have read and studied, astronomy, calculus physics 1 and 2, modern physics, computational physics, and astrophysics. I'll be the first to admit I don't know a lot. the more I study the less I realize I know about anything.

I also never said I was not aware of research that has been put out. I have read about this for a long time and I also talk to friends that are professors and a couple others that work in physics fields. Is anyone truly qualified to give an opinion on any of this? I am not sure. One thing I have gleaned from my many discussions of this and other topics is that media that have strong opinions on things usually have financial reasons behind it because not enough data has been collected for a long enough period of time. I tend to believe that. It makes no sense to be as absolutely sure of anything as we are with as little as we know about anything in our galaxy. I am just saying its my opinion that it isn't entirely accurate and there are probably financial reason behind so many people pushing the same thing. Money is about the only thing that truly unites people unfortunately.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

crazy and counter-intuitive is true without doing even 30 seconds of research that it took to come up with solid research on it

Well this is the hard part. Astrophysicists don't even know what causes the Sun's magnetism for sure or how its internals work, or the effect dust clouds have, or how solar winds affect our atmosphere, or the effect of the Sun's rotation on everything around it. There are way too many variables to say for sure one way or the other.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

but not doing any research.

I never said I did not do any research. I did say I have read a lot about this over the years. I have seen both sides of opinions and many of each.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@jmoore It seems that people are definitely taking this into account in the studies.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/SORCE/sorce_04.php

After reading that article, I agree they are taking it into account more than I thought. However it does seem to me that they are also saying the sun's effect is more than minor.

I'm not saying humans have no effect, its just my feeling that it is less than most people think. I could certainly be wrong but I am looking for more information either way. I enjoy reading about it and writing about this topic too. Here are a couple articles I wrote about the Sun's radiation and How the Sun Works. It is basic stuff but was accepted as some alternate course material here for beginning classes. Later I added some conceptual problems with a touch of math in it for exercises.

So like I said I'm definitely no authority but I have read a lot. I will read these again when I get home.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:

I have not seen any research that takes this into account,

Are you sure that they don't? I get this with research a lot... people say we are missing some factor, but often don't realize that we over-accounted for that factor to have ruled it out as much as possible.

Unless you have a model that shows why this is a factor, there's nothing to account for.

I will have to look around. I don't have a model obviously. This is just my gut feeling that I have. venus and Mars both used to have atmospheres I believe and they were burned away by the Sun. Neither had life that we know of. While Venus is pretty close to the Sun, Mars isn't that close. While I have not read anything that seems to take this into account, I certainly do not have time to read 24 hours a day lol. So sure I could have missed it.

After reading the article you quoted, our average temperature has only slightly gone up over the last century.
From article: "Over the past century, Earth's average temperature has increased by approximately 0.6 degrees Celsius (1.1 degrees Fahrenheit)."
While that is a change, it is very little.

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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver I am sure we are affecting it a little but I don't think its near as much as some think. Not sure I stated my opinion clearly or not before.

You may want to look at the mountains of research that disagree with your opinion, including the linked article. It's a fairly well known and accepted fact at this point that human activities are causing the current climate crisis.

Oh I am aware that my opinion is in the minority. I'm ok with that. I do understand the research, I just don't think we can have that universal opinion without having more data of all things involved. For example, the Earth has gone through the same thing climate-wise several times before humans were here. It goes back and forth between extremely hot and extremely cold constantly through its history. With that context, I just think its presumptuous to say we are mostly the reason for climate change. I might give it 10-20% but the rest of the climate change is the Sun itself in my opinion. I have not seen any research that takes this into account, it is all "the Earth is heating up and the correlation is increase in human population". I just think there are more variables in the situation.

@coliver I am sure we are affecting it a little but I don't think its near as much as some think. Not sure I stated my opinion clearly or not before.

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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context

Scientists have compiled a continuous, high-fidelity record of variations in Earth's climate extending 66 million years into the past. The record reveals four distinctive climate states, which the researchers dubbed Hothouse, Warmhouse, Coolhouse, and Icehouse. These major climate states persisted for millions and sometimes tens of millions of years, and within each one the climate shows rhythmic variations corresponding to changes in Earth's orbit around the sun.

That is very interesting. I have long thought that humans aren't affecting the climate as much as we thought. I am sure we are a little. However, we really can't be sure how much until we have more data from the Sun. The Sun has solar cycles that it goes through. Some are shorter like every 9-10 years I think. There are longer ones though that are still being measured, such as hundreds or thousands of years long. These solar cycles have decreased periods of electromagnetism at their beginnings and increased levels at the end of the cycles. So what this means is that at the beginning more radiation (which is light in the various spectrums and ultimately heat) is getting to us from the Sun and warming the planet up and creating the hothouse effect. This eventually reverses and has the opposite effect where it corresponds to the icehouse effect because less radiation is getting through the magnetic field of the Sun.

You should read the article. They go into this just in the brief...

"Now that we have succeeded in capturing the natural climate variability, we can see that the projected anthropogenic warming will be much greater than that."

For the past 3 million years, Earth's climate has been in an Icehouse state characterized by alternating glacial and interglacial periods. Modern humans evolved during this time, but greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities are now driving the planet toward the Warmhouse and Hothouse climate states not seen since the Eocene epoch, which ended about 34 million years ago. During the early Eocene, there were no polar ice caps, and average global temperatures were 9 to 14 degrees Celsius higher than today.

Basically we aren't just affecting it a little. We're the primary reason behind this recent climate shift.

Oh ok, I see. I must have read it too fast then. Well I am certainly no authority but i disagree that humans are the main cause. Earth has gone through massive warming and cooling several time before humans were around. I think its more to do with solar cycles and how much radiation is getting through the Sun's magnetic field to us instead. Just my opinion though.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context

Scientists have compiled a continuous, high-fidelity record of variations in Earth's climate extending 66 million years into the past. The record reveals four distinctive climate states, which the researchers dubbed Hothouse, Warmhouse, Coolhouse, and Icehouse. These major climate states persisted for millions and sometimes tens of millions of years, and within each one the climate shows rhythmic variations corresponding to changes in Earth's orbit around the sun.

That is very interesting. I have long thought that humans aren't affecting the climate as much as we thought. I am sure we are a little. However, we really can't be sure how much until we have more data from the Sun. The Sun has solar cycles that it goes through. Some are shorter like every 9-10 years I think. There are longer ones though that are still being measured, such as hundreds or thousands of years long. These solar cycles have decreased periods of electromagnetism at their beginnings and increased levels at the end of the cycles. So what this means is that at the beginning more radiation (which is light in the various spectrums and ultimately heat) is getting to us from the Sun and warming the planet up and creating the hothouse effect. This eventually reverses and has the opposite effect where it corresponds to the icehouse effect because less radiation is getting through the magnetic field of the Sun.

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender The XPS are nice, but I doubt I would ever use the "tablet" function.

Then buy the laptop version.

XPS 15 is pretty sweet.

Just wondering if others purchase warranties or not? While many of us could fix normal issues, I always tell normal users to purchase it but I normally limit myself to basic just because I don't want to have to deal with finding parts if they are needed.

For work, I considered it, I bought 25 laptops and hot damn... it was a fortune to add warranties to them all - instead I just bought an extra two laptops to act as a replacement, still saved a bundle over warranty cost.

Good call. Makes total sense. Unfortunately, I have never been in that situation. I get to play with buying RAM and SSD's off Ebay to keep the 7 year olds running.

I believe it was you that mentioned you liked the XPS because of the "nose camera." Do you use a different camera instead (if you have web meetings)? Or just use your phone?

uh - what? no, I disliked the older XPS because of that camera placement... they have changed it.. put it back at the top where it belongs....

Dang, just noticed that the XPS doesn't have a numeric keypad. Bummer. Back to latitude I go. Although, thinking of checking out the MSI's on Amazon

I have been looking at a couple gigabyte models. I don't need the high power video card at all but its so much cheaper than a precision. I use precision's at work and like them but having hard time justifying the price.

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender The XPS are nice, but I doubt I would ever use the "tablet" function.

Then buy the laptop version.

XPS 15 is pretty sweet.

Just wondering if others purchase warranties or not? While many of us could fix normal issues, I always tell normal users to purchase it but I normally limit myself to basic just because I don't want to have to deal with finding parts if they are needed.

Yeah I have always used a physics analogy for this. There is the concept of entropy in the universe. It is mostly constant. If something gains then something else loses. It is the same for warranties lol.

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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo Still haven't decided. Dual boot on a Mac would be nice but I can get a higher spec'd machine for less from what I've seen. The MacBook Pro we have is nice and fast. I like the keyboard feel as well. Excellent battery life too.

It is crazy that so many manufacturers are making their laptops not able to be upgraded. Soldered RAM/CPU is pretty common. RAM is the first upgrades people do.

Yeah sometimes have to get the higher end laptops to get easy to upgrade features. They sure make you pay for it though. I need a new laptop for myself eventually too but debating between something like a Precision and something more gaming like from Gigabyte. Precision is like double the price. Just not sure it is worth it.

Don't be afraid to shop around. I paid $1600 for my laptop. Intel Core I5, 32GB Ram, NVIDIA 1050Ti (4GB Video Ram), 1TB NVME + 1TB SSD. It's an MSI GL73 from a vendor on Amazon. It's coming up on 3 years old and runs like the day I bought it. It runs pretty much anything I throw at it with no difficulty.

Yeah that's a good point. I was looking at a precision because I don't care about gaming on my laptop. However I was looking at models that had a nice graphics card for $1200 with 1tb nvme and 32 gb ram. I don't know if I should just go that route or not. Not sure why a non gaming laptop with similar specs would be so much more expensive.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning all.

Good morning

@hobbit666 Love that!

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo Still haven't decided. Dual boot on a Mac would be nice but I can get a higher spec'd machine for less from what I've seen. The MacBook Pro we have is nice and fast. I like the keyboard feel as well. Excellent battery life too.

It is crazy that so many manufacturers are making their laptops not able to be upgraded. Soldered RAM/CPU is pretty common. RAM is the first upgrades people do.

Yeah sometimes have to get the higher end laptops to get easy to upgrade features. They sure make you pay for it though. I need a new laptop for myself eventually too but debating between something like a Precision and something more gaming like from Gigabyte. Precision is like double the price. Just not sure it is worth it.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.

What OS will you use??
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.

I also have to support iOS and OSX stuff so having the Mac able to boot into OSX is quite useful.

Same spec hardware in non-mac will be identical I think. Probably cheaper too.

@nadnerB Its like Force of Will and Timewalk all in one

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!

Dang thats a heck of a shopping trip

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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Just sent him off by himself? Good one.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Also this.

Thanks, I know what you mean. His mom took him.

Any news?

Doctor said it was a torsion. He may have to have surgery, not sure yet.

Sorry to hear that mate, what's a torsion? I hope it's not serious.

Well I don't understand it entirely myself. Its a testicle torsion. That is where some tube in there gets twisted and it shouldn't be. I am told cause is mostly genetic, for whatever that means. I did not have it when I was a kid and had never heard of it either.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

looking for a simple windows desktop thing that can give me a visual indication of the status (contactable, not contactable) of 15 windows servers. Just something simple that can launch from the taskbar, do a ping, and colour an object red or green dependant upon the reply.
Anyone know of anything. Free is best.
servers are on zero tier.

Not positive but Windows Admin Center may be able to do this.

@JaredBusch I just did my first eye appointment in 30 years yesterday. I didn't know eye dilation was a thing. I walked outside and asked who put the second sun in the sky it was so bright.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Just sent him off by himself? Good one.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Also this.

Thanks, I know what you mean. His mom took him.

Any news?

Doctor said it was a torsion. He may have to have surgery, not sure yet.

Oh gosh,that's awful. Treatable, so that's good, but no fun at all. Poor kid!

Thanks. I know. Im worried about him.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Just sent him off by himself? Good one.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Also this.

Thanks, I know what you mean. His mom took him.

Any news?

Doctor said it was a torsion. He may have to have surgery, not sure yet.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Just sent him off by himself? Good one.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Also this.

Thanks, I know what you mean. His mom took him.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Thanks, still waiting.

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.