UK : East : E-bike+SSD portable disk vs UK rural broadband, data transfer rate test.. One of our rural sites uses a patients database which is about 17 GB in total. The broadband at this site (a combination of two ropey British Telecom ADSL circuits + a satellite link) is way too slow and unreliable to transmit amount of data (the satellite is on a data quota as well during daytime, and in the night everywhere from Wales to Istanbul is trying to access the satlink).
So I have to manually collect the weekly backups from this site (14km from where I live) one I have triggered them remotely rather than upload them to secure cloud storage.
I had to ride there anyway to deal with a misbehaving computer in the basement nurses office (which hadn't got its remote access activated) as well as a server update, so also created two more datasets of backups stored on a USB SSD.
So there was 50 GB in total on the disk when I rode back home. I use a cheap Windows phone as a GPS unit with ride tracking software -this shows it took me 35 minutes 33 seconds to travel the 14km on my e-bike (I rode slightly slower due to the weather)
50 GB is 51 200 Megabytes.
8 bits in a byte, so this is 409 600 Megabits (to simplify things I've left out any padding bits used on a serial data circuit and/or network overhead from packet headers etc; but this does also mean I am only counting the actual useful data in the backup).
35 min 33 seconds is 2100+33 = 2133 seconds.
So the data transfer rate is 409 600 / 2133 = 192,03 MB/s :cool: (even with VDSL the upstream on most circuits is only 10MB/s)
Flakka Not sure if this should be in this cat or the one with XTC but I just recently saw a documentary on this "synthetic new party hallucinogen" and was curious if anyone has ever tried it on here. What did it make you feel like or what did it make you do? It looks a bit scary to me judging by some of the vids I've seen of people who were high on it. Thanks12
DE/INT : 30 000 jobs axed at VW (23 000 in DE) This TBH makes me even more concerned for Germany's safety and stability.
Not that I think VW should have gone unpunished for this scandal (their cars were never as good as made out to be anyway) but that the job cuts are almost certain to fall upon frontline workers, some of which could blame eco regulations as a whole and it could make them irrationally nostalgic for previous decades, when VW and the rest of DE's motor industry was propped up by a "strong government" (although their tanks were never as good as made out to be either, thats why they lost).
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/18/volkswagen-axe-30000-jobs-worldwide-diesel-emissions-scandal
DEA cuts opioid production by 1/4th The DEA just cut opioid production by 25 percent for next year - The Verge
I know they're trying to fix the problem but this will possibly just push people off of pills and into heroin as commonly happens.123
AT/CH/CA : test of bearproof trashcontainer from Canada Bärin "Martina" at Annsbruck Zoo, Tyrol tries to pop the container (of a design now widely used in Canada) but she couldn't spring the locks (the females are often smarter than the males when it comes to getting at food)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70lOXtvQ_Lw
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IN : Snakecharmer on Indian Railways This is apparently perfectly normal on some rush hour trains over there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZTeesJ9cEA
Psychedelic science Interesting talk that doesn't seem to start until about 7:40 for some reason but as I skipped most of that, maybe something is actually said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g01i0wAQcs4
UK : The British people in 600AD Note the large size of Northumbria, which extends well beyond the present borders of England some distance into Scotland.
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MDMA risk levels may be gender specific In the 90s/00s I remember a lot more young women reducing their use / moving away from the rave scene quicker than young men, and pointing out that heavy use caused them "womens problems", although pills were not as strong then and cost more so gross overdoses were very uncommon.
The article also points out risks to all current users of accidentally taking much more MDMA than they wanted to..
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/04/mdma-ecstasy-poses-greater-danger-to-women-than-men-warn-scientists123
Preparing San Pedro Cactus In case you're ever out and about and you run into a cactus, take some plasters. If you manage to not run into it and instead cut it down and take it home, watch this video to learn how to prepare it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OH8t-KYzZE12
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Drugs monitor issues warning for dangerous Superman ‘ecstasy’ pills The Dutch Trimbos drug addiction clinic has issued a warning about a dangerous type of ecstasy pill currently in circulation in the Netherlands. The warning comes just weeks after several tourists died in Amsterdam after taking heroin they believed to be cocaine.
The Trimbos institute says the dangerous pills are pink and feature the Superman logo. They contain a very high dose of a chemical known as PMMA, rather than MDMA which is the main component of ecstasy.
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PMMA is slow to have an effect, and this has led to users taking more pills because they think the first ones don’t work, the Trimbos institute said. The side effects of too much PMMA include a racing heart and very high body temperature. An overdose can be fatal. Dutch media reported on at least two PMMA related deaths in the Netherlands in 2013.12
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