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Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by bswinnerton »

sleepy_keita wrote: post #56

The author seems to have their own AS for "experimentation purposes" https://tbspace.de/as203478tbspacenetworks.html https://bgp.he.net/AS203478 https://www.peeringdb.com/net/10981 I've always been interested in doing something like this, although it's prohibitively expensive for me, even for IPv6-only.

It can be relatively inexpensive, depending on which RIR you’re using. There are providers like [Neptune Networks](https://neptunenetworks.org/) or [Vultr](https://www.vultr.com/) that you can peer with from a VPS so you don’t need to get “proper” IP transit in a datacenter.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by rzzzt »

tfehring wrote: post #41
TravisHusky wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites you barely notice the difference.

Sure, but with fixed hardware resources you risk the site going down with traffic spikes like this, with AWS you have access to calculatorless options that can easily scale to handle increased request volume.

Pen and paper!

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by nomel »

jhallenworld wrote: post #40

Well Casios are better than TI calculators. My current favorite calculator is Casio ES-115 PLUS2 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... I like it because when you enter sin(pi/12) you get (sqrt(3)-1)/(2*sqrt(2)) in mathematical notation, which is really nice for a $16 calculator. Here I'm going to hurt TI: If you need a TI-84 or TI-89 for school, the place to get them cheap is shopgoodwill.co…

I really enjoy the HP calculators. RPN is much closer to how my brain perceives the equations.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by dlsa »

drewzero1 wrote: post #72
Semiapies wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Loaded for me! (Meanwhile, I got a "Can't serve requests that fast" from HN when I first tried to reply.)

Looks like it's time to upgrade to a Casio server!

All startups soon learn the importance of running server grade casios in production.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by imbuhuo »

krallja wrote: post #82
emodendroket wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TI is pretty clearly just coasting on being the one mandated by a lot of schools; there's no way you can justify them still costing like $100 and having the same capabilities as when I was in high school.

The new ones have rechargeable batteries, color screens, USB, and Python. So, only a decade out of date.

TI still use really outdated hardware (some ARM9 thing) on their high-end nSpire models.

With the same price even HP Prime G2 has way better hardware (NXP iMX6ULL, Cortex-A7, 256MB DDR3, USB EHCI OTG) and wide software spectrum (no Secure Boot enforced.) I've put full scale Linux and Windows ARM (arm32 IoT) on that platform.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by midasuni »

Firerouge wrote: post #9
valvar wrote: post #3

Hm, maybe posting this to HN wasn't the best idea...?

Maybe we'll get a follow-up on hosting a distributed cluster of casios to handle global load balancing

Back in my day it was a Beowulf cluster running on hot grits serving Natalie Portman pictures

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by tiernano »

sleepy_keita wrote: post #56

The author seems to have their own AS for "experimentation purposes" https://tbspace.de/as203478tbspacenetworks.html https://bgp.he.net/AS203478 https://www.peeringdb.com/net/10981 I've always been interested in doing something like this, although it's prohibitively expensive for me, even for IPv6-only.

i got my V6 and V4 space, along with my ASN though Hostus.us (https://my.hostus.us/cart.php?gid=55). I use Vultr and a few other providers. For V6 only, you can get the ASN and V6 space for around $50 per year, and the vultr server is around $5 per month... my own ASN is under https://as204994.net with links to some providers and details...

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by markzzerella »

mahathu wrote: post #76

Why did I click on this expecting a calculator out of all the possible servers would withstand HN's hug of death? Smart of the commenters here archiving it before it inevitably went down

Because static pages on a calculator likely to be more reliable and faster than whatever hipster stack is popular running on some VC funded pile of compute power across all of Amazon's datacenters.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by imoverclocked »

narrator wrote: post #79

I have a soft spot in my heart for underpowered computers, but practically, I know this is kind of an unnatural fetish, and not really a healthy love. The little computer costs way more and consumes way more per watt than modern systems, and any minimal use case is better done via virtualization in a container on a more capable computer. Yet, the fetishism of all manner of obsolete, underpowered and wildly obsolete c…

I mean, for its normal load it probably consumes far less overall power to service this content than anything else you would replace it with.

From the tech specs: Batteries: 4x AAA Battery life: 230h

From a Google search+answer: Energizer's AAA battery has a capacity of 1250 milliamp hours, or 1.87 watt-hours

So 4 of those can power the device for 230 hours ... that's about 32mW. For reference, a RaspberryPi 2b idles at > 1W.

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