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SETI@home is in hiberation

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Re: SETI@home is in hiberation

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Post by GuB-42 »

ragebol wrote: post #81
organsnyder wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My homelab is in a closet that has the water meter for my above-garage apartment. Before I put a heater in the garage itself, I needed to make sure that that closet didn't freeze. I rigged up a temperature sensor to start mprime on a server if the temperature got too low, but higher than the electric heater that's also in that closet. I figured I might as well contribute to research if I'm just burning watts for heat…

Where can I buy a compute-for-heat home system? Edit: I have a heat pump, which is more efficient for heating of course

I remember some startups trying to install cryptominers in people homes, the idea was to use the electricity that would be spent heating the space anyways. The company would pay for the mining hardware while the customer would provide the electricity, and the profits would be shared.

I don't know how it worked out, but the idea was there.

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Post by Jtsummers »

nephihaha wrote: post #96
RajT88 wrote: post #70

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There's some genuinely weird shit unexplained, I'll give you that. Unlike Bigfoot, where you can look at a map of the historical range of bears and see it exactly matches where all the Bigfoot sightings are.

People claim to see Bigfoot creatures in the Mississippi Delta and Florida... Even Scotland. None of these are much noted for their bears.

> the Mississippi Delta and Florida... Even Scotland. None of these are much noted for their bears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_black_bear

The US South has bears.

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Post by scottLobster »

ckozlowski wrote: post #92
reconnecting wrote: post #5

I feel sorry for every child who didn't have SETI@home and X-Files at the same time during their childhood. The truth is still out there.

Oh, I feel this. As a pre-teen, I loved it. SETI@Home running on our family's Pentium 100, X-Files, and hanging out on the "Parascope" forum and chatroom on AOL for all things UFO related. An "I Want To Believe" poster on my wall. I've (thankfully) moved on past that, but I look back at that with nostalgia.

Same here, you either move past it or go crazy, if the UFO subreddits are any indication. Given the population was already obsessed with blurry clumps of pixels in short video clips, AI is going to send a lot of those people into trailers in the desert with a lifetime supply of aluminum foil.

And now that we have mass-produced hyper-maneuverable quad-copter drones, the whole "it moved backward in a way that no aircraft ever could!" doesn't really hit as hard.

Re: SETI@home is in hiberation

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

ragebol wrote: post #87
speedgoose wrote: post #83

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You might prefer a heat pump.

I do and have one actually. I have no idea if a kWh of compute could be worth more than eg. a kWh/(heat pump COP) though. Probably not...

My understanding is that for most residential heat pumps, the temperature needed to make the heat pump less efficient than resistive heating is so low that it enters a range that the pump doesn't even work anymore.

However, that's only a measure of efficiency. It could still be that the throughput isn't enough. A 30 kW resistive heater can ALWAYS output 30 kW of heat. But my 7 kW heat pump could produce anywhere from 14 to 30 kW depending on outside temperature.

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Post by scottLobster »

nephihaha wrote: post #95
x187463 wrote: post #50

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Of all the current US conspiracy theories, the UFO/UAP conspiracy is still the most interesting and fully developed/ongoing conspiracy space. Just check out the recent 'Age of Disclosure' documentary from this year. I'm not arguing a position on the theory, just saying it's very active and has the old-school qualities that were present in the 90's.

Pilots from the Eastern Bloc and NATO countries have had sightings. It's not just a US thing. People have been claiming to see them for longer than the USA has existed.

Not to be that guy, but if the majority of sightings coming from nations capable of producing advanced military aircraft... well perhaps the aliens thought the F-15 was badass and wanted a closer look?

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Post by skrrtww »

Does anyone have a mirror of the old Mac SETI client? setiathome_mac_3_08.hqx? I'd like to see if I can get it running again on my old iMac. Either the OS 9 or the early OS X one would work.

I checked the wayback machine and the download pages are still findable, but the client downloads are all FTP links and don't seem retrievable.

Re: SETI@home is in hiberation

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Post by scottLobster »

b3lvedere wrote: post #43
sgt wrote: post #26

Used to have this running on all of our computers in the office back in 1999, or 2000. Such a satisfying screensaver! Then I went even further and put it on the servers too.

If i remember correctly, back then even some sysadmins were even fired over it because of the usage of resources. It also sprouted some weird projects on how to distribute all those unused cpu cycles for other things.

Yeah I remember a few projects attempting "grid computing", where the idea was distributing application threads across CPUs over freaking ethernet.

Have to say that would be a fun puzzle to try and optimize for, but network latency would always be a hard physical constraint no matter how fast. Maybe some niche use cases, but then multi-core CPUs and GPU processing really took off and I guess it just got even less useful.

Re: SETI@home is in hiberation

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Post by RajT88 »

nephihaha wrote: post #96
RajT88 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's some genuinely weird shit unexplained, I'll give you that. Unlike Bigfoot, where you can look at a map of the historical range of bears and see it exactly matches where all the Bigfoot sightings are.

People claim to see Bigfoot creatures in the Mississippi Delta and Florida... Even Scotland. None of these are much noted for their bears.

There are some outliers (like Hawaii, or the 2 sightings in my local forest preserve) which cannot be bears, but what you will find is there is way more bear populations wandering around than you realize.

The trend is pretty clear.

Re: SETI@home is in hiberation

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Post by rovr138 »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #49
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #46

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I wasn't aware asking a question was FUD. That's also a list of achievements with no links without any information regarding how much if any volunteer contributed computing has contributed to them. > please have a look around before spreading FUD Please don't turn HN into reddit.

> That's also a list of achievements with no links without any information regarding how much if any volunteer contributed computing has contributed to them.

That's papers that are citing them. The reason for no links is explained on the page,

> The distribution rules for published papers vary by the publication in which the paper appears. Due to these rules, a public web-source of each paper may not be immediately available. If full version is not linked below or available elsewhere on the Internet (Google Scholar can be helpful for this), most, if not all of these publications are freely available at a local municipal or collegial library. These articles are written for scientists, so the contents are fairly technical.

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