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Read the book first, in 2010 a UK man built one from scratch as best he could

http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568989970/


My personal fastest 24 hour split was about 600km, while riding the first half of the Paris-Brest-Paris brevet in 2019. I had my first sleep after that in Brest and took much longer breaks for the return journey for a total ride of 1240km in 78:02:21 (with ~26 hours spent stopped).

I'd done many 600km brevets before that comfortably in 35-37 hours with a ~4hr sleep in the middle, but at PBP there were thousands of other strong riders and it was fun to work together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randonneuring is a lot more "normal" of a way to ride your bike all day than the Ultracycling approach in the article. Instead of grinding out laps of a racecourse solo, ride from town to town on pleasant backroads socially.


My dad has done it twice and I believe the first time (56:13:00) he didn't sleep at all. The second time, 12 years later was 70:21:00.

Congrats on the ride! I still don't quite understand what it takes to be able to push through beyond what most people would consider immense fatigue.

Did you find it harder physically or mentally?


If he were an American, that time would put your father in La Société Charly Miller: https://rusa.org/pages/CharlyMiller

I had fun the whole time!

Mentally I don't really suffer anything, though I did cry like a baby while riding through misty valleys at dawn the third day. I had realized I'd crossed into Normandy, and got emotional from working out from first principles why I new that detail of french geography. In the first town I passed through in daylight the locals were hanging up large banners for their 75th Anniversary of Liberation by the US Army.

I had a few serious physical setbacks from my ankle, losing a cleat bolt, a wrong turn — but it was easy to run into old friends out on the course to regroup and make new friends along the way helping each other out of predicaments.

I lost a lot of my endurance abilities from Covid, so when I do it again I will definitely be shooting for a different goal: https://adrianhandssociety.com/


Hey Fred, that's insane. Wow. How was the aftermath of that ride?


Haha I just kept gallivanting around Paris afterwards, I spent 10 days in France and cumulatively slept maybe 30h total.

I hadn't done much riding that summer because of a broken ankle and actually re-fractured it mid-ride from vibration/stress while descending into Brest. The biggest trouble was that it was impossible to get any ice for it, but I found nice self-adhesive bandages to immobilize it the next day and was fine completing the ride.


Oh, that kind of complication certainly doesn't help. I hope that healed up properly, ankles are quite vulnerable. And sometimes what seems to have worked out well catches up with you later on.


It’s not really, ask all us audax riders. it’s surprising to think that 250km in a day was so life changing when I/we do 1200km in 3 days regularly and at a leisurely pace


It all depends on what you are used to, and on the weather. A 30 km stretch of 6-8 Beaufort will take the piss out of anybody, trust me on that one.


A programmer that doesn't make websites is like a glass artist that hasn't made bongs


You have mixed present work for the programmer with past work for the glass artist (blower?).


Randomized admissions were the implicit thesis of the satire we get the word from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy


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Don't forget that Rome also has a wildly nonuniform interconnect between the core complexes, and the system integrator gets much less control over it than Intel's UPI links. When you really need to end up with a very large single system image at the application layer, the bigger architecture works out to be much cheaper than 256gb DIMMs or HPC networking.

8-socket CLX nets you 1.75x the cores, and 3x as many memory channels vs. a 2-socket Rome system. It also scales to a single system image with 32 sockets if you use a fabric to connect smaller nodes:

* 4-socket nodes: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/superdome.html

* 2-socket nodes: https://atos.net/en/solutions/enterprise-servers/bullsequana...

That's 48tb of DRAM with all 128gb DIMMs, or 12tb+128tb when using 512gb Optane PDIMMs.



> And that if there are evidence or facts that overturns their current belief, they'll gladly accept it. There are no such equivalence in religion.

It is explicitly the role of a Prophet, Messiah, Bodhisattva, etc. to do such things — introduce new evidence that overturns or convolutes current beliefs

The day to day practice of all established religions involves reasoning through a historical lineage of commentaries on existing evidence and continually appending to it with new instances. Religion exists at the intersection of jurisprudence (what should be?) and the scientific method (what is true?). Both Law and Science are human philosophies that directly descended from religious primitives.


When done with video it looks like a real-world raytracing demo: https://www.stratusleds.com/aerial-leds


The /mysql/tmp/greetings.txt trick was cute

but do kids these days not know about https://linux.die.net/man/1/wall ?


Do adults these days not know that wall(1) doesn't work unless you have a proper login session and tty, which a reverse shell as OP used certainly does not do for you? :-)


These systems are stripped down to the bare minimum. There's no reason to believe that every "standard" program, and certainly not a setgid programs like wall or write, would be present.


All you need is write access to the pty fd (or in the case of a reverse shell, just the fd of the tcp socket). The SREs could talk to the hackers and the hackers could just echo stuff in their terminal which the SREs could read. Writing a file to disk is less l33t, but more straightforward :)

Edit: I think I was wrong; you can't manipulate network socket fds this way, you'd have to use ptrace() on the process. If it were a real shell with a pty I believe what I suggest could work, but reverse shells don't open ptys.


The "# cat greetings.txt" has a # suggesting they sorted out a real pty somehow. Or it was faked later :)


The usual trick to get a pty is `script /dev/null` by the way, if that command is available


I prefer https://linux.die.net/man/1/write to contact a specific user on a console (if they have `mesg y`). Learnt it and played a lot with it during high school days on an HP-9000 where terminals were actual dumb terminals. It was fun!


> wall (an abbreviation of write to all)

I didn't know what it stood for, at least :)


`man wall` - always a good introduction!


WALL(1)

NAME wall - write a message to all users


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