Thanks. I have some experience with BeeLink, and they seem solid.

Thanks; this is the advice I was looking for.

Exactly. If you’re running kubernetes, you probably want etcd to have its own disk. And if you don’t have a NAS, then you’re looking at extra disk to hold your data. The data disk should probably be separate from the OS disk.

I AM a friend in IT. In my experience, retired workstations are not energy efficient. Otherwise I agree.

I know Pi used to be the trendy answer, but I’ve been hearing about how their value/money isn’t what it used to be. What’s the latest advice?

tl;dr:

The three red flags are, for any given journal in a single year: a doubling of publication output; having more than 70% of published articles originating from a single country; and having at least 15% of articles flagged by the Problematic Paper Screener, a free online tool.

That sci-fi story has been done a few times. My favorite was The Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

• Researchers used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source to study the AspH enzyme – a potential therapeutic target for cancer treatment – and the isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS) enzyme, which is essential for creating all of the medicinally important penicillin antibiotics.
• By leveraging the power of ultrabright, ultrashort X-ray bursts, they found that these enzymes catalyze reactions in surprising ways.
• If scientists can better understand the structure and function of these enzymes, they could potentially use them as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for cancer, or for a method to develop new antibiotics.

Femtosecond X-ray pulses. Very cool.

Thanks for the link. The case study is interesting.

I disagree for two reasons. First, there’s lots of ammo that’s non jacketed lead. Start with .22LR, which is probably the most common ammo.

Second, I didn’t think the jacketing helps that much in either hunting or indoor range contexts. In hunting, the bullet mushrooms or fragments or disintegrates, dispersing it’s kinetic energy through lots of tissue; that’s how it kills. Disintegration means there are lots of tiny lead bits scattered in the meat. And at the range, if the bullet hits a hard backstop, it again disintegrates into even finer pieces, making lead dust.

Is anybody aware of studies quantifying direct (shooter) and indirect (household member) lead exposure? The gold standard (so to speak) is bloodstream lead levels, but I think that’s hard to measure as it relates to specific events like going to the gun range.