This isn't a bitch about ads. It's I honestly cannot easily find the actual information the site is supposedly hosting.
I prefer it, these ads mean something to the people that run the site, they put some effort into putting them there and presumably purchasing the products benefits the organisation in some way.
They also have a no AI disclaimer at the top.
I wouldn't go that far. They mean something as in somebody was willing to spend money, so this is what they get in return. Just look at the randomness of the types of ads. I doubt there was any "qualifying" of the ads other than did the check clear.
The first question is answered by: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/3-day-forecast (Strongest at Fri 2100-0000 UTC)
How do we call the equivalent of steam-pubk aesthetics but where tech has stopped on pixel art instead of steam?
No warnings on PJM grid dashboard.
Probably not going to be a problem.
> SWPC Forecasters have issued G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storm Watches for 04-06 October due to a pair of coronal mass ejections that are anticipated to arrive over the course of the next three UTC days. Stay tuned for updates as we monitor this activity!
I used a 2008 Mac Pro at work and a 2009 Mac Pro at home for several years. They had ECC memory. I would periodically check the RAM status and I never saw anything that said an error had been corrected.
For that test with the big buffer I don't remember how big a buffer I used, but I remember my calculations based on the error rate data I could find said that with the size buffer I was using I should have seen a few errors per year.
But I think all the error rate data I found was from servers with a lot of RAM and located in data centers. I wonder if that environment is more prone to RAM errors than the environment of the typical home computer?
Typical memory rates for a computer with only 8 to 32 GB of DRAM might be of at most a few errors per year when new. For some aged memory modules, after several years of use, the error rate can increase a lot and it can become noticeable. For myself this has been the main benefit of ECC, the ability to detect early the memory modules that must be replaced to avoid data corruption.
Besides the errors from cosmic radiation, which depend mainly on the altitude of the location, there are also errors caused by electrical noise from the environment. The latter may be more frequent in data centers and in industrial computers.
A study done [1] at Google based on 2.5 years of observations of their servers, first published in 2009, found error rates from 25000-70000 errors per billion device hours per Mb. That would put the time Google was doing the study in the right era for when I did my test.
Based on that I would expect to see about 1 error per 40 hours in a 128 MB buffer if the buffer was on a Google server. I suppose that supports the theory that the data center environment is a lot more error prone than my home environment was.
What about electronic equipment that sits outside the human-habitable zones? Could it be fried by a solar flare that would be relatively harmless on Earth?
Also protecting electronics would be much harder. Your ability to do anything except digging during these times will be limited.
More serious answer: No risk for people, not even astronauts based on the current projections for the associated solar radiation storm (beyond the normal increased exposure they get up there). We'll almost certainly all have some trouble with GPS this weekend, and the folks maintaining satellites will have their hands full. Other RF systems will be disrupted at times this weekend.
and then he did it anyway
I actually just saw an aurora for the first time in my life a few months ago in Oregon, where they're hardly ever visible. It was quite a sight. Maybe I'll get to see them again.
