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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROSTBURG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROSTBURG Computers had such style then. It’s easy to see why we thought they would make
by Mistletoe 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROSTBURG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROSTBURG
Computers had such style then. It’s easy to see why we thought they would make the future so bright.
“My own adventure turned out to be quite different. I'm not like you, Bilbo."
- rbanffy 2y agoSeeing the faceless supercomputers of today, which are not built to be looked at, but to exist in dark datacenters, saddens me, but that's the nature of the new machines - no human can conceivably follow their machinations, and no display with blinking lights can be built to help humans with that.
- fragmede 2y agotry this one https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/ https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/
- rbanffy 2y agoNot the same. I currently have to satisfy myself with Grafana at my homelab and a mix of Grafana and more enterprisey tools at work. At the individual node level, everything happens so fast there is no way a human could perceive those events. I used to say in college that some of the things we saw (in EE) were so small and so short we needed instruments to know they actually happened (storage scopes, high-performance probes, etc). Even then, a lot of what we do was very abstract.