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by antod 4y ago
Not directly related to your comment, it just triggered a random reflection on micro management... Being micro managed as a manager is even worse than as an IC - there's a certain level of badgering you have to pass on so you can satis
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by antod 4y ago
I did run some VRRP or CARP stuff (forget the specific tool/protocol - but that's kinda like pacemaker right?) in an immature OpenStack cloud once that didn't have a good LBaaS yet. It was a semi supported hack documented by
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by antod 4y ago
I thought this was going to be about pinball.
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by antod 4y ago
To clarify, how you build it and how you host it are two different questions with different constraints. eg the trade offs of the new might be weighted differently than the old as they apply to building vs hosting. Your build breaking due t
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by antod 4y ago
> There’s no obvious reason for this, other than a belief that if something can be done with 50 year old technology, it should be. While past performance is no predictor of future performance, on the face of it I'm likely to bet
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by antod 4y ago
My spectrum was quickly forgotten as soon as I got my hands on an Amiga 500, so I'm not one of the people you're talking about. But I suspect by concentrating on graphics quality and games you're missing where the nostalgia c
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by antod 4y ago
Small price difference? When I bought a Spectrum as a kid, the C64 cost about 2/3rds again as much and way out of reach.
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by antod 4y ago
The second mouse gets the cheese
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by antod 4y ago
> Let's not pretend these are comparable challenges. Not only that, but global warming was an already known problem at the time CFCs and ozone were being solved.
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by antod 4y ago
I rate your article (ie up to a dozen headings with a paragraph of text each) higher than having to wade through a book of padding to get not much more actual information. Thanks.
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by antod 5y ago
I think it was pretty popular (totally guessing), probably 2nd place behind the C64 in terms of those home/game oriented 8bit machines. There were about the same amount of spectrum vs C64 games in the shops. The weird thing was that no
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by antod 5y ago
The prices weren't close in NZ, 11yr me paid NZ$525 for my spectrum, and C64s were well over NZ$800 about the same time - that was an unimaginable extra year or more of delivering newspapers on top of the two I'd already spent. I
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by antod 5y ago
My only lisp experience was trying to teach myself AutoLISP in notepad in the mid 90s - I remember the parentheses trauma well. This was before I knew any CS or what a functional language was. I did come away impressed though with how it co
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by antod 5y ago
I never had Firefox crashes until Ubuntu 21.10 which I think made Firefox a snap, now I get crashes when it tries to load fonts. And I get that colour scheme thing now too.
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by antod 5y ago
I'm close to finishing a 50sqm pole barn solo build in my sparetime around my tech job that has taken about 4 months from ground works starting. The carpentry was easily the best part, and the part that I really enjoyed. The concreting
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by antod 5y ago
Also reminds me of this Kerberos one: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dialogue.html (Edit: someone else already posted that further down - doh)
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by antod 5y ago
Thanks for that nostalgia hit. I think I had about 7 or 8 of those, plus a couple that weren't on that page. Time to look up some 8 bit emulators....
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by antod 5y ago
> The blocky 128x48 monochrome resolution of the TRS-80 was of course quite limiting but also part of its charm. Yeah from memory, the pixel graphics were _really_ lores, but the text characters relatively hires. Something like only 6
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by antod 5y ago
It's not the cost or complexity that really bothers me (that was just a side rant hehe), more the vendor "productisation" of all the tools. After all, in many ways open source stuff is often lower level with the extra complex
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by antod 5y ago
My fathers small business had one in the early 80s when I was about 10-11 and he would bring it home supposedly to do some work, but mainly just to expose us to computers I suppose. This was in NZ with an American TRS-80 model 3, so it also
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by antod 5y ago
You touch on a point that has been bothering me for a while. In the 90s I remember what it was like to be in an industry beholden to MS and other proprietary software. I worked for an MS partner and did the cert thing etc but it felt uncomf
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by antod 5y ago
Because you'd have to leave the 2nd one nearly empty to fit the extra passengers in? Might be a good idea if nobody wants to go on the 2nd ship though.
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by antod 5y ago
Doesn't methane eventually break down into carbon dioxide? If it does then it's much worse than just being co2 in the first place.
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by antod 5y ago
Will it always be a Grafana Cloud only offering?
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by antod 5y ago
Well, they were boring tickets in the CADT sense. Seriously though, probably the difference being a boring project and being a bored project.
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by antod 5y ago
> When's the last time you saw a broken-down car by the side of the road, and is this happening more or less often than 20 years ago? The same? Cars 20yrs ago were already very reliable compared to say 30-40yrs ago. And breakdowns
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by antod 5y ago
This one snuck up on me. After being long aware of this project and how massively ambitious/difficult/cool it was and how much trouble it was having due to that ambition, subconsciously I must've parked it away as "not g
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by antod 5y ago
You wouldn't also be a Disaster Area fan? https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Disaster_Area
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by antod 5y ago
You get a feel for that with the shaking frequency and/or gap between different sets of waves (P & S waves). No discernable gap and higher jerkier frequency usually means closer, a longer rolling feeling with separated phases that
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by antod 5y ago
Yeah that makes sense, people talk about what magnitude x "feels" like, but they're really describing an earthquakes intensity rather than magnitude. You don't directly "feel" the magnitude. Any given magnitude

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