bgm1975

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by bgm1975 4y ago
And who needs version control anyway.
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by bgm1975 4y ago
I’ve been using Multipass for a couple years now as my “WSL for Mac”. It’s great to be able to spin up a Linux guest on demand. I also use it for Docker shenanigans so I don’t need Docker Desktop or deal with its licensing issues.
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by bgm1975 4y ago
Yeah, was going to post Nethack if no one else had. It’s so well written, I think even people who’ve never seen C before could understand what was going on.
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by bgm1975 4y ago
Doesn’t AWS use firecracker with its Fargate container service (and lambda too)?
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NS1 announces support for SVCB and HTTPS [DNS] records(ns1.com)
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by bgm1975 4y ago
You know, like when it rains on your wedding day.
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by bgm1975 4y ago
Yp is NIS. It was renamed by Sun due to the trademark on Yellow Pages. Maybe you’re thinking of NIS+ (which was an abomination). TBH, they are both horrible for their own reasons.
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by bgm1975 4y ago
Free money (or the perception of it anyway).
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by bgm1975 4y ago
Was it The Mechanical Universe ( https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5G0dk... ) from Caltech? I loved that series back in the day.
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by bgm1975 4y ago
Get this man some adderall! It (or other ADHD meds, like Vyvanse) is a life changer for those of us afflicted with such things.
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by bgm1975 5y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification, clearly my memory of the events is fuzzy.
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by bgm1975 5y ago
It almost happened. If I’m not mistaken, Sun was on Apple’s list of possible acquisitions in the late 90s before they decided on Next (Be being the other). Considering Jobs came with Next, Apple would have turned into a very different com
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by bgm1975 5y ago
I’d be curious to know if cockroachdb was evaluated as a potential candidate. The various literature bits I’ve read seem to indicate its whole reason for existence is to solve these kinds of problems at scale while still providing some sem
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by bgm1975 5y ago
It’s sad to think about but I feel like one of my greatest accomplishments in life is outliving my parents. I couldn’t fathom the grief they’d have gone through had they had to witness or otherwise deal with my death.
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by bgm1975 5y ago
Tarkovsky was truly one of cinema’s great directors. His films aren’t simple or easy, but they are gorgeous to behold and if you put in the time, you’ll be richly rewarded. As others have mentioned, Stalker and Solaris are his two great s
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by bgm1975 5y ago
Everything about the remastered recording sounds “better.” The samples are cleaned up significantly…probably 16 bit or better. It was probably re-programmed for a newer tracker or maybe some other newish audio software though the arrangem
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by bgm1975 5y ago
I find, in my fourties’ how nostalgic I am for those moments of discoveries I made in my late teens. I found mods very early in both my college life and internet exposure (~’94). Space Debris was one that stuck with me the hardest (along
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Space Debris is an Amiga mod I composed back in 1991(markuskaarlonen.com)
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by bgm1975 5y ago
There’s Splunk OnCall (formerly known as VictorOps). It’s a very decent solution.