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by krylon 5y ago
Those are two people from a group of at least several hundred. I'm not sure that's strong evidence. I count it as one those weird coincidences that make life interesting. Of course, they might be a lot more insurance agents with m
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by krylon 5y ago
It's kind of funny, my surname actually does have a huge cluster around my hometown, but my paternal grandfather I inherited that name from was from another part of Germany and only moved here in the 1940s. One time someone from the US
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by krylon 5y ago
To be fair, with 50+ years of hindsight, caring about backwards compatibility has paid off for IBM in a big way.
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by krylon 5y ago
> bill back resource usage in a multi-tenant kubernetes cluster I feel a bit dumb for asking, but what about process accounting? I'm not sure if it can deal with RAM and I/O, but it's better than nothing. ( https:/&#x
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by krylon 5y ago
Fascinating machine in so many ways. The founder of the company was the grandfather of William Burroughs, author of (among others) Naked Lunch . Burroughs was a late entry to the mainframe market, but when they went there, they did not hav
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by krylon 5y ago
I know what you mean. And I feel for you, as well as countless others who got f___ed over by the virus without even catching it. Beyond those who died from it, Covid incurred a mental health debt our societies will pay off for years, probab
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by krylon 5y ago
A lot of people that go full-on cuckoo bananas conspiracy theorist start out with a realization like "big pharma is pushing opioids on the people, killing thousands, just to line their pockets", and then gradually slide towards th
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by krylon 5y ago
An important part of the problem, I think, is that there are plenty of examples of large corporations putting people at risk or harming them, either knowingly or out of negligence, and then lying like a rug about it or trying to cover it up
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by krylon 5y ago
I'm vaccinated, so I'm not that worried for myself. But the part of town where I live has a large population of elderly people and people with disabilities and illnesses that put them at a higher risk of getting seriously sick or
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by krylon 5y ago
As a German, I find this particular strange among my fellow Germans, because - jokes and prejudice aside - we really like to regulate things and err on the side of caution a lot of the time. And often enough said laws and regulations are
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by krylon 5y ago
> back in 2000, Microsoft Office was unreliable, bloated crap Sadly, it did not stop there. When I worked as Windows sysadmin / helpdesk monkey, I had to install Windows 2013 on several machines because it just stopped working for n
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by krylon 5y ago
This sounds disturbingly similar to my time at T-Systems as a trainee. Brilliant tech people getting managed to death by clueless MBAs. It was a great place to learn, though.
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by krylon 5y ago
It wouldn't necessarily have to be worse , just different. Might have been better, actually, or less deterministic. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to investigate the problem further. It was the one aspect of being a helpdesk m
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by krylon 5y ago
FWIW, the automation people suspected the problem was timing-related, so you're probably right. I was just sad that FreeDOS did not work, but installing MS-DOS from floppy disks was fair compensation. 3.5" Floppy disks! We had an
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by krylon 5y ago
Because they can. Or could anyway. I agree it's not fair. But money makes the world go 'round, as they say.
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by krylon 5y ago
I am a bit fuzzy on the details, but I think I recall Microsoft charging OEMs for selling devices without an OS installed. So some vendors have gotten into the habit of selling devices with FreeDOS preinstalled. One of my laptops came with
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by krylon 5y ago
In return, Humpback Whales have been reported to attack Orcas in retaliation: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/humpback-...
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by krylon 5y ago
The term refers to "amateurs" in the sense that they did not study at a university or get a degree. AFAIU, the term "citizen" is preferred because "amateur" these days carries a connotation of "doesn'
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by krylon 5y ago
I think it was actually 1960s dollars. The project was huge for its time, and had it failed, IBM would be but a footnote in the history of computing today.
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by krylon 5y ago
Writing a Lisp interpreter an Lisp is cheating. You get the reader and garbage collector for free. Don't get me wrong, it's fun. But if you want to learn about things, writing a Lisp interpreter in some (relatively speaking) low-l
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by krylon 5y ago
AFAIR, Red Hat once had a version of their system certified, too. But it's not as useful as one might think - the certification applies to a specific distro and release only, so it needs to be renewed with every new release.
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by krylon 5y ago
While I recommend Nietzsche's book, too (I think it's one of the most beautiful works written in German just from the perspective of language), I doubt his character has much in common with the original Zoroaster beyond the name.
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by krylon 5y ago
I don't disagree with you. But the "I have a dream" speech will live forever as one of the greatest political speeches, if not THE greatest political speech, both in rhetorics, impact, and content. I remember reading that s
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by krylon 5y ago
I know what you mean. The first time I saw the Milky Way other than in pictures, I was 19 years old, we were an a school trip to Greece, near Delphi. The view was amazing. My godmother gave me a low-end telescope for my birthday that year,
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by krylon 5y ago
This stirs up some memories of Perl, where flattening arrays/lists is the default, and you need explicit references to have nested arrays or hash tables. I remember it used to be a kind of foot-seeking gun for newbies, but I never ran
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by krylon 5y ago
Norton Commander sure left a legacy that remains alive to this day. I never used the original myself, but I've used (and continue to use) a number of file managers that copied it, both terminal and GUI versions.
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by krylon 5y ago
Heh, I remember one time our teacher was running late in trade school. When he finally arrived, he explained that on top of his teaching duties, he was also kind of the network admin, and had been chasing a network ... disturbance that turn
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by krylon 5y ago
Same here! On Windows, I used to make heavy use of FarManager, which is also inspired by Norton Commander and looks and feels about the same.
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by krylon 5y ago
As a German, I find "kraut" more amusing than offensive. I can only speak for myself, of course, but I think a majority of Germans would find the term more humorous than anything else. Full disclosure, though, I like Sauerkraut a
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by krylon 5y ago
Good point. But what is a dual-channel Integrated Development Environment? ... Maybe an early form of pair programming? EDIT: ;-)

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