krylon

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by krylon 5y ago
Mostly on Amazon. When possible on bandcamp.
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by krylon 5y ago
It has been like that for a long time. The non-skippable intro screen warning viewers of the evils of unlicensed copying was only ever seen by people not watching an unlicensed copy. FWIW, I think movies need to take the same route music
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by krylon 5y ago
I have always wanted to hear Ayn Rand call for workers to throw off the shackles of bourgeois capitalism. And now I can. Thank you, Internet!
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by krylon 5y ago
Now it's a merry Christmas! Well, I'm holding my breath until it is actually in space, but still, great news!
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by krylon 5y ago
Besides a few other that have been mentioned, I like You're Wrong About ( https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1112270.rss ). It covers ... let's say pop culture history, and how we often are ... completely wrong about ho
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by krylon 5y ago
I didn't know there was an Android port. Thanks for the link! On Android, so far, I prefer Calculator++ - it supports complex numbers (not that I need those, but sqrt(-1) returns i) and has fairly capable graphing.
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by krylon 5y ago
I LOVE SpeedCrunch. I do not need a calculator very often, but when I do, this is my calculator of choice. It doesn't support graphing, but it understands units, which is both useful and cool. I like the UI, too, for being simple but
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by krylon 5y ago
FWIW, I have downloaded a couple of games from GOG over the years, both free ones and paid ones, and they send me emails only very rarely. It might be different this time, but their track record so far is pretty good. (Also, I think you c
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by krylon 5y ago
I've done something similar once, trying to remove backup files left by emacs: rm -f * ~ instead of rm -f *~ Is it weird to feel nostalgic about this kind of thing?
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by krylon 5y ago
We were lucky restoring from backup worked, it had never been tested before. We were really lucky the CEO and the other coworkers took it so well. And we were extremely lucky that the CEO was more interested in preventing such an outage in
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by krylon 5y ago
Ironically, while I love Unix, I have spent most of my career shepherding Windows boxes. The only real horror story I got was a new coworker (turning me from "the IT guy" into "half the IT department") who looked through
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by krylon 5y ago
From what little insight I could gain, I agree about the hardware problem. The customer I was talking about was nervously trying to find a reliable supplier of motherboards with ISA slots and parallel ports. I really love the nostalgia this
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by krylon 5y ago
I think I recall reading something about the two projects cooperating in some form, although I am very fuzzy on the details. But it would create ... synergy! ;-) There is an obvious overlap in what both projects try to achieve, and it&#x2
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by krylon 5y ago
In a former job, I was a sysadmin at a company that does process engineering for industrial plants, and sometimes the automation/SCADA people would turn to me for help. It was very exciting to me, because a) I got to leave the back off
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by krylon 5y ago
I am not a lawyer, but the (2-clause) BSD and MIT licenses look nearly identical to me. The wording is slightly different, but I think they express the same intent.
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by krylon 5y ago
I'm with you. Go has its problems, and I am aware of them, but it is just so compatible with the way my brain works, it is amazing. I remember listening to a podcast about C++, and the guest explained how after working with C++ for a
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by krylon 5y ago
When I was shopping for groceries today, I saw something strange. The buses have displays to show what Line they are, today all of the buses I saw had blank displays. On my way home, I could see the display on the bus driver's seat, wh
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by krylon 5y ago
I do not, but there is an open source clone called Pingus that stays close to the spirit of the original: https://pingus.seul.org/
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by krylon 5y ago
> 53 comments Maybe, just maybe, it is an omen? ;-)
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by krylon 5y ago
That person might have been sarcastic, I've been known to miss that, especially in written conversations. I also might misrember.
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by krylon 5y ago
I know next to nothing about hardware / instruction set support from the CPU side, but there are several hypervisors who are open source and thus available for study: Qemu itself, Xen, Linux KVM, FreeBSD's bhyve, OpenBSD's vm
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by krylon 5y ago
My "drift" was that I think nuclear weapons are bad idea to begin with, and that Gigaton weapons would be a really REALLY bad idea, not just from ethics perspective, but also useless from a military perspective. I should have
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by krylon 5y ago
This entire year, I have been coming across instances of animals displaying signs of much richer inner lives than I had given them credit for. It is tempting to anthropomorphize, but it is just as tempting do dismiss displays of intelligenc
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by krylon 5y ago
Technically, yes. Practically, the Tsar Bomba was already beyond what was useful in military terms. Above a certain yield, most of the energy is radiated off into space, IIRC. Not that I'm eager to find out, if you're catching my
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by krylon 5y ago
I love it! Thank you very much!!!
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by krylon 5y ago
I try to stay away from C++ (successfully for the most part), but I do recommend Stroustrup's "Design and Evolution of C++". It is a bit dated by now, but it is the best book on the design and evolution of any programming l
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by krylon 5y ago
The songs would not have to do anything useful, the important point is that they are syntactically valid. Compare "Black Perl": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl (It was posted anonymously, but I remem
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by krylon 5y ago
I was excited initially, but Hair Metal is an obvious no-go for me. Although it could be fun to do "reverse Perl poetry", and find Hard Rock / Hair Metal songs whose lyrics are valid Rockstar code. That way, we could finally
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by krylon 5y ago
This reminds me of that Sopranos episode where there is a US Marshall named McLuhan. A nurse notices and asks, "So that makes you 'Marshall McLuhan'?", but the Marshall doesn't get it. (Neither did I at the time, to
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by krylon 5y ago
Second that, the movie is brilliant. The cast is brilliant, too. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and I'm certain I'm forgetting a few more.

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