markbnj

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by markbnj 6y ago
That's awesome :). I remember writing that defense. I was very young and certain of myself, apparently. Well the die rolls may not have been "as close to absolute randomness as is possible with a PC" but I still think they we
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by markbnj 6y ago
Yes, that's the game, and I am the author of the usenet post you linked. Thanks for digging it up! I haven't seen that in years.
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by markbnj 6y ago
Got a kick out of seeing this post. If I am not leaping to the wrong conclusions from your user name, then I know who you are and I'm the original author of that backgammon game :). I worked with your Dad to publish it back in 1990 or
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by markbnj 6y ago
I'm a Steam addict and don't do Stadia, but I have a chromecast ultra and I'm on love with that thing.
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by markbnj 6y ago
I stopped reading, frankly, at... > I’ve now worked with “The Cloud” for long enough to see that there’s still a long way to go before it becomes materially better than, say, the oldschool method of renting a couple of servers Lol, it ta
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by markbnj 6y ago
Is it slower than the AWS console? We use both and my subjective sense is that it isn't, but I regularly visit just a couple of specific sections in the AWS console whereas we use the Google console for a lot of things daily. I'm
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by markbnj 6y ago
Absolutely true!
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by markbnj 6y ago
It caught my eye too, but if this perception is true they do a pretty good job of faking it. I don't know if our clusters are "at scale" - the largest of them has about 120 nodes - but we have had very few issues in over thre
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by markbnj 6y ago
>> For folks who go in on managed services because self-hosted has the danger of an outage Seems like an overly simplistic and narrow view of the tradeoffs. The mainstream cloud services providers operate at very high levels of availa
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by markbnj 6y ago
Gron is awesome, I use it frequently to quickly find jsonpath queries to kubernetes manifest properties.
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by markbnj 6y ago
Yeah seriously, don't look at the numbers for a few years. I'm not knowledgeable at all about investing, which is why my savings are in Vanguard index funds to begin with. I have two that are up nearly 70% over the last 10 years o
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by markbnj 6y ago
Six years ago I weighed in at 265 pounds with a 44-inch waist. To make a change I decided to start walking nightly. Began taking my dogs with me for encouragement (perhaps the thing dogs are best at), and eventually settled on a route that
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by markbnj 6y ago
We've used submodules pretty extensively in the past but we're working to get rid of as many of them as possible. A friend and former colleague liked to say they were the worst solution... with the exception of all the other solut
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by markbnj 6y ago
None of our monitors are connected to the Internet. We use them as dumb hdmi displays and that's it, for this and a lot of other reasons. On a side note, I'm just generally growing very dissatisfied with Samsung's business pr
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by markbnj 6y ago
When I read that comment I was thinking about our auto-scaling nodepools on GKE that have been running for a couple of years and scale up/down every business day by 20-40 nodes or so depending on load... but I am not sure I get to take
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by markbnj 6y ago
Jellyfin seems like it might be just the thing, thanks for the tip!
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by markbnj 6y ago
> I sincerely feel bad for people who have to stay in it. Truly? Or do you mean you feel bad for people who still have to work for a living? Because if you still have to work for a living I can think of 9000 jobs that suck more than work
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by markbnj 6y ago
Ah this is a good idea, I hadn't thought of approaching it that way. Having basic pause/back/forward media controls would also be nice, but they should work if the browser location gets updated right?
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by markbnj 6y ago
Yeah I thought about that a few times, but I would have to change inputs, so it wasn't really the experience I had in mind.
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by markbnj 6y ago
What I would like to do is flip youtube videos or whatever on my phone and cast to the monitor, which is 6 feet from the couch... an impassable barrier as I'm sure you'll agree.
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by markbnj 6y ago
Shameless threadjack: does anyone know a way to cast _to_ a linux or windows desktop? We use chromecast on all our entertainment video monitors, but sometimes I would like to hang on the couch in my office and cast a video to my desktop mon
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by markbnj 6y ago
This x 9000.
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by markbnj 6y ago
The reason a container with no limit can exhaust CPU is that kubernetes CPU requests map to the cpushares accounting system, and CPU limits map to the Completely Fair Scheduler's cpuquota system. The cpushares system divides a core int
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by markbnj 6y ago
Personally I prefer repeatable deploys and knowing that the right dependencies are installed, however we've all found ourselves in OP's situation from time to time. We still have a few ancient pets around that may get in situ hotf
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by markbnj 6y ago
My Dad, an engineer for GM/Cadillac, gave my brother and I each a slide rule back in the 60's. I remember marveling at the precision of it, and I did learn to use it for some calculations, but not to a level that impressed him :).
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by markbnj 6y ago
> I’ve been programming since 1965, read Dijkstra, Niklaus Wirth. Well sir, you have me by ten years, and believe me I respect that extra decade. That said, I think you're falling into the trap many of us greybeards tumble into as w
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by markbnj 6y ago
> 1995 was the year in which programmers stopped thinking about the quality of their programs. Oh, please. There are some good points in the article but that hyperbole was unnecessary. I was programming in 1995, and nobody stopped thinki
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by markbnj 6y ago
No, but I am not sure why you got downvoted for asking.
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by markbnj 6y ago
I didn't find a link to the buffet study, but isn't it possible that the operator of the buffet leveraged past experience and placed the most popular items first in the lineup?
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by markbnj 6y ago
Here in Northern NJ Comcast is a quite reliable broadband provider... but in the almost 18 years we've had their service the download speed has risen to 225 Mbps, while the upload speed has remained at around 5 Mbps. In practice this d

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