rikthevik

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by rikthevik 2y ago
I love that the EDA industry still uses Tcl heavily. Warms my heart.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
It's a tough situation. Once you have an installed base, your hands get tied. I miss the early days when I could rework the UI and UX of the product regularly. Now there is a lot of legwork to make sure we're not changing existing
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by rikthevik 2y ago
> has still not managed to land a single person on the Moon. How about, "has still not _decided_ to land a single person on the Moon."
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by rikthevik 2y ago
It sounds like OP's ROI calculator and yours are different.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I remember playing SQ2 on a "laptop" my dad brought home from work. It had 4 shades of dark blue and shimmered like crazy when anything moved. What a cool experience.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I'm not sure how my dad (Mechanical Engineer) would have figured this out, but I think he ran the DOS equivalent of `strings(1)` to dump the list of strings in old Sierra games (I want to say KQIV), to find hints about what might be po
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by rikthevik 2y ago
The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack got me through this morning's workout. Highly recommended.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Riding the train in St. Louis after Strange Loop was an experience. Strangely, things were crazier on the way out to the bar than coming home...
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I still feel burned about how I put a hard-earned loonie into a Dragon's Lair machine and immediately died. At least at Street Fighter I got a few rounds in. Dragon's Lair was beautifully animated, innovative, and absolutely not f
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Our customer workloads are bursty, so being able to scale down to 0 (or close to it) saves us a lot of CPU and memory that would otherwise do nothing for most of the day.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I don't want to waste food, but I need to regularly remind myself that overeating is also wasting food.
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Interesting take on a ~50 year cultural phenomenon with millions of fans. Maybe next time you could write "I don't like Star Wars" instead "Star Wars never good." That would be more accurate.
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by rikthevik 3y ago
I'd like to give a shout out to SaskPower and SaskEnergy, the crown companies that responsible for electricity and power in Saskatchewan. They're not perfect, and it's easy to gripe about them, but on the whole I'm very
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Once in a while we are blessed with these people who are completely authentic to themselves, incredibly talented, and willing to share with us. Let's be thankful. Why does Prince (or Björk or Bowie) do anything? Only they know.
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Wow, this outstanding. Thanks for the link. Always amazed at the creativity of these rom hackers.
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Linking to Lunar Magic, the community's Super Mario World editor that likely spurred Nintendo to create Mario Maker in the first place. https://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/lm/ Also, go check out the Grand Poo World
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by rikthevik 3y ago
For me, the highlight was FFVI. Square was firing on all cylinders on the SNES. FFVII started the tilt into anime and, aside from FFIX, they've continued to lean into that. I don't care for it. Luckily the indie developers (an
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by rikthevik 3y ago
I've been following @MrmoTarius on twitter for a while and I'm just loving their work. This CRT filter is just wonderful. https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmocrt (The scuffed paper and cross-stitch filters are very go
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Question for this group: Do those iOS call blocker apps like RoboShield work? I'm not sure which conference sold me out (all of them) but I get 5+ calls a day of nonsense and I'm getting tired of it.
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by rikthevik 3y ago
I live in my hometown. It's not a big city, but the tech scene is surprisingly good and I think objectively it's a pretty good place to live. Many of my friends have moved to bigger cities and we'll try to get together when
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Yup. My girlfriend's dad was an IBM mainframe troubleshooter in the 80s. IBM would tell him to be on a plane in 45 minutes, go fix a mainframe, and then go do it again. I think he burned out after a few years, or maybe he quit when
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by rikthevik 3y ago
My parents have always had the policy of, "if I didn't call you, I don't want it." I didn't understand it as a kid (being told to hang up the phone a lot), but the policy has saved us all a lot of heartache and I&
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Let's give some credit to one of the better games ever made, Star Control 2, which had 3000+ planets and a rich story and wonderfully-written characters. I'm surprised no one has brought it up yet. It's worth noting that bec
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by rikthevik 3y ago
> Remember: ALL HATS HAVE SOME FLAWS, IMPERFECTIONS, AND IRREGULARITIES. If I bought only absolutely perfect hats, then I would never buy any hats. Seems like a life lesson that can be applied generally.
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Let's see the list!
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Let's see the list! I'm interested!
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by rikthevik 3y ago
"Beer is liquid bread, it's good for you" - They Might Be Giants
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Sure there are financial realities, but sometimes the sponsor and the logo fits the vibe of the team really nicely. Inter and Pirelli, Barca and Unicef, Arsenal and O2, Newcastle and... Newcastle. Credit where credit's due, the NHL ha
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by rikthevik 3y ago
I love it! Thanks for putting this together.
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by rikthevik 3y ago
Yeah, those old tools got a lot of use for good reason. I've been trying to think of perl as a super-(awk|sed|grep) lately, and perl does it so well. I think jq brings a lot of that cool awk mentality forward. I'm consistently i

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