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by rograndom 4y ago
I've used in "production" and as the "primary datastore", but not in the ways those terms are normally used. 1. PHP web development for the client of a client. They needed persistent data and MySQL was not availabl
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by rograndom 5y ago
What? It's mostly just plain text configs for i3 which is open source on it's own. There's a whole Github project here: https://github.com/regolith-linux
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by rograndom 5y ago
Some what similar for me, in the mid-2000's I was at a design agency that was moving to PHP/MySQL development. Mostly a Mac shop, but the development server was some HP thing we got from best buy for like $400. Put Red Hat on it a
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by rograndom 5y ago
I remember some kids in HS were distributing floppies of women with bathing suits and some "optimized" viewing program. On the computer lab computers, 8086's, it would take several seconds if not minutes to render on the scre
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by rograndom 5y ago
There was Gangnam Style a few years ago and BTS had a whole (US) nationwide McDonalds promotion based around them for the better part of a month this past year.
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by rograndom 5y ago
> It was a revelation in that the UI was amazing for the time, and the hardware was good enough to decode everything available. Almost. I had a set of ffmpeg scripts that would encode blu-rays at 720p just so so it would playback witho
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by rograndom 5y ago
Yup, same. Driving somewhere in between Elizabeth, NJ and Montreal every 2-3 weeks overnight. Co-driver is saying stuff like "I'm getting sleepy, find the lizard people on the radio."
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by rograndom 5y ago
And just for some context. I had a Rio MP3 flash player that came with 32mb of storage around that time. mb, not gb. Like 10 songs of space. I bought a 64mb card with it that cost more than the player did and setup some sort of thing with s
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by rograndom 5y ago
I work at a2hosting.com and while I’m not international, a few people on my team are outside of the us and large percentage of the rest of the company is as well.
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by rograndom 5y ago
Browse by artist, album, etc?
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by rograndom 5y ago
SSH, NFS, SMB, rsync, pretty much anything. It also has built in applications to backup to another synology or S3/glacier.
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by rograndom 5y ago
Are they comparable? I thought Openshot was like After Effects and Kdenlive was more like Premiere?
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by rograndom 5y ago
If there's any flight attendants on here, they would say "You just answered your own question"
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by rograndom 5y ago
All the cars I've looked at this year that have CarPlay / Android auto only available on the mid/upper trim levels, on the lower trim levels, the entertainment system also contained the climate controls and couldn't be r
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by rograndom 5y ago
One of my favorite "did you know?" relates to early shoegaze bands using "vintage" jazzmaster and jaguars. The bands would buy those, sometimes original 60's instruments, because they were cheap. And the foam under
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by rograndom 5y ago
Nope, this is like if higher models of Teslas had a more in-depth mode on the display for a couple of years. When you first buy your lower model, during the on-boarding process with the dealer, they walk you through the setup process and as
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by rograndom 5y ago
It's almost like the same people that try to make things work in random ways are the same ones who frequent sites like these....
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by rograndom 6y ago
Yup, that must have been it. I think Adobe implemented that as a feature into Photoshop within a year of us seeing that other software.
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by rograndom 6y ago
No, it was a photo of a building. The "demo" was the guy right there playing with the software, no video.
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by rograndom 6y ago
I was at a graphic design tradeshow back in the mid 90's and there was a guy there demonstrating this Photoshop alternative called Live Picture or Live Photos or something like that. And he had a somewhat large, at the time, print imag
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by rograndom 6y ago
That was what Nintendo Power magazine subscriptions were for. Recurring revenue for stuff that should've been in the game manuals (maps, secret explanations, etc)
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by rograndom 6y ago
"Elements of Poker" by Tommy Angelo How to be better at Poker (and other parts of life) that has nothing to do with what cards you have.
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by rograndom 6y ago
60 million records. They could have reseller hosting where one "customer" has 100's or 1000's of sites on their account. Each of those sites is probably a record.
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by rograndom 6y ago
There are a few hosting billing system -> account creation products that will generate the login information at purchase time so they can be presented to the user in plain text before being sent over to the provisioned server. It could b
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by rograndom 6y ago
"American" pizza in Montreal is just Pepperoni pizza. Which I always find funny.
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by rograndom 6y ago
Small anecdote in the similar vein. I gigged around Boston in the early 2000's playing guitar in various rock and metal bands, usually in front of 15-20 people. I had been using a 1960's Fender Bassman and changed out the tubes to
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by rograndom 6y ago
And to make you feel even older, today Nevermind is more than TWICE as old as London Calling was when Nevermind was released.
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by rograndom 6y ago
I have a iPhone 5s that I only replaced because of battery issues. It's been sitting in my drawer for a couple of years and thought it would be good to hand off to one of the kids as a mp3 player or something. When Apple was running a
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by rograndom 6y ago
I had a very similar experience during my first somewhat long trip in my Leaf. It has a range of "150" miles, but it's closer to 120. My destination was 60 miles away, should be good for a round trip, maybe a short charge at
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by rograndom 6y ago
A lot of decisions are based on choosing one of two actions. You can think of them as doors. "Do I pick Door A or Door B?" Sometimes you know that Door A is by far the "right" choice, but maybe it's the harder one.

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