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by rvieira 4y ago
Trying to discuss diets is always controversial, and I hope I don't sound like I'm on a high horse. Everyone has different motivations for their diets. It could be health, ethics, taste preference, etc.. I try to be a "flexit
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by rvieira 4y ago
The movies don't really have much in common in almost every aspect (obviously). But it is funny to remind yourself to see The Narrator as a darker, adult, worn down, insomniac Cameron throughout Fight Club. And that Ferris was his teen
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by rvieira 4y ago
Yes, I'm not comparing the two movies directly. I just find it funny and interesting to view both as happening in Cameron's universe.
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by rvieira 4y ago
I've always liked the fan theory that Fight Club is the sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I can see Cameron growing up to live in a "neat" apartment, working as an insurance adjustment claims officer. But this time, th
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by rvieira 4y ago
I have to admit I always thought "a patchy server" was the name's origin...
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by rvieira 4y ago
I sometimes feel like that, but I don't think it's anything to do with age. First factor: having kids (or replace with any other adult stuff). It takes a lot of mental and physical energy I could just use for other things before.
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by rvieira 4y ago
My first PC had an Hercules Graphics Card with Amber monitor. After seeing my friends' CGA PCs I marvelled at the "high resolution". Fond memories of WordStar and XTree in Amber :)
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by rvieira 4y ago
(I've lived in Portugal more than 20 years ago and things (i.e. laws) might have changed significantly.) The problems with abandoned, degraded but historical/beautiful buildings had to do with several factors. One factor was the s
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by rvieira 4y ago
re: docker-compose Have you tried https://github.com/containers/podman-compose ?
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by rvieira 4y ago
> "In the limit, they can make the web totally OS agnostic [...]" A good thing, surely.
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by rvieira 4y ago
It would be relevant to note that the Java 19 number is the JDK size. The JRE size is almost half that, 180Mb IIRC.
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by rvieira 4y ago
I had dozens of obsolete books (think "Introduction to PHP 4"). - Libraries didn't want them - Collectors didn't want them - Charities didn't want them Ended chucking them in the bin.
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by rvieira 4y ago
Rupert Murdoch is a bad example. He is widely acknowledged as the UK's "Kingmaker". That's even the actual title ("Kingmaker, The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty") of a BBC documentary about him: https:/&#x2F
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by rvieira 4y ago
Such a shame. Atom was (is?) great. The first editor extension I wrote was for it (in Coffeescript, no less. Terrible idea in hindsight). Thanks for the good times.
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by rvieira 4y ago
If there's anything that the tech industry History taught us, is that it's a rise and fall of empires speed-run. Everything is transitory and there's no recipe for eternal success.
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by rvieira 4y ago
I especially like how they rotate roles between staff. For manual, repetitive work, this is a nice idea to reduce boredom and improve everyone's day, IMO.
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by rvieira 4y ago
One of my concerns (not more important than the other ones in the comments, just an additional one) is the dopamine hit. I feel that reading a book and enjoying reading books is very important. And I also understand that, for a child, once
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by rvieira 4y ago
Shouldn't it be Perl on Pails?
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by rvieira 4y ago
To be honest, I don't understand some people's "faith" in Twitter. In my view, Twitter (like all social media) is completely replaceable. There's nothing about it, technology wise, that can't be copied with som
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by rvieira 4y ago
As a side note (but related to Nazare), I always found this hilarious: Someone selling "Bottled water from the giants waves of Nazare" https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ex0KUcNNsUU/UyQW_2iKAWI/AAAAAAAAF...
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by rvieira 4y ago
Is this simply a carcinisation[0] of design? Sure it all looks the same, but if it works... design is no longer a differentiator, perhaps. [0]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
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by rvieira 4y ago
In the UK and a bit anal about expenses (track every expense for the last 10 years). I can only speak about groceries. I paid around £200 more per month for the same basket, which is consistent with the claim. Eating out is definitely more
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by rvieira 4y ago
Sonic Pi is a Ruby DSL for SuperCollider. Sonic Pi is awesome, but ike all DSLs, while making simple things easy it has its limitations.
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by rvieira 4y ago
Regardless of hype, or whether this is a watershed moment for Mastodon or not, I'm pleased to see a mainstream media article signed off with "You can follow me on Mastodon (... or Twitter)". I know that signature is a bit ton
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by rvieira 4y ago
The migration process between managed instances is quite trivial. Back in the day I remember getting DMs from people I know saying "I just migrated to Foo, can you please follow me again?". Recently, a few people I know migrated a
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by rvieira 4y ago
> In the new study, two crows were trained to create embedded sequences by pecking at brackets of colors and shapes on a screen. I had this funny image of crowns writing Lisp using rainbow-delimiters.
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by rvieira 4y ago
All those points are separate from the OSS claim (or OSS "purity test"). Is Debian-Testing any less "true Open Source" than Debian-Stable?
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by rvieira 4y ago
The CentOS/Rocky debate was about release targets and never about the Open Source nature of it. This seems simply another case of using something as the backbone of a business and demanding it to be free (as in beer).
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by rvieira 4y ago
tbf, it depends. I make/receive around 1 call per month, if that. To me, it's a good quality camera that I can fit in my pocket.
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by rvieira 4y ago
Adopting the Euro is literally one third of the Copenhagen criteria.

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