Trixter

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by Trixter 1y ago
This is missing one of the finer points of redundancy: With 4 disks, losing two of them could take out a RAID-10 (both halves of a stripe component), but losing two cannot take out a RAID-6. The fact that btrfs isn't stable after 15+
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by Trixter 1y ago
earlyoom is what we use to address this. We can't tolerate any kind of swapping at all in our workloads, where it is better for the system to kill one process to save the others, than for the system to slow down or lock up.
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by Trixter 1y ago
But I'm allergic to Retinox.
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by Trixter 1y ago
Would MobyGames be a better source for this information? The information is curated, and an API is available.
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by Trixter 1y ago
It can also mean that on the way down. At a private unix software company in 1994, the rise of Linux destroying our business led to firing nearly everyone in support except the cheapest person (me). As I was the only person left in tech s
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by Trixter 1y ago
I have posterior tibial tendonitis, and will never run (or walk without pain for more than 10 minutes) again. I am happy for you, in a bittersweet way.
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by Trixter 1y ago
Just because you can't find a useful purpose for an old computer doesn't mean they don't have any. For example, any computer, regardless of age, can be used to write a novel.
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by Trixter 1y ago
Lots of prior art for this concept. For example, this is almost exactly the plot of The Outer Limits (1995), Season 4 Episode 3 "Hearts and Minds".
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by Trixter 1y ago
While the picture isn't technically incorrect for an MPC level one ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC ) system, it borders on anachronistic because, as you note, many hoops would have to be jumped through
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by Trixter 1y ago
Most Tandys with 8-bit ISA slots could not take a VGA card because the internal graphics chip could not be disabled. It was only the later series where that became an option.
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by Trixter 1y ago
It is my guess that everyone in the thread with "Hey, I don't type normally either and my speed is just fine" comments are likely staring at the keyboard when they type. All two-finger typists I've personally witnessed,
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by Trixter 1y ago
Worse, the formatting failed. Lines are breaking before the sentence is over, leading to two words in the next line, then a new line. (Linux, Chrome)
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by Trixter 1y ago
I used to, until entire notable topics within a certain culture were deleted as "not notable" by editors unfamiliar with the topics. "not notable" is the cancer within wikipedia. You can't claim to be the sum of hu
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by Trixter 1y ago
They look generated, which is off-putting. Maybe use three real photos instead?
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by Trixter 1y ago
> Painting out these movie mistakes as part of a restoration is wrong. As part of a restoration , yes. As part of a remaster , no. If the remaster is overseen by the primary creative (such as everything done to the Aliens UHD 4k relea
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by Trixter 1y ago
I did not play with a controller, which made Dark Bramble effectively impossible to finish because the keyboard is all-or-nothing thrust. Had to cheat to get past it. They should have said that using a controller was mandatory, not recomm
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by Trixter 1y ago
Pedantry welcome :-) I have always viewed the semicolon as a creative choice, and the comma as a technical requirement; hence, my reply.
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by Trixter 1y ago
Biasing the tool for a developer audience would hurt it's usefulness to more general audiences. I did not get the impression the tools were meant only for developers. In the 1990s, we frequently used the phrase "launch a website&
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by Trixter 1y ago
Your reaction proves the entire point of the Oxford comma -- to eliminate this kind of confusion. It absolutely should have been written as "...Buyser, an AI, software, and data engineer." There are more reasons to use an Oxford
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by Trixter 2y ago
You're downplaying "Of course those were interlaced to two sets of 262.5 lines". That is what makes interlaced video 59.94 different images per second, and the difference between 30hz updates and 60hz updates is most definit
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by Trixter 2y ago
>13h should work on anything You misinterpreted what he wrote. He wasn't saying that mode 13h didn't work; he meant that the optimizations in the mode 13h path of the executable weren't as good as the Mode Y path. It&#x2
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by Trixter 2y ago
In your snippets, you don't appear to be deinterlacing. If your pre-digitized clips are already deinterlaced, that's fine, but if they're not, you're encoding interlaced material as progressive, and mangling the quality
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by Trixter 2y ago
The AMIA has a resource for this as well at https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/ It's not a great name and not very discoverable, but there's a lot of very useful ffmpeg-by-example snippets there with
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by Trixter 2y ago
I'm very sorry for your loss. In the early 1990s, QModem's workflow for offline inter-BBS email (in the QWK file format) allowed me to communicate several times weekly, much faster than physical mailed letters, to people all over
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by Trixter 2y ago
Watching my son compete at a fighting game tournament at a professional level, can confirm this also exists in that realm. And problem other realms; I think it's more of a general concept of unsettling the better opponent so that you
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by Trixter 2y ago
Mine is generation of any actual IBM PC/XT computer. All of the training sets either didn't include actual IBM PCs in them, or they labeled all PC compatibles "IBM PC". Whatever the reason, no generative AI today, whet
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by Trixter 3y ago
I still use it on that hardware for hobby projects, and while I have to wait 60-120 seconds for a compile, it's still more convenient for me than cross-compiling on Windows and then copying the code over. It's not how well the bea
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by Trixter 3y ago
The article covers some good points, but misses a few extra things that the Turbo Pascal 7.0 IDE included that made it a true powerhouse: - A full OOP tree to determine parents/traits of descendant objects - The ability to edit, assemb
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by Trixter 3y ago
I watched Nickelodeon in 1980 and there were most definitely no ads. (It also only broadcast from 6am to 2pm, having a static image outside of those hours.) I can't support your insistent viewpoint that cable TV always had ads.
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by Trixter 3y ago
A task timer that helps me stay on task trying to get multiple things done at once in my free time; highly configurable and controllable. I've always wanted to turn it into an Android app, but it's written in a dead language for

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