rikthevik

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by rikthevik 13d ago
Sure you can. It'll just take a little while to shake the rust off. It's like riding a bike. Or maybe it's all gone forever and we're all brain damaged now. Spooky! I think there's a pretty low probability of that,
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by rikthevik 2mo ago
Certainly we should celebrate Morodor here too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpW3C_k0WMY
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by rikthevik 3mo ago
https://cfcr.ca/ Lots of community radio still out there! I assume bigger cities would have a solid live music and radio community too.
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by rikthevik 4mo ago
For me the height of the 16-bit era was Final Fantasy VI, but wow was Phantasy Star IV great. The intro, the savage twang of those Genesis basslines, the aesthetics, it was really something special.
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by rikthevik 5mo ago
I think we all deserve a little break right now.
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by rikthevik 5mo ago
I saw DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's Afrika Bambaataa tribute and it was just outstanding. One of the best shows I've seen and some seriously talented people. Then I learned more about Afrika and how his misdeeds were mostly ignored.
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by rikthevik 7mo ago
A disc looks like a disc, and a disk doesn't look like a disc.
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by rikthevik 9mo ago
I think Aldous Huxley said it well: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/614121-it-s-dark-because-yo...
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by rikthevik 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Orifice_2000 was pretty clear about what it did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitchX less so.
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by rikthevik 9mo ago
Frank Zappa made his (similar) feelings pretty clear. https://genius.com/The-mothers-of-invention-who-needs-the-pe...
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by rikthevik 10mo ago
I watched Home Alone last year and the characters call each other names constantly. It's funny for sure, but no wonder me and my friends had such filthy mouths as kids. You grow up on that and sitcoms where the characters just rip on e
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by rikthevik 10mo ago
Very very cool! Every time I look at building a hot gaming PC I think to myself that I'm just going to play SNES games and Elden Ring, so what's the point? Something like this would be great.
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by rikthevik 1y ago
I still have the 2600 issues before and after 9/11. At the time it was pretty clear that the federal government was going make a large and permanent power grab.
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by rikthevik 1y ago
I might be overstating it, but here's what I see at my company. "Sell" is very different in all of these situations. - Sell to the champion. - Sell to the rest of the org. - Sell to procurement. - Sell to the implementatio
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by rikthevik 1y ago
Love to see some Might and Magic articles. Earlier this year I found a boxed copy of Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen on Marketplace. Everything is in the box and it's all pristine. It goes very nicely with my boxed copy of Might and
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by rikthevik 1y ago
The Beatles had it right with Eleanor Rigby. "All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" There are a lot of sad people out there. And some of them are at the nunchucks, bo
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by rikthevik 1y ago
Came here for the Uniform function call syntax link. This is one of the little choices that has a big impact on a language! I love it! I wrote a little pipeline macro in https://nim-lang.org/ for Advent of Code years ago an
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by rikthevik 1y ago
Robert Heinlein really nailed it in the 50s with the Fosterite Church of the New Revelation in Stranger in a Strange Land. Totally prescient vision of what Christianity + America was going to produce. https://www.realclearreligio
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by rikthevik 1y ago
Or play Wizardry and be so full of despair. :)
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by rikthevik 1y ago
That was a thing! Boingboing had an article about it, but it looks like the original tumblr is no longer around. https://boingboing.net/2014/03/09/garfield-without-garfields...
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by rikthevik 1y ago
I'd like to submit Time is a Flat Circus as well https://www.tumblr.com/timeisaflatcircus
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by rikthevik 1y ago
I got a few months of free Kagi with a Pragmatic Engineer newsletter subscription and I'm enjoying it. It reminds me of old Google before it got polluted. Kagi can't do anything about the web itself being polluted, but the search
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by rikthevik 1y ago
Well, it is difficult and a lot of work. Maybe _you_ can help.
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by rikthevik 1y ago
The box it came in probably tastes better.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Sometimes I read a paper or see some code that makes me think that wizards are real and that they walk among us.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
After my (closed) gaming laptop started making annoying Windows noises earlier today, I'm led to believe that it doesn't work properly on Windows either. It seems like it's basically hardware whack-a-mole at this point. The o
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Big congratulations!
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Great article about digging into a non-obvious bug. This one had it all! Intermittent bug, architecture-specific, hidden in a dependency, rust, the python GIL, gettext. Fantastic stuff. These kinds of detailed troubleshooting reports are th
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I haven't dug into tach yet, but I'm very optimistic on this one.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I'm very impressed by the recent developer experience improvements in the python ecosystem. Between ruff, uv, and https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach we'll be able to keep our django monolith going for a long ti

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