Well, I’m cisgendered and not English, so… sorry, chaps

Octarine

I identify as an ass. Finally a flag for me.

Smug achually-voice

“It’s pronounced Yawn”

This huge consumer electronics chain here does it. It’s their default to ask “which phone number should I put it on?”, but before they get to the excuse of where to send the electronic receipt, I just tell them “no, you don’t need it”.

I am not ashamed to admit that I have their first album, and it’s a solid one with quite a few solid tracks on it. However, I always hated that song, which by far became the most popular one.

I don’t know much about their later stuff, though.

I’d prefer to stretch it out a bit: One every hour, starting with the “poorest” of them, climbing up the list every time.

Make the ones on top know that it will be their turn eventually. They cannot avoid it. They cannot cheat it.

They can donate everything they own to charities or whatever they want, and some will certainly try. But it’s too late - The culling cannot be stopped.

Not much has changed since this question was asked 11 days ago.

Around 700W on low load, almost idle. Haven’t had the chance to test it at full load yet.

It sits in my basement, so the waste heat is actually useful this time of year. Even more so when my basement would otherwise be freezing.

I plan on implementing scheduling where the two most power hungry servers are powered down and up as needed. The other two take almost nothing.

Also, the UPS supports a green mode that is a lot more efficient but with a downside of output side dropping out a few ms during switchover. This removes any conversion loss. I haven’t tested whether my hardware can tolerate it yet, so for now I’m living with the conversion loss.

My house is powered by cheap hydroelectric supply, generated in a mountain roughly 5km from my house, so I’m not worried.

I remember how everyone talked about how the first Half-Life game implemented AI so well. The enemies were actually cunning, especially by the standards of the time; One enemy grunt would chase you into cover and have another grunt throw a grenade, while a third one circled around.

If a game today was released with a rumor of having “great AI implementation”, a lot of people would understandably steer clear.

I read that book for one of my kids last week.

In a strictly semantic way it is technically true; It is the basic building block of what later became the basic building block of macos

In a strictly semantic way it is technically true; It is the basic building block of what later became the building block of macos.

Responded to the wrong person.

What I meant to write here was: I’ve used both linux and freebsd, and nature vs nature holds true, I th8nk. But I am unsure which one is which.

A separate family of operating systems. It’s a direct decendant of the old UNIX. FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD are the most common distributions.

It shares a lot of the same userspace tools as Linux (the GNUserspace, if you will), so if you’re used to the command line, a lot will seem familiar at a first glance. However, the underlying mechanisms can feel a bit strange at first once you try it out.

I used FreeBSD as my daily driver back in the day, but now I’m also on Mint, mostly because I used linux more at work.

I’ve been meaning to check out BSD these days to see how far it’s come since I last used it 20ish years ago, I just haven’t gotten around to it.

I also remember hearing someone say that there are two things from Berkley that messes with your head: BSD and LSD.

As a former FreeBSD user I feel this often.

“Why are none of my friends responding today?”

– Nigel Farage

I’m not opposed to blowing up data centers in general, just saying…

Superfluous conditional

I remember seeing some estimates in terms of total amount of data (In terabytes) available via HTTP in the late 90s, but I think it’d be impossible to get a reliable estimate these days

Someone found a spare machine at Yandex