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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…

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, t…

But I'm allergic to Retinox.

Would MobyGames be a better source for this information? The information is curated, and an API is available.

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 che…

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.

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.

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".

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 ho…

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.

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-fi…

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)

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. Y…

They look generated, which is off-putting. Maybe use three real photos instead?

> 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 creati…

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 h…

Pedantry welcome :-) I have always viewed the semicolon as a creative choice, and the comma as a technical requirement; hence, my reply.

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,…

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 en…

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 3…

>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 we…

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 a…

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…

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…