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a notebook is a great column oriented database for when you cannot bring technology with you. I don't think there is any useful scenario for one otherwise

I would think that a good command-line is one that responds to me within milliseconds on a crapbox i386 machine, and I can COMMAND it what to do. A good command-line is not a binar…

This happens all too often and furthermore is a problem beyond the chicken realm. Attention to detail is an integral part of human life and it is disgusting to see mere humans pret…

Let's see, area of california = 423k km2. Check. Largest solar park in the world = 57 km2, cost 1.3B$. Check. Total cost of a solar panel the size of california, with the help of t…

So, Lord "Objective-C" Swift's binary blob size is harder to beat than Quake?

I never really understood Cloudflare's intent, because from the marketing material it seems that you get DDOS "protection", free TLS certs, everything in a monthly package, afforda…

The only use cases I have seen for units larger than 'petabyte' are those representing the maximum allowed file sizes for ZFS, Btrfs and such. I also don't see a point in inventing…

At this point you could stir up hysteria over anything. Your cloud provider, ISP, operating system support team, XYZ SaaS provider could also just invent a new billing policy to sc…

the biggest productivity milestone we've ever hit while doing freelance programming work was to just don't. there certainly already is a solutions for what we were trying to solve,…

> PA contract work < referred to very very low-quality work with professional gear, because that's what clients assume must be better! I was refferring to a high qualiy preamp vs m…

as a reminder, this thread started because I was wondering why all those who had hired me couldn't tell a difference between a crapbox and a professional preamp. Of course people h…

when I no longer have self professed audiophiles to deal with I will always possess the ability to start audiophile flame wars :)

I think I mixed up this information with the fact that DOD is still running a cluster of IBM Series/1s to administer the US nuclear force. (pretty sure there's no time sharing). De…

This reminds me of how the whole philosophy of python is 'simplicity', but the moment you want to start building something you must be reminded of how you haven't updated to the la…

I once worked for a PA "contractor" and the thing that blew me away the most was how not one of the self professed audiophiles could reliably tell the difference between a universa…

International banking systems still rely on mainframes that don't even support time sharing! I'm sure an x86 rack would blow the socks off of the guy who has been maintaining the C…