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It kills me sometimes that I can't find my AD&D books. I haven't played in decades but I just like to look at them.

> You see claims like this all the time but they are so blatantly ahistorical its fascinating. > No one but white men could vote in the U.S. until the early 1900s when women were g…

I have assumed for awhile that they were either drones from an adversary or, in some cases, from our own CIA. An extraterrestrial origin is going to require more proof. Easier for …

I can remember way back around 1990 being told that waterfall was mostly a bad idea, and few shops really followed it. Rapid prototyping was agile back then. We were shown how to p…

First thing I thought was "press hit." ( http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html ) I've been expecting that certain groups (people who own commercial real estate, for example), we…

Thanks I hadn't seen that one.

If you're interested in planes like this, I found "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed" a good read.

Sounds like CentOS Stream will bring the pain to users and admins. Going forward, the answer to every stability question will be "maybe you should go buy Redhat". I had a bad feeli…

If you use open source software long enough, you will eventually be disappointed in a design decision. In this case, it was a big surprise when a tool I'd been using since the earl…

I patch that behavior out of the GNU core utils on my Gentoo machines, and set the quoting style properly everywhere else. This is one of the worst behavior changes ever to come ou…

> Very neat to see it on the storage side, and something I don't think anyone could fathom back in the spinning disk days. Seagate had a product called Kinetic that was an Ethernet…

Sticking to Gentoo for my personal systems (for many reasons, not just this issue). Slackware was my OS of choice once upon a time (there weren't many choices back then, though.)

It's getting harder and harder to find a distro where systemd isn't a hard requirement. I am hoping Debian will keep the choice of sysvinit available.

I had a lady next to me start to drown and grab me in a pool when I was getting my diving certification. Despite having a supply of air, wetsuit, fins and buoyancy control device o…

I know a guy that started cutting himself once with a small pocket knife. He just went back to his office and lost it. He was obviously asked to leave, as he was upsetting the rest…

I'm suddenly glad they didn't have github when I was in college. I found some old printouts from my college days recently, and I wrote some terrible, terrible C and assembly for th…

Remember BlueSteel? I'm using it right now. Still use the latest Enlightenment DR16 on all my Linux and Solaris boxes. It does everything I need a window manager to do.

The first non-ad result for me is mail.aol.com, as it should be.

Reading the original source completely changes everything. Thank you.

The only really interesting thing about this is the claim that it was weapons grade uranium. I wonder if they mean the same thing other people do when they say that (for me, 90+% U…

The Apollo command module orbit was approximately ~110 kilometers (~60 nautical miles) from the surface. The initial TLI leaves it with a highly elliptical orbit but this is correc…

Super. My gentoo boxes are 1.8.2, and are broken as expected. $ ln -s /usr/bin/sudo ./%s $ ./%s -D9 [some debug output with garbage] Segmentation fault $ Bug is here: https://bugs.…

There is advertising on the Internet? I almost forgot. Advertising got a really bad reputation with a lot of people, and they are unlikely to turn off their armor for anyone. If yo…

This video clearly takes place after all the undesirables have been sent to the Off World Colonies.