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Depends on the person. I too keep fit. As writing this I'm currently on the subway to go to sword fencing class. I feel the same as OP. If I miss sleep I feel wrecked and I'm 34.
Use red light glasses after sundown and use f.lux or iris (anti flicker software).
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers. I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
I was an MP3 courier in a group on a lot of global top sites. I remember being in an irc chan for one of them (I think it was the hungarian one) and kali of the top group RNS stated his birthday or something else personal and said "oh crap I shouldn't have said that" lol. He was indicted by the DOJ in 2009! He was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit copyright infringementalthouh 4 other members pleaded guilty.
They busted sites from time to time but RIAA couldn't do anything substantial. I stayed away from movies and tv because that was riskier and I enjoyed getting music a week or two before the p2p platforms got them. And also getting high quality rips. The sister group that did ISOs eventually got busted.
Saw the move from ftp to fxp and shell accounts and semi-auto and automated trading. Some government officials would spend years to infiltrate the groups to bust the sites and members.
Anyway, it was with being a courier that I got interested in code and had an insane amount of lines to handle all the topsite rules on what they would accept and I traded semi-automated. We even had a UI to help.
I actually met a few people from those days in person and they were really cool. Still friends with one of them today. Many groups required meeting in person or doing a phone call before you could join and then they eventually relaxed that.
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers. I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
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Off topic: > Your 30+ year old body Hey, wake up call, not just to parent commenter but anyone. If you feel this way in your 30's chances are good you should probably spend more time focusing on your physical health. Start getting more exercise and working on your diet. You don't need to go crazy, just make small improvements and try to stick with them as much as you can. Start simple: Go for a short walk in the morn…
Of course you can slow down the process through living healthier. My point is: when you are young, you don't need to. You can go weeks having little sleep and be fine. You don't need to actively pursue a healthy lifestyle in order to avoid feeling drained. Your body reaches the peak in your 20s. After that it's a progressive decline. In your 30s, no matter what you do, your ability to recover starts to decline and yo…
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Recently I played a game of Civilization 1. It actually did take a me back to that feeling of awe that I had as a child, except now the sound worked and I was able to read English so I actually knew how to play, which enhanced the experience.
Yep, same here. I fire up my 386DX-40 and Pentium-133 occasionally. Civilization 1 and 2 are still beyond awesome. Very playable and loveable games. I play Doom II now more than I did when I was a kid. Mortal Kombat 3 is the best. Windows 95 and 98 are likely the best Window GUI ever for me. Microsoft Office 4.0 is pretty fast on a 386 with 4 MB of RAM running Windows 3.1. At the age of 41 I've bought my first non-pi…
Wow, that brings back memories. Long nights, CRTs, that fresh and health-promoting smell of warm electronics in poorly ventilated spaces, microwaved garbage food, sugary drinks … not sure how my friends and I survived until adulthood.
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers. I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
* Special F/X (C64)
* The Deadly Friends (C64)
* The Supremacy (Amiga)
We made the first ever Amiga Demo/Intro Creator back in May 1987, used by a few groups to create their first Amiga Intros, including Fairlight:
https://coding-and-computers.blogspot.com/2022/05/first-amig...
Ooh, as a pre-teen of An Early Post-Soviet Country, I remember how puzzled I was as to what the hell that message and the files with those curly logos in the folders of most of my pirated DOS games actually mean. A paper dictionary lookup (razor = "habemeajaja" or "raseerija" or "žiletitera" in Estonian) didn't help either. Also, in our language, "warez" rhymes with "vares" [v-uh-res], which typically stands for "hoo…
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers. I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
What's a VP and what's a courier in this context?
Courier is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_group#Courier_groups