lightbulbjim

Yeah, except the fun part of soaring is the flying. Programming flight controllers is boring.

Docker Swarm was the dream. A shame so many were dissuaded from using it due to the potential for support to be yanked out from underneath them.

There's something special about the actual photons hitting your eyeball, instead of just looking at a picture.

DCSS: https://crawl.develz.org

I've been waiting for Microsoft to acquire Canonical.

Ruby makes for a good “super shell” script too.

It did last time I used it (a few years ago now).

Good book on this subject: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3081255-for-all-the-tea-...

No. It replaces the FHS with a whole new vision of how the OS is arranged and managed.

I wholeheartedly agree, and I am a giant NixOS fan, BUT:

1. You need space for the Nix store, so it's not appropriate for every system (I like building small embedded appliances).

2. A six month release cycle can get a bit tiresome after a while. I know it's personal preference, but I wish it was a bit longer.

3. Or, in order to contribute to the project, you need to chase the dragon with the unstable channel.

4. Forcing all the system state through the funnel of a single config file is great, except that it doesn't cover home directories. I found that I ended up with a massive unmanaged blob of state in my home directory which I couldn't capture (I never tried out home-manager, maybe I should have).

This is not to detract from NixOS! NixOS is great, and I remain a massive fan :-). But on my personal systems I find myself using macOS and Debian these days. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT: Line spacing

You can collapse the user list. Click the icon to the left of the search box in the header bar.

Yes, -current has been moving along. I'm too lazy for rolling release though.

Plus the downloads are served by mirrors and torrents anyway.

Yeah, CK2 runs nicely on a laptop. The newer games are just a bit much. I wish we could have the same gameplay and systems with a less-fancy engine.

It used to be that he had a handful of core people who helped out, but it was never official AFAIK.

I feel the same as you. I used Slackware on my primary machine for about a decade, but the long silence between 14.2 and 15 made me nervous.

Well, CK2 is now complete, and you can often find it with all DLCs for a decent price.

Australian birds have a huge evolutionary advantage over species in other parts of the world. Modern birds evolved in Australia.

See: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oJxZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT11

It used to move with the scroll wheel. Starting with Big Sur it no longer does. No idea who thought that was a good idea.

Back in the day I used to force all websites to not only use my font, but my font size.

I no longer bother since switching to HiDPI displays, but it was helpful for a while.

I wish I could choose my own font!

You can just call ‘tar xvf’ and it will detect the compression format.

News Explorer has scraping modes for sites that only publish headlines.

I can setup a telescope in my back yard, but not in space.

It’s no different from hanging out in an IRC channel.

Maybe, but it doesn't really matter in practice. If you play against opponents with a similar rating to you then you'll be evenly matched.

All the more reason to use a third party client.

My bet is Microsoft. One day we will have Windows-native snaps. Hmm...

AKA a meteogram.

Look for an app which lets you download GRIB files. PocketGrib and LuckGrib are a couple to try. You can download GFS data (produced by NOAA) for the area/timescale/data you are interested in, drop a cursor anywhere on the map and view a meteogram.

This is the same data used by "value add" weather forecasting sites and services to produce their forecasts.