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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 a RAID-6.

The fact that btrfs isn't stable after 15+ years for parity setups is, IMO, unreasonable.

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, than for the system to slow down or lock up.

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 cheapest person (me). As I was the only person left in tech support, I became Director of Tech Support by default.

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 hoops would have to be jumped through. Any 386dx-33 or 486 clone would be much more period-correct.

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-finger typists I've personally witnessed, even the extremely prolific Roger Ebert, couldn't effectively transcribe a printed document with their learned typing style.

If you never have to type something you're reading, I'm sure unique typing styles are just fine.

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. You can't claim to be the sum of human knowledge but also arbitrarily remove articles to meet some imaginary criteria.

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 creative (such as everything done to the Aliens UHD 4k release, which was overseen and approved by Cameron), then it's official -- and as an audience member, you have to examine how you feel about that. For example, some enthusiasts lament the removal of film grain in Aliens, but Cameron has said in interviews that he hated the grain in Aliens because he was forced to use a particular film stock and didn't like the result. So it was never the director's vision to have excessive grain in that movie, and the audience should accept the 4k UHD release as canonical and authorized.

These debates are colored (no pun intended) by nostalgia, much like the vinyl vs. digital debates.

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 have said that using a controller was mandatory, not recommended.

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, we frequently used the phrase "launch a website" to mean "navigate to the website", so your prompt could have been clearer than just three words.

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 engineer."

There are more reasons to use an Oxford comma than not, and I remain continually surprised that it is not taught as the default.

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 30hz updates and 60hz updates is most definitely noticeable.

The eye's response to changing color is slow, but the response to changing luminance is very fast.

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 weren't as good as the Mode Y path. It's the optimization that didn't work, not mode 13h itself.

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 as progressive, and mangling the quality. Try adding a bwdif filter so that your 30i content gets encoded as 60p (which will look more like the original videotapes).

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-example snippets there with illustrated results, and an explanation of what each option in each example does.

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 than physical mailed letters, to people all over the world that I would not have been able to do otherwise. It helped me curb depression, build my technical skills, and join a community whose members I am still in contact with over a third of a century later.

QModem was written in Turbo Pascal, and was noticeably faster than other terminal ("modem") programs on my aging 8086 hardware at the time. And knowing it was written in TP, and being a TP programmer myself, gave me hope for the possibility of writing fast code in a high-level language myself, which I eventually did.

I would not be as successful in my life today without the positive experiences made possible by QModem.

PS: Your father's choice of name for his shareware company, "The Forbin Project", was quite the hax0r flex at the time.

Watching my son compete at a fighting game tournament at a professional level, can confirm this also exists in that realm. And problem other realms; I think it's more of a general concept of unsettling the better opponent so that you can have a short-term advantage at the beginning.

Mine is generation of any actual IBM PC/XT computer. All of the training sets either didn't include actual IBM PCs in them, or they labeled all PC compatibles "IBM PC". Whatever the reason, no generative AI today, whether commercial or open-source, can generate any picture of an IBM PC 5150. Once that situation improves, I'll start taking notice.

I still use it on that hardware for hobby projects, and while I have to wait 60-120 seconds for a compile, it's still more convenient for me than cross-compiling on Windows and then copying the code over.

It's not how well the bear dances, but that the bear dances at all. That said, EMS and a solid-state hard drived do help a little.

The article covers some good points, but misses a few extra things that the Turbo Pascal 7.0 IDE included that made it a true powerhouse:

- A full OOP tree to determine parents/traits of descendant objects

- The ability to edit, assemble, and trace through both inline and external assembler code

- A registers window that showed all registers and flags at any stage of runtime

...all while able to run on the first 4.77 MHz 8088 IBM PC, which was long in the tooth by the time TP 7.0 came out. (The OOP tree required a 286 as they only added it to the protected mode IDE.) This made the TP 7.0 IDE a complete development and debugging environment for assembler as well as Pascal.

I watched Nickelodeon in 1980 and there were most definitely no ads. (It also only broadcast from 6am to 2pm, having a static image outside of those hours.) I can't support your insistent viewpoint that cable TV always had ads.

A task timer that helps me stay on task trying to get multiple things done at once in my free time; highly configurable and controllable. I've always wanted to turn it into an Android app, but it's written in a dead language for a dead platform because that's where my skills ended, and I wouldn't know where to start.