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I could totally get into “Ops Thriller” genre of novels like this.

I would love to turn this into a screensaver of rain falling onto a window.

AQ2 was such a fun mod. It's been a while since I played, but if I recall you could some real John-Woo style moves as if you are in an action movie.

The article says that Le created it though:

    Two years later he created Action Quake 2, a fast-paced game inspired by “Die Hard”

I think that it’s probably doable in DEVONthink. There are flows to automatically OCR and to organize files into folders based on content.

After some time I find myself waiting for highly composite numbers rather than primes.

Came here to see if I was just imagining things. Thanks for confirming!

I have a .in domain email address and there have been occasions where it is rejected by some email address validation logic.

If I'm running a command in the background, and want to be notified when it's done, I usually run it like

  cmd; say 'files done' 

I remember taking a PL class in undergrad, learning Prolog as one of a handful of languages. During that section my brain started to want to "bind" variables to things as I was going about my day, it was very weird.

Where is your data coming from? I’m curious what prevents you from inserting the data into Clickhouse without Kafka.

ClickHouse does need ZK but they have their own implementation.

There was one at BrickCon in Bellevue, WA last week! It’s my favorite part of the show. Always reminds me of queueing theory and distributed systems.

To mitigate this case you could limit capacity in terms of concurrency instead of request rate. Basically it would be like a fairly-acquired semaphore.

I felt this keenly when my children were very young. At times I only had one arm/hand free because I was holding a child in the other. Or I could only read poorly in the dark because I didn’t want to turn on the lights and disturb the kids.

Since then I always see accessibility thinking as a universal benefit, not just for the “abled”.

That means what we actually want is a way to say “hey OpenTelemetry SDK, give us all the current spans in the buffer”.

Isn’t this exactly what the SpanExporter API is for? This is in the Go SDK, I suppose it may not be available in other SDKs.

I have used this API to convert OTel spans into log messages as we currently don’t have a distributed tracing vendor.

When I was in college they would use a transparency projector, but instead of transparency pages, there would be a roll with a crank that you would turn to advanced the roll. You would get the same effect as slipshow.

I am responsible for a MapReduce-based system built about 13 years ago and it is the bane of my team’s existence right now. It was the hotness in its day, but did not age well at all. We are working on a replacement using ClickHouse.

choir.io , I had hooked it up to our raw event stream so I could “feel by audio” how our systems were running.

I always wanted to try Pelikan Cache, but it’s hard to take a risk when there is Redis. Maybe now it’s more palatable.

Autocomplete of S3 buckets.

E.g

aws s3 ls s3://<magic…>

Also brief documentation of any arguments or flags for the command you are typing.

This seems similar to Ramit Sethi's "Craigslist Penis Effect", which IIRC basically says that you only need to try a little bit to have better results than most people.

This is fun. I used to build these REST APIs for airlines (not Southwest though). Fun to see them get some attention!

I've never been to a legit LAN party.

I started out (ca 1995) in "network" gaming playing DOOM (the shareware copy, I think we could only play 3 levels). My buddies would come over after school. We'd hook up my dad's work laptop and our home computer with a parallel cable and play 2-player (2 kids playing and 5-10 other kids watching along).

I think next came Command & Conquer, which we played over IPX/SPX also, but I believe by that time I'd set up a coaxial network, where it would just randomly stop working every few months. I'd replace the BNC terminators and it was good to go again.

Next, a lot of "C&C: Red Alert" over direct modem connection (2 player).

Finally, I got ethernet on my PC. It was a game changer, since it was much more common for PCs to have ethernet than coaxial networking. We'd lug our PCs and monitors (think 15" CRT monitors, Sony Trinitrons for the lucky ones) to each other's houses for Starcraft. Running ethernet wires from various rooms to the Ethernet hub (not switch, those were too expensive).

I won't miss carrying those huge things around just to play multiplayer.

No one would pull the Andon cord if they thought they might get fired for it.

I was playing with something like this a long time ago back when I was excited about NodeJS. I hooked up libuv to PHP and got https://github.com/dtjm/php-async which seemed to work in simple experiments.

As a kid I asked my dad to buy a tape backup drive so I could do backups of our Win95 machine. I’d run backups religiously, to the chagrin of other members of the household who were unable to use the machine during a backup.

Later at my first job I was responsible for performing tape backups and rotating them. The most recent would go into the fire safe, and the one before that would go with the owner to take home.

One of my first moments on the internet was chatting on Compuserve using the DOS client. Chats were sent character-by-character so everyone’s text was constantly stomping over everyone else’s. But it was amazing that those were people from all over the country you could chat with.

Everything should be designed with accessibility in mind, not only because one day we might be permanently disabled, but also because everyday we might be temporarily disabled.

For example, you might be carrying something in one hand, and only have 1 hand free.

Or your wrist might be sore from a tough sportsball game and you can’t squeeze a grip at all.

Or you don’t want to turn on the light and wake up baby so you are trying to read in the dark. Or you don’t have your reading glasses at the moment.

There was a recent ruling on EU-US Data Privacy regulations

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...

It’s more costly to determine the server with absolute least connections since you have to keep track of the ordering of the servers by how many connections they have.