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I don't think a single human read this thing before they published it.

"Perfection is achieved..."

I, too, am a fan of RFC 1925.

Perl's DateTime module was pretty solid, IIRC. One of the things I miss about using Perl.

This reminds me of Perl's ACME modules and I'm here for that.

I did something similar last year with a monitor without built-in KVM but with good DCC support (Ultrasharp U3417W) and Synergy [0].

I use Synergy as part of my desk setup already, but needed a way to view the UI of a normally headless machine. The solution I built was a small shell script that terminated the active Synergy session and started a new one with a different config file (so keyboard/mouse input would map to the normally-headless machine), and fired off a DCC command to the monitor to change its input. The same script ran with a different argument would switch back to the normal display/control configuration. This solution worked pretty well until I was able to retire the headless machine early this year.

[0] https://symless.com/synergy

Here's a good starting point for those of us that use XFCE:

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1231025/

This [0] is pretty close. IBM made a version of the Model M with Trackpoint but those are rare. Lenovo also sells [1] a keyboard that's basically a Thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint in a separate chassis.

[0] https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CS1FVF2

I loved my N900. Enough that I eventually replaced it with an N9. It wasn't the same, tho. The N900 had a certain charm.

Followed immediately by these groups making VPNs a standard part of their toolkit. This data is enlightening but its reveal doesn't solve the problem.

I thought Myna looked weirdly familiar. I use Source Code Pro just about everywhere.

The Webb telescope is a _wildly_ different apparatus, designed from the ground up to run as cool as possible, and with an effectively unlimited budget. It lives in the shadow of the Earth behind multiple layers of shielding. These "data centers" need to live in direct sunlight and operate as cheaply as possible _at scale._ Very little of Webb's tech is applicable.

"Every time I see a programmer they're just staring at their monitors." :D

Counterpoint: any modern linux distro will run fine on your 10yo computer.

I have three of the cells, framed in my office. I adored the TV show.

That's high praise. :D

The response rate is impressive! The "quality" of the responses not so much. Here's a transcript of my second test:

Moshi: "Hi there, what's going on?" Me: "What year is it?" Moshi: "Oh, it's 2019. I think it was about a year ago." Me: "Are you sure it's 2019?" Moshi: "Oh, yes, I'm sure. It must be 2019. The number is for the last one." Me: "What is COVID-19?" Moshi: "That's a rare disease. It's caused by an overactive immune system that attacks the skin."

At this point it stopped responding to me.

The truest of arts require no purpose other than to exist.

100% agree, that screenshot is a _perfect_ example of why I don't use these tools.

SDET here, and no, I don't use these tools. Hammering out the actual test code is the easiest (and most fun!) part of the job for me, tools like this one actually make that experience painful and slower. :(

I like the idea, but the "see what people have added" button on the landing page links to the new-entry page instead of the explore page.

Nitpicks:

* On Linux, clicking the main "Download / Linux AppImage" button results in Windows .exe download instead of an .appimage. Clicking on the down arrow and selecting Linux does work, however.

* The opening sentence of the description includes "it's" instead of the more correct "its".

Google Fiber started a deployment in my city (Louisville) in 2017 before eventually giving up [0] after ~2 years.

AT&T, on the other hand, has been steadily rolling out gigabit fiber across the city since 2016ish, and I've enjoyed their service that entire time. It's consistently stable, fast, and the price is only slightly higher than Google Fiber's - I think I'm paying $90/month right now for symmetric gigabit.

The local Spectrum cable ISP guys offer ~300mbit (with a pathetic upload rate), and a Spectrum sales guy once asked me if I "really needed a full gigabit, no one actually needs that much speed." Lol.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/googl...

According to the aria-label in the page: Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, and TypeScript.

The always-excellent Plainly Difficult ran an episode [0] on this topic a few years ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7gVqBY52MY

Debian installs perfectly on my Thinkpad x61, and works great out of the box. (x)Ubuntu's installer won't even boot on this hardware.

My parents bought a PS1 shortly after they were available. We very much enjoyed it, but I _distinctly_ remember each time my friend brought over his N64 and copy of Goldeneye. The PS1 may have been the superior console, but Goldeneye was the superior game.

I snagged one of those as soon as they were available. And, so far, I've only used it to host my portfolio, which is entirely static. :D

Yes, it's the specific (hazardous) conditions involved. Teenagers can and are legally employed, but there's laws that control the allowed nature and scheduling of that employment. Young teens cleaning dangerous meat-processing equipment during nightshifts is several kinds of nope.

Many PS1 games stored their soundtrack as normal CD audio tracks on the same disk. The first track would contain the game data, additional tracks were music.

ReiserFS was my first thought when I read the headline. Fantastic performance on folders with obscene file counts.