Don’t forget to park the hard drive before you power down.
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The mid 1990s for me, OpenBSD came out in 1996 and Solaris was Solaris was like 1992. I was admining a Solaris SPARC station back around 1997 that had a gnarly install if I remember correctly. It was on 3.5” floppies and I still have that SPARC station and the original Solaris OS sitting in the basement collecting dust. At one point that SPARC was being used by some of us working with the PHP group to diagnose file system limits on Solaris and build PHP binaries back when I was involved in PHP development. Fun times.
My first Linux install was like Red Hat 5.2 or something and it was much nicer.
Back in the day when installing Solaris and OpenBSD and such you had to specify in numerical values the number of sectors of hard disk space you wanted to format drives with. Shit is considerably easier now with modern UNIXy systems.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Programming@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years20·3 months agoIf Mercurial were as popular as Git I would presume that it would be rewritten in C or Rust, but who can say.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Programming@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years20·3 months agoAlso Subsurface, a scuba diving log program, but that one is not quite as well known.
Dev: “Boss, we need additional storage on the database cluster to handle the latest clients we signed up.”
Boss: “First see if AI can do it.”
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseEnglish3·4 months agoGrok has said disparaging things about Elon Musk so I’m assuming it’s going to be disappeared to El Salvador soon.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseEnglish7·4 months agoGitHub Copilot about to be clocking some overtime on COBOL conversions.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Programmer Humor@programming.dev•muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows16·4 months agoBuddy’s probably running code he got from GitHub Copilot that is used to do a visualization of a bubble sort for learning purposes.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Programmer Humor@programming.dev•muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows47·4 months agoWhat is this, a table for ants? Because that’s the average number of ants in an ant colony and it’s nowhere near an impressive amount of rows to be doing any sort of processing on. It wouldn’t be an impressive amount of rows if your rig was an i386DX-33 running off a 5” floppy.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•No but like for real? They're just kinda cute20·4 months agoModern surveillance state.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato [moved to piefed] movies@lemm.ee•Star Wars Theatrical Cut Finally Available on Streaming (But for How Long?)English48·4 months agoForget about shooting first — Han shot, period. There was no follow up.
MACLUNKY.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato And Finally...@feddit.uk•Scientists are trying to figure out why [ice] hockey players all sound Canadian5·5 months agoGive your balls a tug, the real trade deficit is us sending our best to play in America, but at least it’s spreading the culture around eh?
darkpanda@lemmy.cato [moved to piefed] movies@lemm.ee•Steven Spielberg Says He Fought to Stop E.T. Sequel From Being MadeEnglish21·6 months agoIn modern times they for sure would have called them ETwo and EThree - Part 1 and EThree - Part 2: Endgame.
In the 90s it would have been E2T and a huge ship of ETs would have blown up New York with a big laser because they wanted revenge for kidnapping the OG ET.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that tracing phone calls by keeping the phone line open is a totally outdated tropeEnglish161·6 months agoThey don’t even need that anymore either, ‘cause they can just use the chips and magnetofluids they’ve injected into everyone via vaccines. So outdated.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Fuck AI@lemmy.world•People don’t enjoy making music, says AI music CEO being sued for stealing music16·6 months agoMost musicians will never record anything in their musical careers. Most musicians are amateurs who won’t go beyond open mics, bonfires, and coffee shops. Many won’t even go there and prefer to remain bedroom players.
I’m one of those musicians who does the open mic stuff and occasional shows, been in pickup bands and rocked some faces, but I have no illusions as to my place in the musical strata of the world. Most of us will never go anywhere with a musical career, but for the vast majority of us, it’s a hobby and a pastime, not a career goal. As a musician, I know I make a pretty good computer programmer, and I’m fine with that, but I can’t imagine not making music.
Music for music’s sake.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato [moved to piefed] movies@lemm.ee•James Mangold's Star Wars Movie Will Not Be 'Handcuffed By Lore'English15·6 months agoThey’ll use the totally-not-Tattooine-planet of Jakku.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Games@sh.itjust.works•Capcom says it’s working on ‘re-activating other dormant IPs’ like Onimusha and OkamiEnglish1·7 months agoParasite Eve was Square, mind you, back when they were still called Squaresoft.
darkpanda@lemmy.cato Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework59·8 months agoIt’s from the short story “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream”by Harlan Ellison .
I don’t doubt that for a microsecond. There is zero chance that the man has ever ridden a bike, skated a skate, hopped a scotch, skipped a rope, or frisbeed a frisbee.