jerrysievert

> but less stupid than U2 it turned out

I'm sure you mean the letter U and the number 2, because anything else would be a lawsuit.

I was only lucky enough to see them (in Portland and Seattle) because of religious beliefs, which apparently was enough!

christianity is stupid ... but in other news, always going forward, cause we can't find reverse.

I was blessed enough to see negativland live at a couple of subgenius devivals, and think about star trekking on a fairly regular basis due to being such a Star Trek geek, and I thank dr demento for so much.

oh gosh, I have so many great memories of Mikeal due to the wonderful javascript community, and am really sad to hear he has passed.

I hope others were able to be delighted by spending time with him, as I was.

maybe someone else who gets the inside joke will built a naanument to him.

I use my instant pot to make risotto in 20 minutes with very little effort that is about 90% as good (in my very stubborn opinion) as making it the hard way. I very much appreciate an amazing risotto, but when I make it myself I'll usually choose the instant pot versus the extra work.

I feel Hollywood might be the same way.

at most it could use a "the" in front of the title:

The Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser

which is a reference to a show name Father Ted, in which a Kilnettle Shrine tape dispenser was sold as a souvenir at the Kilnettle Shrine, and brought on a plane by Father Ted in the show Father Ted.

they're the best thing since sliced bread!

plus $2753.55 of tariffs if you live in the United States, makes it even more insane.

I was curious, because I had thought that all Microsoft stores had closed.

it appears that there is still at least one Microsoft store (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations) in the United States, but I think that might be it.

I guess the non-satirical answer would be "experiences"

I think you need to try some kveik yeast, that might change your mind on high temperature fermentation: kveik is a Norwegian yeast, somewhat recently (last 25 years) rediscovered but brewed with for centuries, and can handle 37ºC without the byproducts.

not sure if it's the ad blocker or safari itself, but the download links don't appear to work in safari. I had to switch to chrome to download.

I became friends with a mallard while living near a pond, he would follow me when I walked to the bus stop, and greet me while on my way home (closer to home, he wouldn't typically leave the apartment complex, thankfully).

one year, he disappeared, which added a lot of sadness to my life. that summer, he reappeared and walked up a hill to greet me, with his mate and ducklings in tow. his mate had had a shattered (and repaired) beak, and was easy to pick out, and he spent time walking between us with "quack quack quack", back and forth, as if to introduce us. they stayed around at least until I moved a year or so later. by far the most profound experience I've had with a "wild" animal, a memorable experience that I will continue to cherish.

I make wormwood soda, which is much higher wormwood content than absinthe, and have never had a hallucinogenic state, so yes, likely heavily overstated.

I guess it really depends on the authors' definitions of "beer".

for me, it depends entirely on what is in the glass as to what the correct temperature profile and shape is. for instance, a nice imperial stout should warm slightly before being drank, so having a glass with a large open mouth for aroma and good heat transfer from the hands is preferred.

when drinking from cask, the beer is served on the warmer side, and a nice nonic works well (the article didn't go into it, but each of these glasses has a formal name, not "imperial pint" or "my favorite"), since it also opens up the aroma and keeps the temperature on the warmer side.

an IPA, generally you'd want to drink not completely cold as well.

in fact, it seems that the only beers that get better as they get colder are lagers/pilsners.

we (the ISP I worked for in the late 90's) used sparc 5 clones for desktops and mission critical things like DNS, sparc 10 and 20 clones for hosting and account management.

they were workhorses for what we tasked them to.

that's actually what I went to the article to check on, if it was silphium. alas, it was not - had me excited for a moment.

but, resurrecting plants that are extinct is still very exciting.

I remember microcase - not too much at this point, but I remember the sign.

the ISP was founded by a mixture of ex-intel and ex-ogi telecom, so there was always a bit of closeness there.

eventually, at the OSDL, we had a Fred Meyer across the street, and not much else. but damnit, we had a great raised floor datacenter!

adding: /usr/ucb - a very nice bone to throw.

my boss at the time refused to move to solaris from sunos (on his personal sparc, we moved to solaris at the company), it was my responsibility to deal with the solaris hosts from that point forward. we were definitely a sparc shop (though at the time we only had sun clones, no real sun sparc boxes).

I think it was mostly that he liked the bsd tooling over the at&t tooling, but it instilled so much in me that I still have a hard time remembering the gnu command line options: I tend to default to svr4, then to bsd, and finally to gnu. probably one of the reasons I still feel at home on macOS.

yup - the job interview I was talking about was for EasyStreet, one of the big local IPSs in the Portland area. we were located in beaverton off of Allen.

I also spent a lot of time in the old sequent campus, at the OSDL, and a bunch of time at OGI before it got subsumed.

I still remember the day when Microsoft visited the office, saw I had a Microsoft keyboard connected to my sparc, and asked if I ran internet explorer (they had a solaris version). I laughed and said, "no, I only have 96mb of ram, you can't run internet explorer in only 96mb of ram".

> x86-based Sun 386i models, running up to SunOS 4.0.2

oh gosh, I always forget about those, thanks! around here, it was mostly the 68k suns, followed by sparc. the 386 unix variants were mostly sequent.

I remember one fun job interview in the 90's, where before we went to grab beer the interviewer (my future boss) stopped in the office and said "and this will be your sparc" - to be quite honest, that was such a huge perk!

funnily enough, solaris 2 was also identifying as sunos 5 depending on what tool you used to query.

sun's pivot from bsd to at&t was a very nice and clean change (I was the one who ended up upgrading our sunos servers to solaris when the time came in the 90's), sequent's switch was a nightmare.

I still miss my e4500, though, but not the noise or electric bill.

sunos was the bsd-based sun operating system for 68k and sparc. solaris was the at&t based sun operating system for sparc and x86.

just remember, use about 5x as much by weight due to them being "wet", and you should be fine from there!

it is currently fresh hop season in the pacific nw. a large number of breweries (and homebrewers, I have a fresh hop saison finishing right now) pick the fresh hops off of the bine and brew with them, imparting the magic of a beer you'll only get to taste once per year if you happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I can't remember which app I used a few years ago, but there was a way to import the audio curves into the phone in settings.

the outrage is that the land they are giving to the (foreign) golf club owners is specifically state-managed conservation land that was not properly vetted according to law, and in return they are receiving land that does not meet the same criteria:

> The land the company is offering in return is isolated from other conservation land, not on the state’s land acquisition wish list and not part of a wildlife corridor.

there is plenty of true and correct outrage.

while not perfect, this is fairly close: https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip

I have a couple of orangepi 5+'s that replaced a large, loud, power hungry server. with an attached nvme drive, iscsi connected over 2.5gbit ethernet, 8 cores, and 32gb of ram, they are quite capable.

one is the primary database, another runs everything else in docker containers.

> It's a shame it was abandoned.

I'm not sure that saying it's abandoned is quite accurate. looking at it from a (now outside) lens, I see it as more of a hard engineering project.

I still use columnar: it's very mature at this point, but any further (large) improvements would require a lot larger engineering efforts.