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That was such an amazing launch. It was the coolest game I can remember ever being a part of. Old Bungie always had that quality about it. So many of their old games: Myth:TFL, Oni, Original Marathon, etc, had these mysterious lore hooks that were so great. Halo had them also. It's not just...

If only you knew how true this was on a number of occasions, and how it has saved us a few times. In my context no one "pulls anything out" but finding a copy of that database in a dev environment with enough prod data, or somewhere they were shipping logs they had forgetten that let us rebuild...

You can still buy a landline and a pager but no one does that any more because it sucks. You can still buy physical servers and host them yourself but no one does that any more either because it sucks: Maintaining and hosting physical hardware sucks, as much as I love it, because while you are...

I am this person. I have moved from refusing to use it to building multiple agents to prepare first drafts of work products normally crafted in PowerBI tools as a launch pad to completely replacing those PowerBI tools one day. Well-crafted AI, in some form, will become the interface at some...

So, do answer this with a substantive answer or with the kneejerk answer? My first reaction after reading this: Virtualization was going to make it easier to migrate from hardware to hardware, and guess what? IT IS. VMware has saved everyone thousands and thousands of hours moving guests...

What is this magic intended purpose? I have been working with virtualized servers for more than two decades now: How have we been led astray? Edit: That's just the terminology of the industry. Doctors have terminology. Geologists have terminology. Architects have terminology. IT...

You are not wrong; Prompt engineering is really not as off the cuff as lots of people think it is/as it seems. What passes many people by is that it's just another abstraction layer from coding. In the distant past, we used to write directly in machine language/assembly. Then we came up with...

Dude. There is literally nothing contradictory in what I wrote. If you don't understand what a backup is or is supposed to be, no worries. Not colloquially, like "I got a spare" but actual recoverable data from a fixed point in the past. Production data, or data that can be changed in a live...

In ITIL terms, no one ever refers to a live copy of data on an active server, whether its on a passive server in an Active/passive pair, or a HA set of servers in another DC where the data is being synced or changed as a "backup". A backup is something physically or logically separated from...

From another ice-cold franchise: "It's dead, Jim." Everyone in Hollywood still thinks its 2016-2019. They are still fighting the last war. For them, It's still DEI time; They still think cynical nihilism is what sells, despite flop after flop and cancellation after cancellation. "No more...

It's just counting to 10 50 times, or 30 times or whatever. So you count to 10 and then count 1, count to 10 and then count 2 count to 10 and then 3, etc all the way what the overall number is. It rolls by pretty quick, you know what I mean if you ever practice the absence of mind thing you do...

I was truly baffled reading this the first few times. I didn't get it; the meaning only impacted on the surface. Back when I worked out with friends regularly, we had to talk to each other and BS to kill time in the gym. As a teen we would spend 2.5 hours doing a 1.5 hour workout. Once I...

I was also swimming 1500m a day, lifting 5 days a week and 35-45 min of crossfit/stairmaster. It wasn't pause at the top one-one thousand slow descent until my pecs were fully stretched and then slow push to the top again. When I started getting in shape I started with 3x50, then went to...

Our Strength and Condition coach in college (late 80s early 90s) was huge into limiting workouts to 60-75 min. He was a former SEAL and big into the science of training and told us that after 75 min have burned all the glycogen you've stored in your muscles. He was big on trying to nearly kill...

Trying to TLDR this from its original narrative form but it's still a lot: I wrote a really long post explaining my medical history, (I'm a 34-year T1D) my relationship with weight, exercise, and fitness (I've lifted since I was 13, played football in hs/college), I've been fit and fat, gained...

Raxx has a Angelic Hammerdin build that I switched to from a Shield of Retribution Paladin build that I prefer; he's just signed some deal with Mobalytics so all of his stuff with be over there now but he has multiple videos on it, Leveling vs. Endgame. I'm digging it, just hit Torment 1 and...

It's the gaming/movie/music tradition of the decade.

I was super excited to play this because it was like the Dark Souls->Elden Ring of Returnal. I generally hate Rogue-likes but love the look of these games; First the DRM thing and now this story BS. People are coping SO HARD on X dot com about it: "That's fake; that's not the story. THAT'S...

"SAAR, to reach next biome, upload $1500 of gift caarrd"

Welp, in addition to the Sony DRM kerfuffle, then there's this: Spoilers for the game's apparently super woke story: It's all over the X dot com Now, between the Dev and the rumors, I played Avowed and it was nothing like what was being said about. I am sure you could play this and probably...

They still haven't made a formal annoucement in this regard, only done damage control through journalists. Why haven't they come out with kind of official statement? I think they are trying to let people down slowly and who knows what they will come back with later.

That's what they have said in interviews but not what the language of the policy said explicitly. It was painting it that way initially because that was how the black letter of the policy read; no one was misreading it. They still haven't corrected that language, only when asked by various...

This looks good, and its exactly what I wanted Returnal to be but FUCK SONY and Playstation with its 30 day connection bullshit. They can eat dicks.

We'll see how much that is when the fallout from Sony's "You've got to connect or we'll turn off your downloaded games and other content" starts to kick in. Microsoft can do the funniest thing here. If not, a pox on all of their Corporatist houses, then.

Unlike those of Entish and Elven backgrounds reading the thread, normal humans only have so long to live. To quote that great philosopher Don Henley, there are only so many summers and so many springs. This is the flip side of the coin the woman in question offered him: If he wasn't interested...

"Someone like this hurt me in the past" I mean, why work this hard for someone you have never met in person? She is obviously still hurt, bless her heart, by this 4-year post-divorce relationship she mentioned, not even including her previous marriage. She badly wants to be married again, to...

Long hair flock of Seagull Space Marines? Female Custodes? POC Adeptus Mechanicus knowingly fighting without support against Necrons? I can't wait for the Anti Hero Bad Boy with a heart of gold Chaos guys and Female Orks. Everything Woke goes to shit, and these guys can eat it. Edit...

He had a sudden heart attack, RIP Zander. It was all Carmen's fault, anyway. Dizzy forever.

Elon could do the funniest thing.

Enjoying playing on COA so much more. I haven't been able to do a ton of it but it's a million times better. Thanks so much for the recommendation/encouragement.

Oh, so you should never buy anything with splinters in their store, then? I can't get over how much smoother everything is, and faster the leveling is. It's just a better experience overall. I never went into the store from that perspective I guess.

Wow, I finally made the switch and A) it couldn't have been at a better time B) couldn't have been a better experience. Man, this server plays so much better! The only negative is they charge full price for storage but literally so what; So many other great things.

He wasn't the Great Man™ yet but his career was underway, IIRC: His artillery actions in Paris uprising (1795), his Italian campaign(1796), and his Egypt invasion(1798) all occurred before 1800. Amazing how compressed time-wise his career was; he rose from Corsican French Artillery...

Ugh, I need to make the switch. I keep meaning to try to set up different icons for each but I haven't got it to work yet, then when I tried to set the prompt for COA it wouldn't let me log in. I just finished a grueling week at work so I might dive into making this transition tomorrow...

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED.

Initially I thought why were you so sure it would fall into the ocean? To my eye at first it didn't appear there hadn't been any erosion; it was a difference in angle and the picture composition that led to the differences. The more I read, however, there have been a number of large earthquakes...

The worst part about the interview was him going " suchandsuch class of 1990" Dammit I graduated in 1989 and he looks way older than I do, I think, gray hair adding to that: I would have thought he was 10 years older than his derived age. Andy Weir is a true science nerd/Computer science guy...

Queue is slower to get in but performance at least for me in Midtown Madness with a 20ish character is good. I also made an account on COA as well for when that kicks off.

I fired this up the other day and got about 5 min in, was still calibrating my monitor and dropped out when the review I was watching started bitching about the controls. OMG. I saw Ut had 48 hours played already THEN, like 49 hours since launch or something. Will revisit once Marvel Heroes...