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The systemd one supports timezones. You can say America/Denver and the like, or Etc/UTC

1) Your production equipment doesn't have its TZ set to UTC? Enjoy dealing with the intermittent and irregular hassle of DST changes, I guess.

2) From the crontab(5) on my system:

  The  CRON_TZ  variable specifies the time zone specific for the cron ta‐
  ble.  The user should enter a time according to the specified time  zone
  into the table.  The time used for writing into a log file is taken from
  the local time zone, where the daemon is running.
If you have a job you need scheduled in a different timezone, dump a new file in /etc/cron.d, alter its CRON_TZ variable and go to town, as it were.

I got an email yesterday morning that sounded like a lead. The usual, "we're impressed by your profile, would like to talk about an opportunity, blah blah blah"

Scheduled a meeting, expecting a recruiter call. Got a salesman trying to pitch me an automated application service, that charges $50 per application and something like 10 weeks salary on placement

Told the guy to pound sand

Another company that does this is ladders. You'll see a posting, use it to apply, and then they'll black hole responses to your application unless you pay up. They'll also spam the ever loving shit out of your inbox


It's bigger than that, it's large

https://youtu.be/1Pr8xnNi7OM



HP used to have extremely small laptops in the early 90s, specifically the omnibook 300

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_OmniBook


The HP LX series (95LX, 100LX, 200LX) is one of my favorites. It also fits the description "smaller than VHS casette"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX


don't forget the Jornadas. i guess those were PocketPC-powered but i def bought one circa 2005 for like $90 and i would do it again right now

Why is this a problem? Quake 3 came out a quarter century ago, yet there are still community host servers available

After about 2010 companies stopped providing the server binary. Games like Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield 2, etc could be played by communities in perpetuity on private servers. If the next game (MW3, BF3) were terrible, you didn't have to buy the sequel, what you had was "good enough" and you could wait for the next version to be released in 2-3 years.

With the current "closed server" model, you can't get a copy of the server code, can't host truly private servers, and when the sequel MW4, BF4 comes out, those private servers won't survive and it forces everyone to move to the sequel regardless of the quality of the game. You can technically still hire a private server for games like BF3 (circa 2012) but very few people are going to pay the $70/month to host an official one via whatever terms EA has come up with, and you absolutely can't run it with plugins, mods, and especially custom maps or game modes, you have to play it "vanilla".

Quake 3 the server is included with the game, anyone can run it, modify it and it's very plugin friendly, which is largely why it is still around today. Closed servers you can't directly access is a deliberate decision to kill the game when the sequel is released, by not allowing users to extend what they "bought". Otherwise we would still all be playing Battlefield 3 on custom maps with CTF and 128 v 128 player servers and everything else. You can modify a handful of things on the paid private servers but it's extremely limited and there's no community feedback on any of this.


> After about 2010 companies stopped providing the server binary. Games like Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield 2, etc could be played by communities in perpetuity on private servers. If the next game (MW3, BF3) were terrible, you didn't have to buy the sequel, what you had was "good enough" and you could wait for the next version to be released in 2-3 years.

That's not true about Modern Warfare 2. Modern Warfare 2 was the first Call of Duty game where you could no longer host your own servers. In its predecessor, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, however, that was still possible. For MW2, unofficial servers created by players only became available later on. However, Activision has taken legal action against many of these projects.


Amusingly, all Call of Duties are still basically Quake mods. They've ALL ran on heavily modified quake engine, forked off of ioq3

Quake 3 can also be played fully offline, for various measures of "play" and "fully".

The missile knows where it is because it knows where it's data center is. It knows this because it just blew itself u-

Thank goodness it inferred that from its digital twin and updated its real-time world model with the prediction error.

Jj could do that; it stores an evolog of each change, but currently that's kept local

They added auto advance bookmarks a while ago. You configure which revset bookmarks you want to advance or not, and then it just keeps them at the "head" of a branch

Having to list all the bookmarks you would list to auto-advance in your jj config.toml is a hassle and easy to forget.

ideally this should be done automatically when you create the bookmark, maybe with a commandline option: jj bookmark create -a/--auto-advance ...

I remember when wired changed editors. After Chris Anderson left it became "gq but we talk about iPhones"


Exactly this

>Here's a new editor we made

Cool, looks interesting, I'd love to use it more

>We're forcing you to use it

I hate it


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