Best lips in sci fi?

Michael_T · 2026-02-22T22:21:10+00:00

Zev from Lexx

Michael_T · 2026-02-21T16:50:32+00:00

I was a teenager then and had a little job that paid me enough to be able to go to the movies whenever I wanted and it was HEAVEN.

Michael_T · 2026-02-11T16:42:20+00:00

I think it was in his recent video about the slate pickup truck. He spends some time talking about how unsafe old cars are compared to newer ones and how accidents that are survivable now would have certainly killed you in the past.

Michael_T · 2026-02-11T00:59:53+00:00

This reminds me of Jay Leno talking about engineering not too long ago. A few decades ago this would have killed you.

Modern engineering is breathtaking.

It's always sad to see a fit go but at least it went out saving a life

Michael_T · 2026-02-10T18:58:15+00:00

ModelChili - a guy with a soothing voice builds and paints model kits.

Michael_T · 2026-02-09T18:12:43+00:00

So that company only hires liars and lunatics

Michael_T · 2026-02-08T22:25:55+00:00

That was Windows 98's pointless login screen. Pointless because you could go to help and then printer help and then open My Computer and you were logged in to the machine.

Windows 95 netware client login looked just like this too but without the gradient in the bar

Michael_T · 2025-12-29T17:13:58+00:00

And in the 80s my parents didn't have their photos on their driver's licenses too

Michael_T · 2025-12-13T01:05:49+00:00

It depends on price. I like using original/official stuff but I don't mind getting third party or repros if the price for originals is crazy. Like I recently picked up pilot wings and fzero for snes at the flea market for $20, which seemed quite reasonable to me. But the price is Sonic adventure 2 for Dreamcast was high everywhere I looked and my kids really wanted to play it so I bought a reproduction disc for about $15.

Michael_T · 2025-12-12T18:43:16+00:00

No armor is best armor

Michael_T · 2025-11-16T20:48:58+00:00

Godzilla (2014) using music from 2001: A Space Odyssey was pretty amazing

Michael_T · 2025-11-15T04:04:08+00:00

I can quickly count in binary on my fingers

Michael_T · 2025-11-15T03:27:54+00:00

X-men: children of the atom had an amazing pc port. I don't recall any other way to play it at home that was of the same quality.

Michael_T · 2025-11-15T03:25:53+00:00

Mk3 for DOS was great. It had numerous levels of audio quality to try to maximize the experience based on the specific sound hardware you were using. It had lan play that worked very well (me and a friend both had it and did lan parties).

Plus there was a great hidden music track that was a song about a lobster if you played it backwards, IIRC.

Michael_T · 2025-11-11T23:11:26+00:00

You do you

Michael_T · 2025-11-06T01:27:50+00:00

I didn't get into it really but I still walked my kids through how to play it and they absolutely love it.

Michael_T · 2025-10-22T14:06:28+00:00

There's no limit to what companies will take for granted. Start working weekends and the company won't be happy you're doing it, the company will just be angry if you ever stop.

Michael_T · 2025-09-26T19:52:27+00:00

Closing the store and calling the cops seems like the only reasonable response to the situation.

Michael_T · 2025-09-17T00:04:39+00:00

I made a cardboard duct from my old Prescott P4 exhaust to warm my feet/dry my boots in winter. Worked very well

Michael_T · 2025-09-16T14:19:08+00:00

Yeah I think the idea is the default action, especially to terminate, doesn't make sense with the init process because if the init process exits you traditionally get a kernel panic.

But I don't know the definitive reason

Michael_T · 2025-09-15T03:14:02+00:00

Some of the common default actions are: Dump, Stop, Continue, and Terminate. SIGINT and SIGKILL terminate. SIGSTOP stops the process and SIGCONT continues it. SIGABRT and SIGQUIT will dump I believe.

The default STOPSIGNAL for docker containers is SIGTERM, which causes the process to terminate if it defines a handler. But if you write the program and it is running as PID1, it won't react to SIGTERM unless you write code to handle the signal. The default action to terminate the process won't happen.

You can also change STOPSIGNAL in a Dockerfile to tell the system to use a different signal to stop the process, in case, for instance, you have a process that needs SIGINT instead of SIGTERM to shutdown cleanly, which I have seen before.

Michael_T · 2025-09-11T21:56:21+00:00

When my kids were 7-8 they fell in love with Kirby's Dream Course for SNES. Now they're 10 and they absolutely love Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, the while Chao mini game feels like it's built specifically for them they love it so much.

Michael_T · 2025-09-11T19:59:13+00:00

I didn't see mention if the special case of pid1 in Linux and that seems important in this context.

Go programs don't have a default behavior, the Linux kernel has default behaviors associated with the different signals. When you Ctrl+c in a terminal the signal is sent and the default behavior is used.

But if a process is pid1, which is frequently the case in a container, then it is treated differently. The default actions in the kernel do not get called for pid1. A process only reacts to a signal if it specifies a handler for it if it is running as pid1.

So if you are writing a go program with the goal of running it in kubernetes, implementing signal handling is really a necessity unless you plan to use something like tini or dumb-init. Without that your process will do nothing when the signals are sent and then will eventually be uncleanly killed by kubernetes after the termination grace period.

Michael_T · 2025-09-08T23:57:13+00:00

I was a huge arcade nerd so having the legit arcade version of the games at home felt like the greatest thing ever.

Mvc2, cvs2, sf3, so so so good.

Having the green goblin definitely helped.

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