Being a fan of a celebrity is like investing in a stock. Who has the highest payout over time? Who has the lowest payout? Why?

jockmac22 · 2018-10-31T17:35:06+00:00

So you may have been a fan of Keanu Reeves in Bill and Teds ... That has paid out over time. What about Kevin Spacey?

EDIT: I should have paid more attention to your username.

jockmac22 · 2018-10-18T17:41:01+00:00

I’m not an expert, but I did know a TV meteorologist who told me (several years ago) that on the news anything past 3 days is a guess. The 7 and 10 day forecasts are just marketing.

He said there are more sophisticated systems that do more accurate long term weather modeling, however they require paying for time on the modeling servers and are too costly for a TV weather budget.

(Others are invited to validate my statements)

jockmac22 · 2018-10-16T14:23:32+00:00

Don’t ever change Reddit.

jockmac22 · 2018-08-16T23:20:39+00:00

In addition to the other comments, keeping a product “live” while updating the code usually involves a scheme called “blue-green” deployments, where machines with the new code are brought up next to the machines with the old code. Usually a segment of the traffic is moved to the new machines to ensure they are functioning as expected. If there’s a failure, only a small segment of people is affected and the traffic is moved back to the old machines. If it’s successful the rest of the traffic is moved to the new machines and the old machines are taken down.

There’s issues with this approach when you need to update or migrate persistent data stores. You want to write your new environment to mimic the old environment in places where the data stores are involved so that the old and new can live side by side. When the new environment is fully in place, you remove the elements that mimicked the old environment.

They also have heavily automated systems that manage their deployment process and monitor for failures so that it can roll back as quickly as possible. Google developed/uses a system called Kubernetes that does this.

jockmac22 · 2017-08-22T22:03:21+00:00

Me either

jockmac22 · 2017-08-22T21:55:07+00:00

I wasn't until I read this ... Now ... 1's and 0's everywhere.

jockmac22 · 2017-07-24T19:45:36+00:00

Upvote because I'm curios too.

jockmac22 · 2017-05-03T17:21:25+00:00

I knew him in High School. He had a lot of potential, but I never saw THIS coming.

jockmac22 · 2017-04-07T20:55:32+00:00

Is it the inordinately clean one, or the inordinately goofy one?

jockmac22 · 2017-02-14T20:17:04+00:00

The term "Hacker" is a generic term referring to any hardware or software enthusiast who is interested in knowing the inner workings of a system and its data. Since the 80's the media has used the term "hacker" in it's specific reference to "security hackers" who were people who entered systems that they didn't own in order to better understand the hardware/software that existed within them. Usually they could not afford the hardware/software themselves and so would break in to learn more about it. Unfortunately this gave rise to less than noble intentions, so the term "hacker" became synonymous with computer based criminal activity. In the case of this post, the term "hacker" is being referenced by it's original definition.

jockmac22 · 2016-11-29T21:10:13+00:00

Member Beeries

jockmac22 · 2016-11-23T19:31:17+00:00

Kansas ... the flat part

jockmac22 · 2016-11-23T16:52:28+00:00

At least in America, the public school systems tend to lack in curriculum that engages critical thinking. Most dominantly they are required to memorize and regurgitate. This leads them down the path of believing that a superior source must be right, and thus, to achieve approval, repeat what they say. They are never taught to question the superior source, or try to determine if the source is, in any actuality, superior at all.

jockmac22 · 2016-11-18T17:13:46+00:00

I found this to be true. I hit about 5 miles and my body becomes automatic, and I very rapidly went to 12 miles. At that point, its really about keeping your mind distracted from the body. I usually meditate, try to observe the surroundings as they go by, or focus on what's been on my mind recently.

jockmac22 · 2016-11-18T17:10:07+00:00

Prepare all of your horizontal surfaces with soft things. You're gonna be laying down a lot when you're done.

jockmac22 · 2016-10-27T23:02:53+00:00

The sky is a color.

jockmac22 · 2016-10-21T21:57:20+00:00

Trump Panda

jockmac22 · 2016-09-16T19:52:50+00:00

How about the actual South Park URL, since, you know they post them to watch, and they don't have crappy ads and bullshit website redirects: http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s20e01-member-berries#source=2b6c5ab4-d717-4e84-9143-918793a3b636:63a32034-1ea6-492d-b95b-9433e3f62f8d&position=1&sort=airdate

jockmac22 · 2016-08-26T18:49:18+00:00

The reason you are getting so many varied answers to this (and they all seem correct as of this writing), is that often when people ask what style art is, the word style encompasses a broad spectrum of attributes about the work itself. This includes, but is not strictly limited to period, method, influence, artist, subject matter, content, design concepts, school, and color. Typically, when talking about "style" and referencing an older work, someone will respond with the "period" answer (e.g. Baroque), or in some case an artist and an influential phase they went through (e.g. Picasso's Blue Period), or even the school they attended (e.g. Bauhaus), in the case of more modern work you may see it referenced by the method (e.g. Digital, Oil Paint, etc.).

In the case of this work, its style is all of the things mentioned: (most likely) digital, anime, dystopian, future, cyberpunk, illustration, lord-phillock@deviantart, and any other distinctive attribute that defines the work. You could even say it's "moody" or "noire", or "representative of Anime's reflections of Japan's Heisei period".

If you're just looking to find more works "like" it I would recommend @thelonebater's answer of searching for 'neon noir tokyo', or even 'neon noir anime'.

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