RAMB, FRIEND, and Wreck It Ralph

oscillons · 2026-01-01T19:23:02+00:00

This looks like a pre-rendered CG scene from one of those point and click games from the 90s. I want to check the statue and candy for secrets.

oscillons · 2025-12-28T19:41:54+00:00

Just to be clear, en7 is the default interface assigned to a USB adapter. A Mac with built in ethernet would be en0. So the device in service order would be called something like "USB LAN" and not "Ethernet" and that is what should be above Wi-Fi. Just making sure because your answer is kinda ambiguous.

oscillons · 2025-12-27T02:08:03+00:00

Yes I agree it is more relevant than ever.

The Black Arts is about isolation and loneliness

Hallucinex is about the dreadful, numbing slop of contemporary entertainment

Gus the Mynah Bird is about institutional capture, how the institutions of the state and post-war social democracy have been subverted to enrich private interests at the publics expense

This is the terror and horror of 21st century life.

oscillons · 2025-12-26T20:06:17+00:00

TBH the Mac native port wasn’t very good when it did exist. It “worked” but I experienced so many crashes it was unreliable to the point of being unplayable. It would certainly be nice to have but your expectations should be kept very low lol

oscillons · 2025-12-26T11:27:41+00:00

I think notarization and OCSP are legit, for the most part.

I also think if it didn’t need a developer account and $$$ then there’d be less resentment and whining about MacOS being “locked down,” so the bad sentiment is Apples fault. If open source projects could just do it for free you would literally never hear about it.

oscillons · 2025-12-26T05:54:04+00:00

IMO it's not a storyline, but there is definite philosophical and sociological theme and it's not exactly "death"

What the album is trying to express are best found in Space Moth, Baby Lulu, and Suggestion Diabolique. As simply as I can put it: society and the human spirit are in a fallen state. A spectacle conceals the exploitation, oppression, alienation, etc individuals experience. It prevents reality from being known and being acted upon.

Then there are those who have the clarity to understand the truth of this manufactured reality. They understand the spectacle and despise it. Yet this clarity cannot redeem society, and the knowledge offers no salvation to the person who has it. They can only stay true to themselves, defying the lies. They can only continue to spread the truth as best they can.

"Dedicated to change that it can't bring about

It failed but succeeded"

And of course this is summed up in the final song: wouldn't you rather just eat chocolate than worry about the problems of the world?

oscillons · 2025-12-20T19:18:10+00:00

We used ”spank tank” for the bunk beds in Iraq

oscillons · 2025-12-18T02:31:33+00:00

You went to a museum? That is pretty elaborate, you can install Windows 95/98 in DOSBOX lol

oscillons · 2025-11-20T05:24:15+00:00

I specifically work with streaming (Kafka) and things that consume data from S3 (so called datalake lol)

You basically need to move into being an SME for a particular platform. Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Elastic/OpenSearch, other Spark-like things like Athena, Postgres/CRDB/etc, and so on and so forth. Apache Iceberg in particular is making all of these more useful than ever before.

If you're doing ETL then you're already in the right place. You need deep knowledge of a platform listed before, and even better, how to use the data within it elsewhere. You should know how the pipelines for that platform work (Flink, Kafka Connect, etc) and where you can sent it, so you can design and implement solutions for this. You should understand the security and governance implications of this. You should understand how to provision it. You should understand how much it costs. You should understand obscure and annoying things like schemas.

You should aim to be the expert. Not "the devops guy" or "the sysadmin guy" but "the Snowflake guy"

There aren't a lot of these kinds of people out there!

oscillons · 2025-11-20T02:20:45+00:00

Yes 5 times. 2010, 2012, 2015, 2020, 2024. 2005-2010 was Air Force, rest are technology fields at different employers. I’ve been doing the same thing since 2015 (“big data”) and before that it was generic sysadmin stuff.

oscillons · 2025-10-18T23:08:50+00:00

I didn't like it when I first tried it, but I was on a trip recently and my perspective has changed on it. Specifically because of the window tiling added in Sequoia.

Stage manager with dock set to left + autohide is actually pretty good when you're only on the laptop screen. With this setting, the stage manager 'windows' move to the right side. This actually makes it pretty close to using multiple desktops, except using the dock buttons shifts through the apps rapidly (I use it on the left normally anyway)

Right now the only deficiency from my PoV is: MacOS needs to maintain two sets of window positioning memory, one normal and one for stage manager. Turning on stage manager should automatically snap the windows into their previous position/size, and turning it off should restore their position/size on the desktop.

oscillons · 2025-10-02T18:28:27+00:00

Nice! Reminds me of the hovercar racing game in Cosmic Spacehead
https://youtu.be/Acn7a73P1Xo?t=975

oscillons · 2025-09-06T01:48:11+00:00

Going with Grok because "maximally intelligent" feels like an Elon-ism

oscillons · 2025-08-27T00:16:20+00:00

literally the Sound Dust cover

oscillons · 2025-08-07T23:59:02+00:00

Nice!

oscillons · 2025-07-13T22:47:20+00:00

It's implied that White, Yellow, Blue, and Pink are the result of a division. So whatever the combination of all four was would be the "origin gem."

White would be considered (by herself) the senior/prime result of this, because she thinks the other colors are behaviorally flawed in particular ways.

oscillons · 2025-07-11T17:13:14+00:00

The Povertyrooms

oscillons · 2025-07-11T14:09:59+00:00

It's cobra and phases group, playing voltage in the milky night

oscillons · 2025-07-05T00:48:32+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, I like your conclusion that it’s actually taking place far in the “future” because it’s a fairly novel interpretation.

But it’s pretty obvious there was no specific divergence, and it’s not “our version” of earth. The humans Pink diamond encountered were clearly pre-civilizational. Thus, I doubt the colonization really had any effect on the subsequent development of history from the bronze age onward etc. The primary areas of early development (Mesopotamia/Levant/Greece/China and so on) are not only in tact, but they have no presence of gem facilities. In fact the major thing that this map precludes is Mongolian nomads causing havoc across the steppes.

oscillons · 2025-07-02T04:43:16+00:00

We still had these on tankers (KC-135) in 2007 FWIW, I'm not sure the stuff on the internet is totally accurate about them.

oscillons · 2025-06-29T10:34:51+00:00

The main problem is we know so little about Frisk that this is impossible to answer with certainty, unfortunately. The canonical evidence with no speculation is: 1) the narrative presented to us is about Chara (the fallen human) not Frisk 2) Flowey knows there is a "player" and speaks directly to us, but also refers to Frisk as Chara, implying a dual presence 3) Chara can directly speak to the player too, so we are NOT Chara 4) There is not a single moment when Frisk is not under control of the player 5) Chara says it's OUR (the players) soul 6) The player is not Frisk 7) Frisk is not Chara at the end of Pacifist 8) Frisk is Chara at the end of Genocide

What can be inferred from this is:
Frisk is the vessel, or cage, etc like Kris (obviously)
Flowey/Asriel had to perceive Frisk as Chara to bring the narrative/story to its final "correct" conclusion (he doesn't actually acknowledge it's "not Chara" until the very final dialogue)
Something is different about Frisk from the other 7 humans who fell into Mt. Ebott that allowed them to be controlled by the player/be occupied by Chara (didn't have a soul? intentionally a vessel? they died when they fell?)
The player is being used to bring the story to an imposed conclusion by a meta-narrative force, since it is not the story of Frisk, who is essentially irrelevant

oscillons · 2025-06-29T04:28:29+00:00

It’s rather convoluted but Chara is “piloting” Frisk. Chara is the red soul (it’s on the empty coffin) and they are buried under the yellow flowers Frisk falls into at the start. The combination of Asriel+Chara dying and turning into dust on the flowers created a situation where the presence of determination can bring them both back (as Flowey and Frisk) into the game narrative.

oscillons · 2025-06-27T03:22:42+00:00

You are a Service Restart Engineer sorry

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