Merlin's Wisdom ProjectRemember that, like babies and balls, you can bounce. The extent to which any given event—often an imagined event—might derail or even destroy you is, at least in small ways, still something that's in your control. Especially when you remember that you can bounce.
Paul Holbrook
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Cat lover, Linux sysadmin, Apple enthusiast in Atlanta, GA
Yes, I don't like Synology's new policy of requiring their own disk drives for + products. But I have a two year old DS1522+, so this won't affect me for years.
But if I had to rebuy again in the near future, I'd most likely still buy Synology.
I'm employed as a Linux sysadmin, so I could likely make a go of TrueNAS. But I'm not getting paid to do that, and though I am a geek, I'd rather use the tried and tested product in this case rather than cobble something together.
#synology
But if I had to rebuy again in the near future, I'd most likely still buy Synology.
I'm employed as a Linux sysadmin, so I could likely make a go of TrueNAS. But I'm not getting paid to do that, and though I am a geek, I'd rather use the tried and tested product in this case rather than cobble something together.
#synology
This week's tech topic of interest has been Neovim.
I started with Emacs, but in my work as a Linux sysadmin Vim is always available, so I've learned what I need to get around.
Lately Neovim has been coming up as an alternative to tools like vscode, so I started exploring. I've watched a few videos by TJ DeVries and been jumping into the terminal.
Neovim certainly makes me appreciate Vim more. Unfortunately, you're not going to see nvim on work servers - just vanilla vim.
#neovim
From week to week I jump between different technical topics I find interesting.
Last week it was operating systems - see https://littleosbook.github.io/ - that sent me into a ChatGPT-assisted of trying to understand how context switches work on ARM machines. That led to questions about CPU caches and things like that.
Related - There's a book on "The Linux Memory Manager" by Lorenzo Stoakes coming out this year from No Starch Press. Sounds interesting (if pricey).
Ah, it appears the fellow behind RetroBytes is on BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/retrobytes.bsky.social
Today I've watched a number of videos from the Retrobytes YouTube channel. It's all nerdy stuff - the history of SPARC, History of ARM, a history of old-school terminals like the VT100 and such.
It's narrated by a British fellow. I enjoy the stories he weaves.
I'm not so keen on the old-timey music he runs behind EVERY SECOND of his videos, but I'll put up with it for a bit of computer history.
https://www.youtube.com/@RetroBytesUK
#computerhistory #retrocomputing
@chockenberry I searching for any information about the UCI PDP-10, and found your about page. (But no real info about the PDP-10.)
I was fascinated to see that you were in the ICS dept-perhaps a little later than me (I left in '82), but close. I was also pleased to see the shoutout to prof Tim Standish. They had some great folks back then. My personal fav - Jim Meehan, who maintained UCI Lisp on that PDP-10.
Oh, and the Terak and UCSD Pascal! I was happy to take the class that taught Pascal.
I was fascinated to see that you were in the ICS dept-perhaps a little later than me (I left in '82), but close. I was also pleased to see the shoutout to prof Tim Standish. They had some great folks back then. My personal fav - Jim Meehan, who maintained UCI Lisp on that PDP-10.
Oh, and the Terak and UCSD Pascal! I was happy to take the class that taught Pascal.
John Gordon“The average household with at least one family member on a GLP-1 is spending about 6 percent less on groceries each month within six months of adoption”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/31/ozempic-weight-loss-economy-2025/
GLP-1 economics. We don’t yet know how sustained the appetite effects will be however.
Coffeedate with ADHD"Ask me about the history of French Progressive Ska Music"
We think at 10bps and “we sift about one bit out of every 100 million we receive”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/science/speed-of-thought.html
Very low power.
