Readit Newscptnapalm commented on Click-V: A RISC-V emulator built with ClickHouse SQL github.com/SpencerTorres/... · Posted by u/calcifer
cptnapalm commented on So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams multiverseemployeehandboo... · Posted by u/6forward
In case you are unaware, the hhgttg “trilogy” is actually 5 (or 6, depending on your view) books long. “So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish” and “Mostly Harmless” are definitely worth a read!
I remember there being a collection of the first 3 called the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide. In typical Adam's fashion, after the 4th book was released a new compendium was released called the More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide. That titling should have continued, so we'd have gotten the Even More than Complete Hitchiker's Guide and, finally, the Completest Complete Hitchiker's Guide.
cptnapalm commented on Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube? tedium.co/2025/02/05/warn... · Posted by u/shortformblog
Since those are mostly old movies, my immediate thought was: "maybe it's a new creative way to create a new income stream for hard-to-sell-otherwise assets?". If a decent enough number of users watch them, it could bring some cash to the publisher, couldn't it?
That's my thinking too. In fact, I was in a mood to watch OG film noirs, but between 3 streaming services, the only movie available was Sunset Blvd. Also failed to find any of the 1950s sci-fi movies I went looking for.
cptnapalm commented on Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube? tedium.co/2025/02/05/warn... · Posted by u/shortformblog
What is the similarity between the Dominicans and the Jesuits?
Both were started to fight heresy: the Dominicans the Cathars, the Jesuits the Protestants. Both were started by soldiers. Both have unique spiritual disciplines.
What's the difference? Meet any Cathars lately?
10 out of 10. Would guffaw again.
Yes. The original Elite was reverse-engineered into C by Christian Pinder as part of the Elite: The New Kind project. The source is out there. It's a brilliant bit of work.
Note: there's a crash bug. If you try to look at the local sun, the game will try to explode it, but suns can't explode so the game crashes.
cptnapalm commented on Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses archaeology.org/issues/no... · Posted by u/diodorus
This looks like professional wrestling to me. Way to go, Anatolians!
More than you'd think! I recall reading about touring gladiators. Rome might have been the big city, but audiences get tired of seeing the same gladiators all the time, so they'd go on tour. Now if you have a highly successful gladiator and you're in Podunkus, Asia Minor, would you risk losing your meal ticket to some hairy local? No. You fix the match. After the tour, you head back to Rome for the triumphant return and people are excited to see your guy again.
Well, there's a few things I should probably get around to adding to CNoEvil[0] and ogw[1]... There always seem to be more every few months when this project reappears.
"It takes a whole lot of bad ideas and mashes them into an abhorrent monstrosity."
I love this to the very core of my being.
cptnapalm commented on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect abcnews.go.com/US/wireSto... · Posted by u/indus
Wouldn't this make the glorious reviews for the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer illegal? I mean this thing has saved and ended marriages, enabled people to live their dreams of starting zydeco bands, started the boomerang pigeon hunting craze, and much more.
https://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-3571-571-Banana-Slicer/produc...
cptnapalm commented on End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video] youtube.com/watch?v=O3iUm... · Posted by u/transpute
I wonder how well NetBSD would run on it. There're quite a lot of current packages for it:
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc64/10...
When I was looking for a not-Solaris OS, OpenBSD was the only game in town for it. Literally. Somebody maintaining the UltraSPARC OpenBSD port decided to support this oddity specifically. Nothing else, including NetBSD, would work.
I'm not sure earlier books like that would pass these days without considerable liberal angst; that one for instance celebrates a certain lost kind of man of action with a brute uncompromising view of the mercenary perspective of the world.
For lovers of intelligent action novels though like me, he's one of those writers I always considered a sure bet when taking a punt with an Audible credit. RIP.