La cena dei cretini (reblog from mastodon)

God summons Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and Bill Gates to his office and tells them: “I have called you to announce the end of the world: it has been set by me for midnight on December 31, '95. Go and communicate the good news to the world.”
Yeltsin gathers the Duma and says: “Dear comrades, I have two bad news to give you: the first is that God exists, the second that the end of the world has been set for December 31, 95.”

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FEDIVERSO and MUDS

Sep 4, 2023 · 3 min read

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Non sono mai stato un fan di Twitter, ma grazie alla gestione abbastanza folle di Elion Musk, definibile “da boscaiolo con ascia”, ho avuto la ventura di provare Mastodon, e sperimentare le ebrezze del “fediverso”.

Resource tuning in K8s

Sep 4, 2023 · 4 min read

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K8s and limits

On K8s, for every pod you can define how much memory and CPU the pod needs. To make things "simpler", K8s define two set of values: requests and limits, both for CPU and memory. After some trouble on GCP, I was forced to dig a bit in the subject.

Latency numers every programmer should know

Aug 23, 2023 · 2 min read

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Latency numers every programmer should know

Modern computer are very very very fast. C/64 was about 1Mhz and you can hangs it just throwing a 10.000 cycle in interpreted BASIC v2 language.

Programming is being crystal clear

Aug 14, 2023 · 1 min read

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August throughts

Programming is like writing.

Code must be easy to read, and understand. For this reason I do not like very much technologies like:

Skyrim Anniversary Edition

Aug 2, 2023 · 1 min read

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Approfittando di un ingente sconto e dell’impossibilità di giocare ancora a BaldusGate3, ho comperato Skyrim per PlayStation5/PS4 ad appena 22€.

Pesky Italian Meetings HOWTO

Jun 14, 2023 · 1 min read

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I will admit it right now: I like to small talk, even at work.

Goodbye Silvio

Jun 12, 2023 · 2 min read

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Silvio Berlusconi e’ morto oggi al San Raffaele di Milano.

Il governo da quattro soldi

Jun 10, 2023 · 2 min read

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La coalizione di governo guidata dalla destra estrema Italiana continua a macinare consensi in modo solido e duraturo.

Mini Server @ Home

May 23, 2023 · 3 min read

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I the last years I decided to put a stop on my RasperryPI2 and have a mini pc always on.

It is a very slow centrino with 2 CPU threads and 8Gb of RAM, a huble micro SATA SSD and works great with Debian Linux. I use it as a benchmark to understand if a project is worth studying: if the CPU Load stay low, the code is very well written.

Pisa: non solo torre

May 3, 2023 · 2 min read

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Approfittando dei vari ponti, ho avuto la fotuna di visitare per 24 ore piene la citta’ di Pisa.

Quando tutto ebbe inizio

Apr 23, 2023 · 4 min read

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Credo sia successo nel 1985, quando avevo undici anni. Il Vic20 era uscito nel 1981 in America, e lo vidi per la prima volta a casa di un mio zio in una estate del 1984 circa. Doveva costare intorno alle 200.000-230.000 lire (!). e uno stipendio decente doveva stare sul milione/milione e mezzo di lire.