Mindaugas Barysas - Musings on IT

Byte-sized movie reviews

So I've been watching movies. Mostly good ones. Some bad ones. Let's see what we've got. I'm Totally Fine (2022) - 1/5 Any movie that uses Papa Roaches' "Last Resort" unironically should be taken behind the sauna, jumalauta. Spring (2014) - 7/5

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Chainsaw man: a first year psychology students' look

Chainsaw Man is not that unique. I've seen shonen before. It is the other aspects that are more interesting for me, and how the creators expose the psychological paradigms any first-year student of psychology should be aware of. I also think that might be intentional.

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Let's talk media

Dear reader, I am apologising in advance. My command of this language is adequate at most, style overburdened, composition questionable and knowledge of subject matters, whichever they may be, superficial

master-bodhisattva

The Place Where Black Stars Hang

Master Bodhisattva struggled to find a path among the irreconcilable opposites.

master-bodhisattva

The Sacred Scroll

It is going to be fine, we, beings of enlightenment, have it all solved, and it's all laughably simple - and he laughed without making a sound - and I've got it all written down for everyone to read, and it will end all of suffering, everywhere, forever and free of charge.

linux

I am using a superior operating system and so should you

You all should feel ashamed that in this day and age of enlightenment you are still using vastly inferior operating system.

joy-of-tech

Being a bash developer in the twenty-first century

Programming is a drug. A successful program run is not unlike getting a good careless drag of a menthol cigarette after sweaty workout session, still riding the crest of runners' high endorphin rush. And just like any drug, you build a tolerance to it and start chasing new highs.

joy-of-tech

2021 Will Surely Be The Year Of Linux Laptop

"It’s the joy of a man in his element, a man and machine working in perfect synergy, where a man asks the machine to do exactly what he wants it to, and the machine doing exactly what it’s told" - Linas Klimaitis

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The Journey to Virtue

A journey as to what exactly makes a senior senior, what knowledge does one need and how one makes use of it.

master-bodhisattva

Master Bodhisattva and The Incredible Story of The Infallible Developer

There weren't that many of them, perhaps a few dozen, and despite the reputation of being impeccable they never grew in number and in volume. And what a reputation they had! Their design was perfect, their code ideal, tests fast and precise, and the resulting system never had a single bug.