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Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?
Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it’s the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga’s grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became…
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STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?
In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he’s always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again… This time, voice actors are striking against the video game…
SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!
Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home…
Data Center Drama
For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that’s centered around what he refers to as data center “bloopers”. Chunga isn’t entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data…
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Why Big Corporations Buy Other Big Corporations
It’s something we should all come to grips with, and prepare for. If you choose to build a career in the tech industry, you will–at some point–go through the acquisition process. Odds are, many of you have been through it already. Because of this,…
Demonic Computing!
While Tom and Chunga were working away on a project earlier this week, Tom mentioned a computing term that Chunga hadn’t heard before. He used the word “demon” and said that it wasn’t working in his new, custom-built servers. Demon as a computer…
Real "Virtual" Relationships In Tech
Tom and Chunga have heard from many of you about how hard it is to build and maintain real, substantive, relationships within the tech industry from the beginning of the pandemic. Whether you prefer to work remotely or not, networking in this new…
The Escalating Video Card War!
It’s impossible not to notice how insanely expensive video cards have become over the past few years. There’s a variety of reasons for this, supply chain issues, the pandemic, etc. Perhaps one of the biggest reasons is the explosion in crypto…
Tech Professionals! Do You Have "The Storm"?
May is mental health awareness month and in this episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga have a question for you–Do you have “the storm”? The Storm is a term that Chunga uses to describe something that happens internally to some people. It’s an internal…
Tom & Chunga Build a Server. It Doesn't Go Well!!
After a week off, Tom and Chunga are back! Tom is really excited about a new project he’s getting started on. For the first time in over a decade, he’s going to build his own servers! He’s really interested in participating in some new networks and…