Video games are such a weird thing, when you think about it
We have these computers that are orders of magnitude more powerful than any technology used in the Apollo space programs, and we use them for entertainment
Elevating the human experience isn't something worth shooting for?
Mind you, there are still like loads of problems in the world, but humans beings are sort of these creatures with entire mental wellbeings that oftentimes needs just as much care as their physical beings.
saying that... not only making entertainment, but enjoying entertainment is something that is bottom rung seems entirely... ignorant.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I dunno, it's just kind of impressive to me that this technology that would have been inconceivable just a few decades ago is now accessible enough that we can afford to use it for leisure
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
When I was a little kid I used to pretend I had a "computer book"
It was just something I made out of cardboard, but in my head it was a computer about the size of a trade paperback that you could open up, play games or send email or something from, and then close up the cover and stuff it in your backpack with real books.
So, I accidentally left my laptop cooling pad at a friend's house and since my comupter will overheat if I play certain games on it without some sort of additional cooling, I had the idea to put a small box fan on its side and use it as an impromptu cooling pad. This has to be the silliest yet still effective jury rigging I've done.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yay jury rigging
I always have that running gag of "since I'm biracial, when I jury-rig something is it 'redneck' or 'ghetto'?"
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I've heard it said that as limited as Apollo's computers were, they were still immensely, outrageously hardy and reliable. Which is what you need with a space mission.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I've heard it said that as limited as Apollo's computers were, they were still immensely, outrageously hardy and reliable. Which is what you need with a space mission.
Seems sensible.
I guess that is one major difference between those purpose-built machines and the sort of general-purpose consumer computers available nowadays
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I remember back when people were freaking out over Y2K, it was pointed out that anyone seriously reliant on computers for a life-or-death scenario (medical equipment, air traffic control, etc.) would never actually be running something like Windows 98 anyway.
I remember back when people were freaking out over Y2K, it was pointed out that anyone seriously reliant on computers for a life-or-death scenario (medical equipment, air traffic control, etc.) would never actually be running something like Windows 98 anyway.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, actually.
There are a lot of essential services that still use Windows XP out there, so I would easily imagine there were a lot that used Windows 98 back in 2000.
I've heard it said that as limited as Apollo's computers were, they were still immensely, outrageously hardy and reliable. Which is what you need with a space mission.
the apollo programs were really pretty great. they very nearly all died because of an out of memory exception (they accidentally left some sensors designed for space on during the landing, and they went crazy with all the input data), but even their shitty 56 kb lack of OS had an OOM-killer, so they could still land.
I dunno, it's just kind of impressive to me that this technology that would have been inconceivable just a few decades ago is now accessible enough that we can afford to use it for leisure
I remember back when people were freaking out over Y2K, it was pointed out that anyone seriously reliant on computers for a life-or-death scenario (medical equipment, air traffic control, etc.) would never actually be running something like Windows 98 anyway.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, actually.
There are a lot of essential services that still use Windows XP out there, so I would easily imagine there were a lot that used Windows 98 back in 2000.
You know, I shouldn't be so hard on the eastern coast states of the United States (Virginia, maryland, Ohio, Delaware, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Georgia, Maine, Indiana, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New Hampshire).
They are a buffer keeping the important and beauty-containing states from the evil influences of the great waters. If the east didn't exist, then Montana would have to have a coastline. And I don't want to think about what would happen to the south.
Why the West coast isn't as bad is clear: all of its badness was concentrated in California.
They are a buffer keeping the important and beauty-containing states from the evil influences of the great waters. If the east didn't exist, then Montana would have to have a coastline.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I remember back when people were freaking out over Y2K, it was pointed out that anyone seriously reliant on computers for a life-or-death scenario (medical equipment, air traffic control, etc.) would never actually be running something like Windows 98 anyway.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, actually.
There are a lot of essential services that still use Windows XP out there, so I would easily imagine there were a lot that used Windows 98 back in 2000.
Okay, it just really bugs me the way you guys talk smack about the red states.
So, I comfort myself by reminding myself that the best stuff is west of the Mississippi.
Need I remind you that the world's oldest and largest single organism lives in Utah? Or that the sphinx is in Montana? Or that Mount Mazama, , is in Oregon? Or that new Mexico's snowy river cave system is one of the ten longest in the world and is completely ecologically unique, having fascinating microbial life that is so rare and precious that tourists are not allowed at all there anymore? Or that Nevada has, um, sagebrush and flatness?
Take that, east states! How do you like your progressive social policies and actually funded education now, huh? Oh, and your cultural heritage and museums with all the cool art and the EVERYTHING ABOUT HARLEM and the library of Congress and Cleveland is awesome, and Boston in fall and your standard of living and SHUT UP WE HAVE GORGES.
England is to the Eastern United States what the Eastern United States are to the Awesome States.
And The Awesome States are to South America as Eastern United States is to the awesome states. And South America had the same relation to Africa and Australia, which are, strictly speaking, the best, because wait that makes no sense what am I even saying here
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Popped a melatonin, which I'm going to regret in the morning but be thankful for in the afternoon
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They are a buffer keeping the important and beauty-containing states from the evil influences of the great waters. If the east didn't exist, then Montana would have to have a coastline. And I don't want to think about what would happen to the south.
Why the West coast isn't as bad is clear: all of its badness was concentrated in California.
I'm moving to Nicki Minaj OS
So, I comfort myself by reminding myself that the best stuff is west of the Mississippi.
Need I remind you that the world's oldest and largest single organism lives in Utah? Or that the sphinx is in Montana? Or that Mount Mazama, , is in Oregon? Or that new Mexico's snowy river cave system is one of the ten longest in the world and is completely ecologically unique, having fascinating microbial life that is so rare and precious that tourists are not allowed at all there anymore? Or that Nevada has, um, sagebrush and flatness?
Take that, east states! How do you like your progressive social policies and actually funded education now, huh? Oh, and your cultural heritage and museums with all the cool art and the EVERYTHING ABOUT HARLEM and the library of Congress and Cleveland is awesome, and Boston in fall and your standard of living and SHUT UP WE HAVE GORGES.
Stupid east states.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
And The Awesome States are to South America as Eastern United States is to the awesome states. And South America had the same relation to Africa and Australia, which are, strictly speaking, the best, because wait that makes no sense what am I even saying here
RESURGAM BEFORE I EMBARRASS MYSELF FURTHER.
ergo, Antarctica is the best
I knew I was going to regret staying up last night...
RESURGAM.
Night, fellas.
/grumpy old cow