TimeSquirrel @ TimeSquirrel @kbin.social

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Candle? I thought we were talking about weed.

Hey Elon, X Window System called. They want their mouse cursor and logo back.

I just literally despise every technically incompetent person

Those are strong words for people that just didn't dedicate 90% of their lives to tech like we did. Some people actually do have other interests you know.

Is it okay to hate you simply for not knowing what a flyback diode, colpitts oscillator, phase-locked loop, or regenerative receiver is? That's my hobby. And there are not as many of us as there are software devs. There are not many here who I can discuss electronics engineering with. But I don't despise people because of that.

You gotta realize, WE are the weirdos, not them. A very high interest and obsession over tech is not an average human quality.

You're not supposed to torch it from the top like a caveman. There's a technique. The cornering sideburn.

I only use the setup when I'm mobile (like on vacation somewhere) , and everything fits in a backpack. It's not too annoying, and it's nice to work on some code while I'm away somewhere and the next minute launch a game to unwind. I'm not going to be sitting there staring at a tiny screen and working for hours though, you're right about the screen size being something to get used to.

Nor do you care about plugging in your parallel port printer from 1985

You haven't seen what I've been using my Steam Deck for. Gaming was not my primary motivation for buying it.

It's basically replaced my laptop. I carry a docking station, mouse, and full size keyboard with me. Eventually I'm gonna be using it for some robotics and remote control projects and other experiments. It's a full blown PC in a handheld, I mean, why not?

If you're not paying somebody, don't expect anything. You want shit done on your time, then cough up some compensation.

We wasted 30 years puttering around low Earth orbit with the space shuttle without making any real progress at all, meanwhile all the old Apollo engineers have retired or passed away, and the infrastructure to build everything doesn't exist anymore (for instance, the F-1 engine. To build that again, you'd have to rebuild all the tooling and test equipment that was used to make it as well). So we basically have to almost start from scratch.

Yes, fucktons of money can do amazing things very quickly. Unfortunately, NASA doesn't have that anymore.

All the footage you see now of the old moon missions is direct from the cameras, not broadcast footage. The first steps were broadcasted using a camera pointed at a monitor in Australia which was receiving an SSTV signal from the moon. It was actually pretty horrible.

“I’m going to let trump get power again so things can really bad really quick so we can get The Revolution™ started.”

"Revolution now?"

"Not at the moment, I have too much shit going on and I don't need to go to prison or anything for some dumb shit. There are people depending on me."

Destroys society

"How about now?"

They've been holding onto them since 2003.

Nobody ever said it we start spreading into space, we won't be taking all our current problems with us. Star Trek kinda gave us a rosy vision.

"Best viewed with Netscape Navigator at 800x600 resolution."

We got nukes first and WW2 barely touched us. That's about it. We started the game in the easiest mode.

Human brain (any brain, really) is a natural neural network

But the big difference between us and the AI is that we have motivation and drive. We don't exist for a split second for the sole purpose of fulfilling a prompt. We can take what we've learned and create new things with it. The AI just spits out what it already knows. Not what is possible to do with what it knows. It cannot invent.

NFT as ape pics are dead, yes. But crypto as a form of value exchange for transactions where you don't want too many eyes looking at it has not stopped since its invention in 2008. It's just going to become a normal staple of the internet, like Bittorrent and VPNs, just existing and being used without anybody really caring too much about the technology itself. I still use it to pay for some online services where I basically just want to hand them the internet equivalent of a wad of cash without giving anyone any account details of any kind. I've been doing that since 2013, the NFT thing just kinda came and went and I didn't care too much about it.

This had to be the most short-lived tech trend I've ever seen in my 41 years. Tamagotchi lasted longer in its heyday.

Talking about what men do but then lists PHP, Python, and JS and no regular C or assembly.

2001, I was 19 in USAF tech school in Biloxi, Mississippi, just bought a second hand computer from someone else in the dorm and needed a budget OS, and the local BX/PX had a copy of Corel Linux for $30. I had no idea WTF it was at the time, I thought it was just some kinda cheap bootleg Windows or something, something with half-ass compatibility like OS/2. I had no clue how to use it and I couldn't get any familiar programs to work, so I just paid another dude like $20 to burn me his copy of Windows 2000 for me.

Didn't even realize its potential until later, 2004 when I got a civilian IT job. Now Debian has been my daily driver for ten years.

Edit: oh yeah, the box came with an inflatable penguin, which I gave to the dorm guard on duty when I got back because he recognized it and I didn't think anything of it. If you ever see this post I want my penguin back now, dude.