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wjrii

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  • The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster

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  • The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster

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  • Poetry is like a set of compression tools for meaning

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  • I like that, though I might consider that rhyme, alliteration, and especially repetition also aid retention by requiring less data to be committed to memory as-is. References to other works are also very much a shorthand for cramming pre-existing memes (in the Dawkins sense) into less "word-doing."

    I dunno. The whole thing breaks down pretty quickly, as most analogies between mental and computational process do, but it's fun to think about.

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    Poetry is like a set of compression tools for meaning

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    I wonder if K-pop Demon Hunters is so popular because it's a ready allegory for the fight against fascism and authoritarianism...

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  • Adults also make a face with how much it’s a copy of Frozen’s premise.

    Definitely very similar, but it's different enough, I'd say. It sort of makes explicit that there are cultural repercussions to imposing Elsa's burden on everyone, that embracing individuality can ironically create a stronger sense of community, and then, in splitting Elsa into Rumi and Jinu, it allows for parallel redemptive tracks, one who never had a "Let it Go" first act moment at all and suffered because of it, and one who really thoroughly bought into the anti-social aspects of it but is then gaslit into thinking they can never be anything better.

    If we can do the Hero's Journey a thousand times, we can do Elsa's every few years, especially when the rest of it is changed up and fun. I do think there's a world where K-Pop Demon Hunters comes and goes without making any waves, but the songs are all earworms and it hit at just the right moment, apparently.

  • What's a genre of music you're waiting to have a resurgence?

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  • It’s still out there. For one that’s specifically what you describe try Keep the Wolves at Bay by Uncle Lucius.

  • Happy Halloween!

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  • TWSBIs for everybody!

    Filled fountain pens might make parents madder than Vapes would, though.

  • Happy Halloween!

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  • Me: Why are they talking about cartridges? Those look like piston-fill demonstrator fountain pens to me!

  • What is a useful or interesting product under $100 that you wouldn’t normally think to buy?

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  • This one is way below $100, but about ten years ago I bought a roll of twist tie wire at a dollar store. It's fifty or a hundred feet, with a little guillotine cutter. It's still just a bunch of twist tie, but it punches WAY above its weight with quality of life improvement. No more hunting for the one you dropped, or wondering how you'll close up a veggie bag. Also good for (fairly light) pictures that use wire instead of sawtooth hardware, and I've used it in a pinch when I didn't have cable ties. I dunno. It's just an oddly useful substance to have lying in your junk drawer.

  • Another reason to love Dick

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  • Counterpoint: it was nowhere near as good as its ratings warranted, and shows featuring stock characters slinging zingers amid half-assed farce plots are a dime a dozen for most of TV’s history.

  • Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath

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  • They need to make one episode in which they retcon Trip's death in that stupid Holodeck finale, air it so it's canon, and then immediately cancel the show because this sounds mid AF, and Archer was an ass, and Bakula has all the presidential gravitas of a single neutron.

  • Have you aged out of playing sports? How did you handle it?

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  • Specifically for soccer, there's O40 teams (and even beyond, up to "walking soccer/football"), and if you can change your headspace just a bit, you can drop down to a more recreational level and still enjoy the sport you love. Just be mindful that they're not really the bad guys, and you can still try to stop them and shut out the rest of the world. As a chronic overthinker, that simple headspace can be a really healing place to be for a while.

    I didn't even start playing until I was already fat and almost thirty, but I had a good ten years of playing indoor off and on; yes... forty, but you almost certainly have much better fitness than I ever did, LOL. Speaking of indoor, it really limits the duration of your sprints and whether on offense or defense you can "manage" more of the field without the same physical strain. The consistent conditions are nice too, though many facilities smell like sweat at all times.

  • Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art

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  • I certainly didn't mean to imply they're actually incorrect, just that presumably working to fix it was part of their mandate, and the frank admission that they didn't magically fix everything is kinda darkly funny.

  • Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art

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  • I did particularly like this:

    “We did not make this organisation insolvent, it was already insolvent,” the management committee said on Sunday.

    Saying that in an indignant Australian accent makes it feel like it came straight out of some antipodean cringe-humor sitcom (FYI "Fisk" is pretty good!).

  • I booped a squirrel

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  • It certainly wasn't THAT level of engagement, but when I was in college the students had to be told not to feed the on-campus alligators.

  • YSK that the current US Defense Secretary was previously a lobbyist hired by for-profit colleges. Many americans have no idea about that.

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  • You're not wrong, yet this is still quite awful.

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    Why does philosophy education make people uncomfortable?

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  • Older people however, were generally more disparaging and would openly scoff with “why would we need philosophy!” often followed by “[Science | religion | real life] tells us everything we need to know” depending on their particuar worldview.

    Philosophy is just psychology. Psychology is just biology. Biology is just chemistry. Chemisty is just physics. Physics is just math. Math, though, math is just philosophy. Fun joke, but like many such jokes, there's an element of truth there. While I have met some philosophy majors who find the exploration of logic so compelling that they forget to consider the humanity of their first principals, I deeply respect that Philosophy is ultimately the underpinning of how humans think about the universe in any meaningful way.

  • Serious question: Do the republicans in office want to go back to the America of the 50's or am I trying to make sense of it by thinking too simple?

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  • Agreed. I think this is more specifically it rather than the 50s.

    • Unfettered domestic commerce devoid of worker protections.
    • International trade viewed as zero-sum and managed using blunt instruments like tariffs.
    • America as a rising manufacturing power.
    • Nominally speaking there is no slavery, but Reconstruction is "done" and Southern elites have been rehabilitated and reintegrated without having to give up their power.
    • Foreign policy built on late-stage colonialism where areas within a great power's sphere of influence are silently allowed to be dominated so as not to antagonize other great powers. Relations handled by a stupid nest of ad-hoc limited-party treaties.
    • No effort is given to contextualizing what the American experiment has meant, and who it has harmed, just literally a "manifest destiny" from god to fill the land.

    Ignore that the era was laissez-faire with immigrants actually arriving (though of course the robber barons who were working their laborers to death were okay with this... until they began to unionize), and it's a remarkably apt analogy. I'm pretty sure you can see Trump openly pining for The Gilded Age from time to time, though that may literally just be because he thinks gilding things is awesome.

  • Why is it called linux phone?

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  • Thanks, Richard.

  • how do school shooters know how to use guns?

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  • I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    I did not look up how progressive lenses really work before getting some.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are there terminal-based Wordgrinder alternatives for an SBC "writerdeck"?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    wjrii @lemmy.world

    Recommendations for low-end 1080P PC Gaming upgrades?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    wjrii @lemmy.world

    Help me ID a book from a hazy 1980s childhood memory

  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Just a DIY USB keyboard, but I made Timex Sinclair themed keycaps for it on my laser.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue?

  • Casual Conversation @lemm.ee
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    At what point does "the book was better" simply reveal that you prefer books?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    So who's been on a cruise ship?

  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
    wjrii @lemmy.world

    Sketchpad: Constraint-based 2D CAD sketching prototype from 1963