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i love cooking but i started doing cereal for dinner since my tech job offers a free lunch cooked by a real chef that's now become the main meal of the day the one big problem with this setup is that im getting bad at doing grocery shopping, since i only need to do that for my weekend meals, so i put it off and in the middle of the week i'll end up missing something that i wanted
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the only "viable" interplanetary mode of travel is the one from Altered Carbon imo: slow ships that dump a load of infrastructure and cloned bodies on a planet then you beam your brain over there (handwaving the speed of light in the process obviously) so we could very well end up with a planet of Andreesens and thiels which is going to be somewhere between Coneheads and that Dracula in Space film I've forgotten the name of (Dracula X?) e: use entangled particles to do it which raises the spectre of downloading your brain in serial over the equivalent of COM1
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:the only "viable" interplanetary mode of travel is the one from Altered Carbon imo: slow ships that dump a load of infrastructure and cloned bodies on a planet then you beam your brain over there (handwaving the speed of light in the process obviously) I feel as though the "beam your brain" is a bigger thing to hand-wave away than the speed of light in that com channel. Like, even in Altered Carbon that was the one piece of tech considered so magical that it came from the remnants of an unknown hyper-advanced civilization
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echinopsis posted:we call grilling a barbie and heck it’s great poo poo Pining for Valhalla.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:the only "viable" interplanetary mode of travel is the one from Altered Carbon imo: slow ships that dump a load of infrastructure and cloned bodies on a planet then you beam your brain over there (handwaving the speed of light in the process obviously) in the Alastair Reynolds universe they tried sending zygotes in starwisps at near light speed to be born raised by robots and they all went crazy
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LanceHunter posted:I feel as though the "beam your brain" is a bigger thing to hand-wave away than the speed of light in that com channel. Like, even in Altered Carbon that was the one piece of tech considered so magical that it came from the remnants of an unknown hyper-advanced civilization it's one brain Lance, what can it possibly need, 640kb? after all, bill gates said that should be enough for anyone
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Aug 25, 2023 13:13
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:in the Alastair Reynolds universe they tried sending zygotes in starwisps at near light speed to be born raised by robots and they all went crazy which book was that I don't remember it? or was it one of his shorts?
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Aug 25, 2023 13:14
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rotor posted:posting for appreciation Midjack posted:still looking for that real tomato. i knew that joke was gonna be for like 2, maybe 3 people lol
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:which book was that I don't remember it? or was it one of his shorts? it’s background material in the prefect and some of the earlier books, not a story in itself. called the ‘amerikano’ era
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Aug 25, 2023 13:22
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:it’s background material in the prefect and some of the earlier books, not a story in itself. called the ‘amerikano’ era oh yeah I think I remember now
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goblin week posted:this is like a tradcath version of denying reality You can totally cook a meal for a family of 4 in twenty minutes if you're american and the recipe is "dump three cans of stuff in a pan and mix it all up."
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Luigi Thirty posted:it starts off good with “the reactionary techno shitheads are trying to ensure they stay on top for all eternity with the government’s money spigot” and quickly veers off into “the metaverse is going to destroy humanity and Peter Thiel is going to have a robot body with the strength of 10 gorillas any day now” even worse, it cites yudkowsky
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haveblue posted:even worse, it cites yudkowsky lmao
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i was hoping the author's wikipedia page would be funnier but it's pretty dull, however he does look like a celebrity impersonator of Adam Savage also "In December 2010, Annenberg Press published Taplin's breakthrough enhanced eBook, Outlaw Blues: Adventures in the Counter-Culture Wars. The Wall Street Journal noted, "What makes Outlaw Blues stand out from the similar cultural memoirs is that Taplin packaged it specifically for the iPad, which he embraced on day one. He lovingly embedded 105 videos into the book's pages."" lol
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Shame Boy posted:he does look like a celebrity impersonator of Adam Savage
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Aug 25, 2023 14:34
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like holy poo poo he really does
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Shame Boy posted:i was hoping the author's wikipedia page would be funnier but it's pretty dull, however he does look like a celebrity impersonator of Adam Savage this guy is more like adam sadbitch
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AlbertFlasher posted:like holy poo poo he really does
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Shame Boy posted:afraid no one around you understands your potato I'm just a spudboy
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:in the Alastair Reynolds universe they tried sending zygotes in starwisps at near light speed to be born raised by robots and they all went crazy not everyone can handle wire mother
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Shame Boy posted:i was hoping the author's wikipedia page would be funnier but it's pretty dull, however he does look like a celebrity impersonator of Adam Savage I wonder if any of those “loving embeds” are even still viewable 13 years later (though this must be a bit of an “if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?” situations because I can’t imagine anyone reading that book)
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Shame Boy posted:afraid no one around you understands your potato every day I open palm slam a vhs into the slot. it’s the truth about de-evolution and
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The Killing Jelq posted:I wonder if any of those “loving embeds” are even still viewable 13 years later (though this must be a bit of an “if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?” situations because I can’t imagine anyone reading that book) some ephemera are too shameful for future digital archaeologists to uncover
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The Killing Jelq posted:I wonder if any of those “loving embeds” are even still viewable 13 years later (though this must be a bit of an “if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?” situations because I can’t imagine anyone reading that book) It doesn't look like you can get the ebook anywhere now, so unless you have a downloaded copy saved somewhere there's probably no way we'll ever find out. The fact that it is no longer available anywhere does make it seem to me like he probably did actually include the videos themselves in the epub file for the book. I'm sure that was absolutely murder on the storage space of any device that downloaded it.
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the 105 videos were lovingly embedded so if your device has a storage problem with that then you can go straight to hell t
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Grace Baiting posted:the 105 videos were lovingly embedded so if your device has a storage problem with that then you can go straight to hell t I'm sure a 15gb ebook is exactly what people were clamoring for in 2010 when an iPad's storage capacity was either 16, 32, or 64gb.
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i think you’re overestimating the size of realmedia 160px vids
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in a well actually posted:i think you’re overestimating the size of realmedia 160px vids thats more 2000 than 2010 im thinking quicktime 640x480, roughly 128kbps with massive artifacts Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Aug 25, 2023 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:thats more 2000 than 2010 I'm interpreting "lovingly embedded" as "used barely-compressed 800x600 mov files". After all, it's an iPad so it will be able to play it perfectly!
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When the iPad was brand new I had a friend, a Flash website designer, who bought two of them day 1. Lined up in front of the Apple store and everything. His plan was to use them as his portfolio -- he was going to mail them overnight with a prepaid return envelope to wherever he was applying. He said it would be the best way to show off his work, on a device he could control rather than some random computer, and that the interviewer would be impressed by how much effort he put into applying and all that hustle culture poo poo. I said "doesn't flash not work on iPhones? It probably won't run on this iPad either." He said "yeah, that's true right now, but everything uses Flash. They're going to make a version for iPhones any day now." Lol
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pretty much every ipo is a failure nowquote:Investors are making their feelings about digital mortgage lender Better.com crystal clear as the company begins trading on Wall Street: They’re not a fan.
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flash died when adobe bought it, steve just shoveled the dirt onto the coffin
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Also it’s a mortgage company at a time when it’s not very good to be one of those.
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qirex posted:pretty much every ipo is a failure now that's not even an ipo, that's a spac, aka "we'd like to ipo but it requires a bunch of disclosures we don't want to do"
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skooma512 posted:Also it’s a mortgage company at a time when it’s not very good to be one of those. puttin the mort back in mortgage
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flash died when adobe bought it but not because adobe bought it. they'd completely ignored search indexing, accessibility and mobile for a full decade aside for some hacked on after the fact features like making an xml tree for google and a mobile renderer that would frequently hardlock phones or make them overheat
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rotor posted:flash died when adobe bought it, steve just shoveled the dirt onto the coffin yeah, it is actually a blessing in disguise how badly adobe bungled flash, because someone competent would have preempted the modern web and app (and notoriously electron) starting from where flash was
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qirex posted:flash died when adobe bought it but not because adobe bought it. they'd completely ignored search indexing, accessibility and mobile for a full decade aside for some hacked on after the fact features like making an xml tree for google and a mobile renderer that would frequently hardlock phones or make them overheat and adobe chose to spend all their time (5 years? 8) tying the player to acrobat to introduce massive amounts of bugs and security holes, getting the Unreal engine embedded inside the player (!!) and all kinds of ridiculous poo poo instead of fixing those problems.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:yeah, it is actually a blessing in disguise how badly adobe bungled flash, because someone competent would have preempted the modern web you make this sound like it would be a bad thing??
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Grace Baiting posted:the 105 videos were lovingly embedded so if your device has a storage problem with that then you can go straight to hell t I hate the way Apple fanboys use their products. I don’t hate apple products either.
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