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Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

Troy Queef posted:

Repost from the old thread: new things you'll note in the open are Google getting an Alphabet sign, the new Tesla building, the Uber balloon fighting it out with a smaller Lyft balloon, drones everywhere, and a very busy food stand selling Soylent.

Also a group of protesters blockading a Yahoo bus.

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Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

Mortanis posted:

The funny thing about their compression system is apparently it doesn't need client side implementation to uncompress the data, given their intent with the porn streaming and the dude that nearly died in the zoo. It gets compressed and sent out and... magically uncompresses in the browser.

Which means that Pied Piper should really set themselves up as an ISP, or partner with Netflix and reduce 50% of all internet traffic to nothingness for a few billion dollars.

Apparently the client side implementation can be run in javascript or something.

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?
The nice thing about compression, and why they picked it for the show, is that the kind of improvements that they show are hypothetically possible and would be a big deal in real life too. We know better compression could exist so it's easy to say, what if it did.

Of course people can get hung up on implementation details but the overall concept is solid.

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?
My favorite little episode detail was the server farm engineer's badge which showed a grainy black and white photo of a much younger, much happier man.

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?
I'm sorry but the tabs vs spaces gag was the best thing to happen all season and if you disagree get out.

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

waitwhatno posted:

People should cut programmers some slack. It's a miserable husks of a real human existence. Let them rant and blow off some steam from time to time.

I dunno I'm actually doing fine but thanks for your concern I guess?

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?
Bwhaha he gave him the car but kept the glasses, that's excellent

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

Same

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Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

Pope Guilty posted:

There used to be a service where you could share files with the rest of the network in exchange for devoting a chunk of your hard drive to an encrypted portion of the network's files, with no way of knowing what that chunk contained. Guess what kind of files that service was full of.

Wasn't that how WaffleImages worked back in the day?

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