Meowoem

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[–] Meowoem 3 points 11 months ago

Also it's like really cold

[–] Meowoem 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, We used to work festivals where we'd do actual 20 hour days Saturday to Monday and get drink and high for the other four hours - by Monday morning takedown the tiredness would be by far the strongest drug

One time I had a conversation with my friend about how weird it was watching yourself load a truck, then it hit me that we couldn't be watching ourselves from outside the truck and realized suddenly we were inside doing the work. We were both totally out of it so we went to take a break and stood at the back of the truck but when I looked in we were still working and it was the exact situation I'd been seeing before.

No idea the real order of events but my perception of time was messed up beyond anything I've experienced, if I lived in a less scientific time I'd 100% belive I'd time travelled or done weird magic. I assume the events must have been muddled together after or something but it felt so real.

[–] Meowoem 15 points 11 months ago

I think the shortage caused a lot of people to lose interest because they couldn't get one, also a lot of the board improvements have pretty complex benefits so they open up new possibilities but don't really have a killer app yet. I think the power requirements have pushed it out of the range for a lot of projects though.

It's so hard to tell if they're heading towards a sweet spot or off a cliff with that one, I think the rest of their line is much stronger, zero 2 and the 3a+ or whatever it's called are Ideal little boards

[–] Meowoem 1 points 11 months ago

That is good advice for visiting most countries, America it's crazily complex and expensive to get a phone especially if you don't have an address and American ID. It was cheaper to buy a cheap phone in the UK and connect to someone with decent roaming charges than it was to get a phone in the US

[–] Meowoem 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, what genocide happened on Reddit?

[–] Meowoem 5 points 11 months ago

Yes perfect example, people use quantum as the buzzword in every film so people think of it as a silly thing but when CERN talk about quantum communication or using circuit quantum electrodynamics then it'd be silly to try and tell them they're wrong.

[–] Meowoem 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course your going to ignore it, it's the inconvenient reality ignored by everyone that wants to feel like a hero because they wished for an easy solution to difficult problems

[–] Meowoem 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's a computer science term that's been used for this field of study for decades, it's like saying calling a tomato a fruit is a marketing decision.

Yes it's somewhat common outside computer science to expect an artificial intelligence to be sentient because that's how movies use it. John McCarthy's which coined the term in 1956 is available online if you want to read it

[–] Meowoem 1 points 11 months ago

It's just the obvious trajectory of social media attention seeking within the disaffected aesthetic. Someone that loves to feel special and the center of attention picks a cause almost at random then throws themselves into the fray as loudly as possible.

It's always happened, you can see them in every community and aesthetic - conspiracy theories, political types, sports fans... Protest communities are especially attractive to attention seekers, it's great for social media clout to pretend that you're doing these crazy things for a bigger cause

[–] Meowoem 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why would I care it's probably stupid, all these groups have childishly stupid goals like 'why don't we just not use oil, I'm sure no one ever though of that, right?' and 'force everyone to live the lifestyle I personally happen to prefer'

Their plan always overlooks the fact that total chaos would ensue if anyone ever tried what they're demanding, if they had anything worthwhile to say they'd be saying it in the relevant places and people would be listening.

[–] Meowoem 0 points 11 months ago

They did studies that demonstrated this kind of thing can make political progress more difficult because politicians don't want to look like they're weak to it and voters don't want to be associated with it.

But they, and I guess you, don't really care, it's not about actually making positive change it's about feeling like a hero and getting followers on social media.

[–] Meowoem 1 points 11 months ago

That was a fantastic one yeah. I really can't imagine what it's like being one of those people yelling about these crazy things and being wrong every single time

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