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> Lay people might talk about traditional computers "thinking" but there's a reason actual computer scientists developed precise language around what they were
by rpastuszak 2mo ago
> Lay people might talk about traditional computers "thinking" but there's a reason actual computer scientists developed precise language around what they were actually doing instead.
> not latch onto some totally unproven equivalence
Precisely. This is akin to my dad, back in 1995, telling me to stop moving the mouse cursor in MS Paint because the computer was "thinking" (he heard the HDD buzzing). That I can understand.
But surely we can expect more from people here than from a carpenter in a tiny mountain village who bought his son a computer in the 90s. (The second one in town!)
- yencabulator 2mo agoBefore the mouse pointers started getting hardware-composited, needing to redraw the pointer in a new position and redraw the underlying contents to its old position actually used to slow a computer down enough that you could eyeball the effect of vigorous wiggling in something like a Mandelbrot renderer.