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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
My dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4&ab_channel=JoeyR... I promise you will not be dissatisfied and believe it or not I got more where that came from. If you're ever in a pinch go look up Brenda Lau
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Reposted from YT comments: Respectfully I think you're missing the point; the future is new kinds of programming paradigms emerging. Consider punch cards evolving into the Burroughs 5XXX evolving into compilers evolving into, "liv
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
If you consider that there's a dire economic need for the, "out of reach" inflated economy to work for the less fortunate that this might actually end up being, "privatized UBI" or, "thing that replaces credit
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Here's some advice: if you're really interested in learning, "Computer Science" than I'd actually steer away from online communities and the like-- you're going to run into a lot of people that you might assume
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I'm honestly a little surprised that cryptospace is even still a thing at this point. No practical uses. Grift. Scams. This is the banking schemes of the 1800s played out with modern machines and cryptography. I genuinely feel sorry fo
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
restated: Indoor plumbing and, "not slavery" were bigger deals than TV, the Internet, and Nike Vapor Max will ever be.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This is something that contributes to a feeling that the period from after the Civil War until the mid century as a more prolific period of technological and social progress than the nascent neoliberal period. It's one thing to give bl
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This is really impressive-- In a talk some time back Bret Victor talks about interfaces that look and feel like this; where you can see the whole system, "running" and tinker with parts without, "re-compiling" or, "
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This is a song composed with AI in the style of The Fab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHZ_b05W7o
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Is this the, "rolling robot turtle" Sphero?
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I love to see others sharing my enthusiasm for making old machines have a useful, "senior citizen" life. It really warms my heart.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Pedagogist here-- I don't have the time to gather a huge amount of materials in regard to this but it's worth pointing out that schools actually are designed to be, "like prisons" do to socioeconomic forces that turn sch
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
It's kind of true. This isn't going to change in the future. Neoliberalism means, "if you're not 21st century valuable you're going to be 19th century poor" and this has me troubled. The conundrum for me is how
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I think it's worth noting too (now that we're all in the same room) that despite a kind of mythology from people my age (31) that it really wasn't Shigeru Miyamoto and the 80's Star Fox brigade that made Nintendo what it
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Respectfully I disagree; Nintendo fell apart after he was willfully assassinated by Nintendo executives. (cough, cough). I think despite what is perceived as a recent renaissance (it isn't) The Big N (god do I hate myself) has never re
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Realistic solutions: EBT is available in my state. I don't know about yours. Local food pantries can help but one of the biggest, "poverty lifehacks" is belonging to a religious community-- I lived at a Gaudiya Vaishnava (Jay
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Respectfully I've been there and the solution at least in my case was to pull my head out of my ass, get help from other humans for medical conditions that hold me back in life, and get enrolled in college which was free for me because
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I think it's worthwhile to note if you never played with guitar pedals; they do something that really should be ubiquitous in computers; you can easily re-arrange them into different combinations to create different sounds. The basic i
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I'm calling it: Facebook is now what MySpace was when Facebook became Facebook. I think if we can take away anything it's that the future of, "computers communicating" isn't, "inviting normies to the conversati
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Reasonable people like you give me faith in the world.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
No.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
If you disagree go talk to Alan Kay or Christina Engelbart.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
It's because they're milking inventions they didn't invent for salaries that don't reflect their intrinsic value.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This has been America since it started. Bookishness is a class thing and not necessarily a, "social progress" thing historically despite what everyone thinks.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I'm more terrified of widespread illiteracy than I am of, "subscription capitalism." Give me a decent life and send me an invoice every month; I really don't mind living that way. That's more or less what the Americ
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I miss all those, "Dragonball Z Universe" forums and shite they used to have. I miss having arguments about why Perfect Cell would beat SSJ2 Broly's ass and things.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Nintendo + Neoliberalism looks like a really bad trip man. Whatever happened to the wonderful company Yokoi Gunpei made toys at?
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
>a thing created by credit excesses!
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
From an IR realist perspective this doesn't matter so much; wars aren't fought between the people of nations-- they're fought between the armies of different nations. Historically the financial class doesn't really care
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Another way of looking at this is as, "institutions tending towards prudence" which is an after effect of inheriting the anglospheric intellectual tradition (Hume, Burke, Adam Smith). This is classic empirical conservatism-- there

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