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[feelotraveller]

I think you are asking yourself how.  Knowing it is neither polite nor advised to comment on this process I'll cover my arse by quoting ma' mate Freddy:

"There is, strictly speaking, neither unselfish conduct, nor a wholly disinterested point of view. Both are simply sublimations in which the basic element seems almost evaporated and betrays its presence only to the keenest observation. All that we need and that could possibly be given us in the present state of development of the sciences, is a chemistry of the moral, religious, aesthetic conceptions and feeling, as well as of those emotions which we experience in the affairs, great and small, of society and civilization, and which we are sensible of even in solitude. But what if this chemistry established the fact that, even in its domain, the most magnificent results were attained with the basest and most despised ingredients? Would many feel disposed to continue such investigations? Mankind loves to put by the questions of its origin and beginning: must one not be almost inhuman in order to follow the opposite course?"

His protégé Ziggy had something more base to say about the whole 'affair'.  Going beyond despair du Franconisation crass leads to this image, not that deep at all... The Chasm of the Colorado.  At the risk of being misunderstood - not to be taken too literally or literarily - take up painting.  All this for laughs... 

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[feelotraveller]

Yeah, I know what you're saying ( ) but how can you say that the Freddy + Ziggy is not the best eva?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDh_gHDvkk
(Even more touching as it documents their enduring friendship.)

The retake by Ziggy and the wrangling L.Annie is also a brilliant moment besides some noted jankiness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLS-P9m0BM

Okay in terms of the coversation I'm having a laugh, but wanking aside there is something of value here.  (Glad to have provided some stimulation, that was indeed the intention...)

Coming down from Lady Gaga land for a moment only to get up on my high horse people don't listen; they don't know how to listen.  Nor do they know how to talk.  Instead they bond through platitudes - squeaking like wheels only know how.  So don't ramble, sloganise.  Compress, drop, move on.  Let being heard become an unexpected joy.  And listen to the 'best eva' (whatever your objective definition) rather than the cacaphony of traffic or the barking of dogs (one of my local bugbears).

[methylatedspirit]

Communication is like compilation. You take raw brain thoughts, and you select a toolchain that targets the specific context, subcontext (optional), and method of communication that is appropriate. Then, you go ahead and compile them to that 'target triplet', that 'platform'. Under this hypothetical system, I've selected the bay12-random_thoughts-text toolchain.

I have many toolchains that I switch between. There's bay12-text, discord_[REDACTED]-voice, real_life-unfamiliar-voice...

The purpose of doing this is because each context, subcontext, and method of communication describes a different set of features that are enabled.

It would be ridiculous to say "poggers" within its native context on Bay12, but it's entirely fine in [REDACTED]. In real life, you talk to people you're familiar with differently from those you're not. In-jokes are a feature that are present with those you know. You cannot express tone well in text, so you need to indicate tone with punctuation, formatting (if available), and tone indicators (if/as acceptable).

Each thing you change can drastically affect the generated output because each feature that's present or absent needs you to change what's being said in order to communicate effectively. The objective, in my eyes, is to compile sentences with as little loss to the raw brain thoughts as possible so that you're communicating effectively, while still complying with the feature-set as to fit in. This is a balancing act.

I don't think any person can correctly claim to be good, let alone perfect at this. I operate on guesses. You operate on guesses. We all operate on guesses. Sometimes we make mistakes because they were wrong, and that is entirely fine. Embrace the errors we make. After all, to err is human.

[Naturegirl1999]

This is a very interesting way of thinking about this

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[feelotraveller]

tl;dr

(In meth's dubious terms, the binary was too big for its function: precludes looking into the backend to see if the code was well structured and commented.)

[Kagus]

Does the advent of quantum computers mean the advent of quantum programming?

Code: [Select]

bool KINDA


if (X ≈≈ Y)
   return MAYBE

[McTraveller]

Does the advent of quantum computers mean the advent of quantum programming?

Yes and no.  You just have to collapse the wave function in the correct way to find out which it is.

[Frumple]

Worst part of white hair coming in, is when you see it out of the corner of your eye and you can't tell if it's the white hair or something in your hair. You'll be sitting there batting at your hair like a fool trying to get your hair out of your hair

[Vector]

I'm excited for white hair, especially salt and pepper eyebrows. I think it will add something to my otherwise plain appearance.

[Kagus]

I used to have a single, solitary, white beard hair. I called him Gandalf.


...Gandalf now has several cousins

[Rolan7]

I encountered this one person in a Pokemon Go group who had fully elderly-white hair, cut in a way that confused me.  I honestly couldn't tell whether they were appearing younger or older, maybe because I was being careful not to stare and admire them.

They must have been young, I guess, because I would have heard the age in their voice.  But they reminded me so much of amazing older people I've known who carried a certain energy into their retirement.  Particularly in social circles.  What a thing to emulate!

And I'm sure I could have clocked their age by looking closely at their face, but again, I was much too impressed to do such a thing.  Heh, if I recall correctly, I instead flirted aimlessly with a cute guy and then let him live in my mind rent free for much of the pandemic.
*first two months anyway.  yeah the timing was bad

[methylatedspirit]

H.264 is the MP3 of video codecs. Ubiquitous and compatible with just about everything, yet not necessarily the most efficient codec.

I bet you, in 2035, long after the patents expire, people will still be using H.264 in one way or another because it's just the "standard". People will still be maintaining x264 to gain even more compression efficiency out of a by-then ancient codec.