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props to stem people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any english essay because literally u just have to say stuff. but for stem paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be true. wack. 

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0863 Perrserker

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I think my response was thought through, well put and very polite

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me, starting a new game: i’m gonna be evil this time

me, 5 minutes into said game: Being Mean Is Not Nice

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shes singing pictures ;_;

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Naxos, Greece. 2025.

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Can a smart person explain why torrenting stuff is so much faster than downloading stuff through an internet browser?

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me after i post my opinion to tumblr.com and omegaverse-obsessed-otaku with a picrew icon responds with "no. you know what? no. fuck you"

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thinking about the time they sent me a seven year old autistic patient to investigate if he was suffering abuse because in every psychological test he kept drawing awful monsters

and I start the consultation already miserable as fuck and I give the kid some pen and paper so I can maybe communicate and see what's on his mind

and then I go WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND I KNOW THOSE MONSTERS

turns out the kid just had a special interest in Five Nights at Freddy's

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so…how does memory mapping (file I/O, I think) actually work? what I’ve got so far: you’ve got some file, and you create, well, a map for its bytes: something(?) knows that the file starts at a given position and is so big, and we imagine it as being in a different, more convenient place in memory (where?)

And then as we want to read from the file using this map (assuming it’s lazy, but as I understand it this depends on the implementation?), something(?) knows to load the bytes of the file into the more convenient place we’ve been imagining the file at if it hasn’t been already, and otherwise just read from the more convenient location. (And you can write back to the file from this buffer-like region if you want apparently?)

So I guess my main question is: what “knows” these two things? If it’s “the process”, well, here’s a fundamental hole in my understanding of computers: how do processes know things? (And, maybe, what is “virtual memory”?)

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remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

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the pokemon company doesn't realize that by not hiring chunsoft to make a new mystery dungeon game, they're missing out on like 1 trillion dollars for this reason alone