#computer knowledge questions

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

do I think Ephy learned how to use the computer from Brain and that it was probably really great offscreen bonding time for the two of them? Indubitably

[science-lings]

I'm sorry they need to give Battinson a Robin, I'm tired of the live-action batmans not having the tiny little guy following them around to do flips and violently juxtaposing the whole Dark Knight thing the guy has. He is easily the least equipped to do it too, he's like the embodiment of Depression he needs a brightly colored child climbing up his legs and perching on his shoulder like a little bird. He needs a ten-year-old hiding beneath his cape.

I know the whole vibe of modern batman movies is so dark and edgy but I think there should be a child there and everything else is so fucked up that it doesn't even change the tone. Give Battinson a child to impulsively adopt and recite all of his emo monologues to. I think he should very seriously discuss morbid cases that he's working on with a kid who is hilariously correct sometimes and hilariously Not most of the time. I think they should be an extremely competent duo despite literally everything.

[omg-snakes]

Would You Like To Play A Game?

I have so many ding-dang clutches this year that I made a SNINGO (Snake Bingo) game that you can join if you wanna.

Click or copy/paste the link below to get your randomly-generated Sningo card and save it or take a screenshot. We're looking at the game potentially going into September and I think these will only be available for 30 days or so.

https://mfbc.us/m/gv2ac8t

If that's not working you can pester me through chat or private message and I'll send you one.

There's no prize for winning, beyond the satisfaction of being Snake Bingo Champion. If you're the first to send me a screengrab or photo of your winning card I'll... uhhh... I dunno, I guess I could grant a Trivial Boon. Let's say ties are also allowed, since this might generate a few duplicate cards.

I'll announce each clutch ID as they hatch with the tag: "sningo 2023"

For those joining, we already have YR23 and HC23 hatched. Get out your Mecca daubers and mark 'em off!

[duckapus]

Tales From the Grid: Battle Nexus Bozos

An arc on the Grid's channel where Timmy, Piper and a few of the Links (obviously including the Anchor version) are invited to participate in the Battle Nexus Tournament (from TMNT) taking place in the Fairly Oddparents Server (remember; Timmy's server is made up of the Nickelodeon multiverse instead of just the FOP universe thanks to the canon crossovers he's been part of).

And since this can't just be a simple tournament arc, the Syndicate sneak past the Battle Nexus's robust security with their firewall-proof portals to cause trouble, along with their newest allies; the Shredder and his Foot Clan, specifically one of the 2003 Shredders (leaning towards Cyber-Shredder because computer stuff, definitely not using the demon one because he doesn't play well with others, even moreso than most Shredders). I know that one wasn't a Nick show but Rise Shedder's bad at subtlety, worse than Demon Shredder at team-ups, and also very dead (plus he doesn't really have a Foot Clan to lead during the time where he's in any state to do so), and I'm not that fond of 2012 Shredder even though I liked the show.

That being said I'll probably include multiple versions of the Turtles if I decide to properly write this out. I'm already including multiple Links so why not right?

[whats-in-a-sentence]

But why, a detractor asks, should fundamental physics be so closely tied to human awareness? If we were not here to observe the world, would wavefunctions never collapse, or, perhaps, would the very concept of a wavefunction not exist? Was the universe a vastly different place before human consciousness evolved on planet earth? What if, instead of human experimenters, mice or ants or amoebas or computers are the only observers? Is the change in their "knowledge" adequate to be associated with the collapse of a wavefunction?¹¹

11. Some physicists consider the questions on this list to be irrelevant by-products of earlier confusions regarding quantum mechanics. The wavefunction, this view professes, is merely a theoretical tool for making (probabilistic) predictions and should not be accorded any but mathematical reality (a view sometimes called the "Shut up and calculate" approach, since it encourages one to use quantum mechanics and wavefunctions to make predictions, without thinking hard about what the wavefunctions actually mean and do). A variation on this theme argues that wavefunctions never actually collapse, but that interactions with the environment make it seem as if they do. (We will discuss a version of this approach shortly.) I am sympathetic to these ideas and, in fact, strongly believe that the notion of wavefunction collapse will ultimately be dispensed with. But I don't find the former approach satisfying, as I am not ready to give up on understanding what happens in the world when we are "not looking," and the latter – while, in my view, the right direction – needs further mathematical development. The bottom line is that measurement causes something that is or is akin to or masquerades as wavefunction collapse. Either through a better understanding of environmental influence or through some other approach yet to be suggested, this apparent effect needs to be addressed, not simply dismissed.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[voidimp]

i wish everyone who has ever said "just switch to linux" a very Shut The Fuck Up

[cq-studios]

Minus MoM’s computers, all the tech in Daybreak Town is like 1920s (edit: correction 1940s) esque (is that spelled right? Autocorrect isn’t helping me lol) so I like to imagine that the only NUL who really knows how computers work is Brain. Like he found the control room and actually took the time to press every button and figure out how the hell to use it. Whereas the others know they’re there and have a vague-ish knowledge of them but mostly just leave the computer stuff to Brain.

So later on when he’s comparing what’ll happen to the Dandelions to a computer in sleep mode the other NULs are just like nodding their heads like, “sure Brain, whatever that means”.

[snowflakeselfships]

I'm so curious about Tuco's hacker lapdog plsss tell me about him 🤲

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT I'LL REVEAL MY HALF-BAKED BACKSTORY (<- guy who writes smut and poetry, not plot.)

This ended up... so long somehow. I was worried that I wouldn't have much to say, but it just started pouring out of me as soon as I started typing (much of it made up on the spot 👍🏻)

Tw for violence, abuse, dubcon, and drugs (obviously lol.) I can have a dark self ship. As a treat.

I'm tentatively trying out giving my S/I a name that isn't my irl one. For whatever reason I just cannot use a name that doesn't have some connection to my irl one, so it had to start with a T at least, and hopefully this isn't weird but I wanted it to have a similar meaning to Rivera (ignore me feeding our red string of fate into our self ship canon) so I ended up on Trent!

I haven't really landed on a surname for him but I'll probably just go with something common and simple. I like how Trent Adams sounds.

Trent was born in WA in 1980, making him 22 at the beginning of B/CS and 28 at the beginning of B/rBa, although he didn't start working for Tuco until 2003 when he was 23.

Growing up, he was fascinated by media depictions of hacking, and when he was a teenager an older friend-of-a-friend (Doug) took him under his wing and taught him coding/hacking.

As an adult, Trent had trouble keeping a job and as a result borrowed quite a bit of money from Doug over the years. His debt piled up but Doug accepted small payments and Trent working odd jobs for him. Doug moved to NM in 2002 for a mysterious "job opportunity" that he wouldn't tell Trent about.

In early 2003, Doug called Trent and begged him to let him bring him to ABQ and do some work for his boss. As it turned out, Doug had been dealing for Tuco Salamanca while he'd been living in NM and he fucked up bad by getting mugged while carrying a huge amount of cash. He didn't have any way to pay Tuco back quickly enough, so in a fit of desperation he offered up Trent's services, as Trent still owed him a lot of money, so both of their debts could be squared off at once.

Tuco initially had no interest in some random guy who had no experience in the business, but Doug talked up the usefulness of having someone with hacking experience. Now, we know that Tuco can be swayed it you know how to talk to him, so he got into the idea of having his own personal hacker (not that he knew what that really means or entails as he's pretty much computer illiterate, but he likes stuff that sounds cool) and accepted Doug's offer of having Trent come work for him for free.

Doug drove all the way to WA to pick Trent up and gave him the rundown (much to his horror) during the drive back to ABQ about who Tuco is and what kind of business he deals in. He advised Trent to keep his mouth shut as much as possible and stay out of the way when Tuco's temper flared up. Naturally, Trent wanted to back out of the whole thing, but he didn't want his friend (who had helped him so much over the years) to get hurt, or potentially killed, plus the idea of squaring his debt was appealing, so he went along with it.

When Tuco and Trent met for the first time, Tuco literally laughed in his face and made fun of his stature and appearance. He obviously didn't take Trent seriously at all. Trent was offended, but too intimidated to say anything (<- which of course is a good thing as there's a good chance that Tuco would have just killed him.)

Doug put Trent up in a motel (as this whole thing was supposed to be a temporary arrangement), but Trent ended up at Tuco's place pretty much every day, as he needed a computer to work on, which Tuco provided. This had the added benefit (for Tuco at least) of letting him keep on eye on Trent.

Tuco started making passes as Trent pretty quickly, but Trent isn't great at reading social cues (he also assumed that Tuco was straight) so he kept brushing it off (but not actually turning Tuco down as he didn't realize there was an offer in the first place.) This pissed Tuco off as he felt as if he was being teased or possibly made fun of and in true Tuco fashion he flipped out. After shoving Trent into a wall, putting his knife to his throat, and accusing him of fucking with him, Tuco realized that Trent was genuinely unaware of how he'd been coming across. He found it pretty funny, and made his advances much more obvious and aggressive after that.

The beginning of their sexual relationship's consensuality was... questionable at best. Trent of course was terrified of Tuco, was his direct subordinate, and had gotten a sense of "no one says no to a Salamanca." He did find Tuco physically attractive from the first day they met, but he never had any intention of pursuing anything past a professional relationship (and he didn't even really choose that.)

Nacho got a sense of what was going on between Tuco and Trent pretty much immediately and took pity on Trent. He told him that it was for the best, as the more Tuco liked him the safer he'd be from his random violent outbursts, and the more protection he'd have from outside parties (this might seem like a cold way to comfort someone, but this was before they became friends, when Nacho viewed Trent as just another person he had to corral to keep business running smooth.)

Tuco saw Trent's presence and work very much as just a novelty for the first couple of months. Only after Trent crashed the fledgling computer network of a major competitor did Tuco realize that Trent could actually be useful to his business. This made him like Trent on a more serious level and start to want to get to know him for real. This and another incident where Tuco almost killed him (beat and strangled him while high, Tuco felt guilty about it when he sobered up) made him realize that he was actually becoming genuinely fond of him and he ended up going to Nacho for advice on how to make Trent less scared of him.

Somewhere around that time, (do I have an actual timeline worked out to make this story more clear? Hell no!) Tuco moved Trent into his house (under the guise of "keeping an eye on him", when in actuality he was beginning to feel deeply possessive over him, and let's be real, he wanted easy sexual access.)

Their relationship is (and was to an even higher extent during the beginning) closer to owner-and-pet than an equal romantic partnership. Tuco views Trent as more of a thing that he owns than a person who works for him. Tuco was, and is, extremely possessive and jealous over Trent. He's frustrated by his inability to publicly "claim" Trent due to being unable to be openly bi and struggles with letting Trent be alone with other men (Nacho and his cousins are the exception to this.)

Over time their relationship became sort of an open secret as Tuco insists on keeping Trent close even when there's no business-related reason for it, dressing Trent up how he likes (very expensive and gaudy, the complete opposite of how Trent naturally dresses), and becoming enraged any time someone insults or snubs Trent in any way. The people around them started catching on pretty quickly, but generally know better than to bring it up.

Tuco was/is very afraid of Trent betraying him (whether it be cheating on him or something to do with business) and once Lalo entered the picture, he asked him to keep an eye on Trent and report back anything suspicious.

Tuco made it crystal clear from the beginning that he would kill Trent if he tried to run or betray him, so Trent really has no intention of doing so. That doesn't stop Tuco from making him swear that he'll never betray him and that he belongs totally to him pretty much every day. No one has ever claimed that Tuco isn't exhausted to deal with, least of all Trent :^P

Alright, this is way too long. I could talk about Trent and Tuco's fucked up relationship for a year straight if you let me :^P And that's not even getting into his relatively normal friendships with Nacho, Domingo, and Rivera, and his mutually suspicious, tentative friendship/cousin-in-law-ish-thing with Lalo and the twins.

[powerfulkicks]

the rhetoric around ai in general is really starting to get kinda... worrying.

like you wanna protect artists - awesome! great! so ai is evil and can never be used for art or anything else-

no! ai isn't the evil thing here!! it's how it's being used!! like, gps can be used to track people or to pilot war planes, does that mean it's inherently evil??

ai is a tool that can be used ethically or not - call out when it's being unethical, but don't mistake the tool for the problem

[clover-the-awesomest]

THIS.

THIS IS EVERYTHING TO ME.

pt.1 | pt.3 Think that in such a situation, Donnie, in fact, is the only one who could offer a plan of precisely a "large" rescue, and Raph and Leo can only do strategies on a smaller scale... Oh... and April already took everything from school, yes.

[vikasgarden]

𝐕𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐞 - a garden fairy and florist from the far reaches of the Scottish Highlands. Based and trapped near the harbour town of Wick, she not only sells all the produce and flowers from her garden in a stall next to her house, but also supplies the flower shop in town and can be found with her own stall for a few hours at the harbour on Fridays. Besides her bubbly and friendly nature, no one suspects a lonely heart that wants nothing more than company in a place that needs her to survive.

|| CARRD & RULES | THREADS ˟ currently 𝙾𝙿𝙴𝙽 for plotting ☽ ✶ ⸻ ˟

# 𝚟 𝚒 𝚔 𝚊 𝚜 𝚐 𝚊 𝚛 𝚍 𝚎 𝚗 : deals with the topics of manipulation, stretching and denying the truth, the world of fairies, loss of an attachment figure, abduction and captivity. This blog is not free of triggers. | mutuals only. 21+ - M&PDNI! activity varies. inspiration. Should I write first?

[immamapletreekid]

praying to some higher power that the entire stats department save for 1 (one) prof steps on legos everyday for the next 10 years

[mcqonlinetest]

MCQ Online Test Computer Science Part 1

This set contains a total of 15 questions. Participants have to answer within 22 min 50 sec.

15 questions

Who is considered the father of supercomputing?

Which of the following is the first high level programming language?

Which of the following is used to measure the speed of transmitted data?

Who created the C programming language?

What is the full form of file format tar?

Processing that is performed by using remote terminal processors is called

MS-Word is

How would 1001111 be represented in the decimal number system?

What does BIOS stand for?

One terabyte (1 TB) is equal to

Who invented the World Wide Web (www)?

RAM is physically located on the computer’s __

Several computers and other devices that are connected to each other to communicate and share resources among themselves is called

What is the full form of HTML?

Which of the following is the first web browser?

Click Here to solve.

[13oddballbooks]

🚨⚠️ATTENTION FELLOW WRITERS⚠️🚨

If you use Google Docs for your writing, I highly encourage you to download your work, delete it from Google Docs, and transfer it to a different program/site, unless you want AI to start leeching off your hard work!!!

I personally have switched to Libre Office, but there are many different options. I recommend checking out r/degoogle for options.

Please reblog to spread the word!!

[yuumei-art]

First, I want to address the rumors that I used AI to paint A Thousand Skies. Here is a condensed version of the 10 part video recording of how I painted everything. I normally reserve the full hours long video recordings for my patrons but here they are in case there is still any doubt https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d-3hxjZWROiZPaI8XeU93cKBBKB1Gz9Z?usp=drive_link

All of my past paintings have full video recordings for my Patrons, going back to 2018 when I first got a Patreon.

Long time followers will also know that I care deeply about the environment, not only in the themes of my art but also in my actions to the best of my ability and knowledge. So much so that every year since 2016, I’ve donated 100% of my Black Friday sales to environmental charities, and you can see all the receipts of the organizations I donated to here https://www.yuumeiart.com/blog 

I realized a comment I’ve made at 2am and while sleep deprived was confusing. I want to clear up the misunderstandings from yesterday's post where I said AI isn’t that bad for the environment. I thought I was specifically answering the question of how much energy it takes to generate 1 AI image on my own computer without any servers, but I realize now that people were talking about how much energy it takes to train AIs by big companies. This was not what I was trying to refer to in my comment, but I recognize it is one of many legitimate concerns with the way current generative AI is developed.

I want to reiterate that I did use AI for a gag scene in my comic—the character, Vance, was objectifying women by seeing them as anime cat girls and pasting them over AI backgrounds. I thought that such a character having AI goggles was making a point. I recognize that regardless of the context, the use of AI carries other ramifications. I will be taking all of this into consideration with my future artwork.

I know AI art is a very heated issue with very real concerns attached to its use. I don’t expect people to change their minds. I will continue to make art as I always have for the past 2 decades before AI existed, and continue to make available to my patrons full video recordings of the paintings I’ve made and will make. Thank you.

[strawberry38]

Barbie 💞💞 🌟🌸👏

guys, in the movie there were many, many barbie dolls. All of them looking like adult, guy dolls too. Never felt like any doll or ken doll plan for a family or want a family. I understand that was not planned or yet relevant for the movie and I know.

kids sometimes do fantisize about barbies finding a proper guy, building a family, keeping up with family, family plans.

Barbie was correct in the movie, "thought about when the life's gonna end"? Yup, you party, party, procastinate, what do you leave during those time, an idea? Idea of yourself? Barbie or its idea can have immortality, Barbie babe, humans .. unfortunately not.