#fundamental of computer

[despazito]

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

[lover-of-mine]

[ruvviks]

PLEASE DO NOT TAG AS YOUR OWN OC OR PAIRING.

Nathan and Ruben share a bond more powerful than most; mutual understanding through past experiences no one should ever have to go through, and through past actions so horrible they cannot be spoken of. Their grief and the blood on their hands binds them to the STEM technology they created, which has alienated them from the rest of the world— but they give each other the comfort they have both longed for so desperately for years, and that is all they need. They are each other's counterpart; you cannot imagine one without the other, like two sides of the same coin. Through their pain, their grief, their desire, and their regret, they have become one.

anna akhmatova, the guest // bones; equinox // 'i won't become' by kim jakobsson // agustín gómez-arcos, the carnivorous lamb // by oxy // achilles come down; gang of youths // czeslaw milosz, from 'new and collected poems: 1931-2001' // 'extended ambience portrait from a resonant biostructure' and 'migraine tenfold times ten' by daniel vega // a little death; the neighbourhood // marina tsvetaeva, from 'poem of the end' // by drummnist // katie maria, winter // 'nocturne in black and gold the falling rocket' by james abbott mcneill whistler // micah nemerever, these violent delights // body language; we are fury // 'the penitent' by emil melmoth // chelsea dingman, from 'of those who can't afford to be gentle'

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

[cruisingxdystopia]

"All Property is Theft," ©Leigh Phillips / Cruising Dystopia

[the-meme-monarch]

you said at some point that you don’t think scc are robots, right? like, iirc, you were like “they are darkners, hope that helps”

i wasn’t around for whatever happened there, so i don’t know the context. i’m just confused about what exactly you meant by that?

like, yeah, they’re darkners. they’re a mono speaker, cassette deck, and cd player. but what did you mean by “they’re not robots”? did you mean that they’re not robots in the light world, or that their bodies in the dark world aren’t robotic? the first one makes sense to me, but i don’t like the implications of the second one. like, if their bodies aren’t robotic, what are they. are they made of meat. i don’t think i want to imagine Meat Cd Player

NO THEYRE NOT MEAT HDHSJSHDHDJSH it’s just. sure they Look how we would identify as “robots” bc they are electronic devices and are humanoid shaped but like That’s About It when you think abt it. to me. they weren’t built, they were Born like that. They Probably Age. like they are just Objects Given Form By The Fountain. lancer isn’t anything more than a darkner of a card, and in that same way scc are just darkners of a speaker, cassette player and cd player, and that’s all ! to them they are just like any other darkner ! to them they are people !

[navree]

one thing i like about how they did ai brainiac here is that most people would be aware that sentient beings don't want to be conquered like he wants to do to earth or brainwashed like he's been doing to kara. but brainiac isn't people. he's a machine, he is programming, there is sentience but he is not actually a person. and he clearly doesn't understand when things go against his plans, when he can't program the real world into doing what he wants. it's why he's legitimately angry that earth is trying to resist his invasion, why he's legitimately upset and disappointed that kara would rebel against him and try to be her own person. because personhood is not something that computes with him, on a fundamental level, he doesn't understand it or free will or the concept of independent choice. it's an interesting view at how "sentient ai" might actually work and also react to the things around it.

[wander-wren]

if i don’t look New Media in the eye i won’t develop a hyperfixation, right?

i say, binging seasons 8-10 of hermitcraft as fast as humanly possible, diving into fanfiction and finally understanding why people write about mcyt, and pivoting to watch double life with my shipping goggles on

[unganseylike]

and now, for something completely random:

i think that in every field of study or work, there are things people in that field consider to be fundamental knowledge and are shocked to find out most don't know. as an aspiring biologist, sometimes i feel more affronted by this than i should, because i assume the study of life is relevant to humans as living things ourselves. for example, i was really surprised that a lot of people i asked had never heard of archaea. it's a whole domain of life! and there's only three domains! but i can accept that bacteria are discussed all the time in medicine and the news, while archaea are non-pathogenic so even though they are super cool (and also found in your guts) they're not that relevant to most people. a year ago, i was also surprised to find that my mom didn't know what RNA is. I was like, mom the life-altering pandemic we have all experienced is caused by an RNA based virus, so you must've heard it mentioned on the news. but also, RNA is like. how we work. this briefly awakened me to the fact that many people are not familiar with the central dogma (DNA-> mRNA -> protein) that basically governs all life.

But this realization was lost to my subconscious until recently. i was at a party and chatting with my friend's boyfriend, a computer programmer. i was trying to explain my work but we of course came to a common misunderstanding that all molecular biologists are familiar with: colloquial use of the word protein is so different than its use in molbio. people think of protein and they think of it as a nutrient, i think of a gene product that serves some specific purpose. so i'm explaining the idea that we can study specific proteins, and the context of my model organism and he goes "i didn't think a bacteria could have something as complicated as a protein." at the time i was like huh thats a weird misconception and told him about the four biomolecules (i was also drunk enough that i hesitated naming all four, which i think says something lol).

but now his offhand comment is haunting me because what does he think DNA is for? DNA encodes proteins! This brought me to the realization that while most people know we have DNA and likely know that all living things have DNA, they probably don't know what purpose it physically serves. sure, they know it gets inherited and determines your eye color or whatever, and they know there are genes with a specific sequence that can be mutated and that mutations change something. It even seems like most people have heard of CRISPR. but i don't know that it's as widespread knowledge that genes encode proteins (before it is said, yes i know the central dogma is not 100% true and 1 gene= 1 protein isnt necessarily correct, but let's not get into it). Like people absolutely know DNA is inheritable information, but do they understand what this "information" actually means? Cells don't care that DNA dictates eye color, they are making enzymes and structures and transporters. Idk why this is haunting me, but maybe it's because it has clicked this common miscommunication we have around proteins is probably because people don't know the physiological purpose of DNA. And also because of course bacteria have proteins. i literally don't mean this in a superiority complex way, it's just fascinating to me that there's a broad familiarity with some aspects of molecular biology but not widespread knowledge of how they actually work...and how all living things work!

Anyway. What are things in your field that you are surprised to find most people don't know?

[agethath3silly]

you know I can break you out…

How..?

My soul’s been trapped here for as long as I can remember

[unopenablebox]

important part of my relationship is that my girlfriend isn't subscribed to money stuff, so when we walk to work together i can just describe really good money stuff bits to them

[deluweil]

I'm sorry, but from Eddie taking Buck on an unofficial date looking like he's ready to drop to his knees any second if the situation allowed, to meeting, supposedly, the love of his hetero life in a hardware store, a few episodes later, just doesn't compute for me.

I'm going to need to reset my brain. 🧠🤖

[fuck-you-showerthoughts]

Man sometimes I can track what inspired a specific showerthought and it’s always so annoying. What do you mean I can be pretty sure this random person watches game theory I don’t want to know things about them

[jamesphillimoresumbrella]

Thinking about a lot of things but mainly of how Terry Pratchett writes tiredness.

(Which means I’m mainly thinking of Sam Vimes. Which is normal.)

But he gets it so right.

The feeling behind your eyeballs. Stealing time from your future self with coffee, and, when the coffee doesn’t work anymore, going on sheer bloody mindedness because you cannot stop, you can’t. Not being sure when you last had real sleep. The strange state of mind you land in where you should absolutely not be tested because everything’s on a hair trigger, and things feel like they’re moving through treacle and your ability to make decisions feels shot to hell so you can only hope that you’re making the right choices.

Not Terry Pratchett’s words, if course, but I can’t get to my bookshelf at the moment, and, if I could, I’m not sure that I can read anymore. 

I’m tired, is what I’m getting at.

And Terry Pratchett writes the whole spectrum of being human so brilliantly, but, damn, how he nails down being tired. 

[salemontrial]

Guyssssss hahaaaa tik tok is getting into I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream hahaaaa and they are having tumblr level reading comprehensionnnnnnnn aha theyre treating it like a fandom and not a genuine chilling social commentary ahaaha i saw an AM chat.gpt hahaaaa

[lipshits-continuous]

One specific thing I'm looking forward to proving (if I get my first pick for the projects next year) is that the de Rham Cohomology groups are homotopy invariants

[blakeromanscumdump]

im a computer! im a computery guy