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• Speiser0@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The first panel is popular media, not computer scientists.

  The computer scientist would write papers about how they adapted principles of the alien technology to our stuff.

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  • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Papers that would be released 5 years after the engineer got doom to run on it.

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    • ali@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If accepted.
      Reviewer’s comments:

      • While the paper is well-written overall, contributions on adaptation of alien technology as well as comparison with state-of-the-art are not made clear.
      • Authors should consider using TikZ to create the diagrams. My Kindle e-reader had difficulty scaling and displaying the diagrams.
      • The paper’s tone could benefit from more technicality.
      • The terms “alien”, “ET”, “technology”, and “stuff” have been used ambiguously throughout the paper. The authors should consider including a table of nomenclature.
      • The experimental results don’t appear to provide sufficient statistical significance on how much the mankind’s genitalia could be pleased using the alien apparatus. The results would be more conclusive if the application of the apparatus on extraterrestrial genitalia is studied too. This has the additional benefit of avoiding to fall for spurious relationships.

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• DavidGA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because famously you can get Doom to run on things with a screwdriver.

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  • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well you need the screwdriver (with the smorx 5omble bit) to open the maintenance panel and access the button you hold while booting to get the unlocked bootloader, so you can install Linux and then subsequently doom.

    Elementary.

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  • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He means he got doom running on that screwdriver

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You joke, but the ES121 screwdriver has an open source firmware. I think it’s running an STM32F10 (based on the file listings in the firmware). People have gotten Doom to run on an STM32F429, so it’s not that far fetched.

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• supercriticalcheese@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  source: SMBC link

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  • Inductor@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks, I didn’t know where it came from.

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• Decompose@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Case in point… Doom is not invented, it’s discovered!

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  • at_an_angle@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The benevolent hyper-intelligent architect of the post-singularity simulation we all live in, John Carmack gifted humanity Doom.

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now do “full stack” developer

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  • Jakylla@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    BAM! I got that div centered on this display!

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Flex or… tables?

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  • Hundun@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “I deployed an edge compute environment on this thing, so it can run out SSR backend-for-frontend, but we now have a left-pad issue in our supply chain”

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• original_ish_name@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The computer engineer already reverse-engineered the architecture?

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  • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the joke is more he figured out just enough to get it to do what he wanted it to do

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    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Doom is also a cursed piece of software that compels people to make it run everywhere even when it should be physically impossible.

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• sip@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With a screwdriver?! Made me chuckle

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• versatile_breakfast@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Larry David, the famous computer scientist

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• Lowered_lifted@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t get the joke. Wouldn’t you need to study the architecture of the alien CPU to see what registers it uses if any and where data goes, and what format the data is expressed in (is it even binary?) so you can write an assembly language for it? Then you would need to write a compiler and then you could get a higher level language going and port Doom. Are we assuming that the alien computer just runs our code?

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  • Glytch@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The joke is that Doom, specifically, will run on anything.

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