Rhaedas
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- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 1 day ago:
The book that came with the C-64 was a good primer for first-time computer users, but I ended up needing more and bought the "Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide," which was far more useful, and then "Mapping the Commodore 64" and "Machine Language for Beginners."
Yes, I still have them. You never know... :D
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 4 days ago:
Caleb is probably a wish that isn't even going to happen with those numbers; better be more concerned about Ryan.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 week ago:
CEO proves that CEOs can be replaced by AI.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 1 week ago:
Punching a nazi in the crowded streets so much better than in the alley. Tell them we don't want them here, period.
"This is cyberterrorism." Letting those sites do their thing without cracking down on them... I agree.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 1 week ago:
That or the price of advancement has made things impossible to fix without swapping out entire components or just get a new one. Which has been taken advantage of by making things fail a lot sooner. So much easier to make it cheaper so it gets replaced, and it keeps the company in business and is more profitable.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 1 week ago:
Or you have the bit rate high enough so you only max it out at the inner song and just don't need it at the start.
There's a lot pumped into a single groove, based on Technology Connections video on how stereo works on vinyl.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Aka Helen Keller universe. That's mind blowing to think about, I think you may be onto something. Maybe their perspective would be much more open, as they can feel their body and understand its reference points, so the stronger stimuli would shift their POV to the place receiving it briefly?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you're playing a 1st person game and it's very immersive, your "self" migrates to the screen point, i.e. right behind the character's eyes location. So I think your statement is right. A good test would be to ask someone blind from birth (to avoid previous experience with sight) where their sense of being is. Maybe it's a bit back, between the ears?
- Comment on Are they for real? 1 week ago:
And while AI in various forms has been building up for a few years, 2025 was definitely when it became a thing. It parallels "(AI) slop" being voted word of the year. Which is a fascinating bending of the word, as the sloppiness of AI in writing and particularly images was obvious slop when it first began, but now can be far too convincing in short bursts now. It's also been broadened to mean "I don't believe, like, and/or care about this" as a short drive-by comment, even on real things.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What's the philosophical term for thinking that "you" are not in the brain either, but rather riding along the electrochemical signals and formations throughout the brain, and this would include the rest of the body in the sense of feeling and control of it and its feedbacks (which is the point of OP). It's not really duality or a soul, as its dependent on both body and mind to be functioning correctly and intermingled.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 week ago:
Windows 10 was the last Windows I'll use. Windows 7 was the last one I was happy with. Windows 98SE and XP, we had great times, didn't we? Miss you guys.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 week ago:
House dust is up to 50% human skin particles. You're breathing in all sorts of crap, and outside I'm sure there's loads more including animal crap.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 1 week ago:
The way to get past the bad part is to remember than you WON'T remember the lesson and you'll have the moment of enjoyment with coffee again.
- Comment on The Guardian teaches gen-z dating lingo 1 week ago:
So "the friends we made along the way".
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 week ago:
That's 2.5B with 80 views a day, or 1.25 with 160 a day. Sadly those numbers aren't that unbelievable the way people consume short media. Just average it out so some make up for others only watching a few.
- Comment on HAPPY 2026 1 week ago:
Oh, that's you. Good, I thought it was me.
- Comment on Investors are buying close to half the empty lots in LA burn zones, report says 1 week ago:
hundreds of Altadena families have concluded that rebuilding isn’t in their budget
This is another way of wording that the insurance companies found a clause they could use to deny claims, right?
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 1 week ago:
And depending on your refrigerator's settings and insulation, the door compartments may be cold enough for more stable things but not for things like milk. Too me a bit to figure out having the milk in the door was both convenient and cutting its lifetime down a lot. Only takes a few degrees, plus the large door shelf is usually higher up, where the warmer air is.
- Comment on Epstein Vectors and Values 1 week ago:
The protomolecule was out there anyway, just a matter of when. Same plot as in Alien(s), it's almost like this is what corporations do.
- Comment on Epstein Vectors and Values 1 week ago:
Great, they went crazy with the find and replace and redacted all the math and physics work that went into figuring out the Epstein Fusion Drive. Now we'll never get off this rock.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 1 week ago:
You're probably right, as that is the tendency of most people, to not have to go outside a comfort zone. It's also assuming that's true, and for all you know people who are stating this very thing might also be trying to do local action and failing because they're alone. So rather than put someone down for asking a valid question, we could explore why people aren't doing much of anything overall, and what can be done to change that outside of things getting far worse (which they will, as they have before).
- Comment on Off the Rails 1 week ago:
Dawkins' book "Climbing Mount Improbable" is a great and easy read to introduce the idea of making something complex and seemingly designed for its purpose a much more probable thing to happen if broken into small changes over huge amounts of time. And it's like 30 years old, so probably outdated with more and better evidence now.
There is an old Youtube video by cdk007 (that's still up!) that tackles a related fallacy, where finding a watch on the beach implies a watchmaker because nothing complex can evolve. He created a simulation using watch parts and evolutionary rules to show complexity does arise with the right conditions and enough time. Image
- Comment on Off the Rails 1 week ago:
"Intelligent design"
Oh, I don't think so.
Is that phrase even used anymore, or did it run its course of insanity and die off?
- Comment on Andor was such a clever show 1 week ago:
Only one minor flaw with this - Syril may have had a brief second of awareness that he was on the wrong side and had been deluded his whole life. I can't say I've seen examples of this in reality.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 2 weeks ago:
Just while you're doing all that, don't stop paying attention to your own country's path. Regardless of what direction the US takes, other countries can also fall victim to the same things we did.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 2 weeks ago:
In addition to what's been mentioned, he has certain protections as long as he's President.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mean math and even science aren't always intuitive, so we have to have rules and theories to go by that demonstrate repeatability. Subatomic physics doesn't even really work like our models say, it's just that the models give the best results in predicting what we'll find.
Another example is randomness. Not all random numbers are the same, it depends on how you derive them as to what you'll get. I guess in some way that's related to what numbers will pop up for an irrational number. It's said with enough monkeys randomly typing on typewriters eventually you'll get a Shakespeare work. It already happened a number of times... since we're in sense monkeys and got a number of Shakespeare works. Didn't even need typewriters.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 2 weeks ago:
I don't think that's a given. It's just like there are different sizes of infinite, and more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are real numbers, or something.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 2 weeks ago:
Movie was pretty good. Book was excellent.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 2 weeks ago:
I think there's proofs to show that won't happen. Don't ask me to find them or explain them, it's beyond my scope.
What I'm waiting for is them finding a repeating sequence of 1s and 0s that when arranged in a matrix form a crude circle. A message to those who can learn to find it, with more to follow.