Notices by Nate Cull (natecull)

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The Christologizing Process

Very effective 'Clockwork Orange' deterrence effect of Twitter redesign still holding up several days later.

@zensaiyuki now if I can just teach the robot to ask for things all the time instead of sometimes just trying to yank them bodily out of my hands

@zensaiyuki I did it with globals, I got a robot to say 'you' instead of 'yourself' when it is talking to me about me.

Me feel very proud of meselves.

Now I understand why Data fears contractions.

Dijkstra help me, I'm resorting to global variables.

Relative difficulty levels:

* Program a robot to play chess: 10

* Program a robot to play Go: 100

* Program a robot to use 'me', 'I', and 'myself' grammatically: 10,000

Ooh! The insanely beautiful and deeply silly 1960s-70s British sci-fi comic series The Trigan Empire (think 'Flash Gordon but in togas for some reason and with jet fighters') is finally being reprinted... for the second time, this time for actual humans and not Collectors.

(The Collector was a Trigan Empire character, I recall. Much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe character, he wasn't very nice.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/trigan-empire-comic-book-be-reissued-1211893

@activationfxn @pdcull

(Poor Elon. I know he gets a lot of flak but I too grew up with 1970s popular science magazines loudly proclaiming the virtues of evacuated pneumatic tube rail as the future of urban transport. So I understand where he's coming from. But unlike Elon, I thought about it for a few moments as an eight-year-old kid and as a result was haunted by repeated nightmares of being stuck in one of those tubes after the system inevitably broke down and... they were not fun.)

@activationfxn @pdcull

(Poor Elon. I know he gets a lot of flak but I too grew up with 1970s popular science magazines loudly proclaiming the virtues of evacuated pneumatic tube rail as the future of urban transport. So I understand where he's coming from. But unlike Elon, I thought about it for a few moments as an eight-year-old kid and as a result was haunted by repeated nightmares of being stuck in one of those tubes.)

@activationfxn @pdcull

(Elon Musk voice)

but what if we put the gutters UNDERGROUND AND PUMPED THEM DOWN TO HARD VACUUM, then the homeless-sleeping-in-them problem would be solved! Then, we just extend the gutters to the Moon and we can also solve the rest of our unwanted urban waste products.

I will certainly get a Knighthood for this idea, or possibly even a Kingship.

Oh no. It's canon now.

"Instead of a Dark Lord you would have a Lex! As beautiful and as terrible and as many as four tens."

@pdcull Thought they were lime milkshakes. And also may be a supervillain.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lex-luthor-took-forty-cakes

@pdcull Thought they were lime milkshakes.

@Rich_Graham

1. Very yes

2. To do that we'd have to define some kind of standard data storage format that's flexible enough to include all today's cloud data.

Apparently 'a bunch of files in a folder' isn't that format.

'A whole bunch of SQL and NoSQL RDBMS table entries' probably also isn't that format either, because although in theory you can export SQL databases to a .SQL text file, good luck doing that reliably and with zero overhead in practice.

I wonder what that format will be.

@Rich_Graham

1. Very yes

2. To do that we'd have to define some kind of standard data storage format that's flexible enough to include all today's cloud data.

Apparently 'a bunch of files in a system' isn't that format.

'A whole bunch of SQL and NoSQL RDBMS table entries' probably also isn't that format either, because although in theory you can export SQL databases to a .SQL text file, good luck doing that reliably and with zero overhead in practice.

I wonder what that format will be.

@lnxw48a1 Can verify that this is literally true.