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wantoncl commented on Buttplug MCP   github.com/ConAcademy/but... · Posted by u/surrTurr
oliwarner · 9 months ago
Teledildonics is just an amazing word. Really makes me want to contribute to BO.io to pad out my CV.

Then again, it might raise uncomfortable questions about the pen testing I have on there. Something something something backdoor.

wantoncl · 9 months ago
FizzBuzz will become an especially relevant interview question.
wantoncl commented on The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the physical realm   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/l3x
BLKNSLVR · 10 months ago
Driving home after an almost-all-nighter LAN in the Quake 2 (maybe Quake 3) days, I nearly changed lines to line up a rail shot at a car up ahead.

The realisation of what I was doing snapped me back to proper conscious reality like smelling salts. Thankfully / Luckily.

wantoncl · 10 months ago
This reminds me of driving home after seeing The Matrix in the theater in 1999. I was on the parkway wondering why everything was moving so slowly, not quite bullet time but definitely slow.

I look at the speedometer and I'm doing 95-100 mph on Southern State Parkway. I then had the "snap" and slowed back to normal. Everything felt even slower, the sensation lasted for about an hour after I got home.

Inception also had a strange drive home after, not speed, but the trees didn't seem real, the sky, everything was heightened, almost dreamlike. It had rained too, so there was some more similarity to the movie, minus the car chases and rollovers.

wantoncl commented on 'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought   nytimes.com/2025/03/19/sc... · Posted by u/Hooke
timewizard · a year ago
> If dark energy really is Einstein’s constant, the standard model portends a bleak future: The universe will keep speeding up, forever, becoming darker and lonelier. Distant galaxies will eventually be too far away to see. All energy, life and thought will be sucked from the cosmos.

The laws of thermodynamics pretty much guarantees this anyways does it not?

wantoncl · a year ago
> The laws of thermodynamics pretty much guarantees this anyways does it not?

Yes, but:

http://www.thelastquestion.net/

wantoncl commented on Obscure islands I find interesting   amanvir.com/obscure-islan... · Posted by u/venusgirdle
mattmanser · a year ago
And now you've just got lots of different complications, like that seawater is very corrosive.
wantoncl · a year ago
> And now you've just got lots of different complications, like that seawater is very corrosive.

Is it as corrosive as lightning? All space elevators will encounter that problem pretty regularly.

We've been running cables under the ocean for over a century now, there's ways to address seawater corrosion and intrusion.

wantoncl commented on Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data   github.com/mathesar-found... · Posted by u/gjvc
ycombinatrix · a year ago
Is this named after the character from Galaxy Quest?
wantoncl · a year ago
By Grabthar's hammer, I hope so.
wantoncl commented on Nobody cares   grantslatton.com/nobody-c... · Posted by u/fzliu
spc476 · a year ago
I've found books that had ads inserted into them [1]. It seemed to be a thing from maybe the 1960/1970s. The ad page was a different type of paper, and no text from the book was on it (that is---the ad wasn't on one side and book text on the other).

[1] One example: https://boston.conman.org/2002/12/31.1

wantoncl commented on The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/Bondi_Blue
luckman212 · a year ago
But holy shit were those BeBoxes sexy as hell. As a teenager, seeing them for the first time, in an era of soulless, beige, badly named Macs like the "Performa", made a lasting impression that I still remember 30 years later.

Those twin vertically arranged CPU usage LEDs running up the sides of the case, pulsing as the box churned through multiple windows of buttery smooth video playback, while the operator simultaneously read and wrote to the disk, accessed the network, and manipulated the filesystem–without ever stuttering, dropping frames, or beachballing–was really quite something at that time. BeOS could multitask in a way nobody else was doing, and macOS still cannot match it.

Still think it would have been interesting to not let some of that tech die on the vine.

wantoncl commented on Universal Jointing for Submarine Cables   ujconsortium.com/informat... · Posted by u/altrus
metadat · a year ago
Great video, thanks for sharing!

How does the fusion splice process take place deep under water?

wantoncl · a year ago
> How does the fusion splice process take place deep under water?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

wantoncl commented on 16.8M Core Graph Processing Beast (2023)   nextplatform.com/2023/09/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
01HNNWZ0MV43FF · 2 years ago
Rasterize Quake
wantoncl · 2 years ago
Pffft, run Crysis in 8K
wantoncl commented on Empathy for the user having sex with your software   docs.buttplug.io/docs/dev... · Posted by u/Kye
byteknight · 2 years ago
You are either speaking hyperbolicly or lying. Bluetooth is very stable these days.
wantoncl · 2 years ago
> You are either speaking hyperbolicly or lying. Bluetooth is very stable these days.

Bluetooth as a network protocol, that might be stable. Bluetooth interactivity is not stable or even usable in many cases.

It's not just in cars and other non-computer interfaces, good luck trying to pair a non-Apple device with an Apple device. If you say "it works on my computer", congrats, you're the only one. And also speaking hyperbolically.

u/wantoncl

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