Keatah

Wasn't nearly as bad until smart phones hit the market.

Just saw the news story about a kid who saved a school bus full of other kids when the driver had a seizure (?) or some kind of medical emergency.  The kid saw what was happening and grabbed the steering wheel and hit the brakes...And they said that Every other kid on the bus was on his/her phone and had no idea what was happening!

@Keatah: agreed re: not writing the code, but AI's basically an arms race at this point.  Nobody's going to stop developing it because the other guy will just keep doing it.

It's weird: growing up in the 1980s knowing that I and everyone I cared about may only have 12 minutes to live was a lot less frightening to me than the implications of this technology.

HMMMmm,,,

*doorbell*

Hold on.  There's a Terminator at my door!  Wait,  Why'd he ring the bell?

Hey IG-88!  Will ya answer that?  Show him your biggest blaster!

**BLAMMO!**

All right!   Who won?

CYLON Voice:   I did!

Oh Crap...

Wait,  ,  CYLON,  Fetch me a Beer!

By YOUR Command!

COOL!

I don't know if things are much better than the 80's. I currently live in between a shut down nuke plant with nuclear waste storage (the big ugly CA lie about having no nuke plants) , and an underground natural gas storage center that connects to two large natural gas pipes that run for who knows how many hundreds of miles. Also live right under the flight pattern of jets landing at Sacramento; at least they are still high up there and I do not hear them, and there are less flights due to the covid era. So I am always telling the jets not to crash here or at the two sites mentioned above...

As far as the computer "experts" that are creating AI, it seems like a sickness,"We just have to develop this AI." 

And don't even get me started on robots....

This isn't 8-bit stuff. All like DOS/WIN 90's stuff.

Not my thing, but I thank you all the same.

It's always treasure to someone.

I never understand all this talk of antiques....Resistors,...Tubes...Ya got tubes?  Prolly takes up 2 rooms of the house with almost enough power to run a 10 line BASIC program...My advice is to take it all out back, build pedestals of various sizes using AOL CDs you were sent in the mail,  set your gear upon them, then grab a rifle and go to town.  Then tuck away the shredded refuse into the empty pockets of yer barrel and let the trashman get'em on Friday...

Just add Nyquil and Totino's Pizzas...We'll call it a lost weekend.

I think that's my issue, I try to rush through in like a half hour sometimes, then get frustrated.  I will force myself to be more patient.

Years and years ago I spent an afternoon adjusting the colors and artifacting NTSC'ness of Stella's Blargg effects to get it just like the old Zenith Chromacolor II we gamed on as kids. Another day it was organizing the roms. Another time it was controllers (the bane of all emulators).

Once set I rarely have to adjust anything. Maybe the colors if I get a new display. Maybe map out a new controller.

All in all it's about the same amount of time as managing and curating a physical collection. The psychology suggests emulators seem like more work because they're of a different and unfamiliar nature. We didnt play with OSD slider controls in the 70's when the VCS and videogames were new. We turned knobs. We didn't manage and sort directories, we arranged carts on a shelf.

Having an "A" list of carts today requires making a special folder. Having an "A" list of carts back then required a special section of a shelf being designated as such. Takes about the same amount of time to do both.

Today I don't worry about power adapters or intermittent controller ports and carts. Back then a thing of alcohol and TV Tuner Cleaner were standard in my toolbox.

I don't think forcing oneself to be patient is necessary. Just tackle one issue at a time. I have yet to fully set up SNES emulation and fine-adjust PS1 (Duckstation) controller config to my exact liking. It will happen.

Step 1: become a bad enough dude to save the President

Step 2: win all the Internets

Step 3: RIDE THE WILD ALGORITHM

Well,  Mr. Roboto speaks English!

I mean...If his brain is IBM,  Then it would stand to reason English is his computer language.  Oh..Right,  I don't know if he's fast,  I just thought he was like the pinnacle of spinnaker in 1983 and...Darn robotocorrect...maybe  I better ask Kilroy.

If his brain is IBM, would the English that he speaks be EBCDIC-encoded?

Yat's Revenge?

I don't think you could enjoy lunch on a Yar...In a Yar,...Maybe,  Wait,...How big is a Yar?

Darn my squintucular vision!

Hey!  Let's make up words!

The amount of sensors and telemetry is insane - totally like having a squadron of engineers flying right beside the rocket. Shadowing it. Scrutinizing every conceivable operating parameter.

The other part is the mindset of the ground control crew. Ain't gonna do good to pout and cry about it. They'll just a build another and fly again over the summer. It's how they operate.

I just saw a few brief news stories -- were any parts salvageable or recovered? I see that the rocket itself blew-up, but was the capsule/payload destroyed too?  

There was no payload. It was to be a simple 1-time around the world flight and that's it. Unless you call STARSHIP the booster's payload.

I'm sure bits and pieces are recoverable, but nothing significant. IF they even want to bother..

Looks like it...I'll give you more time.

Well...7 days since I mentioned the Movie thread anyway.  I'm tired.  Just woke up a bit ago...Don't make me do the math...I might conclude the Atari Jaguar is a 64 bit system!

You ever notice "Time" is a man made construct?...

Hmmm...Without it I wouldn't know when to go to work,  and couldn't sing along with "Time after Time"...On the other hand I might get some sleep,...But I'd invariably show up late to movies and my friends would be pissed at me for missing the previews.  We can't have that.

They will send you a squeak toy rubber chicken that don't squeak no more but is covered in dangerous chemicals.

Be careful!

Imagine how hot that battlebot would be, it could just burn up its opponent (if it didn't burn itself up first).

Can we roll back another three or four years and have Nixie tubes instead?

I've imagined an AI that wants to go back to simpler times and see the world living life as a Pac-Man Watch.

So strange,  would probably say a hookah smoking caterpillar or time traveling ginger bread man as they look and point and wonder at the gravestone,  placed oddly next to the couch...

At present the butt is valued at 20 million Euros. Papers have been written about it. Fans are hoping it returns to its former glory after a weight loss regimen. It itself even talked about breaking the internet! Can you believe it??!!

Wait!  The butt is valued at??

First of all it shouldn't be worth that much.  It's got a big ol crack in it!

I think it means insured to a value of 20 million (but why use Euros, since she lives in the US?) in case she would be part of an accident or brawl where her rear could suffer damage. Most of the rest of us would rather insure our brains as the most valuable body part but each to their own.

Wrong... AI comes from with it's ability to tell right from wrong..

Just so you're aware that the Singularity, a point when AI becomes uncontrollable and irreversible (like a Skynet moment from the “Terminator” movie franchise) is going to occur

    *Error*  *Error*  Never You Mind what this GoldLeader was saying.  He was a malfunctioning unit.  He was in error.**

**He's just an Oingo in a sea of Boingos!**

Plus ya still gotta pay for the missus to be in "Economy"...

Why,  back in my day...

 💡 Hey maybe I should do a Status Update...

All of the violence and criminal activity on Sesame Street just happened off-camera. Since it was a children's show they were careful not to show it; that does not mean that it was not present. Note, for example, that none of the shows took place at night... 

Yeah man...I remember the place probably in the 70s,...This one dude, real mean, lived in garbage...Another guy had a trunk bigger than yours or mine if ya catch my drift;  And like a Vampire,  real scary.  And some dude run up and want ya to tickle him all the time...A monster eating cookies and singing with death metal vocals...A bird big enough to take you out.  Seedy place all right.  Seedier than a Sesame seed bun.

Organization is something to think about.

Based on the handful of photos I have seen of the Diaz Apple II "hoard", things are apparently just strewn randomly about the house, mostly in piles. There is seemingly no system and no way for someone to find something specific. 

I personally own several thousand books, mostly related to Canadian history and ancillary topics. Having recently moved, I do not yet have bookcases for everything, but almost all of my books are currently packed into boxes neatly stacked along the wall. More to the point, they are organized. If I want to access a specific title, I can find it within about 10 minutes as the books are all packed according to their subject matter. If the books were randomly distributed into piles with no organization whatsoever then it would constitute a hoard. 

I'm emotionally detached from it all. And it's all crammed into one 20x20 room. Just a matter of finding time to reclaim the space and filter out anything of importance.

OK,  6 bucks!

transputers....

I don't know much about baseball...

Sry,  thought I saw MLB in there...Dern tired eyes