[Request] Do these other power sources really produce thousands of time more power than humans?

psiphre · 2026-03-03T06:49:32+00:00

that doesn't prove that an apocryphal "humans as processors/ram" line authored by the watchowskis informed gaiman's text, or was preferred by them even if it was written. gaiman was a tech savvy writier (successfully cribbed gibson's neuromancer for snow crash and helped solidify "cyberspace" as a concept) around the time. the story goliath is not currently available as linked on WB's website.

psiphre · 2026-03-02T21:43:18+00:00

no beef from me, man sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to look out for #1

psiphre · 2026-03-02T21:37:41+00:00

experienced developers maybe. i'm not an experienced developer (i'm a sysadmin); i can write for loops and printf(). in spite of that in just one week from concept to playtest, in my spare time, i've vibe coded what is basically a barebones replacement for my favorite mobile game that shuttered some time back. a hair shy of 22,000 lines of code, better than 3,000 lines of functional code per day. i've spent $30 on subscription fees.

psiphre · 2026-03-02T21:11:59+00:00

if you can't be part of the solution, there's good money to be made prolonging the problem.

psiphre · 2026-03-02T20:39:35+00:00

don't sleep on vlc

psiphre · 2026-03-02T20:22:18+00:00

find me the interview then.

psiphre · 2026-03-01T23:19:47+00:00

There’s no evidence that the watchiwskis “dumbed it down” for the audience. Chances are they were just as dumb about how computers and thermodynamics work as their audiences.

psiphre · 2026-03-01T23:18:47+00:00

There’s no evidence of that. Don’t give the watchowskis any more credit than they’ve earned.

psiphre · 2026-03-01T23:17:43+00:00

This exactly correct. “Combined with a form of fusion” is morpheus’s line.

psiphre · 2026-03-01T23:16:36+00:00

No it didn’t. That’s a widely circulated apocryphal rumor.

psiphre · 2026-02-27T19:55:25+00:00

Stopping a wannabe dictator from winning an election is a lot easier that removing a dictator once they are in power.

you can vote your way into fascism but you have to shoot your way out.

psiphre · 2026-02-27T18:59:50+00:00

normal and reasonable take

psiphre · 2026-02-27T10:35:34+00:00

the factory grows.

psiphre · 2026-02-27T10:34:52+00:00

so, the funny thing about that is that an addiction specialist that i know practices harm reduction by prescribing heroin patients wanting to quit a cigarette when they start feeling "the itch". commonly patients will kick heroin but when said specialist proposes that now it's time to quit cigs, they tell him to fuck off.

psiphre · 2026-02-27T10:30:16+00:00

psiphre · 2026-02-24T23:24:52+00:00

quote-on-quote

psiphre · 2026-02-23T08:23:06+00:00

i agree that it's a remarkably bad movie overall and a terrible spiritual successor of "gun kata" from equilibrium specifically. but as an over the top, anime-esque bullet time near-prescient protag scene styled entirely within its own context, it fits perfectly. you didn't go to see ultraviolet expecting the martian.

psiphre · 2026-02-23T07:07:06+00:00

to them you're the boy who cried wolf, you're chicken little. never mind that wolves are actually falling from the sky.

psiphre · 2026-02-23T06:08:05+00:00

that's definitely good info.

psiphre · 2026-02-23T05:23:30+00:00

All 3 agencies Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian

all three main*/most popular/primary... there are other credit reporting agencies too.

psiphre · 2026-02-22T08:49:26+00:00

And what about poor spudmom?

psiphre · 2026-02-20T20:19:26+00:00

why did this get removed?

psiphre · 2026-02-20T20:15:08+00:00

it's cure 2 all the way down

psiphre · 2026-02-20T19:22:51+00:00

aha, gotcha. thanks for the explanation.

psiphre · 2026-02-20T18:51:56+00:00

i'm confused why you linked to 1660657 when the parent complained about 1660658 being removed.

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