• Sunsofold@lemmings.world
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    The NASA computers were among the most advanced computer science of their day. They were built by engineers with cutting edge technology. Chrome is a web browser, an absurd behemoth intended to view everything from a static page from twenty years ago to a dynamically assembled webapp using frameworks even the app’s creator doesn’t know one tenth of, but still has to import, and the whole thing is built to spy on what you do while you surf for cat pics and pussy pics for the ten trillionth time, feeding google’s monopoly.

    Not even apples to oranges. Apples to the lump formerly known as the planet Pluto.

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    Back in 69 more people were carrying the load of logic in their heads. Its been a double edged sword of progress with more responsibilities offloaded to automation

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    STOP. DOING. UX.

    Computers were meant to do math, not make pictures.

    Trillions of pixels illuminated, but no real life benefit has been discovered.

    GUI. Ray Tracing. Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models.

    Terms dreamed up by the deranged.

    They are playing you for fools!

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      GUI. Ray Tracing. Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models.

      Those things can have their place. But not on a restaurant website when I’m trying to order curry.

      It’s infuriating!

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      Agreed! Bring back usenet and keep the normies out. Judging by all the fascist uprisings, they weren’t ready for it anyways.

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    My desktop with 64gb sat idling with a web browser open:

    You got 32gb to play with chump

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      You know those paper folders? Yeah imagine that each flap is actually a screen.

      You’re welcome.

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      That’s not why we were able to get Apollo 11 onto the moon using only 8 kilobytes. The real reason is because we used the most batshit sorcery mankind may ever know to eek out every last ounce of usefulness we could muster from those 8 kilobytes.

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        There was some sorcery involved, yes. But that does not mean it wasn’t a fundamentally easy problem. Orbital mechanics are the easiest and cleanest physics around. That’s why classical mechanics was so incredibly useful: it’s a near perfect predictor for movement in the sky. There ain’t no friction no nothing. Just clean positions, gravity, and propulsion.