For people unfamiliar with assembly, it’s one step up from raw 1s and 0s. Just vaguely human readable abbreviations for given sets of 1s and 0s. There are no built in loops or if statements, you have to build all that shit yourself from scratch every time you want to use one. And there’s exactly one built in variable you can use called the register
Admittedly, the last time I touched real Assembly was 20 years ago.
There’s a couple Zachtronics games, TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O, both that use a limited form of Assembly, that are probably filling in the gaps in my memory.
49 year old here. I still own a 3D tv, but I’ve never actually used the 3D feature. I didn’t even buy the TV. My dad gave my his old one when he upgraded.
I bought a Raspberry PI but never really did much with it.
I can wear a dress to work and nobody criticizes me. I’d be really sad if I had to wear pants all the time, they’re just not as comfortable. Let’s normalize pretty dresses for dudes!
I buy these really cool magnetic charging cables. You put an adapter in the charging phone port and the cable just attaches itself.
The only problem is that they have these bright blue LEDs around the end. And on top of that, the LEDs are coated with silicone so you can’t even take a sharpie to them.
You still need to understand math enough to know what to put into the calculator. To figure out what the problem actually is. Sometimes it’s not going to be clear-cut and fed to you.
“Here’s the thing,” Robinson said. “Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler, whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao, whether you’re talking about Stalin, whether you’re talking about Pol Pot, whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba, or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the...
There’s this book “Waiting For the Galactic Bus”. It’s about two immortal, energy based aliens who get stranded on primitive Earth and give a proto-ape an IQ boost, creating the human race. They find that when humans die their consciousness sticks around and has gathered in two “post-life energy pools”. The humans in these pools are expecting some version of heaven and hell, so the aliens decide to give them what they want just to keep them happy.
At first the alien running the pool dubbed “below stairs” doesn’t understand what the humans are asking for, but the other gives him a copy of Dante’s Inferno as an explanation (his response: “These people are sick!”) So he gives the humans the scenery and props they want, and makes sure all the exits are clearly marked. They can leave any time they want. But they stay because they insist on having their hell.
This book is one of the most insightful commentaries on human nature I’ve ever read.
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Pay with your palm? (lemmy.world)
__ New age technology has enabled consumers to pay for groceries with one wave of their hand, a development that has been deemed “kind of scary”....
Google quietly ditched plans for an AI-powered chatbot app for Gen Z (www.cnbc.com)
Called “Bubble Characters,” the app featured cartoon-like characters engaging in conversations with young users and even offering advice
Take a screenshot of this, I dare you… (i.imgur.com)
VHS (discuss.tchncs.de)
She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (lemmy.world)
Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969
Riding the technology wave, which of THESE devices have you owned? (Intended target around age 40 and up)
Years ago I worked at an electronics store and have seen some very interesting products over the years with some being very useful....
I feel sorry for men who have to wear pants
I can wear a dress to work and nobody criticizes me. I’d be really sad if I had to wear pants all the time, they’re just not as comfortable. Let’s normalize pretty dresses for dudes!
Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?...
Getting constantly logged out?
I’ve been logged out from my lemmy.world account three times in the past hour. Is something weird happening again?...
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Little Bobby Tables (imgs.xkcd.com)
Goddammit Jared (lemmy.world)
yOu’Ll uSe CuRsiVe iN cOlLeGe (i.imgur.com)
literally anyone (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Types of government and business explained by cows (lemmy.world)
Moms for Liberty Speaker Says It's Time to Start Re-Reading Hitler, Stalin, & Mao (jezebel.com)
“Here’s the thing,” Robinson said. “Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler, whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao, whether you’re talking about Stalin, whether you’re talking about Pol Pot, whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba, or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the...
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Are you going to try Meta's Threads? (www.theverge.com)
Will people here use/try Meta’s #threads when available? Would love to know the reasons or if it would be just for fun/curiosity....
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