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@steverocky @drwho @silvermoon82 The Church-Turing thesis and the Turing machine are foundational aspects of computer science and have been since the field developed. Pop history is often distorted and incorrect, and in the case of Turing's re-emergence in popular history, it's more a correction of previous inaccuracy than anything else. Call it what you like.

@steverocky @drwho @silvermoon82 That is a difference engine and is basically an adding machine. It is not a general purpose computer. I've turned the crank on one myself.

Babbage's work was later brought back into history but was basically in obscurity at the time of the Mark I.

And Archimedes is remembered but we don't claim he discovered Calculus.

@steverocky @drwho @silvermoon82 The difference engine is not a general purpose computer. It's fundamentally an adding machine. The analytical engine was designed but never built. Babbage and Lovelace were tantalizingly close but missing important parts of the mathematical framework for computable functions, and Babbage's work was mostly forgotten by the time the Mark I was built. It's a bit like Archimedes and his flirtation with Calculus.

@lrhodes @clive They're comfortable with a needlessly complicated tax filing system largely because it is a tactical tool for greater simplicity-shilling goals.

You can find lots of conservative cranks who didn't get the memo and try to promote flat taxes or national VAT taxes.

@adhdeanasl Friend , you have to be the change you want to see in this world.

@h2onolan @sarahtaber Sarah, why you throwin' dirt all over Boss' yard?!

@adhdeanasl I have actually seen that one done before. Also "Pho Me Now" and several other naughty "pho" wordplays.

@mapache Awesome! I'll try to catch up with you later on the 28th, but please feel free to DM me your

@mapache I write the #Owncast newsletter. I'd love to get a minute of your time after your stream so I can blurb you in our May newsletter.

@david_chisnall Where I live, a local grocer realized all the immigrant groceries could potentially compete with him, so he basically invited them all to be top managers, supply chain people, and partners. Now we have an independent grocer the size of a Walmart that serves every community in the area, has an staff that speak more languages than I can count, and stocks an impossibly large and varied inventory. It's like walking into a Wonder of the World.

@MelissaBearTrix @tshirtman Y'all are taking a "glad I stopped drinking milk years ago ha ha yuk yuk" comment a bit too seriously.

@MelissaBearTrix That thing where I went vegan a few years ago may actually be a survival strategy now. I mean it was back then, too, for different reasons...

@jalefkowit I mean, "August And Everything After" is an absolute masterpiece record, but it's not like there weren't spectacular songs on "Recovering The Satellites" and a couple of great ones on the next two.

"August..." doesn't have "A Long December", after all.

All that said, I think there's one thing I can agree with-- take everything after "August...", extract the great ones, add "Accidentally In Love", and you have one great record. That's all conveniently on "Films About Ghosts".

@lnlyisol

I'm so disgusted with the state of search these days. It's not just the AI it's the AI slop combined with the mushy "let us tell you what you really meant" search results.

Obscure band names, artists, concepts are "corrected" to more popular words. "ant" is swapped for "art" if I'm looking for anything cute or amusing ("cute art stickers" NO I want "cute ANT stickers")

It's like modern search is trying to make everyone hopelessly basic. Only popular things exist.

@timkmak Y'all do good work and I'm looking forward to following this as safely as I can. I don't want to get too engaged with Substack, but I'll be reading without subscribing, and if you happen to have a donation/support link outside of Substack, I'll likely contribute.

@h5e I'll set aside the parasocial relationship to the Pope that comes with a lot of Catholic culture and talk about how I personally felt the death of Chris Cornell. His music was a big part of my youth and he was a generational symbol. Unlike Layne Staley, he seemed to have cleaned up and wouldn't be a tragedy. He was only 4 years older than my partner. It was a very personal reminder that my youth is fading and my generation, including those I love, now faces mortality.

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@alilly I don't know anything about the game you're playing, but in games I've played that made a distinction between "resign" and "quit", it was because resignation reflected as a loss in your personal statistics while quitting abandoned the game entirely. For some players, that distinction mattered. For example, if you're playing chess and want to track your progress.

@alilly Resignation is primarily a way to not waste time on a forgone conclusion. The AI might not care but your time is still valuable to you.

@EmilyGB2023 @faithisleaping @RogerBW @RickiTarr I'll undersign both of these things and add my own experience as well. I am transfeminine and nonbinary. Because of the complexities of my own experience of myself, and because of my sense of the body that would be right for me, HRT is a poor option for me. As such, I'll never have the body changes the world expects from a woman, and I therefore must communicate to others in the signs and codes their brains understand. It also happens I like it.