@ryanhoulihan In general I agree with you although recently I have actually been finding uses for the "metaverse", not in the big Meta corporate bet aspect of it, but more for niche online communities meeting up in VRChat. I'm in a Star Trek meetup group there (we have our own uniforms and words but visit other worlds too.) It's also very popular with the furry community and there's definitely some overlap. But yeah I don't think this is really what Zuck had in mind, lol
@steve Welcome to the Fediverse! As you are new here, you may not know this, but many people here will not boost images without alt text to help keep the Fedi accessible. I will add an #Alt4You: "Cartoon caricature of a smiling white, masculine presenting person with brown hair, blue eyes, and a grey blazer with a red shirt and blue tie. The name Steve appears to the right."
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She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.
@ljrk Shout out to the original ENIAC programming team: Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman.
I watched some interviews with them at the Computer History Museum. This doc also looks cool: https://eniacprogrammers.org/
I have heard that some black women were also involved with this project but sadly this has not been well documented and information about them may have been lost in the historical record.
@thomasfuchs Not sure if this qualifies as "obscure" but the first digital camera my family had was a Sony Mavica that wrote directly to 3½" floppy disks. Some of those old photos I took with it are still online, being served up by a PC my dad has been using as a webserver since around that same time period: http://www.bambi.net/eliot/a1.html
Actual preference: I may not like Biden too much but you bet I'll be voting for him in the general. Protest votes are severely punished by our current electoral system, especially in close races. We need to fix a broken system before we can meaningfully fix much else, IMO.
@dosnostalgic#Alt4You 1: Doom splash screen showing doomguy shooting guns 2: Starting area of E1M1: Hangar level 3: Shareware upsell screen advertising additional episodes for $40 with screenshots of new game content and ordering hotline number 4: Pre-quit screen berating player for not ordering Doom
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