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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 08:39:43 JST 
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Semantics is the study of meaning in language, symbols, or signs.
So if one were Anti-Semantic, one would reject meaning, including the meaning of (((brackets)))
It's just a dumb play on words. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 08:13:54 JST
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If you're "Anti-Semantic", that would mean.... putting words in (((brackets like this))) would be meaningless because you don't care when stuff adds meaning like that... Ironic, isn't it? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 21:37:58 JST
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I don't have timelines at the moment, but I do have hope for at least 2 more books, one programming book and one hard science fiction book. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 14:09:39 JST
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I've made this comparison before, but consider this with respect to the speed of technological advancements particularly in the area of computers.
1974 had the first commercially advertised computer that was at a home computer sort of price point. It had a tape interface and memory, but generally was not something that we today would consider to be a home computer.
By 1984, most of the 8-Bit computers that we know of had already been released. The Apple 1, 2, and Lisa had been released, and the Macintosh was released that year. The commodore 64 had been on sale for years. The IBM AT based on the Intel 80286 processor was released that year. The Atari 2600 had been released, had a renaissance, and caused the video game crash. In the ensuing crash Nintendo released their Nintendo entertainment system which was leagues above the Atari 2600, and as well as it's contemporaries the ColecoVision and intellevision.
By 1994, the 32 bit Intel 80486 which contained an integrated math co-processor on the DX model was relatively common. The video games doom and Wolfenstein 3D had already been released for many years, and descent for a fully 3D game have been released that year. The internet already existed, the Netscape web browser had already been developed to some degree, meaning that the World wide Web already existed. The super VGA video standard of the time supported up to 16 million colors at 24 bit color.
By 2004, the first to 64-bit processors had been released. Video cards had already ceased just being 2D accelerator cards and become 3D accelerator cards that could display triangles on the screen very quickly, and years earlier had become the graphics processing units first developed by Nvidia. By 2005, 3dfx had been born, lived, and died. Pixel shaders and vertex shaders were available on all new top of the line gpus. I do have a point of that in spite of 64 Bit having been released at this time, most consumer PCs were still 32-bit.
Here's where you can really start to see some of the stagnation take place, but the innovation moved from one product category to the other. From 2004 to 2014 things got incrementally better, and the top end technologies such as 64-bit and multicore became common in consumer pcs, the amount of RAM in a PC substantially increased, in 2005 you might have 128MB, in 2015 you'd often have 2gb. Besides that though, things had improved a little bit but not the same way. Compare any decade before that, and you can really see the difference. The one thing that had happened from 2005 to 2015 is the development of the entire mobile ecosystem. I have a MotoX 2013 still sitting in a drawer at home, and while it isn't perfect, it is shocking how usable it is even now. Big thing is, for the most part a computer from 2004 isn't great but a high-end one isn't so different from what you'd see in 2014.
Now we finally come from 2014 to today. The last 10 years is probably been the most disappointing 10 years since the 1970s. Most of my websites are hosted on computers made before 2014. My travel computer is computer made before 2014. Although it is cutting across the decade, my computer for gaming is pre-pandemic, and that 5-year-old PC is essentially state of the art. Instead of having a 4060 it has a 2060, but even rtx, as potentially groundbreaking as it is doesn't really matter all that much almost anywhere. You won't be able to run everything at high settings, but in terms of graphics a GTX 980 will still play virtually every game on the market today.
So in this context, you can really see where the sort of enthusiasm about the most advanced technologies just wouldn't be there anymore, because a lot of stuff is just slowed down. There's been some really exciting stuff on the software front such as the fediverse or nextcloud essentially bringing the sort of software that used to be solely proprietary and democratizing it, but once you realize the massive differences in previous decades compared to today there really isn't any comparison. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 12:44:49 JST
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I always appreciate seeing your positive feedback too. I'm trying to be principled, but I'm still a human being and so seeing that people are interested in what I'm up to helps feel like I'm not just shouting into the void too. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 11:41:48 JST
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I've started to realize that people are taking me up on my offer to ignore or block me if they don't like effortposting because I'm not gonna stop.
Probably for the best.
But in my view, there's only a few reasons to have discussions online.
1. To yell pre-packaged platitudes at each other for sport
2. To try to help the hours of our lives to tick away faster
3. To try to make the entire earth correct by correcting people one at a time
4. To become mutually better through putting ideas through the gauntlet.
I've actually done some of these myself. When I was younger I'd happily argue online for sport, or I'd be bored and it was a good way to pass the time. When I was younger, I was even foolish to think I could help change the way the world saw things.
Today, however, the only reason that makes sense to discuss things online is to try to become better yourself and help better the people you discuss things with. We are all so far from what we could be, and I think that's been intentional by powers larger than ourselves.
I'm thankful to everyone who engages in good faith, perhaps especially people who push back and force me to better explain what I mean, or better understand what I'm saying. Recently there's been quite a few people who did well forcing me to think more about certain things I took for granted or forcing me to clarify something. @Hyolobrika often asks one piercing question on posts and it's like "Well, I can see how without clarification it might look like I'm saying something I'm not"
I'm thankful to guys like @amerika who spend a lot of time and effort helping to explain worldviews that are fully alien to me, because how can you agree or disagree with that which you don't understand? I don't always come away agreeing totally, but often I come away with my worldview changed by exposure to ideas I hadn't explored myself.
When people interact with me and get a big wall of text, it might be easy to assume I'm just trying to stonewall or filibuster, but often it's actually me trying to work through ideas publicly, and often there's a lot of actual research behind the wall of text. It might seem like it's a stop in the discussion, but what's the point of continuing to discuss if we don't actually take a deep dive into ideas that could change everything? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 15:54:29 JST
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This might piss someone off but it's pretty funny when you think about it. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 09:08:23 JST
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We used to build cool things to make money... -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 09:08:22 JST
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Financial products aren't things at all. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 10:12:18 JST
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All I can read there is "comply, low class scum!" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:07:42 JST
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"kids these days are so great with technology!" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 21:53:24 JST
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Fair enough. I've talked before about the difference between the popular history and real history, and when making statements like the above it's typically using pop history to engage with a common shorthand (knowing that I often don't use shorthand resulting in massive effortposts) -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 21:26:24 JST
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The people who accuse others of hate seem to be the most hateful people alive today, and usually the most actually bigoted. Like the national socialists of 1938, they are particularly ugly because they think their hatred and bigotry is morally justified and makes them good people. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 11:16:27 JST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyun6SVfPM
This is an amazing restoration of a toy from 1918. The guy goes so far as to build his own stamping presses to remanufacture many of the parts that are totally destroyed.
I can't help but think that this toy would have been one of the most expensive toys you could buy in 1918. It has tons parts made of steel and all kinds of clockwork. After this restoration, it's probably among the most expensive toys on the planet. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 00:29:25 JST
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I hate to say it, but when someone goes "We're a bunch of nerds" these days, I immediately hear "we're a bunch of far left tourists destroying your shit"
I mean, maybe that isn't fair, but disco stu doesn't advertise. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 06:39:23 JST
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Stuff not being real is postmodern neomarxism, man! -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 12:48:27 JST
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I pray for the future prosperity of Argentina, and I pray that what Milei has down down there can be replicated up here in Soviet Canuckistan after Castro's bastard son gets kicked out. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 12:38:11 JST
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You never know until it's over, but God I hope so. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 20:14:45 JST
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atol atol atol, I had just got back from the pub and was beatin me woife moira while eating a potato and suddenly I said to her "Moira! Maybe if I run the banks I can afford more potatoes? She said, "Well then, Paddy, you’d better start polishing that banker accent!" and I says to her "Wat the fok's a banker accent?" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 14:20:54 JST
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lol don't think too hard about it, I certainly didn't.
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