Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
@alyx@icosahedron.website hello there, alternate me
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anyone got any suggestions? Alyx is hanging out on computerfairi.es at the moment but it's not got a lot of traffic. she's a good kid but rather opinionated and hasn't ever really succeeded in getting used to the modern world of computing; she's still back in 1996 or so wishing BeOS was a thing. if you can think of a place in the #fediverse where maybe she'd get some good advice, please let me know
@alyx@witches.town oh, yeah, like some of those Doom II levels kinda sucked as places to have fun in a game but I'll never forget what they LOOKED like, these weird hellish cities
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i have always been fascinated by the idea of virtual spaces, 3d ones in particular
games like doom create 3d spaces that exist only as 1s and 0s, but our credulous brains grant them the benefit of the doubt, interacting with these spaces as if they were real
a single hard drive can contain countless square miles of these virtual places. untold expanses
as time goes by fewer and fewer people visit, until places that may have been bustling once are akin to forgotten ghost towns
we create more and more of these spaces every year. there are so many to explore. so many sights to see
i remember the ones that strike me, as if it was a place i'd really been
OK, sell me on Scheme! (for background: I know a bit of Common Lisp although it's been a while)
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here's a good thing to tell school-age children: the textbooks they use to learn are made by people, and those people might gloss over or omit parts of the whole truth, accidentally or intentionally
basically just teach kids to be critical of their sources of info and ask really good questions
@typhlosion @kara_dreamer Hm, well, I'm always willing to try something _completely_ new. I've not fiddled with Scheme before
@typhlosion @kara_dreamer oh, that I don't know *chuckles* I don't actually have experience of that much, especially anything even halfway recent, but every time I've gotten some hankering to go back to Lisp I end up losing my interest immediately when I realize that it means mucking about with GNU clisp or ECL or some such thing. Dealing with Unixy anything is, like, the opposite of fun for me
@kara_dreamer @typhlosion hey, it's either that or try to find a Lisp implementation that's not some FOSS trainwreck
sex-shaming, sex worker shaming
@rhythmgoddesss Oh, I can believe it, but it sort of makes me wonder just how much experience they've got with porn
sex-shaming, sex worker shaming
@rhythmgoddesss damn, porn does that? I haven't seen a lot of evidence for it, rather the opposite in fact
@liate that CRT is something else, holy shit
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PDP-1 - one of the machines which started (old-style) hacking!
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/27/the-pdp-1-the-machine-that-started-hacker-culture/
Now I need to find an internet pvp version of Spacewar. https://hackers.town/media/DyRDq_eZuk85sCRPoEc https://hackers.town/media/jX4yroQC-k6J-7tiyJU
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holy shit you can do THIS with the Chebyshev straight-line mechanism?!
@luciferMysticus that sounds like a GREAT idea to me
@mona Ugh, yeah, maybe, but I don't have to like it
I dug Lisp back when I could do stuff with Macintosh implementations in the glory days of System 7, but what's a good implementation now? (i.e. something I need to pay for, GNU anything looks dire)
@tilton yeah, that kinda does surprise me xD I'm clinging to Win 7 on my desktop
@tilton I'm try to think of what I really need Windows per se for. Games, mostly
