Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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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
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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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
argh should I just set up a virtual BSD box on my desktop and have done with it? I'd be tempted to do the dual boot thing like I used to but then my GF would leave me
@kel @theZacAttacks@cybre.space @cassolotl@cybre.space *grabs Kel and noogies xer hard* STOP IT
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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anyway
reminder that we disagree with any system that idolises labour in any way.
A system that sees labour as the most important thing sees disabled people, incapable of labour, as garbage to throw away, and inserts that into the mind of the people living under that system.
You can argue that it's human nature; however, we truly believe that its human nature influenced heavily by the nurturing of that thought.
@tilton Hah, it's not been dull! Gender stuff aside, even. The family's weathered some bad storms lately...
