The Still New What Did You Last Do Thread
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So today is Easter Sunday as well. I expect a lot of kids got to find empty eggs this morning. (Or rotten ones.) I'm disappointed that the store where I work didn't get the camouflage plastic eggs this year. I think those would've been really popular.
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This is the first Easter that I did not attend church. Letting go of Christianity has proven to be quite liberating.
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Don't look now, but Jesus came back today and followed you home.
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Sorry to hear that. I think you've been going to the wrong church if you feel liberated by leaving and not by going. But of course, as a free man that is your choice. We should probably take this to PM if you want to reply, though.hatakethecopyninja wrote:This is the first Easter that I did not attend church. Letting go of Christianity has proven to be quite liberating.
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funnily enough, we had a pretty traditional Swedish Easter dinner yesterday, but on April Fools day, mom decided that we should eat taco lunch instead. does ths count as an April Fools joke?
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I've decided that from now on, I will pronounce "SSG" as "sausage". I expect the jokes to write themselves.
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Sosig is good gun.
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Hmm.... Sig Sauerkraut? Brownie Arms?
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So I see a usergroup I hadn't seen before called ZAwards.
Are we doing our own yearly Cacowards-esque thing now?
Are we doing our own yearly Cacowards-esque thing now?
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Yep.Bigger C wrote:So I see a usergroup I hadn't seen before called ZAwards.
Are we doing our own yearly Cacowards-esque thing now?
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so many colors. wish i had a hot pink since there's one less hot pink around here.
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I cannot stop playing Elite: Dangerous in VR. This is seriously one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced as a video game. Feeling your stomach go in to your throat as you rotate the ship and a Jupiter size planet full scale looms around you. I haven't gotten dizzy from the game, very solid rendering and frame rate. But I have gotten a few stomach drop feelings from realistic scale of it all. I don't even know if I can play regular video games anymore, between this and Project CARS 2 VR (which is so realistic I could teach someone how to drive stick shift on it with my set up. I've driven a few real 5th-gen ZL1 Camaros before, and in this game the clutch grab and the engine stall point was exactly how I remember it being on that car.)
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Something that's been on my mind for a while now:
Do people with deep knowledge and experience with computers (programmers, engineers, etc.) still feel a bit of the magic of these technological marvels, or from knowing the insides so well, has that feeling dissipated?
Do people with deep knowledge and experience with computers (programmers, engineers, etc.) still feel a bit of the magic of these technological marvels, or from knowing the insides so well, has that feeling dissipated?
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When I think back to the technology we had in the 19th century, even knowing what I do about computers, it's still a bit magical, but probably not as much so as someone who knows nearly as much as I do, and certainly not the same as what it felt like when I was 9 years old.
Truth is, as efficient as our processor manufacturing techniques have become these days, it's still something of a miracle for a complex integrated circuit to work, and some of them do still come off the manufacturing line DOA.
I know none of it is truly magical, that it's really just an art that's been refined and perfected over the course of more than half a century, and I am well aware of the physics in both the manufacture and functionality of the chips. But I know it's something I could never dream of doing by hand, no matter how hard I tried.
Truth is, as efficient as our processor manufacturing techniques have become these days, it's still something of a miracle for a complex integrated circuit to work, and some of them do still come off the manufacturing line DOA.
I know none of it is truly magical, that it's really just an art that's been refined and perfected over the course of more than half a century, and I am well aware of the physics in both the manufacture and functionality of the chips. But I know it's something I could never dream of doing by hand, no matter how hard I tried.
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Nope, to me the magic's always been there. Even if I know how it works, it's still miraculous - though maybe that's just me.Naniyue wrote:Something that's been on my mind for a while now:
Do people with deep knowledge and experience with computers (programmers, engineers, etc.) still feel a bit of the magic of these technological marvels, or from knowing the insides so well, has that feeling dissipated?