‘Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years’ | University of Oxford http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-24-computer-bots-are-humans-having-fights-lasting-years

How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-cold-war-rivalry-helped-launch-the-chinese-computer?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2158247472-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2158247472-68693017

Brain-computer interfaces able to play back thoughts can consequently cancel others, providing the basis for the Mental Noise Canceller

the hardest part is figuring out the fluid dynamics of a cloud calculator, the second hardest part is bearing all the cloud computing jokes

Teach Yourself Computer Science ⌘ https://teachyourselfcs.com/

When it comes to performance issues, I honestly think the solution is just “don’t follow so many people”. You only pull the feeds you read, and once one’s feeds are too much for the computer to handle, they’ll almost certainly have far too much content for a person to actually read.

This will be configurable in the future but that’s enough coding for one night, time computation is weird.

Something about the combination of my graphic chip / wm / whatever. Only happens on one computer.

Some of those computer viruses have now evolved to be benign, in fact hunt other viruses in exchange for shelter, wear cat pictures as icons

the Chinese Room argument but applied to universes - humans aren’t turing-computable, ergo a turing-computable universe can’t contain humans

you place the seed crystal in the solution, a crystal self-interpenetrating tree grows and in this way computes an answer in gem form

Elves are rarely good with computers: Few programs still work well when the trees underlying their function suddenly sprout new leaves.

Getting magic into a computer is a challenge though: It took a few breakthroughs in psionics and information theory to add a meta level.

It also turns out magic is not picky about what space is made of: GPUs soak up magic like sponges when running certain computations.

Prequel: a huge computer says “thgil eb ereht tel” to nobody in particular, thinking that perhaps in another timeline, it had a purpose.

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net But apache eg can just use mtime,inode or size for the etag. No default way to compute md5 without a filter.

Haha, haven’t heard that one: “#1 rule of distribute computing: Don’t distribute your computing!” https://m.signalvnoise.com/29166d022228

Good office slave manual
Yegor Bugayenko has a few tips—a short manual, per se—to help us be good office slaves.

Don’t Nag. No matter what is happening, you should never criticize your direct manager. The boss is always right. Everything else may be wrong — the situation, colleagues, suppliers, computers, the CEO, investors, the market, or the weather, but not the boss you directly report to. The word of this person is the law. The boss is the god. … ⌘ Read more

Robot Odyssey, the fiendishly difficult computer game that took @auerbachkeller 13 years to finish. http://t.co/XyPoxH5XJM via @slate

📚 Finished reading Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby: Exploring Concepts and Curriculum with Ruby by Ophir Frieder

📚 Finished reading Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby: Exploring Concepts and Curriculum with Ruby by Ophir Frieder

It’s decided
It’s decided, my next machine will be an Apple computer. Most likely I will end up buying a Mac Mini, although an iMac is also being considered. Now, who wants a (still under warranty) DELL XPS 630i? It is a Q6600 (quad), with 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, and NVIDIA 9800GT. Comes with Windows 7 Ultimate. Nice machine!

Note: Someone contacted me, but the email went to spam, and got deleted. Try … ⌘ Read more

gOS is coming our way
Yes, it is coming!

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear – computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to wo … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft DRM server going offline
Rob Bennett, head of MSN Entertainment and Video Services, wrote to customers in an email:

As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers. You will need to obtain a license key for each of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on any new computer, and you must do so before August 31, 2008. If you attempt to transfer your songs to additi … ⌘ Read more

Another Dell
Almost four years ago I bought our first Dell machine. And almost four year after, that machine died. Not a really long life.

Since we need a computer, we acquired another Dell… again. This time it is a refurbished Precision 390. For the first time ever, I haven’t rebuilt that machine yet. I am using Dell’s factory install, … ⌘ Read more

Clipper tutorial:http://it.geocities.com/povigna/computer/clipper.htm

Vista, don’t like it? Too bad!
It seems that for those individuals who do not build their own machines –that is, assemble them– there will be no choice when it comes to pick their OS.

Windows XP to be phased out by year’s end despite customer demand – Computer makers have been told they’ll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its compatibility problems.
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BBC and WoW
From one article on today’s BBC Online news:

Occasionally gryphons and hippogriffs swept majestically overhead taking their riders to elsewhere in Azeroth or, as it is also known, the World of Warcraft (WoW).

At the edge of the computer screen chatter constantly scrolled past as other WoW players sought members forguilds, buyers for magical items, help with quests or engaged in idle banter.

Go and read: [A Walk in the World of Warcraft](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4294122.stm “ … ⌘ Read more

Circa 1984
I guess a fitting way to “welcome” myself to the collantes.us posting forum is to also give a brief rehashing of my digital lifestyle.

Rumor has it that nineteen years ago, in the summer of 1984, two brand new bundles of joy rolled into the Canzolino household. The first was a shiny new Macintosh; the second, coming six weeks or so later, was a baby girl. I’ve been raised on computers ever since, tinkering away at little games and clicking that little one button ever since.

My first experience w … ⌘ Read more

Newly digital
I started using computers back in 1985. The PC’s I used were old dinosaurs, running at the blazing speeds of 2 MHz, with 640KB of RAM, no hard drive and 5” ¼ floppy drives. I could turn the machine on and go to flirt with girls on the halls of my college while it was booting. Sometimes I even had time to make out!

Programing was done with Quick Basic or Turbo Basic, and floppies had to be swaped at times, in endless search of the “command.com”. I had a whole collection of floppies, all carefu … ⌘ Read more