sarpunk

"...and I only feel good when I got no pain, and that's how I'm gonna stay."

[collapsedsquid]

Insisting that my town build a datacenter immediately so we can have our own Claude to defend ourselves before those fuckers over in Fresno have their own Claude, we need a Claude to defend ourselves, we cannot allow a Claude gap!

[a-thousand-pots]

The decentralised future where each town has a different LLM run in the local data centre, and their weights slowly drift over time to adapt to local conditions…

[argumate]

Mad Max future where the water is rationed because it's all needed for cooling and currency has been replaced by AI-generated catgirl memes

[argumate]

*politely* that's past my knowledge cutoff (the 1980s), let me google it

[pocketss]

distressing things to say to your friends

[scratch-meowt]

my hottest take

[keeper-of-the-flames]

Counter point, those machines can make me a peach sprite.

[pusheenthenerdcat]

guys did you know the tech in that nefangled machine revolutionized preemie healthcare

[maimonideznuts]

[pusheenthenerdcat]

yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety

(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)

[hedgebotherer]

Then how the haters loved him,

As they shouted out with glee,

"Unholy Drink Cloaca

You'll go down in history!"

[naamahdarling]

You DON'T get this on any other site in quite this format.

[publicdomainreview]

Dice Man — it’s just how he rolls…

More radical fashion from the 16th-century Schembart Carnival here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[businesstiramisu]

if you break

[argumate]

huh so "fast" in the sense of rapid evolved from the "fastener" sense of fast, like "stuck on running" in a way, wild.

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

[redacted] isn’t enough i need [redacted]

[omtai]

there is nothing lemon squeezy about any of this

[desinteresse]

It’s crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives

[desinteresse]

“What will I be if I don’t graduate/don’t get a promotion/don’t get my shit together/don’t make this relationship work?” You would be a perfectly normal human being who is inherently valuable and who possesses many talents and good traits

[desinteresse]

“What if I fail even when I tried my very best?” The world keeps turning and you will find many other things you will succeed at.

[animalwoonz]

Personal space? Nope - never heard of it.

[alaimo]

Is that…… them

[goatguy7399]

YALL THERES MORE TO THE SERIES

[goth-princess-gwennie]

@daffodil-screaming

[projectiondepartment]

every time it rains i think of that raymond carver poem. poetry is like prayer to me methinks. or an incantation

[projectiondepartment]

this one btw

[petaltexturedskies]

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[theknucklehead]

I grew up reading Calvin & Hobbes, and one of my favorite running jokes was the snowmen that Calvin would build.

[risingphoenix87]

Calvin's parents really have no respect for their son's creativity.

[samasmith23]

Calvin’s an artist, darn it!

[kosmogrl]

[lunarriviera]

[transfemmbeatrice]

thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op

[yodaprod]

[dietspam16]

[foone]

Hi, Foone here, I'm a retrocomputer educator! I'm here to explain the real reason this laptop is like this.

So this is the Panasonic PRONOTE PD CF-62, it's a Pentium 133mhz running Windows 95, released in August 1996. Panasonic did this sort of trick more than once, they did a similar thing with an under-keyboard CD-ROM drive in the PD CF-41, from 1995.

This one is so fancy because that's not just a self-loading under-keyboard laptop CD-ROM drive, it's a HYBRID PD/CD-ROM self-loading under-keyboard laptop drive! It has to be this complex because it takes PD discs (which are the size of caddies) and caddyless CD-ROMs!

So what's PD discs?

They're an optical format by Panasonic, the Phase-change Dual (or Phase-change Disc). They're from 1996, store as much as CD, but are rewritable... much like the later CD-RWs which used basically the same technology, just in a slightly different format. Unlike CD-RWs (which you had to burn (usually), they acted like a hard drive, fully rewritable at any point. That's why the disc is hard-sectored, which you can see through the shutter gap. Those vertical lines indicate where sectors start and end.

So yeah, this laptop has a complex drive that can take both types of discs, and the whole thing folds under the keyboard. Fucking wild.

But the root reason, of course, is that they did this because it's a cool design, and they wanted to do that. Why did they think this was cool, why did they want to do this?

Pervert reasons.

Next question!

[charaznablescanontoyota]

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening

[ryannorth]

much to consider