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 @user-883 
 
 you don't have to move somewhere to live out of a hotel for a week or two. It
 just costs money and time.
 
 don't have money? don't have time? good, do what you can do where you are.
 
 ... you're somewhat of a special case though because of all the valuable
 technology you have. Honestly you personally should work in a museum. I wonder
 if there are retro computer enthusiast museums in Hillsboro, the capital of
 semiconductor design? I bet someone there might have something for you to do.
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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 if you only have a phone, you can still program. Just write it out on paper,
 and put the whole program out on the floor.
 
 Screens will never compare, for they are but a tiny keyhole into the total
 program at hand. And you can pick parts of it up and carry them around - so
 useful! You could make an entire building out of that. [floorplan, layout,
 that kind of thing]
 
 downside is, of course, you don't have a computer, so you have to look up
 syntax on your phone.
 
 and eventually you're gonna have to type it, unless you can get a computer to
 read it for you.
 
 just imagining office buildings where employees can follow along with monitors
 on the wall that explains what they're working on and what they need to resolve
 
 then they meet up with a bunch of other humans and they hash things out
 
 turns out computers are really bad at speaking in group situations.
 
 which is why they let humans do that all on their own. [uhhh, no it's how you
 can tell if someone's a robot/alien/lizard/spy/secret-agent/whatever-sneaking]
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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 @user-883 
 
 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
 better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
 
 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've
 known! I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my
 thing, but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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 I should try putting things on my resume like "vnc" or "Microsoft outlook" -
 you know, the kinds of software that I actually used on a day-to-day basis. My
 resume makes me look very impressive (if a little inexperienced) but none of
 the tools are things that managers have used. Heck they're not things that YOU
 have used, not at work, so it makes you look like you're overselling yourself.
 You're not, but they might think you are. Idk it's late. Go to bed <3
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 could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
 accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
 procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
 looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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 the feral urge to post unfinished projects on the internet and ask for
 guidance or motivation
 
 the civilized urge to keep them on a flash drive and swap them with people you
 trust in real life and ask them to finish it while you work on their stuff
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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 @user-883 
 
 I live in a tech hub area with lots of hardware development.
 
 I've thought for a while that someone who's really into retro-tech could
 absolutely make a killing by going to old-folks-homes and giving workshops or
 presentations about tech that the people who live there might recognize.
 
 Just a thought, I don't know who you'd have to talk to to get that ball
 rolling but TBH anything that keeps their minds active is probably something
 worth pursuing.
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 A job where you only have to work one day per week of your choosing (but
 semi-permanent) and are automatically placed on a team with others in the
 company who work that same day and accomplish whatever goals they think
 fulfill the company's vision. If they don't have any ideas then they should
 work on collaborating with others until they do. Let's get things done!
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 if the choice is between working on your game / mod and playing a game / mod,
 always work on your game / mod.
 
 your work will outlast you. your time spent in a state of pleasure will
 sustain you.
 
 sometimes there's not a choice. sometimes you need to play, and that's okay.
 to play is natural, it's one of the first things humans do.
 
 we also work. 
 children build sand castles. 
 adults build stone castles.
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 lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of
 digging instrument
 
 and they want me to work a job /eyeroll
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 one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another
 part what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what
 is your job even for?
 
 hence, why the rules mean something. Because your job is important. It's
 building up our capabilities as the human race.
 
 you don't have to work to live. you shouldn't, and you won't. it's not your
 place to labor. know why? because nobody's job is impossible. You can just...
 work together to get things done. Then they're done! and you never need to
 solve them again!
 
 enough time of that and we'll have turned earth into a space station, not a
 moon style structure.
 
 like... wouldn't it be neat if coruscant could do hyperdrives? I wonder if
 hyperspace is real. Ah, well, that's for the future, they can pass it along if
 they get a chance. Anyway for now I think I want a chance to dance.
 
 OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off"
 and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED
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 it's probably a good idea to write pseudocode, then real code, instead of
 starting with real code, and bugfixing something incomplete and more difficult
 to reason with.
 
 unless you write real code easier than pseudocode. idk do what works for you.
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 @user-1071 
 
 I have plenty of things made, but none of it organized : (
 
 Kinda makes me wish I could like... train an LLM on my social media posts and
 use it programmatically somehow to help me organize my stuff into different
 categories according to what kind of topic or style they were written in.
 Hmmm......... There's no way I could do it, I mean, there's no way I could
 organize and edit my stuff, but with the help of a computer I might.
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 Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
 opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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 @user-1755 
 
 ... I do that, but I do it because I want to find common subjects to talk
 about. Or I think "if I was working on a project, who can I ask if I need
 help?"
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 "back in my day this dense urban housing area was just houses as far as the
 eye could see... which wasn't far because there were houses in the way, but
 you get the idea."
 
 uhhuh yeah that sounds like it would have taken a lot of time to walk anywhere
 
 "yes that's true! we ended up driving cars to do our grocery trips. It was a
 little wasteful but I kinda liked the feeling of driving a car? It became
 normal after a while but now that driving is rarer I still miss it."
 
 well the motion simulators at the mall have a driving sim, we could spend some
 time there if you want? I'm busy for the next week because I have an intensive
 D&D session in the mountain that lasts from monday to wednesday and
 thursday through friday I'm visiting my mom down in skoodedlypawsonville, and
 saturday and sunday I'm working at my job which doesn't pay me because why
 would it, right? but I'm free after that.

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 @user-883 
 
 I feel like you could set up a performance where you walk through your
 workflow on various things and set it to music and make a dope-as-heck music
 video.
 
 like, the "retro" vibes and aesthetics of your posts on my timeline are always
 a joy to see. I can't help but wonder if they could be crystallized /
 essentialized somehow into something neat to watch.
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