And We Sometimes Forget That We Create Those Limitations. For Example, Nearly All Robots With Cameras

And we sometimes forget that we create those limitations. For example, nearly all robots with cameras use red, green and blue sensors...

Despite... they don't have to

every single thing involving a computer is designed to put something into our senses. until a human looks at it, and interprets it, it is nothing. it isn't 'data'. it isn't 'ones and zeroes'. it's just some electrons and photons moving around, as is their wont.

but if we arrange those electrons just so, and let them do their thing, we can create a pattern that someone will experience as bits, registers, numbers, letters, instructions, algorithms, messages, financial transactions, videos, thoughts, worlds, etc etc.

the whole project of computer programming is corraling the electrons into situations where they will obey rules we have in our heads. electrons are surprisingly predictable, so this isn't a fool's errand. but every layer of the stack of abstractions is something we built: arranging one thing to produce a pattern we want to see. the chip arranged so the 'high and low voltages' fit our idea of 'bits' and 'logic gates'. the screen whose lights create a 'field of colour' for an organism that has this level of visual acuity, this frequency response in its cone cells, this capacity to see shapes and edges. these bits and logic organised into an 'algorithm' that takes 'data' that we think of as 'vertices' and 'triangles' and produces the appearance of 'perspective rendering', which approximates our concept of a '3D object', of even a 'virtual world'.

we have gotten so very very good at producing these patterns that it's easy to see them as something natural, and miss all the layers of orchestration behind even the simplest operation. computers are a game played between humans.

This is more effective than... most sites.

It is a more effective way of finding job offerings on jobnet.dk (the danish state run job offering site) than using the sites search functions for example

Since that site simply deletes special characters... like the + in c++

I love how the search function on this site is absolute garbage. I can look up a post word for word and I will NEVER find it

Ehhh.

Both have their pro's and con's

I DEFINITELY have bands and records I listen to because I know I like 100% of what I will hear.

But since I also want unusual and strange music, I sometimes find bands where I like 1-3 songs only.

But I WANT those bands to make the songs I do not like. They are part of the proccess of making the things I like.

Cannot get good art if there is no tolerance for bad art

"There's nothing rarer than liking every song on an album" y'all are listening to the wrong albums

It have been a stupid and outdated thing for more than a decade.

It is a security measure that relies on humans being 100% reliable and able to generate passwords with no patterns.

Meanin, it does not work. Any place that requires this have people who decide security policies who knows nothing about security and are not in contact with the security community

I fucking hate forced password rotation, and I have no proof for this (personal speculation) but I think it's probably a shitty security measure.

Like. I only have so many passwords in me. If you force me to change my password every couple months then eventually imma give up and start coming up with ones that barely fulfill the password strength requirements just to get that shit over with.

Like idk from a data security standpoint I think it's probably better to have your employees stick with one good password than go through six mediocre ones a year.

Ehhh.

Both have their pro's and con's

I DEFINITELY have bands and records I listen to because I know I like 100% of what I will hear.

But since I also want unusual and strange music, I sometimes find bands where I like 1-3 songs only.

But I WANT those bands to make the songs I do not like. They are part of the proccess of making the things I like.

Cannot get good art if there is no tolerance for bad art

"There's nothing rarer than liking every song on an album" y'all are listening to the wrong albums

There these seemingly contradictory societal double binds that are used to enforce conformity.

Example: A Lesbian is told that "everyone is actually bi" while a bisexual woman is told to "pick a side". Seems contradictory but really they just want us to be straight lmao.

Another one: A woman who does not perform womanhood to society's standard is not a real woman vs. You can never change the gender you were born with. One is butchphobic/anti gnc women, the other is transphobic. Clearly both enforce transmisogyny.

The insidious thing is that these double binds also foster inter community division. Its easy to hear one side of these, for example: "everyone is a little bi" and assume that means bisexuality is more accepted. But on the other side bisexual people are getting the same shit.

None of these are contradictory when you realize that bigots simply don't want lgbtq+ to exist at all.