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DJGrenola

2017-02-21 07:10:07 pm

learned a lot though

I'm thinking about designing a 2D sprite processor now just because

DJGrenola

2017-02-21 11:42:15 pm

man it's crazy to think radio only really got going in the 1920s

it's not even a hundred years old

arkarian

2017-02-22 12:50:20 am

red chamber dream

i always thought it was also weird how close, relatively speaking, computers were to radio vs how far we are from computers

arkarian

2017-02-22 12:50:45 am

red chamber dream

but i guess the microprocessor was the last big step we needed, for a while at least

DJGrenola

2017-02-22 02:09:24 am

more of a macroprocessor in those days

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:45:56 am

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what always kind surprised me was how relative memory was to how we needed it. Like in the beginning a 4MB harddrive was insane $1000 tech, but granted the files back then were barely 1KB so it made sense.

Seems like it's all relative. As we grow in terms of storage, microSD cards fitting 256GB onto a tinyass card, yet 4K go-pros also using that is pretty crazy

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:46:35 am

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it makes me think it's kind of... a scheme? Planned?

Like, when microsd cards were first rolling out, surely they knew we could fit 256GB onto them right? Did they just hold that back so they could sell 32 and 64GB microsd cards at $90 a pop?

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:47:40 am

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I'm not usually a person to give into conspiracy or ~corporations are evil~ type of thing, but it just seems far too coincidental that as soon as the demand is there, the companies are delivering exactly what we need at a competitive price.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if SanDisk already has tech for 4TB microsd and all that.

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:48:27 am

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granted we need the rest of the tech to support it. Or is that all just a big conspiracy too? Why is it that last year's model of GoPro only supports like 64GB microsds? And suddenly now they can support 512GB?

Am I just paranoid?

DJGrenola

2017-02-22 02:52:58 am

yeah, a little

DJGrenola

2017-02-22 02:53:08 am

cynical is more like the word

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:54:20 am

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yeah that was the word I was trying to think of, heh

tomatobob

2017-02-22 02:54:53 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

I mean corporations are evil, but more due to their exploitation of the poor to benefit the rich and conspiring with governments to allow them to extend such exploitation than for withholding a larger SD card. :v

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:54:53 am

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I guess its also the idea of supply vs demand. The companies couldn't charge $90 for a 64GB micro SD these days, some other company would take their place and find a way to do it for cheap

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:55:13 am

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Quote from tomatobob:

I mean corporations are evil, but more due to their exploitation of the poor to benefit the rich and conspiring with governments to allow them to extend such exploitation than for withholding a larger SD card. :v

whoa that's getting way too large-scale for me to give a shit about

tomatobob

2017-02-22 02:55:15 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Seize the means of production, comrades!

tomatobob

2017-02-22 02:55:34 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Come at me Trump!

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:56:14 am

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I know anti-depresents are essentially just man-made feel-good chemicals so I wonder if it's possible to train our body by abusing those. For example, can we train our brain to enjoy somethign we normally hate? Like if you hate the color red and watching Big Bang Theory, what if you took those drugs and forced yourself to watch Big Bang Theory and look at the color red. After enough trials, would you eventually not even need those substances? Would your body just recognize, "oh hey, it's this shit again, time to feel good".

On the other hand though, according to friends that have first-hand experiences with those substances, it makes it so their body is completely unable to produce those feel good chemicals at all and kind of just gives up.

science is pretty interesting

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:56:41 am

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Quote from tomatobob:

Come at me Trump!

can you imagine fist fighting trump?

Imagine a giant orange marshmello staring you down and readying his fists at you directly

DJGrenola

2017-02-22 02:56:59 am

I mean back in the day I remember wing commander II with the speech pack came on like 14 floppy disks and would take up like half of a 40 MB hard drive

the demand for higher capacity storage was definitely there

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:57:55 am

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oh really? All my memories of storage has been pretty relative, then again in the late 90s/early 00s I was more into the video/camera side of things

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:58:38 am

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I do remember my neighbor having an absolute mass of floppy drives and every time I went to his house to play games he would have to re-install whatever game we wanted to play

DJGrenola

2017-02-22 02:58:52 am

as concerns flash I think they really have just got better and better at making it and better at designing the flash controllers, which these days are more like complicated RAID processors than just flash controllers

DJGrenola

2017-02-22 02:59:19 am

they sell you a load of unreliable flash with a controller designed to make it work reliably through error correction etc.

Poision Envy

2017-02-22 02:59:28 am

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is that actually handled on the flash card?

Or it's all done on the device, right?