And so what’s your threshold for calling a spade a spade? Is a trowel a spade? Is a spoon a spade? Is a flat bit of wood a spade?
Do you understand the concept of neuance or shades of grey or do you doggedly stick to black and white?
Must be blissfull to see the world with strict category boundaries and be willingly ignorant of anything on a spectrum that doesn’t fit into your nice and neat categories.
Not my thing, but you do you boo.
I have yet to see UK election officials being caught on CCTV stuffing ballet boxes.
I have yet to see the Police arresting people for being gay in public.
I have yet to see the BBC be handed notes live on air and completely change the narrative around an ongoing war.
So yeah, the original comment saying “the UK is more authoritarian than Russia” is insane hyperbole.
Ironically, your comment about the UK being halfway to as authoritarian as somewhere like Russia is more interesting as we can get into the details as how they are currently similar and how much further the UK would have to slide to be there, and presumably how to stop it.
See this here u/Jhex, this is a comparison that makes sense because it is a criticism of the “surveillance state” by comparing numbers of CCTV cameras between a parliamentary democracy with free and fair elections and an authoritarian state which does not and highlights that whilst one has much more political freedoms they both have a large surveillance state apparatus and you’d expect one of them to have a smaller one.
No, I think we can acknowledge the problems surrounding digital ID, the surveillance state, prosecuting whistleblower journalists who leak classified information, and many other problematic policies and institutions WITHOUT resorting to a rediculous comparison and insane hyperbole.
Well is this about permanent magnets loosing their functionality or the whole concept of magnetism just vanishing?
One puts us back to a steampunk technological ceiling the other means the universe pops out of existence; electricity, magnetism, and light are closely linked so removing one is likely to just break reality.
As en electronics engineer I’m going to “Yes But…” this and say that the lower the voltage/current you’re trying to manipulate the more concentration it requires to do it without over-voltaging the components you’re trying to manipulate and frying the circuitry.
So whilst this would be possible you’d have to:
Hold all the cores, ALU, etc. in the CPU at the current state that they’re in
Then spend time flipping the bits (not one at a time but like a whole 32 bit number) required to represent your instructions.
With enough practice and meditation you get a “feel” for the instructions and can do this but it takes time. I think this is fair as once you’ve learnt a CPU architecture most of the machine instructions are the same and it’s just a matter of getting them to run in the right order.
This way you don’t start out overpowered and there’s a high skill ceiling.
(I may or may not be writing a book around this already and have thought about it a lot haha)
Please explain how the UK is now more authoritarian than Russia; a country that rigs elections, disappears/assassinates political opposition, and invades neighbouring sovereign nations to ethnically cleanse them?
Rather than listing all of the ways modern life and society would collapse it’d be easier to just say this:
Your ability to understand the world would in an instant be limited to the people that immediately surround you and you’d better quickly think of a way to find a clean water source, some land, grab an “Agriculture for Dummies” book, and some form of weapon to defend your new homestead with your new tribe.
Technopathy. Being able to sense and manipulate electronics/electricity flows to “hack” computers and less smart hardware by waving my hands and “wishing” the outcome I wanted would make my life so much easier.
I could charge a good rate for my ability and my learnt knowledge as well take down huge tech companies.
Honestly, pass me a shovel, we’re gonna make lending money to this bastard the most profitable decision she ever made!
It’s not just that, it’s the whole system.
The human brain has a perception rate of motion up to 300 frames per second and visual data up to 1000 frames per second. Now it’s non-sensical to think of the human eye and brain like a CMOS image sensor and CPU because they simply do not run on the same principles but for the sake of argument we’ll take the upper limit of 1000 frame per second because the brain relies on an intuitive sense of hand-eye position that needs to be processed unconsciously for it to react fast enough to environmental stimulation.
So that’s 1000 times a second minimum (1kHz) for the whole VR system to measure the change in relative position of the controller to the headset in 3 spacial dimensions, 5 degrees of freedom, the acceleration of that change, packet up these numbers, transmit them via a radio link to the headset, unpack that data in multiple processing threads all waiting for their sprint in a CPU core, get repackaged for other threads a dizzying amount of times, be used in calculations for the game’s physics engine, which then produces graphics data shoved through a HUGE buffer to the GPU before that sends the appropriate electrical signals to 100,000 of nanoscale LED lights to shine into your retinas.
So yeah, it might suck a bit of power and it’s a fucking miracle that GNERATIONS of engineers around the world have contributed incalculable hours of their lives to ensure that your beat saber or goon session last just slightly longer than your stamina!
It’s also the Rochdale Herald.
Rochdale makes Northern Post Industrial Shitholes look like Star Trek San Francisco.
Source: grew up around there, the trains(and then Trams) run twice as fast through there.
Given that it’s Northampton, I’m in favour of this population reduction strategy.
So I just went and watched that specific scene because you do raise some good points here.
If the computers know he woke up why release him instead of just killing him?
It looks like the machine that releases him is a different one from the usual Sentinels we see elsewhere in the films so I assume it’s just there to monitor the humans in the pods. It is probably programmed to just dispose of humans into the sewer that either wake up due to technical issues or that die in the pod by yanking their neck using the grabby arm and unscrewing the neural spike. Flushing the live/dead body down is just the last step in it’s process because even if they wake up alive in the pod, once they’re flushed down they aren’t going to be fed nutrients to keep them alive and these vat grown humans barely use their muscles so they can’t swim well and will most likely drown quickly. Why bother wasting energy making sure they’re dead when they most likely will die anyway?
If they did know he did woke up, and didn’t kill him because he’s the one… Wouldn’t the crew find it unusual how easy it was to get him?
I don’t think the machines knew he was The One at that stage because he was yet to perform any of the feats that the “prophecy” laid out. I don’t think I could explain the whole prophecy thing they go over in the third film well enough but from the sounds of it, until Neo can see the Matrix for what it truly is the machines don’t know if he’s the one or not so until he gets shit by Agent Smith and comes back to life to the machines he’s just another human that broke free and being a bit of a pest like the rest of them.
I agree that they’d try to help if they could but I think we’d have to assume that getting someone plugged back into the Matrix permanently would carry a much greater risk for the crew required to carry out this operation than is acceptable.
I think this assumption is reasonable because:
When Neo leaves the matrix, within a minute of “waking up” a machine quickly arrives to unscrew his neural connection and flush him down the waste disposal at the back of the pod he was “asleep” in. So we can assume that there’s constant monitoring of the pods and lots of machines to quickly dispose of humans that wake up.
The humans want to stay as far away from the machines as possible, hence why they use a dish to broadcast a signal from a hidden portion of the world outside of Zion so they can jack into the Matrix remotely and disconnect when they need to move to avoid detection. Getting inside of one of these human pod farms likely would be a nigh-on impossible task as can be seen when A. Neo and Trinity fly into the heart of machine territory in the 3rd film and B. Morpheus and the crew wait until after Neo gets flushed out into what most of the time is a corpse sewer to fish him out.
During the whole explanation of the matrix from Morpheus we can see that as soon as a human is grown enough to be picked they’re moved into one of these pods. So even if they somehow manage to sneak into one of these facilities without being detected by one of the innumerable monitoring machines they’d either need to A. Time it perfectly between a dead person being flushed out before the pod is repopulated with a new young person from the farms. Or B. Swap Cypher in when someone else wants to come out, when they state in the film that spending enough time in the Matrix to extract someone is already a risky operation.
They might not be rule tyrants but Zion clearly has a leadership hierarchy and risking a whole crew and a ship which has information on how to find and get into Zion in it’s systems would likely be a completely unacceptable risk to Zion management who already don’t like Morpheus’ recklessness for chasing the prophecy by freeing Neo in his 20s when they normally only free people when they’re younger.
Having interacted with the British public on a regular basis, I can confirm: they don’t know owt!
Sign me the fuck up as well, Solarpunks unite!
Fusion 360.
Blender is not suitable for me because from what I’ve read it’s good for sculpture work but not good for dimensional accuracy.
There is Free cad but last time I looked at it, it was very far behind in terms of features. But as soon as that can do STL mesh to editable object conversion I’ll switch.
Check out Meccano as well, similar idea as a construction toy.
(quickly hides cape and twirly mustache)
I have no idea what you’re talking about officer