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WCDT Strips 3571 to 3575 (18th to 22nd 2017)
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 19 Sep 2017, 22:52 ---
--- Quote from: swapna on 19 Sep 2017, 10:11 ---Also, how in hell does Roko use her feet without knowing how they work?
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You should ask a centipede that question.
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(shall I post a link to "The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede" again???)
(Naaaahh!)
JimC:
--- Quote from: swapna on 19 Sep 2017, 13:48 ---The idea to mask the functions under layers makes sense to me, what doesn't is that the AI wouldn't have access to them even when they needed to.
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Don't reckon so. 25 years ago I used to write assembler programs to interact almost directly with the hardware, but I haven't really been able to do that sort of stuff since Windows NT came out, and more importantly haven't needed to. And also the level of complexity has risen to such a degree that even if you did have access you wouldn't know what to do with it. I used to understand what every component did on my motorcyle, and have a damn good idea how to fix it if it went wrong, but nowadays with fuel injection, electronic ignition and **** knows what I really wouldn't have a clue, and without complex external equipment even an up to date pro is severely limited.
Tlaloc:
And yet we're not seeing oh so much programmatically improving despite all these layers. Modern computing is wedded to what is known as cruft... But it doesn't have to continue this way as a large and increasingly vocal number of people are realising.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 19 Sep 2017, 23:27 ---So, question: now that Faye is legitimately employed again and has a genuine career ahead maybe, would she go back to college part-time to get “properly” qualified in robo-fixin?
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Sure, she and a friend just started a business by borrowing heavily and using another friend as a co-signer. A business which is struggling through it's start up phase, and for which they've had all of four customers so far. Why not go offer and get thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars into debt while skipping potential work time to get accreditation for what she already knows how to do?
Yes, that was rather acerbic. Might have something to do with how I was pushed by family into a similar situation, though I wasn't starting my own business at the time. It was still two years of wasted time and money to go through schooling for a useless piece of paper to 'learn' what I already knew, just to have that piece of paper saying I knew it.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Sep 2017, 23:15 ---BTW, I've finally worked out what that tall glass cabinet is. It's an old prop from the set of The Time Tunnel.
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Akkk! An Irwin Allen production! You know what THAT means!
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