this has been a terrible 24 hours for me

@samhenrigold shouldn’t that add up for o 100? I mean math and all. Maths for those who like that

@samhenrigold This was one of my textbooks, and since it has both red and yellow, I picked orange.

Also, I apologise to anyone in who I have triggered an "Oh, heck, I'm old" moment.

@samhenrigold
Math is provably Orange.
Have someone give you this test verbally.
_______
Quickly, now. What’s
2+2?
4+4?
8+8?
16+16?
32+32?
64+64?
128+128?
256+256?
Name a vegetable. First one that comes to mind.

@samhenrigold I like the look of it, but I worry that:
a) It'd give me another unhealthily distracting thing to obsess about.
b) It'd lead to an inconvenient house fire.

@samhenrigold there’s a bunch of inexpensive brands, I like this little bit of nerdy informatics.

@samhenrigold I want to pronounce "Chipofy" to rhyme with Chipotle.

It’s wrong, I wasn’t being playful. We must destroy one of the Khalifas.

Burj Khalifa is about 429.0155440415 Wiz Khalifas tall.

@samhenrigold There's a lot of smiting in the early work as well, tbh.

@samhenrigold Say that to my aunt who has 196 tabs in mobile Chrome open and for some reason screenshots the whole internet. People are different.

@samhenrigold 🥲

@samhenrigold Counterpoint: you would have said the same thing in the nineties about microcomputers. You didn’t program them anymore, you stuck a word processor floppy in the drive and it was a word processor. You stuck a spreadsheet disk in, it was a calculator. So it goes

@samhenrigold Flashback triggered... Used that for my first college CS class since it was much more convenient than trying to use the compiler on a CDC Dual Cyber and saving on 8" floppies.

@samhenrigold @nicklockwood Now there’s a blast from the past. Late 1984 or early ‘85, intro physics lab.

@samhenrigold That's just 'cuz they didn't have color CRT back then.

@samhenrigold please do it

my prediction: nothing exciting, it would just fast charge

stranger thing happens when I plug my switch into my macbook, the macbook starts charging and there's no way I could find to reverse the direction of the connection so I could load my torrented games onto the damn thing, the only thing that helps is a USB-A hub

@samhenrigold what did you do? 😅

@samhenrigold smarterchild was free. big missed opportunity there smh my head

@samhenrigold Chromebooks are just subsidized e-waste. Even brand new they’re basically trash. My kids aren’t on the path to be comp sci majors but they both vastly prefer their Macs and bring them to school

@samhenrigold I've observed that we grew up in a really interesting window where computers were ubiquitous but fairly obtuse and difficult. That difficulty curve gave us something to learn. Now, with everything built around easy buttons, it makes it much harder to learn it.

@samhenrigold 100%

In the effort to protect kids we’re stunting their development. Similar to how they don’t explore anymore — they barely play outside.

@samhenrigold @Gargron there are people actively cheering for the zombie apocalypse to begin.

@samhenrigold Well, there are examples of this, that even founded religions…

but there's even a word for it, it's called resurrection

@samhenrigold super cool!

having never seen these macs when they were current, I don't understand what's so wrong lol
but then also I would probably feel the same way seeing windows 11 on a CRT

edit: of course it's been done

@samhenrigold @colincornaby since we see Dashboard widgets, this is at least Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which was not supported on such a machine anyway! (old world ROM) but it was pretty do-able to get around the restrictions.

@samhenrigold Song will still slap

I took the liberty of writing some NY post headlines for this story. I imagine they'd use this to skewer the federal government so…
- Biden's Balloon Bungle
- Blinken Blows It!
- Biden's No-Fly Zone: Only 45 Luftballons Allowed to Soar!
- Yellen's Yield: Inflation's Next Victim - '99 Luftballons'?

@samhenrigold probably because they're used by huge, messy, bags of sadness 🥲

@samhenrigold the funny(/sad) part about that article is that react UIs are still big, messy, mutable, stateful bags of sadness. And hooks. Also bags of hooks.

@samhenrigold source?
http://joshaber.github.io/2015/01/30/why-react-native-matters/