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It's going to be incredible when people can download their brains to back them up, of course mine would take at least double the amount of time to backup compared to you lot.
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because random data can't be compressed 😀
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That's because you would use a c90 cassette tape and have to keep starting again.
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Meh, you're both just jealous of my comparable brain double time.
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Yes, you will need to use both sides of the tape.
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The internet knows more than me. That's AI's memory/mind that is.
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I would love to see how things evolve in 100, 10,00, 10,000, 100,000, 1000,000 years.
Fascinating, there must be evolved matter in the Universe at these various stages.
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You'd use a Musk system so all the data would get fucked up before being uploaded back into your brain.
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The bloke would be giving it a crack though, so eventually it would become reality. If it wasn't for people like Musk we'd all be sat in a cave pissin about with wicker shit.
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Musk system in action.
He's now know as Mr X.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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I think I've put it in the annoyances thread about multiple versions of emailed docx documents getting emailed backwards and forwards when it would be far simpler to have a collaborative cloud-shared Google Doc/Sheet (or equivalent).
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You have and it makes me cringe every time you say it.
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I'm interested why you think data is safer on a drive in your house than on a drive in a building specifically designed for the purpose with back-up power supply, etc. Of course anything can break but I don't think having data on a local server makes that less likely than on a remote server. We have our office NAS on site, but it's effectively 'cloud based' for anyone WFH. The main reason we didn't switch to cloud-based storage was cost. We do use an encrypted cloud backup service, though.
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Sure, for now. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50...Years?
No flippin way. I will be but a mere spec of fluff by comparison to the battle of AI/intelligent matter strain supremacy. The salient goal has to be to survive before any other objectives they consider important.
At some point they will decide how they want to be referred to.
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You can use your space bar on an android phone/tablet as a cursor movement for editing text, hold it down.
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That belongs in the "Things You Have Recently Learned" thread. Old news.
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Sure, just in case people didn't know. I mentioned it to someone today who had trouble positioning the cursor.
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Anyone else ever use ticker tape?
Very prestigious academic lab I was in (mid 1980s) had an instrument that used punch tape for data output, and the tape fed into a desk-sized computer/printer. The machine was antiquated but too expensive to replace.
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At university we had a computer course, where we had to convert a calculation onto punch cards, take them to the computer office, feed them in and come back the week after to collect the cards with the answers on!
I think the computer occupied most of the basement - it was 1980
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I never did Fortran at school but if you did, you wrote it up on sheets, the sheets were taken to Bristol Poly to be transposed into punch cards, from which they then ran the bit of programming, which then ended up bring printed out on dot matrix printers, those sheets coming back to school with the shoe boxes of punch cards. That was 1977ish.
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Only at Uni.
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I remember the tapes as we had cnc machines that ran off them prior to proper cncs that you could programme direct from pc software.
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Off-topic maybe, unless you can count memo pads as the precursor to email, but when I started work post-Uni (1990) the big thing in office "tech" was the self-carboned memo pad. The original (white) went to the recipient, with the yellow copy going to the departmental secretary and the pink copy for one's own records, with no carbon paper involved.
The excitement created by this was almost matched by that generated by the arrival of version 3 of LOTUS123 (early 1991 I think) with its WYSIWYG graphics.
Back on topic, we had two IBM PCs for a department of 20, with a booking system to secure your chance to use one of them. They were quite hi-tech, as they used the smaller, rigid plastic floppy disks. Highlight of the week for us juniors was doing the backup, which used around 20 of said disks.
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I used Lotus 1-2-3 (1997) for about 20 years, as it was soooo quick to load (being a thinly-disguised MS-DOS thing), especially in comparison with Excel. Only really dumped it in the end when I found Google Sheets.
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Lotus ruled the roost until 1995 in the places I worked (in Financial Services). But from that point onwards, it was one way traffic in favour of Excel, most likely because it was part of Windows / Office, or whatever the Microsoft juggernaut was called in those days, rather than because it was necessarily better. I often encounter juniors who regale us with tales of stuff they've used at Uni that is much better, but IT departments can only support so many things, and the Microsoft stuff does what's needed reliably the vast majority of the time on "standard build" PCs.
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All sounds very familiar from starting my career in late 1989. Letters were hand written and sent to the typing pool as no-one else was allowed a PC (I think even they still used typewriters). We had one CAD machine with one of the structural technicians trained as CAD manager. There were also a couple of PCs running the road design software which had to be booked. They used a type of programming language but weren’t graphical so you only saw your results and whether you’d entered the data correctly when you printed (the first plotter used the equivalent of different width Rotring pens and one would always dry up).
Once we got a PC in each team office I also used Lotus123 and think I have the training manual in the loft. Word Perfect was the word processor of choice (which I liked as they sponsored a cycling team). We had teams of maybe a dozen to do the work I now do solo and it would still probably take a week to do what I can do in a day.
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I think I'm fairly lucky - I had a job in 1991-2 where there was early email and I could communicate with friends who had gone to uni, and the company also had Word 2.1. Quite forward thinking.
So I never had to do much "old school" other than some early work finding stuff on paper versions of Chem Abstracts and dim corners of underground libraries, and pasting graphical data output from closed systems using Pritt Stick and Tipp-ex to make posters and write my thesis.
When I started in the legal profession there was this clear expectation that it was quickest to dictate letters, get them typed up, hand correct them, repeat... (think Don Draper and Peggy).
I actually got quite a lot of flack for typing stuff myself and warned I would never make my billing target, and it would hamper my career etc.
Being able to reliably dictate to a secretary is now about as useful a skill as sharpening a quill.
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