the absolute state of the discourse https://twitter.com/Josh_Gabel/status/1314017589517934594 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
Strong "Mr Babbage, if I put into your machine wrong numbers, will it give me the right answers?" feeling here
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Replying to @kendrictonn
this is my absolute favorite quote in the world, fwiw or, more specifically - Charles' absolutely autistic response <chef's kiss> cc
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Replying to @MorlockP @kendrictonn
Yeah it’s the best. I have a background task running that just looks for opportunities to use that remark.
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There's nothing quite like that blank, defeated feeling of "for this conversation to continue, we have to go back ten levels and fix philosophy, but we can't do that, and also this conversation has to continue."
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Replying to @kendrictonn @MorlockP
If I’ve learned nothing else from my many years of Morlockp’s company, it is that no conversation has to continue.
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Replying to @MorlockP @kendrictonn
Excellent! My internal model of you yet retains a modicum of fidelity.
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> retains ... fidelity also, OMG, continue to read the book on the Apollo guidance computer, and it's insane ... gyro stabilized inertial navigation unit would drift, and had to be recalibrated using a sextant every so often REEEEE
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I remember reading a little bit about that. Didn't 11 at one point put the capsule through a forbidden orientation that crashed the guidance system due to mechanical limits, too, requiring a sextant-based reboot?
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