Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "The Computer Chronicles" channel.

  1. To be fair, he cut EVERYONE off.
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  2. And, 40 years later, symbolic AI is dead.
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  3. 18:40 one of the only times on CC that the GUEST said 'I'm going to cut things short here' instead of Stewart.
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  4. My left and right ears enjoyed taking turns learning about push technology in the '90s.
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  5. 1:31 so like how long had Stewart and Gary been awkwardly sat together silently in the dark before we joined them!???
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  6. Oh, huh, I remember Pointcast ... and remember thinking that it was slow and terrible even at the time.
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  7. How does anyone -- even accounting for the general campiness of the '90s -- say ARPA's Captain Kirk' with a straight face!? Pure gold.
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  8. Altho that guy, specifically, is 100% undercover. And I bet that moustache is taped on, too.
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  9. My right ear loved this.
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  10. But Stewart was ALWAYS like cool story, next thing, stfu.
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  11. 12:30 Ooh, a crappy decision tree ... trained on ones of examples.
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  12. I mean, literally everything will be forgotten.
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  13. Who asked?
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  14.  @anwerabdallah569  She's dead; she doesn't give any shits about your cool stories or literally anything else.
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  15.  @anwerabdallah569  All is forgiven. I did start with the snark after all. (Irony is that I mostly agree with you: The older computers were way worse ... but way more interesting.) High five for reasonableness taking over a YT thread!
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  16. F all that ... cause BABOON.
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  17. I still can't believe that 186 years before this episode aired the Napoleonic Wars ended!
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  18. I did not remember how ugly it was, though.
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  19. People still can't agree on 'Titanic' vs 'The Titanic' ... and it's been over a hundred years.
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  20. That's a real banger.
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  21. The whole 'surfing the web' thing was so cringe ... although not as bad as 'information superhighway'🤦‍♀
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  22. 16:29 I can assure you: It was a real RISC.
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  23.  @maxxdahl6062  No apologies necessary! But, fun's subjective, eh? 😜 Probably somebody out there unironically loves spreadsheets, too! ♥️
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  24. $60 for software to make banners ... oof.
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  25. We also don't know Stewart's whereabouts at the times of Tupac's or Elvis's deaths ... I think you're onto something ...
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  26.  @raven4k998  kekw ... glad I'm not the only one who found that funny as shit
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  27.  @iampixel4086  Why, though? What is their purpose? How do they justify their continued existence given that, ya know, somebody has to pay for them?
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  28. Just a '90s fad.
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  29.  @JaredConnell  Libraries used to make sense because they had a larger collection of books than could be reasonably had at home ... They're still relevant ... why? (Also, why doe people care about public wifi still, when they can just use 5G on their phones?)
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  30. Those sounds tho ...
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  31. Holy crap, that would get annoying in about 5 sec ... even in '90s cringe mode.
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  32.  @llumiinati  It's simply inevitable because entropy.
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  33. How else you gonna run Ski Free and Reversi on modern hardware!? You want those classics running on bare metal, not emulation for the real experience.
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  34. So glad that nobody says 'the net' any more.
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  35.  @DM0407  The Pacific, of course!?
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  36.  @karlimo4034  Absolutely.
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  37. The '90s were cringe + forgettable.
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  38.  @BlownMacTruck  I could say literally anything about literally anything; that's trivially true. I would, however, say that only about the '90s.
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  39.  @BlownMacTruck  No.
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  40.  @BlownMacTruck  It's not a fallacy. Literally anybody can make any statement about anything. That's pretty much the nature of language; it's generative and the set of possible sentences about any particular subject is transfinite.
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  41. ... and, actually, people are perfectly capable of speaking non-sentence utterances, as well ...
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  42.  @BlownMacTruck  It seems quite evident that you do not understand how universal quantifiers work. If I can say anything about anything, then I can say anything about any decade; decades, quite obviously, being a strict subtype of all things.
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  43.  @BlownMacTruck  To put a finer point on this, I was strengthening, not weakening, your claim.
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  44.  @BlownMacTruck  If there's a fallacy, show the faulty step of deduction. You're making a positive claim; burden of proof is on you.
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  45.  @ConernicusRex  Tf is 'it' in that sentence? Is that some substandard 'cogito ergo sum' mis-ref?
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  46. Um, people were thinking about this stuff in the 1940s (e.g., McCullough and Pitts). New things tend to be less new than is generally believed.
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  47. It's almost like Apple is actually a mid-tier luxury goods company that happens to sell electronics. Imagine what it could have been if Woz had stayed around.
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  48. 'Squirt'.
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  49. They're not. And, they haven't in over 20 years. Also, search engines exist, and you could have answered that for yourself.
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  50. WAP ... hrmmm, I do not think it means what you think it means.
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