April 13, 2020

25. Which One Is Eggteen?

54 minutes

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Lords:

Rusty is Rusty#1990 on Discord.

Rusty's Discord bot: https://deepfake-bot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Chris is @MrChrisLHall on Twitter.

Topics:

2:39 Games that are work.

12:40 Twitter bots posting photos of people and cats that do not exist

https://twitter.com/DoesNotExistBot

https://twitter.com/normalcatpics

17:15 The best way to future proof your job against AI takeover is to get a job that machines are already better at but humans still do it anyway.

24:34 Quill asks: "Have you ever seen the different verbal naming systems for hexadecimal? They're all amazing. My favorite numbers are eggteen and chris."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal#Verbal_and_digital_representations

28:07 Where do you find folk games? Like Sticks or Contact or Fish Bowl. There must be some really amazing ones out there that I've never heard of.

36:55 My recording rig for podcasting

http://sonic-pi.net/

Live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1m0aX9Lpts

The Failure of the iPad. http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2020/01/29/the_failure_of_the_ipad/

45:02 When you're old and only remember jokes, the only way to learn new things is to make jokes about them.

https://mnemosyne-proj.org/

Microtopics:

Non-consensually turning a Discord user into a Discord bot.

A recurring topic on this particular episode.

Lightly-flavored seltzer water.

Entering the Konami code at a soda fountain to get the secret flavor.

Getting tasks in your inbox and doing the tasks and getting more tasks as a reward.

Not having to take part in the office drama.

A complete lack of scrum master.

The fantasy of doing a job and getting fairly compensated.

The plausibility of having fun at your job.

Letting others pay the cost of the harm you're doing to the world.

Loving to play games where you clean up messes while your real life home gets worse and worse.

Playing a game about a housecleaning robot and deciding doing housework could make you happy in real life too.

Not falling for it when mom tries to turn cleaning your room into a game.

Teenagers going out of their way to be helpful in the household.

Toddlers wanting to do what adults do.

Finding out 18 years later your theory is correct.

The lego: nature's caltrop.

Writing an angry letter to the Lego corporation asking why they don't make squishy legos.

Wearing only half a pair of glasses.

Choosing Markov Chains because they work better than Tensorflow.

Having enough ram to store 1.5 billion floating point values.

Whether the Dalai Lama has ever used ICQ, and if so why hasn't Jim talked to him.

Some people running really fast, but not as fast as cars, but we still pay them to do it.

The emergency board meeting that the CEO of running called when the speed of cars eclipsed the speed of runners.

Becoming an artisanal trucker on Etsy when computers take your trucking job.

Decking out your artisanal delivery truck in old-timey neon reminiscent of the 80s when people still had jobs.

The part of your brain dedicated to determining the gender of the driver who is trying to kill you.

Being a very chill person except when you're driving alone.

An angry meditation on driving in heavy traffic.

The only time your infant son has ever heard you be angry.

Bringing your date to see Black Swan without realizing it's secretly a horror movie.

Just waiting for the great black scary bird to show up.

Pronouncing 1E as "Eggteen."

Knowing your pointer is a bad pointer when it's pointing to DEADBEEF.

Magic numbers such as 0xDECAFC0FFEE15BAD.

Michael Jackson moonwalking on the moon.

That feeling when you find that the altar is co-aligned in Minetown in Nethack.

Playing tag but not knowing who invented it.

Having water at home but trying not to brag about it.

A really inefficient way of getting at musicking.

Choosing a software package because you just download and run it without doing a bunch of sysadmin bullshit.

Being frustrated that there are still some things you can do on a computer but not on a phone.

Having an example that you wanted to use but not being able to remember what it was.

Remembering what a word means because you once imagined a monkey saying it.

Deliberately cracking yourself up so you can remember Bob's last name.

Thinking of the time I thought your name was "Blob."

Only remembering to buy the funniest items on your grocery list.

Memorizing your grocery list and then being stuck with the same grocery list for the rest of your life.

The persistent allure of a shelf of physical media even in the era of digital downloads.

Being intrigued by Bee Simulator but not being $48 intrigued.

Bee dances that are sufficiently expressive to articulate game reviews.

Git cloning the mind of someone with a good memory so you can remember things better.

Only being able to remember monkeys brachiating, but remembering the hell out of it.

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