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I think dumb people need to hold onto the idea that smart people are a bunch of nerds with no physical fitness, coordination, game with the opposite sex, autism, allergies, and asthma to distract them from the fact that smart people are on average better people along many correlated dimensions and on others no worse than average.
I used to sell apple gear
I had to keep telling off other sales people who kept saying OSX was based on Linux, not Unix
I was writing choose your own adventure games in basic, but the 2k memory cap was challenging, and loading from audio from cassette tapes was just stupid. I've used pretty much every OS (within reason).
I still don't like macs though.
What if you got started on an Atari in the 80s?
You should get your AARP card in the mail shortly
600xl Or 800xl?
130XE
I wrote a program in Basic on my Commodore 64 at 6.
I didn’t know how to save my work. I typed and manually proofread code for three hours. It worked. The program was lost when I powered it down.
Ignoring data to prove your hypothesis is correct sounds like polling.
Good studies correct for outliers.
To correct, you have to measure them first. How else would you know how much to correct. Measure the variable to control for it is basic good practice.
The windows kids know more because there was a possibility some stuff might work with the right sequence of rituals. The mac kids just knew not to try because nothing will work
I started on classic Mac OS and have a successful tech career. I learned to troubleshoot problems on the Mac by disabling Extensions and deleting Preferences files in the prior century. Learned to use Windows after 2000, and it has been garbage the whole time.
I wasn't advocating for windows, they're both trash
Discluded? I have another hypothesis.
I have a third hypothesis to add to the mix..
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (sorry, paywalled).
Okay, if a fucking dictionary is paywalled we have gone way beyond the red line for social recovery.
"Recovery?" Now that's an interesting thought!
Ditch OED, befriend Wiktionary
disclude (third-person singular simple present discludes, present participle discluding, simple past and past participle discluded)
(transitive)
(now nonstandard)
Wiktionary is the best
God damnit.
I remember toting around a Linux textbook in 7th grade, because I had just started messing with it.
Same year I got my General and Advanced ham radio licenses.
Does this make me autistic?
7th grade in the US is about 12 years old.
I'm not a doctor, so I won't guess, but...what's your favorite train?
M497 Black Beetle
I really dig futuristic ones similar to high speed rails. I do love variety between Steampunk/Solarpunk/Cyberpunk.
"Allegheny" 2-6-6-6 articulated steamer. One of the most powerful steam locos ever made, 60 of them ran regularly for 20 years. No one cares about it because it's tractive is lower (even though it has more traction) and it's not the Union Pacific Big Boy.
That's easy, The Lionel No. 381E "State Brown" Passenger Cars are 🔥🔥🔥
Counter argument: boomers who needed to type commands and swap disks to get a word processor loaded, who knew all the hotkeys required to issue commands and the alt-codes for special characters, who today cannot figure out where the file they were working on saved to.
Yeah, the first computer I remember in our house, I was 4, it was MSDOS, and my mom knew how to run everything, so she obviously had an understanding of command and all that. To this day, she's still incredibly tech illiterate. Her current improved status is emailing me shit that looks phishy so I can figure things out for her. I still get the calls that "something is wrong," and I need to go unfuck things a little. It's funny.
If we're talking post-year-2k macs, you're de-facto going to skew the results as those were less affordable than budget family windows boxes.
I also did this.
Bricked my computer for 3 years 🫠
Fuck mint, even Windows Vista never broke to the point of being unable to download any file lol