TIL: Being a computer is hard and I don't ever want to be a computer.
Well it's a good thing it's an autonomous job already replaced by computers.
A video game where you are an operating system
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What is the operating system analogy for whacking off? Clearing the cache?
Luckily our computer hardware can Not self-repruduce yet.
But computer software can. Worms, viruses, etc
Heck, even the operating system could reproduce in some sense. If the operating system on one machine is set up to regard itself as DHCP server, it would begin responding to DHCP requests in the local network. And in the DHCP response it can provide network boot instructions telling other computers to network boot a copy of the OS image of itself that it is serving. Any other computer that is configured to net boot could then boot the OS. Of course most computers are not set up to net boot out of the box. But on a network where they use net boot already you might be able to race their own DHCP server and get some of the clients to boot your OS image instead.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're talking about Shenzen.io by Zachtronics, aren't you https://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/
I just bought this off your recommendation and I hate you now.
There's also a minigame in Electrician Simulator that has you repair various broken objects by replacing components. It's strangely satisfying.
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#95You know what would be cool? A defragmentation game. It's basically Tetris but in a circular layout, and you get more points the better optimized it is - with frequently used data blocks towards the outer tracks and old/archive file types towards the inner tracks. I always enjoyed watching graphical defragmenters do their magic back in the day and would unironically love to play a defragging game.
https://defrag.lolalabs.com/
I like the idea, but I noticed that there seems to be some kind of issue with it registering clicks. I don't know if I'm just sometimes clicking slightly outside of the hitboxes or what, but I find myself "dragging" stuff by accident when the game doesn't register that I "dropped" whatever object I had selected.
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#96In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
Humans often like to compare the brain to technology. For example, when gears were high tech there were people that drew heads with gears turning inside of the head, likening the act of thinking to the motion of gears. And I think in cartoons etc we still see this sometimes. :D
Yes, I remember those. And later, a light bulb flashing inside of the head when the character has an idea.
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#97Coming soon, an OS where all components are gamified and done by humans.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humans often like to compare the brain to technology. For example, when gears were high tech there were people that drew heads with gears turning inside of the head, likening the act of thinking to the motion of gears. And I think in cartoons etc we still see this sometimes. :D
Yes, I remember those. And later, a light bulb flashing inside of the head when the character has an idea.
Gears did something, they stood for purposeful activity. A light bulb illuminates its surrounding, letting you see in the dark - an apt metaphor for having an idea, seeing something that previously couldn't be seen, etc. In both cases these are metaphors, not actually imagining the brain running on gears or light bulbs.
Computer analogies are different. These are direct, not metaphorical, and rightfully so, because computation is fundamental and not just a piece of technology. Computer science stands at the intersection between mathematics and physics.
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#99In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
Possibly our autonomic nervous system is closer to what we think is an OS. Abstracts over the low level operation of the wetware
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#100Awesome idea, but it's too hard for me. In normal mode, I'm already clicking like a maniac in the first 20 seconds of the game, and red processes accumulate, even though I'm cycling out the blocked ones. I had one process killed because no IO event ever came for it. Easy mode seems to be the same, or actually even harder. I don't even get to the point where memory becomes an issue, but at this pace I don't want to. M…
That's what computers are for, doing the repetitive stuff without freaking out for you :)
Maybe write a program that plays the game for you. It could be called You're the Operating System Operating System.