Nowadays it would open the CD-rom drive and install a bitcoin miner
Used to, lol, I have noticed that newer devices seem to lack them
Back in the day it would open the CD tray and install adware onto your browser, so same concept.
I remember getting the complete Age of Empires 1 CD-ROM with a box of cereal :grillman: unbeaten cereal box prize imo.
I don't know if I had this, looks like a Doom clone on image search? – love those too.
Hell yeah, would be fun to play through branded games like that one day, just to find some decent hidden gems.
Also, the only other cereal in-box CD game that was on par with AOE 1, was Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, regret losing that disk.
Yo Battlefield 2 is a real score.
Makes me wonder though, imagine you worked on the game only to be told by the dev that they can't pay you fairly and then you see your game, free with some food like :walter-breakdown:
holy shit, actual boomer tech. that's cool as hell tho
It's a picture of something, of course we have it as an emote
The problem is that we named it something stupid and you'll never remember what the name of it is
you can click the emoji icon on replies or comments and look for the closest thing you are trying to find - but we really need better naming conventions.
Would be nice if the emoji search supported keywords or something.
::think-mark: me using all my brain power to remember who tf the name of the star trek man is we use as the drake point meme
Only helps half the time since often the names are only loosely related to the images or how they're used.
We just need a fuzzy dictionary for each one, have a user poll for generating the fuzzy names for them or something.
I was having flashbacks to doing fuzzy matches in sql, then realized that the number of emojis isn't too crazy. Could probably cache the common searches people are doing too.
Oh yeah, I guess fuzzy search is the wrong term to use as it implies the SQL tools. What would really work is just a list of alternative names that the emote goes by attached to it's record.
Or if possible a hashed table where each alternative name returns a pointer to the correct name.
Oh yeah, I guess fuzzy search is the wrong term to use as it implies the SQL tools
Nah, that's not what I meant. I've just had to do fuzzy search before in sql, and the issue is that fuzzy matching doesn't scale well. It's nightmarish how long it takes if you don't do proper filtering ahead of time (and have a table with 10s of millions of rows).
My brief foray into SQL and data engineering through ArcGIS has me absolutely amazed at how seamless so much of the internet is. Even doing a spatial query of a small town can take several minutes for a dataset with say 30,000 records. I tried some of my usual geospatial join and query techniques on a dataset of 175 million and my timeframe quickly approached the heat death of the universe.
watch Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, you'll enjoy it
Seeing the same names pop up in random cs servers and developing friendships with people you may never see again and have no way of tracking :meow-hug:
I remember having this really cool little pink acer netbook and every boomer weirdly criticizing me because it didn't have a CD drive. IDK what I'd ever have done with it lol.
Bonus points for using Lightscrive drives and disks for professional looking mixtapes
:chomsky-yes-honey: You see, shonny, back in my day a lot of programs and other neat technomological things came on this little shiny discs, called CD's, short for Compact Disc. The cd-rom drive was this little tray that could pop out of computers to insert these CD's so they could be read.
