#computing operators

[liminalmindcore]

[byruit]

Working in a datacenter in the 70s

[opendirectories]

[computer-nerd-girl]

[incognitopolls]

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[awwfulsounds]

Apple Mac OS 9.2.2 operating system running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac 2001 (x)

[unbfacts]

All 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers run on Linux-based operating systems.

[masterrainb0w]

They MUST make plushies of Arlo NOW!!!

[buwheal]

If it has a pen and a canvas spamton will be drawn‼️

Never finished the neo XP piece </3

Plus also my DS case !!!

Get turned into a sticker idiot (he looks weird though its been a month or two)

[starcorvid]

It Feels Like Stars Under My Skin

[lonely-fried-art]

the fight is over

[mystycalypso]

He's doing his best to understand his daughter henchman's hobbies

[shitty-mh-aus]

marble hornets but it's all the actual actors. the operator is also Dwayne the rock jhonson. the operator still acts the same btw he just looks like the rock

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[bunabyte]

Man, I know Linux is very distinctly NOT a black box, but it sure does feel like one sometimes.

[metalichotchoco]

Ai characters and what their acronymal names can tell us about them

Let’s start with GLaDOS, Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System , a play on the name gladys and a dos system which actually functions to show what they are playing at here:

she’s half operating system and half an actual person. I personally think a pun like that is just very very good design. The disk operating system can also tell us a bit about her. She’s controlled with a text based command line. The cores they add to her are essentially a bunch of floppy disks of information

Moving on, HAL is short for heuristically programmed algorithmic computer. This tells us the ways in which he deals with problems in a bunch of tech terms.

He goes to calculations or algorithms and then he uses trial and error. He basically is programmed to learn from experience once rules become loosely defined. It actually funnily enough can take us through his thought process given his two objectives.

Last but not least is AM, good old Allied Mastercomputer. He’s fun since this meaning changes but all of them still apply to him.

Allied references the allied powers of ww2 though it’s mostly supposed to bring to mind america. Master computers tell satellite/ sub computers what to do, think of it like the brain and muscles. Am also stands for agressive menace (which he very very much is) and adaptive manipulator, very accurate since he literally does but it’s also a reference to his other objective of evolution and becoming better. “I think therefore I am” is the last play on his name basically “I am thinking therefore I exist” incredibly loaded for ai characters but especially am

Anyways I thought these were fun, lemme know if there’s another acronym you’d like me to cover

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