'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware

Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by Moomoomoo309 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:20PM (#38633625)

You're telling me installing Linux on a dead badger is a _bad_ thing? http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/installing-l...

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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by epiccoleman on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:52PM (#38633976)

I love this genre of "programming as black magic". Closest other example I can think of is maybe some of the stuff from Unsong, but I've frequently memed with coworkers about bugs in these terms - "oh yeah, the angles on your pentagram must have been wrong" or whatever.

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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by Shared404 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:56PM (#38634015)

https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...

You should read this story :)

It's one of my personal favorites.

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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by atlas_hugged on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:43PM (#38634560)

Omg thank you! I didn’t know I needed this in my life haha

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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by ziddoap on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:30PM (#38634404)

Thanks for this!

It was hilarious, and I'm already reading the next.

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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by epiccoleman on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:11PM (#38634192)

Absolutely fantastic, thank you for sharing that! The follow-ups look great too.

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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by Andrex on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:33PM (#38635152)

> An alternative distribution is Pooka, which is available for download at SoulForge.net.

This is excellent. Thank you for linking this.

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