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Computer comparisons to autism related stuff

Fibonacci Squid

I use google docs on my phone to explain to people when I'm in a meltdown or shutdown, in those google docs there are various levels of formality and technical language so I can adjust the explanation to the audience.

However, there are two which I have yet to find the right person for so I'm sharing them here instead. 

Shutdown: Error 404: this person is not responding. 

This is where the computer can't find the right link and the resource doesn't exist, this is often how a shutdown is for me, the link to access the functioning bits of the brain just doesn't work

Meltdown: Error 503: this service is not available

This is often where a website has too many demands on it, eg too many people trying to use the website, and thus just stops working. Felt it mirrored a meltdown well

Feel free to comment with other tech comparisons 

  • Another I thought of,

    "Masking is like the operating systems UI".

    It's always been that any OS without all the user interface applications and processes is so much more powerful. It's not having to dumb itself down to a human level to be understood and can use resources to get on with it's own stuff!

  • in reply to Arise

    I love the idea of the swapping algorithm deprioritising itself, that's definitely one of the ways I can see my brain working.

  • in reply to Arise

    Swapping/paging is definitely relatable to autism, it's like autistic inertia in some ways

  • in reply to Arise

    Thrashing is actually a brilliant analogy 

  • I was told by a uni lecturer many years ago that when the ffirst versions of Unix were being tested they had a problem whereby under very high load (aka stress) the swapping algorithm which ran as a process (swap) would sometimes decide that it was the best task to swap out, resulting in an immediate crash of the whole OS. Another problem was that it could get so busy that swap would spend all available CPU time trying to swap processes and not allowing the CPU to do any productive work, grinding the whole OS to a halt. That was called “thrashing”. I think those mechanisms adequately describe how my brain does meltdown and shutdown, respectively. 

  • in reply to A

    Great minds , I scrolled down here after posting my answer Rofl

  • Fans howling, system unresponsive, Task manager open , sorted by processor usage, with hundreds of processes doing nothing at all and the one at the top at 100% maxing out the system, which is named something daft like "makeeyecontact.exe" or "cantremembername.exe" 

  • in reply to A

    Brilliant 

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  • in reply to Fibonacci Squid

    TBF the first one was pretty "niche" s far as computer stuff goes...

  • in reply to I Sperg

    That's a good one

  • in reply to I Sperg

    And I get a lot of "Exception not handled. Process terminated"

  • in reply to A

    Yes I like this a lot

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