the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@curls that's a pretty neat little thing! I'm not sure what you're saying is one of your comfortable parts here though--the Arduino?
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@sharkNserg ...thoughts of just showing up and asking Numl what his favorite number of boobs is with no explanation, then shortly thereafter he has that number per body
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@sharkNserg i absolutely will! i bet he'd look good with three or four, maybe five per body...
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you know what's really good? boys with huge boobs
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if you do any EE work, even just as a hobby, I'd like to know what yours are!
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we actually don't have any diodes on the list at the moment because the real common ones like the 1n4148 or 1n400x aren't remotely suitable for the kinds of work we do and what we would need them for
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I imagine every electrical engineer has their own list of "comfortable" parts that they use all the time

ours are like... TIP122, IRF540, (2N/MMBT)(3904/3906/2222), UJ3N120065K3S (look, SiC high-voltage JFETs are useful things, i don't care how weird or moderately-expensive they are), IXD_614, 5-1634503-1, stackpole RNF series resistors, probably a few others that don't come to mind immediately
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computer fatherboard
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@sharkNserg may you have a good birthday in defiance of the work abuse
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i'm thinking about headless kobolds
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good morning

it's early
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@Austin_Dern (this is the market that gave us the ZX spectrum. 80s home computers are technological wonders in the sense that it's a wonder they don't immediately fall apart)
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@Austin_Dern that makes sense. well actually it doesn't make sense but not making sense makes sense in the context of 80s home computers
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@Austin_Dern I vaguely remember reading something about some hardware bug in the vic20 that they couldn't fix before the planned release date meant that they had to slow down the disk drive communication speed (not the speed of the drive itself, just the speed at which it communicates with the computer) to something like 1/8 or 1/16 its designed speed?

I kinda want to say it was something to do with having to reuse the tape drive port instead of the intended dedicated disk drive port?
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@Austin_Dern ...a commodore 64 would be a neat thing to get to play with sometime. that whole era of computing was before our time
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@Austin_Dern where "reasonable speed" is something like 20-30 times the speed it normally runs at
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@Austin_Dern wasn't it something about maintaining compatibility with the vic20 or something, that made the drive so slow? I know we've seen stuff about mods to make it actually work at reasonable speed
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fun fact: the commodore 1541 disk drive, the floppy drive sold for use with the C64, actually contains most of the same circuitry as a C64, including the CPU

despite being nearly as powerful a computer as the C64 it was communicating with, it was still incredibly slow even by the standards of the time
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kobolds are good
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you know what's really good? when the boss music starts playing as the pre-battle conversation comes to a close, before the battle itself starts
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