the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

why would you think to use a *CRT* as *memory*
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the fact that williams tubes worked at all, let alone remotely reliably, is amazing
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like this is some wild arms 3 nonsense going on here
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ys games sure do get pretty wild later on in the series don't they?
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@LexYeen yeah it's a neat little detail
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@LexYeen The original DPPt did that too! Then in gen 5 they made it so you could play notes by tapping the badges instead
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@owashii@plush.city @monsterblue Iridium won't show up in folklore as it wasn't known to be a distinct metal until the 19th or 20th century
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@socks it's basically the same problem as catastrophic cancellation at its root, which i'm pretty sure there have been studies on ways to circumvent that, but it's been a really long time since we took that algorithms class
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@socks oh wait you said not associative, i was thinking of commutativity

associativity is necessarily lost in rounding
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@socks huh. is that something to do with denormal numbers or some other weird edge case?
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Yoon of corn. More properly called a yoon of maize.
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@ziphi I feel like it might be possible to do something interesting with that vertical line making up the left side of the image, though that'd work best in a kind of abstracted style, probably
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@starkatt I suppose if we're counting classes of parts, we'd also have to say PCB-mount DC-DC converter modules, just because our job focuses more on "make the thing work" than "make the thing work cheaply", so spending a few dollars extra to get a guaranteed good working DC-DC converter (usually with good input-to-output isolation too!! that's hard to do yourself!!) that requires only like four pins soldered is worth it
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@starkatt and of course for those applications we usually get cheap ones in red or green or yellow
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@starkatt Haven't ever played with those! The only situations we've ended up using LEDs in is for indicators or, in one experimental thing we ended up not using, photovoltaic cells (LEDs make reasonably good ones, actually, for their size, though the lens can mess things up)
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@starkatt although that one time we needed to find an LED that would have reasonable brightness with 40 μA through it was definitely not just a "buy the cheapest one" situation
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@starkatt Huh, I suppose those switching regulator chips are pretty similar in operation, at least if you get the good ones with LT part numbers (TI's ones might be too, never used them though)

we don't have any real experience with li-ion stuff though, or those particular LEDs--when we need LEDs, we tend to use whatever's cheapest in the right color from a reasonably good manufacturer (Kingbright, usually)
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@gardevoir ah sorry, i didn't see that
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@gardevoir what happened?
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