the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@jbauer zee, except if talking about the ZX Spectrum, which is always the zedecks spectrum
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.taur.gz
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weird craving for olive garden. fortunately, this aligns with it being time for dinner.
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@kat bzip, gzip, and bzip2 are compression programs that output .bz, .gz, and .bz2 files respectively

tar is *not* a compression format, it's a program that turns a bunch of files into a single file, the reason you see .tar.gz so often is because a .gz compressed file can only contain a single file
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@kat endwalker.7z.rar.zip.bz.gz.bz2
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@nautilee @owashii@plush.city so like, a dedicated microcontroller board or something
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@nautilee @owashii@plush.city nah, you can do it in a higher level language too, the difference is literally just whether you're targeting something that's running an operating system or not
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@owashii@plush.city no, attempting to program anything that has an operating system

it's a lot easier when you can control every aspect of the processor directly
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@owashii@plush.city programming is harder when you have an operating system that keeps getting in the way
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@owashii@plush.city initially thought this was about python
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@nautilee that's really good to hear, you've been badly overdue for one of those
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TE has the most useless part numbering system
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@bj I want to offer help, but I don't know how we could possibly help, so i guess just... know that you're heard and we understand your struggles?
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@thamesynne I don't think point-contact transistors were ever used in any products. These would be alloy-junction ones, presumably, or grown-junction slightly later.
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@socks that could be neat! we don't know the first thing about haskell other than that you're a big fan of it, so it'd be neat to learn a bit of it
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@socks several of them, even!
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we never realized this before but apparently

the reason things sometimes say "do not remove cover, no user serviceable parts inside" is because in anything made before the 60sish it would be common to open up the TV or radio or whatever and swap out the tubes

so when things became all transistors (except for the CRT, in televisions) they would put notes on them saying that, because things at the time were expected to be user-serviceable because tubes wear out
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oh hey someone finally voted for one of the uncommon ones!
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@DarkOverord thank you! it is good
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