the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

this video game has four high-ranking evil minion people (not spoilers, they're never mentioned before appearing as a boss) named
- Balmod: Okay, fantasy name, makes sense
- Bejould: Is that supposed to be "bejeweled"??
- Boozoo: Uhhh, what?
- Belts: You can't just name your evil person "belts" come on

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@LexYeen @tabitha@chitter.xyz we haven't seen any of the new stuff outside the movies, didn't know they brought thrawn back
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@sharkNserg oh yes i approve of this -F

@tabitha@chitter.xyz @LexYeen we're mostly upset by the good parts of the EU no longer being canon

would have liked it if they at least could have kept the thrawn novels and the wedge novels in
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@sharkNserg yeah
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@socks lg for the binary logarithm makes even less sense though
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@socks we always assumed it was out of a desire to keep the first letter of all of them as l? we never really questioned it though
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thought of the day: two-bodied golden retriever who burns off steam by playing fetch with themself
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dielectric absorption is weird
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the first ever op amp

not much of an op amp by modern standards but it looks pretty striking with the two 12ax7s sticking out the top
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i want a k2-w

not for any particular use but just, to have one
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@digitalfox That could also be that mifare and whatever bank cards use are just too different--it shouldn't *override* it, the reader should fail to read at all

if it's able to read one of the two at random that probably means it's either detecting the mifare protocol or the bank card protocol and successfully communicating with just one card? i don't know honestly we've never tried this with two different types of card
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@digitalfox nah, no harm in it at all, just not as foolproof as a lot of people think

any old NFC card will do as the dummy one, also! So if you want, you can just order a blank one (i don't think it needs to have any data on it to work, but you can put something on it too)

or if you have a hotel keycard you forgot to return at some point, if it's the nfc type it'll work
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we went to red robin for dinner because craving a teriyaki burger and didn't want to make one, and then had an Idea

french fries are not the healthiest side, but we noticed steamed broccoli was an option for a side, and while broccoli alone isn't anything special, it's unsurpassed as a vegetable to put sauce on, especially with asian-style flavors

and since we were getting a teriyaki burger we knew they had to have teriyaki sauce of some type in the kitchen, so we asked for a side of some of that

so our side became teriyaki broccoli instead of french fries, which i think is probably a much healthier option on top of going really well with the teriyaki burger, much better than the usual fries+honey mustard
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@digitalfox there's no system in the standard for getting only one thing to respond other than "only have one thing within range at a time", so if there are two things they'll both try to talk over each other and just confuse everything, it's impossible to get a read in that situation whereas it's quite possible to get a read through a foil lining with a strong enough transmitter and sensitive enough receiver
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@digitalfox here's a tip: the easiest and most effective way to prevent an NFC card from reading is to put another NFC card (preferably but not necessarily of the same type) right next to it
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@bj how many layers deep can you nest superscripts and subscripts?
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@packbat somewhat amusingly, the famous picture doesn't appear anywhere on the (english, at least) wikipedia page for the scarlet macaw
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@packbat they're a very pretty bird, anyway
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@packbat i wonder if that macaw has a name, they probably live at a zoo somewhere (and are probably still around, parrots have quite long lifespans)
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