the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

We have had a copy of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence for a while, but never actually played it. Today, I'm fixing that! It's not really metroidvaniaish, which makes it automatically not as good as the metroidvania castlevanias, but it's a decent... whatever you call this type of game. Action-slash-beat⸗em⸗up⸗slash-adventure-exploration-thingy?

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it always amuses me to remember what a fiasco Julius Caesar's first attempt to conquer Britain was.

Romans were terrible sailors (they're used to the calm Mediterranean, after all), and it was stormy (the boats carrying all of the cavalry had to turn back!), and they reached shore _right_ in the middle of the white cliffs of Dover, and of course they couldn't land there or anywhere near there, so they had to sail down the coast for miles, and it didn't get much better from there

Vercingetorix is quite a name. I like it.

I wonder what peppercorns would taste like without the piperine

just got an email from some political action group trying to get us to run for office

...uh, no. we would probably not survive that

People with real-world photographs as their icons unnerve me

an internet browser should under no circumstances be taking up over four and a half gigabytes of RAM with only six open tabs

Attention: Tiny snakes are adorable.

The reasoning is that if the Riemann hypothesis is false, then it would definitely be possible to prove it false, by finding a counterexample (the Riemann hypothesis is a statement that all the zeroes of a particular function have a particular property, and if you were to find one that doesn't, that would disprove it)

so if it's not possible to prove it either way, true or false, then it must be true.

It was just pointed out to us that one way to prove the Riemann hypothesis true is to prove that it is undecidable (i.e. it can't be proven true or false)

I just want to say that I am really, really glad that awoo.space exists. Thank you, @kobold, for making it.

The British names for musical note lengths baffle me.

What on earth is a "crotchet"? why is it called a "quaver"?

Everything wrong with Zener diodes (in the strict sense, as opposed to avalanche diodes which are also often called Zener diodes) in one graph

sleeptime

Hi and good morning and beep

As a synth, I probably have some IGBTs somewhere in me. Does that make them LGBT IGBTs?