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there's a musicky person who uses the stage name eminem, right?

i wonder if the company that makes M&Ms ever tried to sue them or something

very loud and cute pain medicine: ibuprofennec

politics thought, future historians 

i wonder, in the distant future, will people talk about the USian empire in positive terms or negative ones?

i'm reasonably certain there will be talk of a USian empire. But whether they're referring to how the US is today, which is basically an empire in all but name, or some kind of awful future expansionist USA, remains to be seen

i really hope far future people don't talk about the current or future US as a great empire, but rather as--at the very least--a dark stain on USian history

today we learned: apparently, the president of venezuela has a mastodon.social account

every time anyone mentions GDC, as in the game developers thingy, we always parse it as GDQ at first, as in the speedrun event

can we just get rid of capitalism already

does anyone know anything about zerotier? is it reputable, does it work?

still trying to figure out a way to run a game server without port forwarding

also: why do the emerging technologies that are most exciting and interesting seem to be the ones that are getting the least progress

FRAM is still super expensive, MRAM is even more expensive than FRAM, and μLEDs are barely even talked about

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just thinking about video stuff after seeing a tom scott video and thinking about displays

also wondering why we don't use logarithmic brightness encoding but i guess linear makes the pixel drivers simpler and there's not really a whole lot of room for complex pixel drivers

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of course you also have to contend with the response time of the panel itself, which is significant in some LCDs but iwrc not as much in OLEDs

just pondering how one might design a display with the lowest possible response time

should be possible to do sub-millisecond, maybe even just a few hundred microseconds on a good OLED or μLED (when those actually exist) screen

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so everyone who cares about this kind of thing knows that LCD and OLED screens have a higher response time than CRTs

But is that because of the time taken to scale the image (since incoming video has to be converted from its original resolution to fill the screen and most TVs and monitors support a whole slew of different input resolutions), or is it more in the actual converting and decoding of the signal (since you can't just feed in NTSC/PAL/SECAM video to a flatscreen and expect it to work)

apparently, all you need to do to summon cuties is say 'ottr'

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we've kind of reached a level of queerness where pronouns occupy the same sort of mental space as names

there are common ones that a lot of people share, and unique ones that you rarely see, and some that are specific to certain cultures

is miegakure still going to happen sometime?

kinda want to stream something on a real console just to test out this capture device we got last month and haven't used yet

but what would people be interested in seeing?

re: mh- 

oh okay we forgot to take our noon medicine, that's probably why

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