the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

apparently bavarian cream originated in france and was just named bavarian because i-don't-know-why
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at work today, an electrician our boss had called came in. we showed him around and pointed out the things we needed done, then he left to get supplies... and never came back. we called the company and they said he cancelled the appointment.

anyone have any idea what could have happened here? just someone shirking work, or do you think this is likely to be someone scoping out the place for a robbery or something?
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guess what we got in the mail today

our absentee ballot for the 2020 election
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rrpf. Feeling a bit off this morning in a way i don't know how to describe
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It's come to our attention just now that we understand what people mean when they say a place feels sacred, or holy.

It's that feeling of comfort and safety that you get in a library.

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oh this is neat, apparently the yamaha dx7 achieved its 15-bit digital audio by using a 12-bit DAC and wiring a 3-bit DAC (actually an 8-to-1 analog multiplexer with a resistor ladder on its inputs) into its reference voltage.

it also ran the DAC at 800 kHz and multiplexed its output across sixteen voices for an effective 50 kHz per voice
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something fascinating about english is that in the last couple decades we've basically pried open a closed class, that of pronouns

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undead insects: zombees
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pokemon blue speedruns manage to be utterly fascinating while also consisting of 80% menuing
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wow, people like a really expensive and completely obsolete connector a lot
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*hands you a zener diode*
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someone should do one of those 24/7 twitch streams where they just play an audio feed from a microphone placed somewhere in illinois, and have the stream title be illinoise
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specifically combinations of flavors that, on their own, are perfectly acceptable and even tasty
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for some reason i got to wondering about what the worst imaginable flavor combinations could be

i've come up with orange/peppermint and pesto/teriyaki so far
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one single illinoi
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rrf, taking out the trash is really hard when you have to fight through executive dysfunction *and* mysophobia to do it
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also why the fuck is this apparently not a thing

tripping over power cords has been the cause of three of the four laptops we've had break on us breaking

and the other one had a third-party adapter that used an adapter that functioned as a breakaway

you'd think a breakaway plug would be the obvious thing to use here, so why do we not see more of them?

our current laptop even has a right-angle plug on it which makes it even more prone to such damage
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if anyone happens to know where we can get a 180 watt laptop charger with a 5.5×1.7 mm barrel plug that has a breakaway on the laptop side of it, please let us know
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