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also the only other major hdl is called verilog hdl which *also* abbreviates to vhdl though it's never actually abbreviated that way
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vhdl is a bad name

the v stands for vhsic which is also an acronym
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i kinda want to get one of those FPGA dev boards just to mess around with

FPGAs are neat
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why do #0000 screws exist

who needs screws that tiny

what would you even call a metric version of that, M0.5? does that exist?
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blue LEDs are overused

give us back the red and yellow and green
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i think it's kind of neat how lissajous figures that are slightly detuned from a perfect ratio look like they're rotating in 3d and i'm pretty sure if you do the calculations they actually are doing what you would do to do orthographic 3d rotation
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random amusing thing: we know that bears used to have another name in germanic languages but not what that name was

the word bear originates from an old germanic word meaning something along the lines of "the brown one", because people were terrified of bears and the usual thing of not being comfortable saying the name of such things

i wonder if there's some minor language or dialect somewhere that's preserved something related to the original name
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is it just us or does anyone else actively avoid clicking on articles or videos with titles like "10 best whatevers that will make you rich" or "top ten ways to do a thing"?
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the ounce of copper is one of the worst units

imagine thinking that "the thickness of one ounce of copper spread over one square foot of area" is a sensible unit for literally anything
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we've been just not having a good time of it in general lately. feeling like we don't have enough time for talking to friends and doing creative things because we're too drained from work. We're having trouble even keeping up with keeping things clean and organized at th apartment
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today is just really not going well
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grff... saw someone start streaming a game we were hoping to see them stream and watched that for some distraction but then there were technical difficulties and they decided to do a completely different game entirely instead, and it was a horror game so we had ot just leave

we needed a distraction and it looked like we were going to get one and then there was none and that's worse than not having one at all to begin with
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Anyone want a copy of Endless Space 2? I have ended up with an extra one due to Circumstances.

rrf. just feeling all bad today about all sorts of things
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mh - re: social ~? 

i just want to know what we could have possibly done that got us on that block list

did we accidentally hurt them or someone close to them somehow? did we end up on some kind of "block these people preemptively" list? if so what would we have done to get on that?

why do people not tell us when we do things wrong and expect us to then go on to not do the wrong thing again when we don't know it's wrong
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social ~? 

just found out we're blocked by someone on FA who we've basically never interacted with when i went to favorite one of their pictures

what... happened?
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looking at electronics videos on youtube out of boredom and it's kinda refreshing to see a comments section on a youtube video that isn't terrible, it's just people being amazed at how neat schmitt triggers are and the occasional person saying "hey do the next video on this thing pleeeeease"

the former are nice, it's neat to see people so fascinated by basic stuff, wonder what they'd think of more advanced stuff
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