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i kinda really appreciate the fact that gilgamesh has been an ongoing joke (not a repeated one! an ongoing one!) in the final fantasy series ever since V in 1992
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wow emil i think either something went wrong or you just really like this post
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hi @douglasfur, did you read our profile before sending that follow request?
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i wonder why there doesn't seem to have ever been a modern replacement for the 555 timer

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like you don't think of the element mercury as having any particular relationship to the concept of temperature, but gears go with time
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the fact that clockwork being a thing has led to the widespread association between gears and the concept of time is rather interesting to us
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did you know bats are cute

you should know this
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just saw a question on stackexchange asking "will a muon decay in an empty universe" and my first idea for how to answer that was "define empty"
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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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