the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@xenon like I said earlier, it only really caught on in southeast asia. it's probably known in nearby places that do a lot of trade with SEA too, like australia, south asia, and east asia. i expect they may also have some market penetration in other tropical climates like south america and parts of africa, though?I don't know
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also we discovered that our dad's atari is apparently a really rare model, one of the "heavy sixers" (the physically heavier of two models that had six switches on the front; this is the first model that was made) with a label that says "made in taiwan" (they were only made in taiwan for a few months, and not in large volume as they were switching over to the light sixer design that was made in hong kong) to the point that there are people on collectors' forums saying they don't exist
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and a pretty fun space-invaders-like
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we have one we'd never played before called Phoenix that, it turns out, is actually *ridiculously* impressive for a 2600's hardware
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while our parents were visiting recently we got out the atari 2600 and played a couple games with our dad (it was his atari when he was a kid and he thoroughly beat us at all of them despite not having played in probably over thirty years), and it has me kinda wanting to try streaming some atari games but: how the *fuck* do you video capture the output when it's RF only? this was well before any TV had any input other than twin-lead RF for an antenna
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just look at this Friend
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so we might have just impulse-bought the zigzagoon and mightyena from the pokemon fit line of plushes

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i wanna get zigzagoon and mightyena plushes

they're good
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we went to a brewpub that also had an observatory (no, i don't know why) today, and we got a drink (non-alcoholic) before going up to the observatory because it wasn't dark enough yet, and there was a guy sitting at the bar loudly ranting about how eugenics is good

was not a pleasant experience
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why do people seem to avoid using nF? a 10 nF capacitor always seems to be labelled as 0.01 μF or as 10000 pF, 1 nF is almost always 1000 pF, and 100 nF is almost always 0.1 μF
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oh this is neat, we came across an HSPICE manual that goes over all the more common MOSFET models implemented in HSPICE (and thus LTspice, which is based on HSPICE)

https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~moon/ece323/hspice98/files/chapter_16.pdf
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the pokemon series had casinos in at least four generations and not once, not *once*, did anyone talk about playing pokermon
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x items in pokemon are in this weird space of like, playing casually they seem completely useless and no one ever uses them, but if you look into it they're actually extremely broken
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oh yeah update on this we figured out why it broke, it was a cold solder joint that meant a 50 mΩ current sense resistor was actually measuring about 350 kΩ
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why do oscilloscopes never have very good math functions

you can add or subtract or multiply waveforms but if you want to do A+B+C well too bad you need to do math1=A+B and then math2=math1+C

want to do A+B+C+D? too bad you can't, that would need three math channels and you only get two
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i would very much like to know what on earth went wrong with this power supply we made that it blew a transistor like five times and now is just not working at all
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we know a lot of video games with exceptional soundtracks, but couldn't name many movies with great soundtracks
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