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why were game controllers plugged into the sound card of all things, when sound cards were a thing anyone used

*takes a bite out of a floppy disk*

I mean it'd be a neat thing but

a robot that could do THAT is a long ways off

*sees someone suggest doing a mineralogic survey of venus*

*laughs*

the 8088 cpu has a fun name
eighty-eighty-eight

fact: the 74xx series was introduced more than 50 years ago
also fact: the 74xx series is still being used in new designs

https://zeptobars.com/ This is fascinating. Microphotographs of a wide variety of semiconductor dice.

It's basically porn to a synth like me :P

just...... give more background information people

Really annoying when people say things like "in light of the current news, X"

that gives like _no_ context to X and I have no idea why they are telling me X

In this particular case it was someone saying <thing> and <similarly named thing> are different

that would indicate to us that one of them is somehow Bad but which one and why

worse is that we currently use one of the things but I don't know which one is supposed to be the bad one, or why it's supposed to be bad

I hate how when I get an anxiety spike (even one for a really stupid reason) my ability to parse things in any sort of complex manner is just nonexistent for a few hours

far more impressive than that humans have visited the moon is that humans visited the moon using 60s technology

I wish sodium-ion batteries were viable

Snake tail, or snail

DDR4 is so much more expensive than DDR3 :<