the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

"Make sure you come back in one piece!"

"No promises!"

Where did the trope of evil villains laughing come from anyway?

does anyone laugh like that outside of media?

@azushark (and I mean at the level of transistors and stuff, I understand the principles of FM synthesis)

seeing @azushark talk about sound card stuff has me wanting to see how exactly the sound chips work

Food is annoying at times.

I like this headline

(respectively, the Three Meter Geodynamo, the Proton rocket (or any rocket, really), Super-Kamiokande, vacuum tubes in general, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory)

I love the ridiculous things people make for science.

a giant spinning ball of liquid sodium, a tube-shaped explosive that launches itself upwards, a gigantic tank holding fifty thousand tons of distilled water, a glass tube filled with literally nothing, Just A Really Deep Hole, a giant block of permafrost in Antarctica surrounded by sensors...

or if it even is a quote. maybe I came up with it and thought it was a quote. I dunno

I can't remember who this quote is from

"Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough."

We have light-emitting diodes, light-emitting capacitors (EL wire), light-emitting resistors (incandescent bulbs), light-emitting vacuum tubes (CRTs among others), light-emitting gas discharge tubes (fluorescent lights, neon lights), but still no light-emitting inductors

this is clearly a very big gap and needs to be filled

suddenly remembered @Rosemary's description of an FPGA as "sram that someone taught to think"

Oh dear, apparently a *crewed* Soyuz launch failed yesterday(?). Looks like the escape system worked and everyone's okay afawct but that's a frightening thing to hear about!

wikipedia is a constructive use of people's urge to correct people who are wrong on the internet.

ughhh

accidentally got on the wrong bus and wasted an hour of time and a bunch of spoons x.x

Thanks for the notification that something we picked up monday was delivered, amazon

Some very underappreciated video games, for anyone looking for some games to play:

Wild Arms 3
Radiant Historia
Kirby Air Ride
Tales of Symphonia
Suikoden (and Suikoden 2)
Baten Kaitos
Golden Sun (series)
Boktai (series)

people are talking about maplestory 2... we still don't know anything about the original one