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it makes me really stressed when two of our friends get upset at each other, oof

what is "mambo no 5" anyway? obviously a piece of music but why is it a meme suddenly

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ketchup is probably the boringest condiment short of mayonnaise

"microcomputer" would be a great word for things like the raspberry pi or beaglebone, but it's already taken by regular size computers (because at the time the term microcomputer was made, a minicomputer was the size of a desk, and at the time the term minicomputer was made a computer was the size of a room)

squirrels!

since it's not really doing anything at the moment i imagine 300 mhz is its minimum frequency (modern cpus and gpus are what's called dynamic processors, where they need a minimum clock frequency to avoid glitches caused by capacitors leaking--similar to how dram works. it's far cheaper than static processors, just like how dram is far cheaper than sram)

always feels weird to us that gpus are clocked so much lower than cpus in normal operation

like, our cpu has a nominal clock of 2.9 ghz and is currently running at close to 4 ghz factory overclock, while our gpu is running at 300 mhz

but it's doing massively parallel operations so each clock cycle can mean thousands of computations

today's mood is... weird. not the good kind, but not bad enough to say bad

this is a horrible idea

consider: alttp randomizer but all the pendants and crystals are shuffled in with the rest of the items

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it really would only need to be on the extremely wealthy. a millionaire might owe a few dozen thousand dollars per year or something, and a billionaire might owe a few dozen million per year

then you use that to fund ubi (of course also instating rent control and related things, since ubi without that will just result in $3000/mo rent or something and leave us back where we started)

why exactly isn't there a tax on stagnant wealth

like yeah we need to increase income taxes on high-income brackets but on top of that why don't we have a tax on accrued wealth that you aren't actually doing anything useful with

seems like a straightforward way to *start* wealth redistribution--but only to start it. more extreme measures will also need to be taken probably

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so, our new laptop has a turbo button

pressing it sets the gpu clock to "maximum overclock" whatever that means and also turns the fans on max speed, which is honestly not that far off what turbo buttons did on old pcs--they would "overclock" the cpu (which was normally underclocked to be compatible with old dos programs that relied on having a consistent clock)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgGTWtSwRY okay this is an amusing concept

no-experience speedrun of pokemon red, where the game is hacked to skip the experience system altogether. pokemon never level up. the brock fight is done by getting a bunch of level 5 pidgey and spearow, using a ton of sand attacks, and just praying they don't land a hit through that -6 accuracy while your birds repeatedly peck at his rocks doing one damage per turn

blrf, i commissioned someone for a little writing thing they were doing for valentines day and they got behind on them and i still haven't gotten it back yet and i don't know if they're even still doing it or if they've forgotten completely

it occurs to me that "ganon" and "agahnim" could conceivably be related words in a Semitic-like language, with the root gNN and templets -a-o- and a-ah-i- respectively