the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

1 kPSI = 6895 kPa
thus,
1 SI = 6895 a

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today we learned: tetris theme A is actually a remix of the traditional russian folk song Korobeiniki, not in fact just an arrangement of it as we'd previously thought
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fun fact: before chess AI was as good as it is today, there were occasional matches between what they called "chess centaurs", where a skilled human player would use a chess AI as a consultant for advice on what moves to make

this practice has largely ended because chess AIs are now able to reliably beat grandmasters so a chess centaur these days would just be a human following the AI's directions, basically equivalent to two AIs playing each other with humans moving the pieces for them
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*randomly generates an rng function*
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Reminder: @terrana is Extremely Good. 💚
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did you know:

you're all cute
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trademarking the trademark symbol so everyone has to write ™™
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the mastodon notification bloop sounds a lot like the shell kick sound in super mario world
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@subnet@snouts.online Hi, did you read our profile before sending that follow request?

...is it just me or does pathetique sonata sound like something out of a touhou game
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apparently "melons" has meant "boobs" for millennia
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(source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/melon)

apparently there was an article in usa today once mocking a very skilled speedrunner for being irresponsible and playing video games all day

and said speedrunner's reaction was to respond by making a new kaizo-style mario world hack poking fun at the article

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things are finally starting to go well for us

they haven't even been going all that badly but things are looking up and it's such a relief

we're likely to get this job we applied for, we're finally finishing our master's degree that took way too long since our advisor left the university with very little notice, the protests around the world are making things shift ever so slightly towards being better...

it's not perfect by a long shot but things are moving that way, slowly
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we're probably going to not upgrade the gpu for a little while and focus on just getting the vr headset first, i'm sure we can do some stuff with what we have and it'll just be a bit lower quality and stuff. we're going to have *some* money, not a ridiculous amount of money
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since it's looking like we might actually have a job soon and thus have more money than we usually have available to us, does anyone here know much about what the best way to get VR going on a budget is? We want to get a valve index (which i know is far from the cheapest VR thingy out there, but we don't want to give money to facebook), but our current computer has a GTX 1060-6GB and we're led to believe that might not cut it for some VR stuff; what gpu is a good cost/performance balance?
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