context: i was watching the latest veritasium video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU_YFpfDqqA) and someone in it said something to the effect of "the advantage of having a processor that's a meter tall is that you can point to individual parts of the processor"
so my thought is, you could make a board that Looks Like a vacuum tube computer, for demonstration purposes, but which doesn't actually rely on power-hungry and failure-prone vacuum tube triodes to function
I am $453 in debt due to money transferring improperly through my Paypal. I've been trying to help @Zenith become homed and stable, and though I had the money in my bank at the time of the transfer, I did not have it when Paypal attempted to take it out of my account. Any and all assistance clearing this debt would be appreciated.
@rey it's not for drop-in replacement so much as "it would be funny to build a computer in a similar form factor but more reliable and with less power draw"
121. should anything happen to me
122. tell them all
123. i shed my skin
124. and returned to the wild
@pamela wait i just mansplained regexen to a bsd user. thats seven years bad luck for me. my apologies
@pamela yeah, it's a regular expression, and | is the regular expression syntax for "any of these items"
@lyncia (this is mostly a joke but also it would be funny)
@lyncia you just need a soundboard with a range of clips that encapsulate every emotion you would express verbally. they dont even have to be your voice
Incidentally, another trick to finding the length of a vector (x,y) to within 12% is just:
if ( x > y )
return x+(y>>1);
else
return y+(x>>1);
(do you really need more than 12% precision in a 16-bit game?)
@listeninggarden i once made an addition to my .bashrc that gave my terminal a cute little face that does a frown when a process exits with a nonzero code. at this point, destiny 2 is the only thing keeping me from completely switching over
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