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context: i was watching the latest veritasium video (youtube.com/watch?v=FU_YFpfDqq) 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

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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.

#mutualaid

@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"

is it possible to buy individual transistors that are in a vacuum tube form factor

does anyone have recommendations for docks for the steam deck

@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"

Give a man a fish, and Republicans immediately blame you for inflation. Teach a man to fish, and they call you a woke Marxist and pass a law banning Fishing Studies.

@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?)

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Neat thing I discovered. If you have a sprite with 5 directions of animation - from going right to going down (make the rest by flips), you can figure out which sprite to use by testing against lines of slope 1:5, 2:3, 3:2 and 5:1, which is really elegant on an 8/16bit machine.

@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

no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring

@BeanedCatte@chitter.xyz if i was a hacker, pathetic creature of meat and bone that i am, i'd want to use a toughbook too

food 

i ordered chicken curry medium spicy. i think the restaurant may have missed one crucial word in that order

i will be strong

in need of some financial help 

thank u to everyone so far for sharing this! and, thank u to everyone who has donated!! we've reached $150 so far!! thanks to u all we're gonna be staying afloat for another month and hopefully by then we'll be all good on our own!

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