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@djsundog Oh totes.
The latest uncrewed one runs on a PowerPC chip of about that equivalent power, I believe.
@ComputerHusband Spackle and paint fixes a multitude of woes, my friend.
Add all this up and you might be able to get a Pentium II.
Turns out I have one or two PICs too. And a couple 6800's.
@gdkar Apparently!
I've considered it but I have enough projects as it is.
I haven't even started in on the Motorola bitz, ADCs, timers, old-school transistors, MOSFETs, and random shit I have no *idea* how to identify.
What the heck am I going to do with all these 7400-series DOOHICKEYS
@ajroach42 this idea makes me wonder
Whenever the Enterprise D was in dire peril
How many people among the crew would just be sitting in ten-forward to get crunk and wait it out?
Well, the local #hackerspace was throwing away tons of random electronic bitz, so of course I scooped them up. There's passive components, PICs, 7400 series IC's, and piles of stuff I have no idea about.
Anyone interested in some? I'll give stuff to a good home for the cost of shipping once I categorize it. I'll never get around to building anything with it.
TIL There are music typewriters and they came in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and mechanisms
I have done a good deed today. This is the most organized the local #hackerspace 's machining stuff has been in years.
@er1n I just saw that this afternoon and I looked at the C library it wrapped and was like "oh hey I should rewrite this in rust to learn how mp3 stuff works".
@er1n WAIT THAT WAS YOU?
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@pho4cexa Though that's frankly for machines and this is a pretty awesome bootstrap setup.
@pho4cexa Back in the GOOD OL DAYS people would sit down and assemble a Pascal compiler by hand, or so I hear tell.
Back when beards had men attached, women kept nanoseconds in their purses, and we had rooms filled with computer instead of a room filled with computers.
I probably shouldn't buy computer hardware while depressed.
...but it's so shiny!
"In theory, this is the ultimate product."
He showed a small animal with soft scales and wings. It purred.
"A dragon cat hybrid, which is also a book."
"A book? How do you read it?"
"You tell it. 'Boknir, open'."
The dragoncatbook hissed at him. "Shan't."
"In theory," he sighed.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Waiting a few extra months for a shiny new game is absolutely worth workers having the time to make a good product and be treated with decency. Please be mindful of how the constant demand for NEW, NOW is inherently harmful to often non-union devs.
As fans of the medium, we can promote indie studios trying not to grind themselves to dust in addition to chilling the F out in terms of demand for fresh media. Excitement is great! Just remember that the people who make the stuff we love are people!
I swear, `flake8` is the first linter I've ever seen that nitpicks the grammar in your documentation strings...
Math is less convenient than advertised.
