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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Oh sure, and money isn’t actually stuff, it’s just an approximation of the stuff that you could buy. You can’t just buy anything you want with it.

    If you want to actually convert it into stuff it’s a decade long process to take the raw resources and process them into the desired end product.

    (Sure it’s not “real money” the same way money, laws, government, etc. aren’t “real” but they’re enough of a shared psychosis that it provides the ability to shape reality. Smugly pointing out that it’s just another socioeconomic abstraction layer deep doesn’t change the material effect on reality.)


  • Because the actual scaling is $1000/pixel. The issue is that screen resolutions are in units of 8 (because bytes) and thus to get it to look nicely centered, while filling the screen and staying true to the base unit scaling the ‘full screen’ scale is also going to be in units of 8.

    Sure you could rescale, or do some other shenanigans to get it into nicer units but then it would look lopsided and uncentered (which is something to keep an eye out for on intentionally misleading graphics).

    Not a ‘stupid american’ thing but a ‘stupid computers’ thing.







  • The promise is that Harris is essentially a continuation of Biden so with that in mind comparing to your list above:

    Similarities ✓ the “Muslim Ban” on air travel, employing white nationalists as staffers, packing the supreme court with extreme conservative justices, giving permanent tax cuts to the rich, expanding the presence of immigrant concentration camps, cozying up to foreign dictators, directly pursuing strikes and assassination attempts against middle-Eastern military generals and diplomats, trying to start a trade war with China, discrediting his chief medical advisor on factual statements about Covid, saying Black Lives Matter protestors were “burning down cities”, wanting to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, declaring “far left radical lunatics” part of his “enemy from within”, sexually assaulting over a dozen women and underage girls, being a generally abusive sleazebag, also funding a genocide (Israel has always been ethnically displacing Palestinians), also building the wall, also not implementing healthcare reform (and being against what we have), also not protecting abortion rights, and also denigrating anti-genocide protestors (but not as harshly since he wasn’t the one in charge when it happened)

    Differences: X Popularizing the idea of the wall in the first place, calling illegal immigrants “murderers and rapists”, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, being an avowed friend of Epstein, stating he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler’s behind closed doors when his own generals refused to nuke North Korea and blame it on someone else, egging on a far-right insurrection attempt, calling climate change a Chinese hoax, calling Covid the “China virus”

    They are faaaarrrr more similar than they are different as honestly some of the “differences” I’ve noted are just because the exact quotes aren’t the same, even if some similiarly spirit quotes have been said.












  • 3.53V on input, 2.61V on the output.

    There’s your problem! The BLE chip isn’t getting enough voltage, likely because you’re overloading the port with that device requiring more current than the NES port can supply…

    I don’t know enough about the NES to walk you through how to mod it to increase the available current, and I’m unfortunately not seeing any immediately available guides on the problem your facing but your two options would be to see if there’s some current limiting inside the NES for those ports (and risk full device brownouts, overloading, damage to power further upstream) or isolate the existing power rail and essentially replace it with the USB power adapter… Or just use the external power adapter…

    From what I got, the SNES, N64 & GameCube controller ports are outputing 3.3V directly, not 5V.

    Doing a quick google, this excerpt about the GameCube is enlightening:

    There are two power rails on the connector, a 3.43V supply that is probably used for the logic, and a 5V supply that appears to be used to power the rumble motor (and perhaps logic also).

    I’m willing to bet the 5V for the rumble is what is being used to power that module as it had significantly higher current capacity and would explain why it works on that device but not the NES.