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mei (mei@donotsta.re)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 22:15:32 JST mei
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@hj okay but like. a GPU is fundamentally something that does computation. floppy drives aren't for computation, they're for pushing bytes to and from a floppy

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mei (mei@donotsta.re)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 22:05:38 JST mei

thinking about how the Commodore 1541 floppy drive had its own CPU which was as powerful as the C64, so you could literally offload computations *onto the floppy drive*

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mei (mei@donotsta.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:10:52 JST mei

after 13 years of intense research, the age old question has finally gotten resolved – if you want to use emoticons in your parentheticals, just take some E and use :3
In conversation Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:10:52 JST from donotsta.re permalink
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1. [Randall, drawn as Cueball, on stage.] Randall: Hi. I'm Randall. Welcome to my TED talk. Randall: It's an honor to speak to you, some of the brightest innovators from so many fields, about a problem in desperate need of your attention: Randall: How DO you end parenthetical statements with emoticons? I can't figure out a good way. [Screen next to him shows two statements, both crossed out in red.] "Linux (or BSD :) would..." looks mismatched "Linux (or BSD :)) would..." looks mismatched and weird [Randall writing on a desk.] [Randall's List] Conferences I'm banned from: Siggraph Eurocrypt Defcon Pycon International Astronomical Union Canadian Paleontology Conference Every American Furry Convention American Baking Society Asian Dolphin-Training Conference TED [transcript borrowed from the Explain XKCD wiki]
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