AndiCaseyLifehacks as communion with the divineI decided to fire my computerWinston is starting to forget thingsA Star Trek watchalong podcast that doesn't exist yet.Positing that what you said is no longer an NDA violation by the time this episode comes out.Plugging a fake game that you worked on.Astrobot.Horror movie clinky noises that you can't hear over the PS4 fan noises.Caffeine-infused mints with Tux the Penguin branding on Think Geek dot com.The pre-eminent source for Life Hacks.Using a hotel shower cap to bake bread.Anime girls that are happy to see you.That one time Film Crit Hulk broke character.The joy of moving efficiently through the world.More efficient ways to set the microwave timer.Hotel rooms that you can bake bread in.Whether bread should contain hair.Tricking yourself into not being bored while doing something you have to do.Reading 50 life hacks and applying none of them because.Viral Life Hack that's killed 33 people.A life hack that already had a body count in the double digits before someone made a TikTok about it.Getting really fed up with computers.Cryptographic signing processes that you can't participate in.The HDCP certification board taking steps to ensure nobody can take a screen shot of their Crunchy Roll anime.The analog hole.Open source web browsers that can't see DRM content.Microsoft-authenticated Linux installations.Designing a circuit that solves a math problem.Stamping a circuit onto your circuit clay.An independent circuit re-implementation of video game hardware.Should you use FPGA to do a thing?Ridiculous multi-level memory caching systems.Bootstrapping an FPGA design tool that runs on an FPGA device.Every single circuit doing something on every single cycle.Voltages going high and/or low.Making a bunch of CPUs and testing them afterwards to see how many GHz they have.Why the PS3 Cell processor had 7 SPUsThe industrial uses of the Cell processor.A GLSL compiler that outputs FPGA circuits.Mr. MiSTer.Open-hardware laptops.Inventing an open-source GPU.Multics or Minix.Writing a Breakout clone in Rust targeting the weird CPU your friend just invented.Making a terrible first effort that is the right kind of good enough.A laptop that has a FPGA where the CPU/GPU usually goes.1970s-era TV games.The Epoch Cassette Vision.A game console with interchangeable cartridges where the CPU is on the cartridge.The Glasgow Interface Explorer.Describing your FPGA circuit in Python.Manufacturing homebrew Cassette Vision Homebrew cartridges for the audience of zero Cassette Vision owners.Making art just for you, in the most overly elaborate and overly complicated way possible.The programmer equivalent of going to swim with the dolphins.Diagonal pixels.Childhood amnesia.Remembering your memories.Using 10% of your brain. (And also the other 90%.)Knowing things about stuff.When one brother dies, the other brother gets their memories.Memories that are formed before vs. after you learn to talk.Being persecuted for being friends with a girl.Rules of heteronormativity being enforced by three year olds.Getting off of Wordpress.
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