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every now and then the atari 2600 pressure cooker ditty gets stuck in my head

story goes Garry Kitchen hired a TV jingle composer and gave him a toy keyboard with only the tones that the TIA could produce and said "make me a jingle with only these notes" and boy howdy did they get it right

if games programming taught me anything it's that you can make anything out of just some nested for loops

I just learned about a new data storage format. A rare analog digital hybrid. Behold the "Aperture Card"

This is a punch card that holds a microfiche slide with a document, diagram or photo.

The punch card could be used to catalog the scanned document or to make searching easier.

(Why does looking at these give me feelings. I love this. )

pimage.com/appcards.htm

ok the show's called crack an ag... and i bet youse can't, so...

it's easy to forget just how much of computers is chemistry

re: relationship whine, licking wounds, negative do not like 

i am upset that the two people like this i dated in the past were emotionally immature and hurt me deeply

i don't begrudge my current partners but i miss having someone to discuss my biggest interests with

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relationship whine, licking wounds, negative do not like 

i miss dating someone who knows (and is excited about) programming

if the way does not make the computer do the thing you want to, you need a new way. it does not matter what the way is

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more so than being a "windows user" or a "linux user" i think you should simply learn ways to make a computer do the thing you want to, regardless of what that way is

trans person!! are you, or somebody you know, in a career/profession other than computer**? please tell me about it!!

*e.g. programming, software, game dev, any traditional tech job

what color are google result links for you

it's currently for me and i swear they made it brighter

do you think launching a new steam controller will remind valve to fix the input setup they broke when they launched this steam update a few years back

there is still no feedback when setting up trackpads, you have to fully launch a game and hope your changes are how you want them

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