I love LCSC's feeble attempt at engagement farming. The homepage has a table of "hot parts!" that are selling rapidly, to try and trigger some sort of fomo. Oh no, other people are buying a bunch of Yageo 100nF 50V X7R 0603 ceramic caps, quick I need to act now, I don't want to be the only chump who doesn't have a bunch of Yageo 100nF 50V X7R 0603 ceramic caps!

i lost like an hour to browsing through all the memes i have saved to my phone over the years. like, they're all ones i find funny because i'm the one who put them there

i'm so tired i could sleep a horse

knitting is kind of like factorio where the time that everything is working properly just zips by and it feels like you're constantly fixing things that are going wrong (out of yarn, accidentally slipped stitches, lost track of the pattern, etc)

I like this explanation of spaced repetition algorithms for learning flashcards.

https://domenic.me/fsrs/

well, ok.

OK so it worked flawlessly for like a week but now I'm running into the same issues again...

"getting a humanities degree" honestly sounds like something that earth-based universities would offer to alien exchange students

Good evening. I am crunk as fuck

@hifumeme test reply

> taking up knitting again to balance out touching computers
> realise i've dropped a stitch somewhere
> off-by-one error could ruin whole rib stitch
> not sure how to fix
oh well, whatever happens happens

struggling to reconcile my general dislike of capitalism with the fact that making number go up is pretty fun and the economy and financial instruments are interesting to mess around with

To all those "some time between eight and four" lightweights, here's how a *real* telco does it:

USB 2.0 pride flag

game jam idea: it's a fighting game but instead of trying to beat the other guy up you're just getting him to try on a pair of glasses

found out i passed hardware security today

https://youtu.be/Mw8NR6p8gyI?t=134

Every sandwich is a tooth sandwich while you're eating it

daily affirmations:

• I am an abstract class.
• My instances are collections of objects.
• My subclasses may place some restrictions or add some definitions to how the objects are stored or organized; I say nothing about this.
• I merely provide some object creation and access routines for general collections of objects.

Sometimes it takes a moment before you realise something is obvious