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He should most definitely do this.

Hydric acid - it has the highest pH of all the acids known to humankind!

Oh that’s a good point! Should have written a haiku! Mogami river

Thanks for the reminder, I need to re-watch Nichijou

Umm… communists?

Leaded or unleaded

Never had the pleasure myself but my dad worked for a manufacturer of punch card machines and told me about a service call where he got the contractually minimum 4 hours pay for walking in, dumping out the bucket and leaving. They had been specifically asked whether the “chip bin full” light was on. It was.

Punch card chaff?

At a specifically technical level, that adapter box contained a RF oscillator and a “frequency mixer” - the mixer likely being made of a transistor or 2 being switched on and off by the RF oscillator at a very high speed, with the effect of frequency-shifting the signal from the console. It’s similar to the way a camera’s shutter speed shifts the frequency of things like car wheels, helicopter blades, old tv’s and some LED dimmers to make the frequencies of those things visible to the human eye. Radio systems are almost all built on that concept.

it’s possible that channel 4 just plain didn’t work very well in that design but in my area I’m pretty sure it was just interference. I remember that channel 4 looked empty at first glance but if you sat and watched the snow, it would occasionally pick up some very faint stuff - there was likely enough RF signal there to interfere but not enough for the TV to consistently lock on.

It’s because the console was encoding the video in the same NTSC format that tv stations transmitted over the airwaves at the time, and the little adapter box it came with would connect between the tv and the antenna and the console, and merge the console’s signal with the antenna’s signal, so the TV would detect it as if the antenna had picked it up.

It had a channel selector to let you pick which of two frequencies to center the console’s signal at, in case one or the other was in use by a real tv station. Where I and apparently the previous poster lived, “channel 3” was unused but “channel 4” had a tv station so only channel 3 worked for video games

Booting from a single floppy disk in A: and using the other floppy drive (B: of course) to store programs and files because there was no hard drive. And the floppy disks only stored something like 300 KB.

Thankfully, not into the environment.

And only if the Payday isn’t stale

Easy fix, just transform it 3 more times! Or just once if you don’t mind it being phase inverted.

I misread and now I want to see Morgan Freeman as Frodo

I’m no historian or etymologist but I saw one on YouTube once who said a very similar term was used for poor older women who supposedly went around hunched over all the time picking up sticks for firewood, and then was later transferred to homosexual men to imply they were weak, effeminate, outcast, etc

If that line doesn’t work, move on. They’re not worth your time.

cries in verilog

Why haven’t I ever seen them in the same place then?

Hey if you prefer they can be graphite-stained