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Topics:

• Lifehacks as communion with the divine


• I decided to fire my computer


• Winston is starting to forget things

Microtopics:

• A 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 SPUs


• The 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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