🪦 RIP. I reimaged my machine twice before finally realizing, and it was a laptop with soldered-down RAM too 🫠

At least the mystery is solved!

Long shot, but when I experienced something similar, it ended up being a corrupted DDR RAM stick that didn't show up until 4 GB in. Databases and file systems with checksums would detect it, apps wouldn't, and the kernel was in lower memory only and fine. memtest86+ is what finally showed it to me.

Almost forgot about these which would have been a huge oversight. Baby Tower is an all-timer.

Drift across and pogo the patchy balloons to ascend back up. If the balloons aren't up, there should be a lever nearby on the lower right to fix that.

It's very reasonable to worry about it when traveling through the border. The EFF has a thorough guide for risk assessment and what you can prepare for, as well as a pocket guide for what to do while you're crossing: www.eff.org/wp/digital-p...

There's that famous tweet about how a billionaire's life is just a series of their own preferences, and how the cognitive impairment of that must be like getting repeatedly kicked in the head by a horse. ChatGPT is kind of a way of experiencing a little trickle of that, with predictable effects.

Tesselation Kit by @ndisseldorp.bsky.social - sciencevsmagic.net/tes/ - "a tool that lets you draw tessellations by pushing the edges of shapes into each other"

#art #tesselation

Shortcut Space is another way of physically putting star systems much much closer together, so no causality violations arise. Instead you have problems with a bunch of stars being really close to each other - Shortcut Space needs some magic way to not have them all collide from gravitational pull

Got it, I don't think I've come across an antenna circuit picking up signals outside the FPGA unfortunately. Certainly sounds plausible though

You might be remembering a tone discriminator circuit that was made with a genetic algorithm? It uses coupling between FPGA resources that a normal design wouldn't be able to use. The paper is "An evolved circuit, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics." citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?rep...