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now that's a title screen

foolish people like to quote that "science says there are only two genders". This is incorrect.

Science instead says that in addition to the regular genders, there are 25 Science Genders, shown here. (tag yourself I'm Skull)

I have no idea how to continue with this game.
I clicked a bunch of things and the game just pauses for a second, except when I clicked electron it animated and then was replaced by... something

Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science!

Turbo Science is like regular Science, but FASTER

oh I see

is this Gizmos and Gadgets but by Sierra?

those sure are names

race map!

I clicked on myself which said I could "earn $" but it gave me this screen which I don't understand

so I instead tried to go to the first part of the race, but... I don't have enough money.

what

ahh, if I click "next question", it gives me SCIENCE questions

https://t.co/8jxzKE9uQA

I like the "press your luck" animations that play when you get a question right

next checkpoint.
that bear is too cool

next checkpoint

I have many questions

Paco de Suave

https://t.co/ftQtzdUgZ3

there's profile pages for each of the opponents

ahh, now I'm studying the science of ROCK

one of your walls is missing, ants

oh I see this game is bullshit propaganda

next checkpoint

Turbo Science News!
I've moved from Squid to Wonker!

oh god I'm at the Clown Bakery

now that's Science

sadly the blimp keeps advertising Turbo Math, and never tells me that Ice Cube's a Pimp.

Power! Industry! Big men inserting screwdrivers into things, turning them, and adjusting them!

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Check out what I got today. You can tell it's something weird as fuck just from the box...

So this is a FISK ... thing.
It's a floppy disk fax machine! You can fax floppies to other people who have these things.

Apparently you can connect it to external drives, computers, or printers?

So I'm gonna do more research into this thing and how it works, but while I'm here, some of the other stuff I got today. Some 3.5" floppy disks. Single sided, double density ones! These were some of the very first 3.5" disks and basically nothing used them.

I also got this book: AutoSim, the Marketing Laboratory.
It's some software to help you sell cars, apparently! it was weird and cheap, so I got it. I'll of course image it.

foone
@Foone

So there's a class of puzzles called "river crossing puzzles" which involve having to cross a river on a boat/bridge containing some set of individuals/items with restrictions on which ones can be on the boat/left on each shore, right?

and the most common subclass of these problems is the one where you have 3 items/animals to cross with.
This is alternatively called the "fox, goose, and bag of beans" or "wolf, goat, and cabbage" puzzle.

the idea is that your boat can only carry one item at a time, but if you leave the wolf/fox unattended with the goat/goose, the wolf/fox will eat the goat/goose.
and similarly, the goose/goat will eat the beans/cabbage if left alone

so you have to set up a set of actions that never leaves either side of the river in one of the lose-states.

the solution to this variant being:
1. take the goat/goose over
2. return empty
3. take the wolf/fox over
4. return with the goat/goose
5. take the cabbage/beans over
6. return empty
7. take the goat/goose over

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foone
@Foone

So Sony has this format called Optical Disc Archive, right? It's a high-density storage cartridge, but it turns out it works by cheating.

because if you open it up (which you should never do. trust me on this one)
it turns out... it's blu-ray.

it's a big STACK of blu-ray

And the idea is that Sony built some very complicated drive which you can slot this cartridge into, and it'll open it up and grab out the right disc and just read/write that one

then when you hit the eject button, it shoves the discs back in and closes up the case, and hands you the cartridge.

foone
@Foone

argh chrome updated and it seems they've intentionally broken custom search engines. I have had a keyword search for "foone" which searches my own twitter, so I just type "foone BLAH" and it gives me a twitter search for when I said BLAH, right?

but now I get that option in the titlebar of "search twitter self-search" which is the name of the search"
if I just type "foone blah" now...

it ignores the search I have had defined for years and just googles it.

and this is definitely on purpose because they didn't just break it, they changed it. it's now "fooneblah"

there doesn't seem to be an option to make this stop and get the old behavior back :(

foone
@Foone

Bad news:, everyone: I got my next keyboard

The front folds down

Honestly I've seen much worse keyboards

It's got buttons on top

The back is molded but has no functionality except the battery compartment

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Alright, here goes the 🧵...

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Q: Aurora Serverless v1 takes a few seconds to scale up, that's too much for our use case where we get a lot of spikes. Is that the same with v2?
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Q: is the cold start for Aurora Serverless v2 still a few seconds?
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A: minimum ACU with v2 is 0.5

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