280. How To Start An Ice Cream Shop (Probably)

Lords:

• Andi
• Casey

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.