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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • For others looking at this, the damaged IC is silkscreened as IC7 (red square in my edit of OPs pic). OP, the fuse on this board is the green SMT device (that I put a green square around). Here’s the sales sheet for that fuse.

    OP you gave a part number for the blown IC as HVS004, but from what little I can see in the picture I’m wondering if its something else. I’ve put a BLUE square around another IC8. I’m guessing thats in the same family, from where it is in the board. However, I can’t see what the part number is on that one. Can you share that one?









  • Marketing is a different kind of hard. Coding has logic. Clear inputs, clear outputs. Marketing? It’s storytelling, psychology, timing, luck — and most of it feels like shouting into a void.

    There actually is a bit more science behind marketing than your statement suggests. The Marketing Mix starts with the “four Ps”:

    • Price - How is it packaged/tiered/price? Is it a one-time fee? Is it a subscription? Where does it fit in the price compared to other products you’re competing with in the same space?
    • Product - What is it? What are its claims (things it delivers on)?
    • Place - Where can your customers get it? Console only? Steam? Played in a web browser? What regions of the world?
    • Promotion - How do people find out about it? This is mostly the part you’re talking about which include advertising, PR, influences, etc.

    For those you’re trying to reach, be able to answer the first 3 “Ps”. If your game is sold only on Steam, then you don’t care about console players. You’ve now eliminated a huge chunk of customers you don’t have to try to reach. What kind of game is it, perhaps an RTS? Then you’ve eliminated all players that only play FPV shooters and you don’t need to reach those folks. Are you going to charge $40 for the game? Then you don’t need to worry about appealing to gamers that only spend under $40 for games.

    All of this is a narrowing exercise to find where your customers are which lets you focus on streams or channels of communication specifically targeting those that would consider buying your game.







  • This is likely one case where capitalist polluters and leftist environmentalists are on the same side. Neither wants to see this plant in operation.

    Coal is an expensive way to generate electricity in the USA. Its a PITA to get the coal and deal with the tailings. Further with the death of coal power being obvious for decades, plant operators have put off maintenance again and again knowing that the plants closing is forthcoming. The forced demand from the government would require at least some of that expensive maintenance done to keep operating. Plant operators don’t want to spend that money for something that is going to be closed as soon in the years ahead as trump isn’t in the picture anymore.




  • that something Tain ordered him to do as a member of the Obsidian Order was his “step too far” that caused his break with Cardassian ideology.

    Thats a wonderful thing about Garak is that I don’t think there exists “a step too far”. Rather I like to assume that even if it was a heinous request he didn’t follow it because it didn’t serve his own political motives. What was so interesting about Garak is that he clearly had a formal set of solid guiding principles. However to outsiders like us it looked chaotic and disjointed.