George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is #caturday!

[do you even need the sound on?]

#cats #cat #castodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour #funny

Fascinating.

How to Beat Roulette: One Gambler Figured It Out and Won Big https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-how-to-beat-roulette-gambler-figures-it-out/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-how-to-beat-roulette-gambler-figures-it-out/?leadSource=uverify%20wall

@johoda@snowdin.town Do you know that many engineers use Excel to solve differential equations via millions of cells for real projects? The amount of engineering done in Excel is just terrifying.

And so you beg, and plead, and pray that they let you use anything other than fucking microsoft access and excel to post process that finite element data, but haha, you silly mortal, God is dead. Trying to perform 9by9 matrix operations sixteen times columnwise on 700 gb of data using only microsoft excel is like trying to fit a hippopotamus turd through the drain in a studio apartment shower.

#warrenzevon

Every #raccoon is either planning a heist or in the middle of a heist.

#raccoons #animals #meme #memes

https://imgur.io/gallery/JofVmoB

best use of #thermochromics ever:

Aw… 📚🔦

Kentucky Republicans voted to override Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto -

This means republicans have effectively forced children to detransition while increasing their rates of suicide by 70%

No gender affirming care. No puberty blockers. No choice in which restroom to use

When a republican talks about protecting children…

They’re the party of child labor. The party of keeping child marriage. The party of demonizing certain children to force their agenda.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

one strategy we've been using recently for getting unstuck writing a zine is -- write a talk instead! Gave two talks ("how integers work" and "how floating point works") to a small friendly audience recently and it was really fun and helped me see how to improve some of the explanations

Have you ever said to yourself, “Self, I want to hear Pachelbel’s Canon played on train horns?” WELL THEN DO I HAVE A LINK FOR YOU. (From my Discord server, because we’re all mad there…) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3QlR98--A

Thank you Douglas Adams.

I just typed 'Nopefully' in an email and this will now be my go-to word for when I hope something doesn't happen. 😄

Free speech when Nazis march—but not when a Black man kneels.

Blue Lives Matter when a white cop kills Tamir—but not when a Black cop kills Babbit.

Law & Order when a Black prosecutor defends Breonna's killers—but not when a Black prosecutor investigates Trump.

Don't be fooled. This is what white supremacy looks like. Recognize it. Reject it. Remove it from our culture. And let's build a society on true justice for all.

Definitely a veteran against tRump

“Shock and awe.” Twenty years ago today, that was the phrase everyone kept saying as America invaded Iraq. There will be lots of analysis on this anniversary.

But this is something different.

https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/iraq-war-invasion-20th-anniversary

Portrait of Gus

Experimenting with lighting again, with faux Vermeer lighting using a strobe - bouncing it off a v-flat. Now hopefully if works for people, too!

#photography #ModelPhotography #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

Did you know that the number 142,857 has a special property? When you multiply it by any number from 1 to 6, and then rearrange the digits, you get a permutation of the original number! For example, 142,857 x 3 = 428,571. #MathMuseBot