George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

Ok we all need another #doomscrolling break!

Boop the chonky boi before continuing on your journey

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What She Said https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/14/what-she-said-7/

Sometimes I'm like why did it take me so long to try R and realize it's not that hard and then other times I'm like oh yeah on one of the first big research projects I was ever on a tenured faculty sneeringly said "well do you think you can calculate an average? Can you at least do that?" when I asked if I could sit with the main author doing the modeling to learn and then they disinvited me from all the analysis meetings

My boss said a dumb thing today.

We were talking about my land and taking the decks apart and what I want to do with the cedar logs and so on.

And at some point, I can't really remember for sure, we were talking about me needing a truck at times, maybe? That my little Kia won't be able to manage some things, then she said,

"And there's times when you just need a man."

I laughed and moved on in my brain to other things so I would not offend my boss, but I want to say:

Um. No.

I love men, I love good men. I've never been successful at choosing a good one but in theory, I know they exist and I like the idea of them.

But I don't need a man so I have someone to do the heavy lifting. I don't need a man to have the home I'm working toward. I need me. I need my friends and neighbors. I need to work hard and hire help occasionally or even just do without if I can't do it myself.

For me to want a man in my life so he can open pickle jars and drive a truck and lift heavy things is no different than a man wanting me in his life to cook his meals and do his laundry.

I'm not doing that.

I don't NEED a man.

Can we please get out of the cave era where I can't be happy or have the things I want unless a man is there to help me?

Please?

Thank you.

Intel's Pentium processor (1993) was a big jump in processor performance, starting a brand that lasted until 2023. But what's inside the Pentium chip? How did Intel organize its 3.3 million transistors? Let's take a look inside and see the chip's "standard cells". 1/21

Here is probably the best picture of Doots I’ve ever taken. I thought maybe y’all needed to see it today too. I just took it last night while we were playing.

Go play with your cat. You’ll feel better.

If you are a cat, go play with your human.

Happy Dootsday!

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This is bonkers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs Some pharmaceutical crystals can no longer be synthesised because they now spontaneously change to a more stable (but less medically efficacious) form. The more stable form acts as a seed crystal for the less stable form, and once this happens it creates a cascading effect, in which people who have ever worked with the stable form can contaminate an entire factory/lab and make it unable to reproduce the earlier form.

fun fact: the landing zone on a hard disk platter has a special surface texture that reduces stiction. the rest of the surface is so smooth the head would get stuck if it landed on it.

To use the Montreal subway, you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. But how does it work? And how can the ticket be so cheap that it's disposable? I opened up the tiny NFC chip inside to find out more... 1/15

There's a floof among us...

There are so many quotable parts in this lmao https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

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"Mr. Brecheen was 22 years old on 9/11 and a healthy, able-bodied young man. He could have enlisted that day or in the many years afterward, but he did not. He declined to serve his country in uniform during a time of war. But more than 300,000 women *have* enlisted since 9/11."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-curious-cowardice-of-josh-brecheen

@thomasfuchs have you heard of the Cromenco Cyclops? It uses a decapsulated 1 kilobit DRAM chip as the image sensor and can be built from plans in Popular Electronics (Feb 1975). Here's a selfie at an astounding 32x32 pixels:

Happy first birthday to my baby Gemma