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someone posted this to a fb group #3dprinting

Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.

Tukey

xkcd.com/3104/

Liquid glass is the new brushed metal #wwdc25

U.S. NEWS Ohio police find raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop When an officer took the pipe away, the raccoon pulled out another.

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

Vim is the original escape room

tigerbeetle/docs/internals/ARCHITECTURE.md at main · tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance. - tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle

A technical overview of the internals of TigerBeetle

github.com/tigerbeet...

UI/UX

Well well well. I actually needed a doubly linked list for work.

I’d like to apologize for the last 12 years of shitposting.

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Open-source security spat leads companies to join forces for new tool A conflux of application security companies has been embroiled in a complex debate, leading to the creation of Opengrep.

Open-source security spat leads companies to join forces for new tool. A company’s licensing change to a static analysis tool has forced 10 companies together to create Opengrep. via @gregotto.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/opengrep-sta...

Inside JPMorgan, employee backlash over 5 day RTO mandate gains steam According to an organizer with the CWA, about a dozen JPMorgan Chase employees, representing groups from different areas of the bank all over the U.S., have contacted the union.

LMAO

EMPLOYEES AT JP MORGAN ARE THREATENING TO UNIONIZE OVER RETURN TO WORK!

Best thing I'll see all day. Get those bastards, you bastards!

I think github.com/astrenoxcoop... is a super interesting request. By adding support for acct: URIs and implementing web-finger lookups, you could create bi-directional links between your AT Protocol identity and your ActivityPub identity.

The time before NSAutoLayout

I did it again!

Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2

#jurassicpark #blender3d

what's the most punk beverage?

tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

#trademarks

NSHipster NSHipster is a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa.

New content on NSHipster 😱, the best news of 2025 so far. nshipster.com

A Modest Proposal It seems our choices are to add leap seconds and endure the resulting confusion, or not add leap seconds and allow the year to drift with respect to the day. There is a third way that deserves more consideration: adjust the position of the earth periodically to keep the solar year equal to an average Gregorian calendar day. Kepler’s law says the square of a planet’s orbital period is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. This means that increasing earth’s orbital period by 1 second would only require moving earth 1153 km further from the sun.

www.johndcook.com/blog/2024/12...

It. Is. Not. Piracy. To. Convert. An. Item. You. Own. To. Another. Format. For. Personal. Use.

You can debind your hardbound cookbook to make it loose-leaf, spiral bound, or scan for Large Print. You can burn a copy of a CD for your car, or put it on your iPod. We worked this out 25 years ago.

Someone smarter than me once said (paraphrased because I cannot find the original quote for the life of me):

If the web browser was invented today, it would not be allowed in the app store

Drinkable Mayonnaise Is Now a Thing Lawson, a Japanese convenience store chain, is putting Nomu Mayo, its new drinkable mayonnaise, through a "test sale period" to see how customers respond.

www.foodandwine.com/nomu-mayo-dr...

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

Great this guy out here is wasting all the uuids so we run out sooner.

“Diarrhea Hot Zone” was my nickname in college.

I’m trying to imagine the bubble of amoral corporate douchery you have to live in to think that saying “we guard against unnecessary care” is better than just shutting the fuck up.