The interior angle of the pizza slice emoji in the Apple emoji set 🍕is 48.5556º, implying that the pizza was cut into a very awkward 7.4 slices. (Or that somewhere there exists another 48º slice and two corresponding 41.4444º slices)
I don’t understand email. How do I know which email service to choose? Won’t I be stuck only communicating with people on the same server? How will people find me? What if I don’t like my service and have to change my email address? Or if my service goes out of business? Why do some email providers charge money and others are free? Will I get ads in my email? It’s all so confusing. Why don’t we all agree on one giant email server that we all use that is secure and benevolent and free?
— “Our junior programmers don’t know how to escape and normalize metacharacters in database queries of our GIS”
— “I’ve got it: why don’t we just change all the street signs?”
I’m worried about the military escalation between the US military and the fundamentalist Gulf petrostate with the terrible human rights record regarding women, gays, and foreigners.
An event like today’s, viewed by millions of people across the nation, makes me deeply appreciate the vibrancy, the beauty, and the diversity of people’s colanders
I am again asking you to get an updated #COVID vaccine #booster.
Compassionately, for you, I don’t want you to get sick with a serious disease with common, long-lasting health effects.
Selfishly, for me, I don’t want to be exposed to a highly communicable disease. I’m getting vaccinated and wearing masks and avoiding indoor crowds. But I can still catch it from you, so I’d rather you didn’t have it.
Altruistically, for society, vaccines are the only way to extinguish the pandemic.
State of New York: Defendant committed fraud on numerous parties by overstating the value of properties
Defendant: That’s a total lie, if anything I undervalued those properties, they’re worth billions
State: Defendant is liable for $454 million in damages and penalties
Defendant: The fuck you talking about, I don’t have that kind of money
Unsurprised by the collapse of the GOP plan to have a caretaker Speaker to handle the collapse of the GOP plan to elect Jordan to deal with the collapse of the GOP plan to elect Scalise to respond to the collapse of the GOP plan to take control of the house by kicking out McCarthy because of the collapse of the GOP plan to force hot-button base issues into the appropriations bills.
Evil Mad Scientist Labs once prototyped a board called MOnSter 6502, a reproduction of the MOS 6502 chip built entirely of discrete transistors and resistors. It’s about 18 inches on a side.
If you were to build a replica of the Apple A17 Pro SoC at the same density, with nineteen billion transistors, it would cover 128 acres (52 hectares) and be nearly a half mile (721 m) on each side.
The upper/lowercase font in the Hi-Res Character Generator routine for the Apple II (Contributed Software No. 3) came from the character generator chip of a Commodore PET, which was just a 2716-format ROM. The Apple II had an empty $D000-$D7FF socket that was pin-compatible. I pulled the chip from the PET, plugged it into the Apple II, wrote it to a disk file, and voila.
The president and chief of staff of Cal Poly Humboldt have assembled a police force from as far south as San Francisco, and they are currently announcing a “leave or be arrested” throughout the closed campus. Follow live at http://KFRH.net
Reporters are saying the illegal assembly order is directed at the occupants of Siemens Hall (named for the 1973 campus president who wrote to Nixon supporting student protests against the Vietnam War)
It’s going to be a hot day in California, but our electricity grid is not under stress and more than half of the power is being provided by water, wind, and solar energy
Today is the day we mourn and remember the 2,997 victims of the September 11 terrorist attack. But not, oddly, the 728,272 killed by firearms in the US since that day, or the 1.1 million dead from COVID-19 in the past four years.
America spend $4 to $6 trillion invading Afghanistan and (irrelevantly) Iraq “preventing future terrorism deaths.” We’ve spent a little more that $4T on COVID-19, and absolutely nothing on firearms deaths.
Police yet again play the pre-recorded order to disperse from the Cal Poly Humboldt chief of police saying that impact munitions and chemical agents will be used.
Clearly audible response: “YOU SAID THAT LAST TIME MOTHERFUCKER AND YOU AINT DONE SHIT!”
Police moved on the demonstrators at 3:00 AM PDT, and concluded at 3:15. Details are sketchy, police say there were “no injuries.” Reports vary, but between 25 and 35 people were arrested (of the 300+ people who were on campus at 1 am) The campus will remain closed for the remainder of the school year, with the remaining classes and finals all remote. No word about graduation. A donor fund-raising event for May 8 has also been cancelled
That’s not Sherry Livingston.
That wasn’t taken with a Polaroid with a flash.
The laminate dimensions are all wrong.
That’s a computer font, not an IBM Selectric Orator type ball.
That’s not my original sketch, which was on a National engineering pad.
