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@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-08-23 01:41:38

OH: they impedance-matched a fish

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-06-24 03:53:24

it's so weird to encounter the word "grouper" in reference to a fish
(to me it is the name of an Android tablet)

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-07-23 20:20:54

every mobile OS should take two images when you do a screenshot: one with notifications and one with notifications erased. then let you pick which is the one you actually want

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-06-23 05:35:35

hold on. holdonholdon
the Schmitt trigger, the one used in basically all digital electronics, is inspired by a biological object? More specifically, _the_ squid giant axon?? I can't believe I'm only learning this now despite hearing a lot of things about Schmitt triggers _and_ squid giant axons!

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-08-22 21:05:14
Content warning: dtolnay comedy

m.youtube.com/shorts/cztButMOJ

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-06-23 04:27:29

so why on earth were CNCF/K8s kicked off Slack's enterprise plan, anyway?
cost? how much can it cost to store a bunch of chat messages for two moderately popular OSS groups, ten dollars a day? all of the capital cost has been paid at this point, it's just the marginal one at question, which cannot be high unless Slack's infrastructure is dramatically worse than any reason could allow
the amount of goodwill they know they'll lose can't possibly compensate the c…

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-06-23 05:19:35

i just learned that squid maintain buoyancy not by having a gas-filled sac, but... by having a bunch of water in the body where instead of heavy metal ions they put lighter ammonium ions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid#Bu
this is such a wild thing to do for any animal!! cou…

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-08-21 12:00:52

if you like violent women watch "the blacklist"

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-07-21 15:20:15

Q: why is javascript an ideal language for BPD girls?
A: it has an event for unhandled rejection of a promise

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-07-21 13:52:07

i will never thank an LLM. the LLM is incapable of caring, and the people who care are ones i want to alienate by doing this