But the lab wouldn’t perform the tests! They called me the next day to say the lab had called all 4 farms to *ask for permission* and all 4 said no. They knew what a nonnegative result would do for their business, the lab said, so they declined the test…

Unofficially, Raquinho the Raccoon spent 161 seconds on the field tonight, which was the most by a raccoon in Major League Soccer history.

Insane to have a joke that's like 8 jokes like 20 seconds.

In the 1930s and 40s, the US Dept of Agriculture published guides on how to spot quality clothing and take care of things you own. The guides were surprisingly sophisticated. This guide on men's suits covered fabrics like gabardine, serge, covert, and tropical worsted.

1 product could have 50,000 parts, each part may have 10-20 operations to convert it from raw material to finished

Each operation requires a jig or tooling for repeatability

Want

Do you think they use Jira

My local really popped off with this one

they had two billion in sales last year. lost ~ 11 million on the endless shrimp. that was not the issue. private equity selling all their property then leasing it back to finance their very own acquisition… probably the biggest culprit. but they’re not publicly traded so idk

This is a pretty cool diagram of the C64's essential design. Block diagrams have an interesting level of detail; not too much, not too little. #C64

For years there’s been speculation about how Aaron Peskin got his house on the Filbert Steps. I tracked down the woman that Peskin and his wife Nancy Shanahan bought it from and she told me the whole story. “I don’t think he’s an honest person,” she said. thevoicesf.org/2024/05/14/the…

Pencil grade chart, 1960s. Found at a Bavarian flea market in April. presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/gra…

TL;DW: your telemetry sucks because integrated circuits have barely been invented yet? take an unfathomable amount of 35mm film of every launch so you can make better guesses about why your rocket went down when you wanted it to go up

'every missile launch at vandenberg airforce base is photographed in it's entirety, by men of the air photographic and charting service'

and we salute them for their service in capturing lolworthy rocket explosions for future generations

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When I was a kid, the Israeli army invaded all Palestinian cities in the West Bank including Nablus where we lived.

They would impose days-long curfews where nobody is allowed to leave their house or even look out of a window.

With no electricity, everything in the fridge goes

The matter has now, at last, been adjudicated. wishtv.com/news/indiana-n…

And what Ross was suggesting was probably the least efficient use of silicon that I'd ever heard of, and so it was going to be expensive.
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And the reason I say that is because I had been trained throughout my career-- every job I'd ever had in school and in my jobs-- is that the way you went in the semiconductor business is you solve a particular problem using fewer transistors than your competitor.
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Bill Carter's first impression of Ross Freeman's idea of an FPGA:
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Again, if the state can kill innocent people because it suspected that there might be a criminal in their vicinity then the state can kill you