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Also, always get a modular PSU. Not for cable management, but to make it easier to remove when you inevitably drop a M.2 screw in it.

Time-saving tip: never buy a motherboard where what ports/slots work are conditional on what other slots/ports are in use. You will forget when you try to add something later.

chart with title 10/17/25 dodgers-brewers y-axis is total bases x-axis is at-bats shohei ohtani is plotted high and to the left with 12 total bases in 3 at-bats the brewers (an entire mlb organization) against the opposing starting p;itcher, who happened to be shohei ohtani, are at bottom right with 3 hits in 19 at-bats

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My goodness.

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

Add another unpaid cost that using fossil fuels imposes on us.

Odds the folks who are worried about birth rates will care? Zero.

The Ice Cream Bunny, huge and terrifying

The original Bad Bunny

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

[Thread] Following along with the NE US weekend forecast & wondering why models are all over the place with the nor'easter?

Here's a good place to start: notice how a potent cutoff low in the 12z ECMWF is completely missing in the following 18z ECMWF run - only 96 hours out!

Oh yeah, last year my appointment didn't even show up in their system, they're certainly not my favorite 😅

I got mine a few weeks ago, they were letting folks add covid on site since there was a lot of confusion at scheduling time (before Evers and the state dept declared that everyone should be covered)

I'm guessing the UW vendor must've run out, my partner got hers on campus this morning, dunno about the pharmacies though. Our little ones are scheduled to get theirs this weekend at our usual UPH clinic 🤞

Does anyone have a lightweight alternative for Toggl? I don't really care about sync to the web, and I don't need to lose half a gig of RAM to a timer.

you absolutely did vote for this, you craven dorks

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Ah, I think someone mentioned this in @multitapmugen.bsky.social 's twitch stream a couple nights ago, weird coincidence!

Fido Dido?

My sense is that the press has so deeply absorbed the idea of "just present the facts, lest you be accused of bias" that it's getting in the way of the whole purpose of journalism, which is to help your readership understand the world.

(See also @jayrosen.bsky.social's view from nowhere argument)

Chart showing the accumulation of chill hours.

New tool alert! Hopefully this gets us thinking about the cool weather that we're still waiting to arrive.

Chill Hours: the accumulation of hours from October 1 - February 28/29 that have a temperature between 32°F and 45°F.

Each fruit crop has a required number of chill hours to fruit properly.

October 1st, 1890:

The weather service is first identified as a civilian agency when Congress, at the request of President Benjamin Harrison, passes an act transferring the Signal Service’s meteorological responsibilities to the newly created U.S. Weather Bureau in the Department of Agriculture.

Tim Duncan could probably write a mean conda-forge feedstock recipe though.

I've got co-workers/collaborators with the names of "Tim" and "Duncan", and sometimes the order in which their names show up in emails thread gets me really excited for a second before I realize I'm not about to hear from a hall of famer.

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

That's quite the chart annotation.

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Now referring to our cluster at work as Kubrrnetes... haha services go brrrr

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In 1-minute #GOES19/#GOESEast Infrared images, the eye of #Humberto began to exhibit a bit of trochoidal motion as the hurricane further intensified later in the day: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

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