Can’t remember if I posted this here. It’s wrong for so many reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ObNXBbXHI
I don’t know why I never considered what microsoft uses for version control for their massive project, Windows, but I never had. Here’s an engineer blogging about it.
NYU sent me an admissions offer for the grad program I’m going into. It’s the best school in the country for that program, and it opens a lot of doors professionally. Also, the advantage of living in NYC, which has been a long-term goal for me, can’t be understated.
I already accepted an admissions offer from another school (the third best in the country, but it’s located in Florida), and sticker shock is making me second guess going to NYU right now–I’m sure that will fade in a few days. Hopefully scholarship money will be sent in my direction, but I’m not banking on it.
What’s great about pixel art, is you can use almost anything as pixels.
https://twitter.com/otoko_te_bakane/status/867375539232919552
So this is an actual award, and it is great.
My coworker just brought this thing to my office to look at. It’s a tape measure from the 30’s that measures in feet, but instead of inches it’s divided into tenths and hundreths of a foot. I had no idea something like this existed.
Sorry, it’s hard to make out in the picture, but the text says:
The Lufkin Rule Co.
Saginaw, Mich.
No. 696D
Made in USA
The other side has a 1930’s Crescent logo
I’ve never heard of such a measurement system before either, but the Lufkin brand of tools still exists.
Huh… a quick Google search shows decimal feet measurements are used in machining, drafting, and surveying. If I had to guess blueprints can be made with decimalized measurements so builders, machinists and engineers have specialized tape measures to avoid conversion errors.
I’ve heard machinists refer to “thousandths of an inch”, but I’d never thought about larger measurements being decimal too, that’s super interesting!
A legit good lineup for a chip heavy country.
My thing of the day is a location that I don’t think I’ve brought up here before, Silverball Pinball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ. It’s a favorite hang out of mine that’s basically an arcade filled with pinball machines and other electric games all set to free play; you pay by the hour or day. The games range from old (1950s) to brand new, most with placards giving a historic description of the game. Also, it’s BYOB, which is usually unheard of at these places since they usually want to sell you their own over priced stuff. If you’re ever in the area it’s definitely worth checking out.
My favorite internet comedy people LoadingReadyRun, who you certainly know as the people who do Desert Bus for Hope, do a bi-weekly variety show on twitch called LoadingReadyLive. One of my favorite bits they do occasionally is “X Against Humanity” where they improvise a certain scene, playing it straight but with topics taken from a shuffled deck of Cards Against Humanity thrown in. This week they did “Blind Date Against Humanity” and it’s fantastic (if the video doesn’t start at the proper time-mark, skip to 01:18:24).