Squibbles

There's a good article about how a few years ago the search division at Google rolled out improvements to search but then the ad division complained that revenue was being impacted because people spent less time looking through search results and thus ended up seeing and clicking fewer ads. The executives came out on the side of the ad division and Google rolled back a bunch of those improvement apparently.

I guess this mostly came out in some court case where a bunch of emails about it were released

When she's cuddling really well with us she'll stretch out her paws and and wants to touch your face with them over and over while you pet her

Binging with babyish on YouTube tried this not long ago when trying to make cheeseburger pizza or something. It wasn't great

Weirdly though it wasn't remotely close to the right answer so I don't think it was floating point malarkey. I always assumed some defect but I guess we'll never know.now I wish I had kept it so I could have sent it to Matt Parker for his calculator reviews

I bought a cheap scientific calculator for math class. When I tried to multiply .5 by .5 it gave a long irrational number instead of .25. then I had to try to explain to the store clerk why that was wrong before they would accept the return

It's the most common brand at every grocery store here in NS

In Nova Scotia there's also Farmers/Scottsburn, right?

Dinosaur comics and SMBC are my two big ones

Oh the irony of reading this on a social media site rather than his website

The way quarter and rift sawn are shown, it would be virtually impossible to cut. There's no through-line that a sawblade could actually make.

Sacrifices had to be made in the name of aerodynamic efficiency

I heard somewhere the guy said that in the hopes that musk would give him a Tesla or something 😅