In 1994 the Pentium FDIV bug that caused 1 in 9,000,000,000 calculations to be slightly inaccurate lead to a massive recall after Intel downplayed it.

In 2025 it’s normal for tech companies to sell software that is just lying outright and half of the time fails at the simplest calculations.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

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Happy Birthday to Sir Brian May, born 19 July 1947, musician extraordinaire and astrophysicist 😎.

May graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc degree in math and physics. He worked on his PhD in astrophysics from 1970 to 1974, until his musical career took off. He finished it in 2006-2007!

Lately, May has collaborated with NASA on the New Horizons, OSIRIS-REx and DART missions, with JAXA on Hayabusa2 and with ESA on the Hera mission.

🎸🪐 🔭

https://brianmay.com/
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"kWh per hour" is the "ATM machine" of energy units.

Now you can't unsee it. You're welcome.

"I'm nimble like a cat."

Yeah, but like which cat?