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Still useful to check whether your email credentials have been compromised: ’;–have i been pwned?.
Complexity often does introduce qualitative differences. Although it sounds implausible, it might turn out that above a certain level of complexity, a machine ceased to be predictable, even in principle, and started doing things on its own account, or, to use a very revealing phrase, it might begin to have a mind of its own. — Minds, Machines and Gödel
Clojure is (slowly) eating the world. Honestly, we should be thankful that the language continues to grow despite being fairly unorthodox, compared with the current norm of typed functional languages and the massive sea of object-oriented code that’s out there. It’s also the odd child in the Lisp family with its functional, data-driven, and interop-heavy approach to programming. — Clojure: the Lisp that wants to spread
Was Knuth Really Framed by Jon Bentley? Here is the full ACM article (PDF) for reference.
Spreadsheet-like app are everywhere.
The first job when making any map is to determine what projection you’re going to use. The region is China, and the data is thematic. For ANY map of population data to work the map has to use an equal-area projection. — Mapping coronavirus, responsibly
One of my favorite hobby horses is the need to keep control of your data. Broadly that means keeping it in open formats and on computers that you manage. If you’re committing your only copy of valuable data to some cloud service, you’re acting recklessly and are likely to suffer the consequences. — Even Google Employees Are Trying to Escape