rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

As a data structure, sets are seriously under-rated; the simplicity of the interface (union, difference, etc) makes code so much more elegant

“Cybercriminals are not eligible for unemployment insurance or relief if they quit their job. Some of them have employees and third parties to pay” - won’t somebody think of the cybercriminals! https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/eu-calls-for-ceasefire-on-cyber-attacks-exploiting-coronavirus-pandemic

Been reading up on how Safari/Firefox implement their reader modes, and my god are they horrible, horrible hacks… what ever happened to writing HTML that described the content of the page in a semantically sensible way?? Why must we guess what is the actual content from the occurrence of commas, the length of paragraphs, and the total length of text???

Great video from 3b1b, as always, about viral modelling https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs

“Security. How should a bank handle customers wearing masks coming into a branch? It may be difficult to distinguish between a customer and a bank robber.”[1] - since when do bank robbers wear surgical masks??

Source: Matt Levine @ Bloomberg[2]

[1]https://www.fdic.gov/coronavirus/faq-fi.pdf
[2]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-20/senators-picked-a-good-time-to-sell-stocks

Started the article thinking there’s nothing wrong with GitHub’s repo page. Ended it by concluding that there’s actually little right. I don’t think the design is perfect (I would bring the README higher up), but there’s some great ideas here! https://tonsky.me/blog/github-redesign/

Who would’ve guessed, turns out studying category theory is hard - especially in the context of quantum computing…

“Parker called on the tech firms to “use the brilliant technologists you’ve got” to answer a question: “Can you provide end-to-end encryption but on an exceptional basis – exceptional basis – where there is a legal warrant and a compelling case to do it, provide access to stop the most serious forms of harm happening?”” Translation: please use your brilliant engineers to draw a triangle using only parallel and perpendicular lines https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/25/mi5-chief-asks-tech-firms-for-exceptional-access-to-encrypted-messages

What an absurd statement the QI Elves recently tweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1222859993394962432?s=20. Appears the original source was https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555, which says
“Our investigation indicates that humans in high-income countries have changed physiologically over the last 200 birth years with a mean body temperature 1.6% lower than in the pre-industrial era.” - a percentage calculated relative to the freezing point of water… Steve Mold has a great piece on the absurdity of relativistic temperature statements: https://youtu.be/C91gKuxutTU