Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939)

And are these "neutrinos" in the room with us right now?

Wikipedia has no citation for its assertion that "[t]ortoises are typically slow-moving"

Did an interview! Talking about web fiction as a genre/medium, maintaining old versions of my stories, and what makes a story feel like it authentically comes from/takes place on the Internet

cubic kilometre of SD cards

You need to be Suezmaxxing

On 3 June I'm doing a conversation at King's College London! Details below! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/a-con...

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In all seriousness, is there any problem with using (cryptographically securely generated) UUIDs as passwords? They have plenty of entropy, right?

Important note: if a field like an API request ID is meant to be a UUID, but the request ID is generated and sent to you by *someone else*, then you have no guarantee whatsoever that it is actually unique and you do indeed need to handle potential collisions

If your personality can be neatly assigned into a well-defined category, then you're a Bertrand. If it can't, you're a Russell

On 3 June I'm doing a conversation at King's College London! Details below! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/a-con...

What the hell is a monad

Monster Energy is technically vegan And just as tasty as any meat-based soda

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awesome org-wide issue at work today: new customer has the last name null, which fucked up like all of our tables

When do you think they reboot Star Wars

They're children's movies and that's fine

Products speciate

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Same reason why they didn't manage to adapt the Culture novels "Money is a sign of poverty" is strangely difficult to sell to the fourth richest person alive

This is an achievement in Honkai: Star Rail??

To give an idea of how fast a two-hour marathon actually is: a car moving at just 30mph would finish the same race in less than 53 minutes!

To give an idea of Sabastian Sawe's running pace, if you ran a marathon at that speed you would be finished in less than TWO HOURS

Some dates, when formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, have all unique digits * The earliest was 1345-06-27 * The most recent was 1987-06-25 * The next is 2345-06-17 * The last will be 9876-12-30

"Taskmaster" doesn't rhyme with "Masktaster"

Red means go

On and on. Apr 10 2018

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Back in stock! This absolutely brain bending, delicious, sci-fi, existential horror book is in stock at both of our locations! Stop by and get your copy before it disappears again! 🧡👻📚 @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @qntm.org

Uniquely identifying my sheep using a EweEweID

I'm sorry but

HELLO? ADD OR REMOVE PROGRAMS?

no children no background no ID no style

So there's an upper limit to how good a chess AI can be at chess. There is a (highly theoretical) perfect strategy and an AI could play that strategy. If both sides play that strategy the game could well end in a draw Is there an upper limit to "intelligence" generally

To publish a new npm package you are strongly encouraged to configure 2FA. Previously you could configure an authenticator app like Google Authenticator or 1Password which would generate a TOTP, but now they recommend using passkeys instead. All well and good except 1. passkeys do not work, at all?

our retro-styled game is a love letter to the era when games sucked ass

carbon arseprint

Hexagram 65, Yarrow Stalk Overflow

Yes it is thematically appropriate to mute the word "antimemetics"

FIA regulations relating to the land speed record do not account for relativity Additionally, each new land speed record must exceed the previous one by at least 1% This means that there can only be a finite number of future land speed records, ever

I posted my latest round of little book reviews, covering my reading in February and March, with stuff I liked by @wnwagner.bsky.social and Ray Nayler and @scumbelievable.bsky.social and @qntm.org and Bora Chung and @joerlansdale.bsky.social (there's also some "life update" stuff at the top)

No one has ever actually tried this but "-2,147,483,648" is an accepted alternate answer to literally any TV quiz question. Bug has been there since the Fifties

In Google Calendar when selecting the time zone for an event, previously, you had to pick from a huge drop down of 200+ possible time zones. It was super inconvenient! But now, FINALLY it has this neat interface where you can just type in the name of the time zone you're looking f— oh

happy 17776 day everyone

Depluralize a movie The Vector

I wanted to call out the specific red flag issue here. The review from user Andrew says, "[T]hey are quick to take your money but never respond" - A PUBLISHER DOES NOT TAKE YOUR MONEY. Money moves *exclusively* from publisher to author.

These are some neat editions, I got Flatland

Happy new financial year