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Windows defender reports "Exploit:HTML/IframeRef.R!MTB" on this page, it's the first time I've seen it report anything.

The book is really well researched, it includes 5 pages of selected bibliography. I doubt the author wrote about a scientist coining a word and then recalled said word from memory.…

The Annotated Turing is probably my favorite technical and historical book, there's nothing else like it. But I'll never forgive the utterly strange typo in it: "In a famous 1907 p…

A large portion of products we buy in second hand stores are children's toys and clothing. The prices of new toys are insane, we leave a second hand store about once a month with a…

I'm guessing somewhere along the lines of /r/learnjavascript or /r/learnpython. The browser is the lowest barrier REPL/Interpreter installed on any modern computer and it's possibl…

They should get whatever they ask for. There isn't a workday where I don't think to myself Man, we'd be so screwed if curl didn't exist. It runs more business than Excel. If there …

I use it for building various tools and Ansible plugins in operations. Mainly requests for talking to REST APIs, json for json, aiohttp and asyncio for parallelism, pyparsing for p…

Not in the EU. I pay for a lot of nonrecurring things via money transfer and I need a TAN for every online transaction. Before mobile apps they would occasionally mail me a list of…

European versions have this rule [1]. I wasn't aware that the US version allowed adjacent ship placement until I bought a commercial version for my kid last Christmas and started l…

I have my doubts. If I need to implement say Dijkstra's in Haskell and pick up a random algorithms book then it's not going to help me at all. If I then ask a hundred programmers h…

Monads and Functors aren't particularly exciting in Python because properties or contexts can be expressed with e.g. boolean flags and properties or contexts can be ignored when ap…

This is hilarious, Kinedryl is a brand of medicine for motion sickness (Kinetosis) in Eastern Europe.