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An interesting offshoot of this type of question is: how long does it take to hit every stop on a given transit system? BART has quite a few people making attempts; the official BA…

High quality piracy, especially for music, can convey a lot of social status. Many of the “pirate clubs” online are gated behind presenting your own vault of gems: lots of lossless…

Jon Gjengset has a good (~3h long) video going over a lot of this and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMiqRM5ooNw

Just so you can see the bias to early numbers in the distribution: for i in $(seq 1000000); do echo $[RANDOM%10000]; done | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | gnuplot -e "set terminal …

I always like Brian Kernighan's password "/.,/.," [1]. If you're going for a stupid password anyway might as well make is easy to type. "password" is not particularly nice to type;…