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To paraphrase someone on Bluesky, why should I read a book that no one could be bothered to write?

Parameterized SQL is your friend here.

Either just by having developed their brains in a way that word facts just stick, or by constantly seeking out new word facts because that's what they love doing. I believe that th…

No?

In a book release event for Stefan Fatsis's book on tournament Scrabble players, Word Freak, the host posed the "megachiropteran" anagram as a trivia question for a book giveaway. …

Had to start researching this when a family member was recently diagnosed. Parkinson's has many forms and many causes. There's a big divide between Parkinson's _disease_ (idiopathi…

Wow, that was a long time to wait before finding out what the site is trying to show me.

Many employers effectively force exempt employees to work 12 hour days.

If the ROI was measured in terms of "someone got to hang out with Matthew McConaughey a certain number of times annually", I'm sure you're correct.

They're often extremely impressive people. Sometimes you don't find out what they're really working on for a long time, sometimes you never do. Sometimes you find out after it's to…

And that in some cases they assume familiarity with a large body of knowledge of _other_ people's commentaries on the works, and in fact, those second-hand sources are what they're…

The greatest weakness of the school is that the list of works was compiled in 1922 and has changed only incrementally since. It's also a great _strength_ of the school, but you cou…

Talking about them in a small class of people who read the same thing at the same time, led by 1 or 2 professors who are practiced in _not_ acting like more than advanced students,…

That's what you do literally every day in math - take turns going to the board and working through proofs. Ptolemy is Waterloo for anyone who has trouble drawing big circles.

We actually read some Descartes in math-- some of the papers from which we get the term "Cartesian coordinates." What he does in those papers fascinating, but has very little to do…

Class of '87 here. Most valuable takeaway is that you can read almost _anything_ directly or in translation. You don't need to read a summary of Hegel, you can read Hegel. You don'…

Save the Cat specifies page numbers because scripts are formatted to one page/minute of screen time, and movies have ideal lengths. If you can't turn to the exact center page and f…

Petal pounds sites. Ignores 429, hits the same pages repeatedly Easy block for us. Behavior is so similar to bad actors, I was surprised to find that it had documentation.

I assume at this point that this library has been audited many, many times by skilled professionals, none of whom thought to abuse the template + JNDI + LDAP chain in this way. It'…

The comparison of AWS WAF to Sophos could not be more misleading. It’s an engine for building a limited set of HTTP exploit detections, and has nothing to do with endpoint protecti…

Possibly, in all history, the major author who wrote the most words about how he hated it when people spelled his name wrong.

And _then_ breaks?

I stopped using it when it became a cryptocurrency client.

Not a lawyer, software guy working in licensing & copyright for 20+ years. Was paid for a few years to talk about this stuff with tech and publishing people. They're requesting the…