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Nothing says “we’re watching you” like the wifi password at the hotel I stayed at in Shanghai being my passport number.

Mr Robot was generally pretty good for this kind of thing

First I’ve heard of aphantasia applied to sound / music. Though I have on a number of occasions thought about the concept. I have (visual) aphantasia. But am better able to remembe…

Sure, but my overall point was meant to refute this: > But that's a miss, it's like one of those Neal Stephenson moments where the creator is using the right language […snip…] but …

Ah, hence the need for ITS.

Doesn’t mention anything about quantum there though. Symmetric keys are secure enough against a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, but OTP provides information theoretic …

Pfft those suckers didn't have Parsec or Car Wars or Ms. Pac Man plus the hours spent typing TI-BASIC from a magazine was less frustrating than trying to get the jumps right on Sup…

Or just take up the didgeridoo https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/

So the tree data itself mainly comes from municipal open data, just like yours does. Street Trees datasets are pretty common across cities. I just added SF yesterday after replying…

Nice! I’ve been working on https://treeseek.ca which is a different use case from most of the other open data tree sites I’ve seen — I want to be instantly geolocated and shown the…

I’ve noticed the honestly thing for sure. But I feel like I’ve noticed an uptick in people using the adverb “genuinely” in what I genuinely believe to not be AI generated comments,…

Totally. I remember a thing where there were four horses that each had an a capella part and you could click each horse to bring that part in or silence it. They all harmonized tog…

I also clicked through to that and was similarly confused. Not a Kotlin dev but this doesn’t really seem like fixing your tools? More like understanding them properly. I wouldn’t c…

Indeed. There was a CBC radio episode last year that had parents discussing regrets. It felt weird to hear people saying these things out loud. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio…

Bah. I love putting a layer of frozen blueberries at the bottom of the bowl then layering on piping hot steel cut oats to thaw and warm them up. You’re probably right that I should…

What’s a zucchini party

An ex-gf of mine’s dad had the same name and birthday as a convict. Caused him plenty of trouble when crossing the border apparently. Hopefully that’s not the case for GP

This is definitely dependent on individuals. It’s a reason during some conversations people can never seem to get a word in edgewise, even if the person speaking may think they’re …

Right I guess in the old model they were often syndicated. But as a kid I remember seeing things like the jumble, word search, cryptic something or other etc. in my local small-ish…

Not sure I’d call them _video_ games per se but anecdotally (me) it does work. That said NYT crossword has existed for much longer, puzzle games are a longstanding feature of many …

I find the occasional research roundups from the “your local epidemiologist” newsletter informative: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/long-covid-re...

Weren’t there well over 100 launched, most of which were intercepted by Ukraine, and 20 made it into Polish airspace?

I thoroughly enjoyed their Toronto show on that tour. To be fair it was the first time I’d seen them in concert so I didn’t have any points of comparison. I also hadn’t really clue…

ST is not electron..