@BrowncatPrograms but the centralised code writing group could decide to secretly modify the software to create a backdoor or something which they can use to recentralise it
@BrowncatPrograms "Could you do a lesson demonstrating the importance of clinical studies and why you shouldn't misrepresent and misinterpret data?" Seems like it'd be relevant to chemistry :P
@user I didn't hear the full conversation, but I did hear her agreeing with multiple common (and incorrect/fallacious) reasons for not getting vaccinated in general
Mmm, but algorithms are often made specifically for classical computers, whereas telescopes are more just tools (okay, computers are tools, but you know what I mean (you do know what I mean, right? (just asking)))
@pxeger You can tell Munroe is a physicist. Every other major's description is why that major is either bad or inferior to physics. The description of physics just complains that you can't get a job as an actual physicist.
@user well, you're probably right. any analogy is bound to have defects.. but i still like this quote, it gets the main point across eloquently and concisely
Physicists should just convince the government to give them lots of money, then make a really big explosion out of whatever you study. Worked for nuclear physics :p
Just change your grades to be perfect 100s, and add a note saying that the school should make sure to give you lots of free stuff because your dad's the superintendent or something
At my old school, everybody's default password for all school stuff was just FirstInitialLastInitialXXXXHS, where XXXX was the last four digits of your student ID. You could just look at somebody's ID to get their password, or brute force it in like 2 seconds.
Somebody actually brute forced my password and turned in a bunch of my assignments as their own, but I always formatted my stuff in a really specific way, and they didn't bother changing anything, so my teacher knew immediately.
Our student IDs are how we pay for lunch, so you could easily just type in the number of someone who looked roughly like you in 2nd grade and you get free food
@AaronMiller lol, I can totally see a first grader copying someone else's name along with answers, but it sounds weird to do that after going to the effort of cracking a password
@AaronMiller At the local public library in Sweden, everyone's PIN for the copy machine was the last 4 digits of their "social security number" (actually a persons' register number).
@pxeger It sounds good and sensible when it's in a blog post with a metaphor and the author conveniently ignoring the reason things are the way they are, but I firmly believe JS's async/await in its current form is close to the best it could be
@DLosc The first password I ever used was abc123, but the first password I ever created myself was kashaboi, which is "cherry pie" in Pennsylvania German (My dad used to be Amish, so I know a little bit of the language).
@pxeger We should just do a Browser Purge and rewrite JS to fix all the weird quirks, kill off all the browsers that don't follow the new rules, and shoot any web developers who resist
@DLosc Mine was actually quite strong, and I think I still use it somewhere. It was 8 chars (often a requirement at the time) and consisted of a initial-capital 4-letter word fragment (i.e. not in any dictionary) 2 digits and a 2-letter word.
Raw peanuts don't taste too good but they're great when you put them in a little oil, sprinkle some black pepper, salt, and other seasonings on them, and heat them up
