Trying to beat up someone holding a machete may not be the brightest idea

I think it’s more accurate to say that power attracts corrupt people, and protects them from the consequences of their actions, allowing them to show their true colors without fear

also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia

that does happen to be one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes.

And searching for mersenne primes happens to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)

saddam hussein

Looks like the image I found cropped out the signature, seems to be jeremykaye.tumblr.com

Linux application development 2nd edition

…which ironically makes for a perfect parallel with “C/C++”

The one I was thinking of is the (hypothesized) reduction in jaw size due to less need for powerful chewing, while teeth stayed the same size leading to many problems

agriculture and its consequences (maybe)

if you include games with user-created levels there’s quite a few games with levels that are practically impossible for a human, eg. trackmania and super mario world

this is already a classic

fairly sure hezbollah has more than 2800 members

bonus points if you’re using a statically typed language but the library uses extensive metaprogramming seemingly for the sole purpose of hiding what types you actually need

I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago

if you can’t connect to a vpn using only open source software, that’s a crappy vpn

importantly it’s (hopefully) an ISP that operates from a less copyright-happy country and isn’t tied down to tons of expensive infrastructure and long-term contracts

but sometimes “👍🏽”.reverse() == “🏽👍”

the thing where it actually helps is if you’re “one word speed reading” (eg. http://onewordreader.com/). Then it’s easier to rapidly focus your eyes on each word, without having to follow a rigid timer. But if you’re reading normally it probably doesn’t help