“i put all the data points into matplotlib and it said ‘idk lol’l

People in the UK, as the VPNs kick in...

Hey Grok who is the most famous person to block my profile? doesn’t need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was.

> add elements to a list > seemingly unrelated calculations tests start breaking > find out the length of the list is being used as seed for the random number generator in the tesrs

The UK Labour Government are now censoring their own Police Forces This is pure insanity

British government urges citizens to delete “old emails and pictures” to help with drought gov.uk/government/new…

A KC friend sends me this for my amusement. That it has become a recognisable joke speaks volumes. Only a short while ago, we would all have responded, "I don't get it. What's the joke?" Now, we get it. That presents a big problem for the government.

"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C Programs" -- Robert Firth

“i work at a computer company, so i can tell you a lot of information about computers. for example, one thing i know about computers is that it’s not good for computers to have maple syrup inside them.”

Very interesting design of a range filter that learns the dataset’s distribution by sampling keys and storing them in a cache-efficient trie. Uses y-fast tries instead of a traditional trie to achieve an 𝑂(log2 L) number of cache misses for predecessor and successor queries

2 weeks later... still not fixed. Let's hope sites forced to comply with the #onlineSafetyAct deal with #privacy concerns a tad more effectively. Liz Kendall Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Took me far too long to work out that last one meant 'showers'

The trailer for the Aesthetica Film Festival 2025 is here! Watch for a preview of the 300 fantastic #Films screening together with #Games, #VR & #Podcasts in our public programme. We can't wait to see you in York from 5-9 November. Book Your Pass Today: asff.co.uk/tickets

It’s not “manufactured drama.” The UK is trying to scare the shit out of Americans in order to censor the world’s Internet, and Americans are replying to the UK with hamsters. Sorry, we’re not going to be intimidated out of our rights by UK bureaucrats.

Here's an interesting anecdote on the book by Aho, Hopcroft Ullman that I posted a few hours back .. During his 27th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture on December 6, 2023, titled "Making the Cells Dance" (a sequel to his earlier "Dancing Links" lecture), Donald Knuth traces the

Today is my first day at AWS. I noticed a small bug in DynamoDB clustering implementation and I think I fixed it. Shipped to prod already. Going to make a coffee and will check back if everything is working.

Donald Trump comes under fire for choosing the lowest tender for work to modify the White House.

The German company that built the forklift used in the Louvre robbery uses a photo of the heist to advertise itself: “When things need to be done quickly.” 😂😂😂

Don't forget to put your clocks back! And think of the poor workmen who have to reposition Stone Henge every year to compensate for the lost hour. Here they are at the end of British Summertime in 1958.