A comment to this excellent post by Sabine Hossenfelder1
I think that it’s easy to deride the ‘let’s just do what we’ve already done, but an order of magnitude bigger/better/more expensive’ (BBME). But really it’s more subtle.
Or: Hi-Fi and the death of truth.
Or: the Cummings-Johnson effect.
I thought it would be interesting to get an idea of how many people will die because Dominic Cummings thought it was fine to ignore the lockdown rules, and Boris Johnson agreed with him. So I wrote a program to explore this Cummings-Johnson effect.
Michael Johnston runs a website dedicated to photography. He also promotes anti-scientific nonsense about audio: you should not support him.
Anyone who says that the facts show that men are innately better than women in computing either does not know the facts, does not understand them, or is lying.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
The U combinator allows you to define recursive functions and I think it is simpler to understand than the Y combinator.
What polkit is, why you should worry about it, some ways to defang it.
‘Those who control the present can rewrite the past’ — Anne Fortier
In 2016 you voted for brexit. But you voted for it because the leave campaign lied to you, of course: not because you didn’t like foreigners very much and didn’t care very much about your children’s future.