rlamacraft @rlamacraft@social.cleverlibre.org

@snow oh, that’s really interesting - thanks!

@snow I think they’re usually pilot fish; scavengers, looking to steal some of the larger predator’s kill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_fish

Started the article thinking there’s nothing wrong with GitHub’s repo page. Ended it by concluding that there’s actually little right. I don’t think the design is perfect (I would bring the README higher up), but there’s some great ideas here! https://tonsky.me/blog/github-redesign/

Who would’ve guessed, turns out studying category theory is hard - especially in the context of quantum computing…

“Parker called on the tech firms to “use the brilliant technologists you’ve got” to answer a question: “Can you provide end-to-end encryption but on an exceptional basis – exceptional basis – where there is a legal warrant and a compelling case to do it, provide access to stop the most serious forms of harm happening?”” Translation: please use your brilliant engineers to draw a triangle using only parallel and perpendicular lines https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/25/mi5-chief-asks-tech-firms-for-exceptional-access-to-encrypted-messages

What an absurd statement the QI Elves recently tweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1222859993394962432?s=20. Appears the original source was https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555, which says
“Our investigation indicates that humans in high-income countries have changed physiologically over the last 200 birth years with a mean body temperature 1.6% lower than in the pre-industrial era.” - a percentage calculated relative to the freezing point of water… Steve Mold has a great piece on the absurdity of relativistic temperature statements: https://youtu.be/C91gKuxutTU