Best password ever, apparently!

I managed to recreate almost the same screenshot in 5kb (and with much less compression artifacts!)

before adding the text and circles it was only 1.6kb

it's a case where jpeg compression ironically results in the picture getting 60x larger and more blurry because everyone recompresses the images and jpeg is designed for large photos and not pixel art

After working at blizzard for 51 years, I finally found an elegant solution by using the power of recursion

private bool IsEven(int number){
  if (number > 1) return IsEven(number - 2);
  if (number == 0) return true;
  if (number == 1) return false;
}

is-number is a one-line function. (though it's debatable if a function that complex should be compressed to one line)

You may have heard of a similar if more extreme "microdependency" called is-even. When you use an NPM package, you also need all the dependencies of that package, and the dependencies of those dependencies recursively. Each package has some overhead, eventually leading to this moment in time.

I tried to edit the 'highlights' into a single image, the top is the description of the PR, the middle is a comment replying to another comment

https://github.com/micromatch/to-regex-range/pull/17

this is already a classic

funny how well this fits for both meanings

but sometimes "👍🏽".reverse() == "🏽👍"

It's "real" in that the police shared the picture: https://x.com/NYPDnews/status/1864706407985221974

though the clothing seems different from an earlier picture, especially with this one having big front pockets in the jacket. so there's claims that it is not the same suspect.

I'm pretty sure that "motorcycle airbag vest" is not considered a standard piece of safety equipment by law

$1 for tapping the pipe, $100 for knowing where to tap

They got multiple different witches to cast multiple curses (and they mention "Priestess Lilin" by name), but the one specifically called "POWERFUL HEX SPELL" with 2-3 weeks delay seems to be this one by "UrsulaSpells": https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1806923429/powerful-hex-spell-direct-energy-focus?ls=s&pro=1&bes=1

apparently it's in high demand right now

Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.

To save even more data, replace every symbol with A. Then just store the amount of As.

it's funny how you can tell at a glance exactly what model generated this image, just based off the background color

15 years is just about enough to understand how initializing a variable works in C++: https://randomcat.org/cpp-initialization/initialization.png

their given reasons are "to keep backups" and "academic and clinical research with de-identified datasets"

they seem to actually do a fairly good job with anonymizing the research datasets, unlike most "anonymized research data", though for the raw data stored on their servers, they do not seem to use encryption properly and their security model is "the cloud hoster wouldn't spy on the data right?" (hint: their data is stored on american servers, so the american authorities can just subpoena Amazon Web Services directly, bypassing all their "privacy guarantees". (the replacement for the EU-US Privacy Shield seems to be on very uncertain legal grounds, and that was before the election))

driver is john cena, who has the catchphrase "you can't see me"

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

Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though