@sillyCoelophysis @stevenrosenthal @mattblaze the Washington Post deciding not to issue an endorsement for President even though the Editorial Staff had already drafted an endorsement

@stevenrosenthal @mattblaze the point is to publish opposing opinions to give red meat to all sides to drive viewership without taking a stand

@noplasticshower more of that. Less of endless meetings and task switching.

@noplasticshower Indonesia, North Sulawesi is quite nice. Did almost two weeks there this year.

@noplasticshower there is something to be said for that. But I rather be diving.

@noplasticshower that looks like too much work.

@noplasticshower indeed. I should. Looks like you have a nice spread. I need to retire is what I need to do.

@noplasticshower I approve

Be careful about from where you source your phones and pagers was literally a plot point in The Wire.

@LukaszOlejnik This paper seems to be fundamentally flawed — their simulator failed to properly use an RNG, so it simulated giving people the same topics on every site. See https://github.com/yohhaan/topics_api_analysis/issues/1

This points out how great it is for published papers to post their code and data set on GitHub! It means that we can actually point to the bug in their simulator, offer the one-line fix, and immediately re-run the corrected analysis using the author's own fixed code.

@lcamtuf or recycling.

Some years ago, I was walking from the kitchen back to my office at Google, carrying a piece of cake on a plate flat on my hand. There was a path between the desks, and walking towards me was Henry Kissinger followed by Eric Schmidt.

Eric saw what I had in my hand, and locked eyes with me. I was as tempted as I have ever been, but in the interests of world peace and keeping my job I kept my hand where it was, where it then passed just a few inches from Kissinger's face.

Turns out that he was
#henrykissinger

Somewhere deep within the rotting corpse of the company formerly known as Twitter, some poor functionary heaves a sigh and resets the "Days Since Last Rake-Stepping" counter back to 0.

@aleph_one Not gonna lie, had to look that up, but it is an extremely apt comparison.

How a billion years since Evernote’s web clipper’s birth, Apple Notes can’t clip a web page?

They have all the ingredients to make it happen. Safari’s Reader View simplifies web pages, and you can copy and paste that content on a note.

Understanding Apple’s choices can often feel like practicing haruspicy.

@lcamtuf 😂choose your own adventure 2FA.

Sigh. If you have 2FA enabled in E*Trade you must enter your password and the TOPT code. But if you forget your password you can choose a new one with just a TOPT code and immediately login without a going through an email confirmation flow. 🙄

Tip for parents: Chrome can integrate with Screen Time. Turn the feature on in chrome://flags as Screen Time. Handy if you need to use Chrome for compatibility reasons.