VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Learning By Lurking 2023-02-18

   tags: community, documentation, knowledge

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   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
   • https://xkcd.com/979/
   • https://hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com/148664.html
2. what if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions 2019-01-05

   tags: comics, earth, physics, science, space, wtf, xkcd

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3. xkcd: Map Age Guide 2019-01-03

   tags: flowchart, geography, history, map, world, xkcd

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4. xkcd: Chat Systems 2018-05-03

   tags: chat, communication, email, instant-messaging, jabber, network/xmpp, xkcd

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5. xkcd: XKCDE 2018-05-02

   tags: virtualization, wtf, xkcd

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   • https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Ben-Yehuda.pdf
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
6. xkcd: Python Environment 2018-05-02

   tags: programming/python, programming/python/pip, programming/python/pypi, programming/python/virtualenv, xkcd

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7. xkcd: 2018 CVE List 2018-02-19

   tags: comics, exploit, parody, security, xkcd

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8. Exoplanet sonification 2017-10-07

   tags: planet, sound, visualization, visualization/d3.js

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   • http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data/database
   • http://kyma.symbolicsound.com/
   • https://xkcd.com/1071/
9. cryptography - XKCD #936: Short complex password, or long dictionary passphrase? - Information Security Stack Exchange 2017-06-02

   tags: comics, cryptography, security/authentication, security/password, strength, xkcd

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10. xkcd: Twitter Bot 2017-02-25

    tags: bot, cloud, machine-learning

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11. xkcd: Team Chat 2017-02-12

    tags: chat, command-line, instant-messaging, network/irc, screen, tmux, trend

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12. xkcd: Startup Opportunity 2016-12-28

    tags: bazaar, comics, shop, startup, xkcd

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13. xkcd: Fixing Problems 2016-10-04

    tags: comics, development, fix, xkcd

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14. /r/linux - As an experiment, I ran Linux for 365 days without touching any other OS 2016-09-22

    tags: distribution, linux, newbie, user

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    https://xkcd.com/456/

15. xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline 2016-09-14

    tags: age, earth, global, ice, timeline, warming

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16. xkcd: Cron Mail 2016-09-06

    tags: cron, linux, periodic, schedule, task

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17. xkcd: Pointers 2016-08-15

    tags: pointer, programming/c, programming/c++, xkcd

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18. XKCD-like plots in Matplotlib and PlantUML 2016-05-26

    tags: comics, drawing, plantuml, plot, programming/python, visualization, visualization/matplotlib, xkcd

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    • https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/07/10/XKCD-plots-in-matplotlib/
    • https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-in-matplotlib/
    • http://nrstickley.com/log/2019/01/22/
    • http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/juhasch/3835181
    • http://matplotlib.org/xkcd/gallery.html
    • https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font
19. xkcd: Slippery Slope 2015-09-09

    tags: nice, people, slope, xkcd

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20. xkcd: Planning 2015-07-21

    tags: control, facebook, google, privacy, self-hosting

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