It is important to know that these are books for computer scientists more than for software engineers. They are basically mathematics textbooks, about the mathematics of algorithms. They focus on proving theorems rather than implementing useful algorithms.

There is a book called concrete mathematics that is sort of an introduction to TAOCP. If you’re interested in the basics that may be a good place to start. It has a better title than TAOCP in that it explicitly mentions mathematics, but also an equally bad one because it’s very much theoretical rather than concrete.

Ah the eternal arms race between parents and children. For me it was lights out so I couldn’t read, circumvented with a flashlight under the blanket.

Gen X: don’t quote the ancient piracy to me, Millennial. I was there for BBS and Napster.

Press and hold the Windows key, then tap the R. Let go of the windows key. Type cmd enter. Type format C:\ enter.

Sadly they “fixed” this.

I knew booze was the only way to make using a Mac bearable.

Most painful upvote of my life.

That’s because nobody helped when their hair was on fire, and now they’re dead.

I’m right there with you. Also, it’s “it’s” and not “its”.

It’s called Xitter now, pronounced shitter.

I refuse to think of 2000 as anything but the future where will all have flying cars.

That comma in the title made me think they blame Iran for Trump.

(b) will just lead to fewer up and down votes, i.e. less engagement. That in turn could lead to slowly bleeding out.

Australians can’t attack Earth, they’d fall right up into the sky without some reverse-reverse-gravity system.

This man walks so others can ride.

Yep it’s the stuff they throw at you without warning, or even trick you into viewing, that’ll scar you.

You got a lot of great recommendations already, but I want to add one more indie game: Lost Words Beyond the Page. Gameplay is simple and it’s not very long, but the writing is excellent.

This is the same kind of fear mongering that Orbán has been spouting in Hungary. Tusk may be in a different place on the political spectrum, but here at least he’s using the same techniques.

Yes you should go vote, but not under the threat of war.

But that’s exactly their point: it it’s legal for them to bug your house when all prerequisites are met. That last part is very important. Without voicing my opinion: that is the current law in many western democracies.

End-to-end encryption means that even with very stringent limitations, they would never be able to listen in. None of the previous spaces “beyond their reach” has been that.

And BTW as far as I know churches have never been this, legally. There was a time when you could find asylum in a church, and you couldn’t be arrested, but they were never barred from law enforcement listening in.

And, for the record, this part is my opinion: end-to-end encryption should be possible, and without backdoors.

You mean the thing that Opera had in the 90s, and Vivaldi since inception?

It was the style at the time.

It’s a reference to The Simpsons.