shmuppet

An interesting offshoot of this type of question is: how long does it take to hit every stop on a given transit system? BART has quite a few people making attempts; the official BART website even maintains a little article [1]! A couple have made videos of attempts and theory [2, 3], but the king of these things is tomo tawa linja, who I believe is the current record holder at 5:30:26 [4].

[1] https://www.bart.gov/news/fun/speedrun

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9JGsamQF0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFWp_LH3X5k

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmQTnSlL4C4

High quality piracy, especially for music, can convey a lot of social status. Many of the “pirate clubs” online are gated behind presenting your own vault of gems: lots of lossless FLAC files and maybe some rare foreign cd rips.

Jon Gjengset has a good (~3h long) video going over a lot of this and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMiqRM5ooNw

Just so you can see the bias to early numbers in the distribution:

    for i in $(seq 1000000); do
        echo $[RANDOM%10000]; 
    done | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | gnuplot -e "set terminal dumb; set xtics 1000; plot '< cat' using 0:1 with boxes"

I always like Brian Kernighan's password "/.,/.," [1]. If you're going for a stupid password anyway might as well make is easy to type. "password" is not particularly nice to type; I wonder why "asdf" is not generally more popular.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/forum...