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].
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.
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 think this gnuplot command makes the bias much more obvious (and even better with -persist and "set terminal x11"): gnuplot -e "set terminal dumb; set xtics 100; plot '<cat'"
Compare to the version that discards values over 3e4:
for i in $(seq 1000000); do x=$((RANDOM)); while test $x -gt 30000;do x=$((RANDOM)); done; echo $((x%10000)); done |sort|uniq -c |sort -rn |gnuplot -e "set terminal dumb; set xtics 100; plot '<cat'"
Or the version that uses the 32-bit SRANDOM, which reduces the bias by a factor of 2**17:
for i in $(seq 1000000); do echo $((SRANDOM%10000)); done | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn |gnuplot -e "set terminal dumb; set xtics 100; plot '<cat'"
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.
asdf and qwerty were up there in the top 10 I think. This was just prior to the days of SQL injection and I'm 100% sure you could have erased our entire production DB with a really "strong" password.
[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