There are a lot (a LOT) of things wrong with the world but let's take a moment to be thankful that the glorious future of only ever having a single USB connector is going really well. If you had told me I could use the same cable to plug in headphones, sync my phone, and pull 240W I would not have believed you.
I know ~nothing about Magic: The Gathering but I deeply enjoyed this dive into not just the economics of the game but of the deep, fundamental inseperability of those economics from the core gameplay loop: magical capitalism.
The closer you get to prod, the scarier testing gets. What if you want to be really sure your test is safe? No, I mean really sure. No, really really sure.
[A member of Deutsche Bank's supervisory board] told [Wirecard's CEO] he had recently bought additional shares in Wirecard, and urged [the CEO] to “do this newspaper in!! :-)”
As is so often — not always! — the case, the market rewarded absolute unsentimental ruthlessness here. A bunch of prime brokers got in a room to give speeches about working together and preserving value and not artificially depressing prices, and the Goldman representative was texting colleagues under the table “SELL EVERYTHING!” Goldman was right.
Because of this, I will now have to ban all future contributions from your University and rip out your previous contributions, as they were obviously submitted in bad-faith with the intent to cause problems.
As an aside, the relevant IRB declared this "not human research". I know what they mean but I'm in love with the idea that they heard "Kernel devs? They're not human, go nuts."
Also, this email is such a wonderful time capsule of the Old Internet. A top-posting callout! plonk! Put it in my veins.
Of particular concern is the significant weakness within Dynetics’ proposal [...] due to the SEP’s finding that Dynetics’ current mass estimate for its DAE far exceeds its current mass allocation
SpaceX was was therefore grateful that OneWeb offered in the meeting to retract its previous incorrect statements. SpaceX looks forward to hearing confirmation from OneWeb that those retractions have been made.
Somali pirates in a small skiff fired on what they (presumably) assumed was an unarmed freighter. The US Navy guided missile frigate Nicholas promptly returned fire with its deck-mounted, water-cooled, .50 caliber machine gun. (The pirates were captured, their ship sunk, and their "mother ship" subsequently tracked down and also captured.)
Feel like things are moving too fast? The gyre is widening? Need to train yourself to stay a productive cog in the post-quantum multi-connected future? Instead, relax by playing a nice little game.
Add to the list of words you do not want to hear next to "nuclear waste drum": sparking.
I'm eternally grateful I've never been asked to reverse a linked list in a job interview (I would have failed). But why does anyone ask that anyway? There's an obvious successor (that I would also have failed).
One nice thing about that pesky stuck boat is it was a good way for satellite imaging companies to show off. Why is that grayscale one blurry? SAR is wild (yt video).
We should all thank the NFPA for giving us such an entertaining road trip game but you should probably be aware that a 0 in the red diamond does not mean it can't go boom.
Texas' freak snowstorm is a reminder that the tails matter (a "hundred year event" makes it sound rare. A 1% chance of it happening every year sounds rather different). There are some options to provide power in exigent circumstances like this: