The Weekly Weird - 2021-10-15

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The Weekly Weird - 2021-10-08

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All the good comic book robots can walk and fly
What did you do at work today? Oh, just cured blindness, nbd.
Avast ye! Heave to, it's no prey no pay and we'll be taking your cargo. We'll splice the mainbrace when we unload the gold-plated beryllium.
It's pretty cool to see how previously-nightmarish things like running postgres clusters and managing bare metal are becoming features of k8s.
Pasta Robot.
Your Air-gap is not a gap, volume who knows anymore.
This is a very pretty visual layout for academic-paper-like content: Nota
Autonomous Ekranoplans
Sigmoids Behaving Badly
20 Tesla

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What is an "Operating System"? Is Linux one? No, seriously. Is Linux an operating system?
OK, I admit my prior for "new project by someone involved in writing GCL" is ... quite low but Cue seems a quite cool, second try at a config language that avoids the sins of the predecessor (h/t Mike).
I think my most-commonly-delivered piece of advice is to be more action biased. People stay in situations they clearly (from the outside) hate for way, way longer than seems reasonable from the outside. Science agrees.
Did you need a new nightmare? Tough break, here's one anyway. Oops, I misstyped, here's another.
Who needs ullage thrusters when you've got freaking electromagnets.
No, the other kind of keygen.
I fully do not understand the financialization of random item generators.
I adore this mechanism of mechanically tying tests to the branches they validate: coverage marks

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An absolutely riveting retelling of that Heisticorn (previously): How to (almost) steal a billion dollars from the Bangladesh central bank: The Lazarus Heist.
Run SQL on Ceph? Sure
Mining water ice from lunar regolith? A walk on the beach
How many layers of invisible software updates surround you at any given moment?
Have you checked your backups recently?
Body temperature is famously 98.6°F. But why, exactly?
A surprising treatment for kidney stones: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Beware the DARK FISH
A kind of neat hack of just storing all your data in DNS.
I :hoverboard: NY

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Some software is scary but perhaps not necessarily the software you think is scary. If you carefully avoided working on radiotherapy machines or smart contracts in favor of harmless video games, I have some bad news for you.
The most frustrating thing about the last ~two years is learning that absolutely nobody understands probability.
El Salvaor is the most recent but not the first sovereign to dip toes into blockchain.
Don't mix pointers with philosophy, that way lies terrible, terrible puns.
RAIDz expansion is HERE (almost)
"an entirely new set of staff, most of which we would not accept as members in Debian". Not exactly sure who gets the worse end of that comparison but butal nonetheless.
Does this mean I'll be able to charge ludicrous consulting bucks well into my retirement? If not, I'll just learn to enjoy pod management.
37 hours from admittance to full genome sequencing and customized treatment.
SELECT color FROM colors ORDER BY entropy
HAHAHA DIE SCUM

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Back to our roots. Tiger King's ETH token. But is it in space?
Look into my eyes. Deeper. Deeper! Moron
Perhaps the simplest model of quantum mechanics fits in a few tweets.
In response to the torrent of emails I get demanding a better way to use Ocaml in the browser, Ocaml goes brr (h/t Ron)
How much of what makes you you is your body and how much is your brain? Not a hypothetical question and Moths rate just below 'kernel developers' to IRBs so...