The Weekly Weird - 2021-12-03

Skorgu

Dispatches from the worst-idea-ever department:
- 127.0.0.0/16
- Test it in prod^Worbit. What could go wrong?
- Basically anything involving Windows NT 4.0 (h/t like five people. You get me, you really get me)
- Including a virtual machine in ... WinRAR...
It's been said many times but: the nice thing about having an unsafe keyword is it tells you where to look for the weird stuff.
In brighter news, long-ass power cables. Get it? I'm so clever.
Flexing on your opponent comes in many forms. From trash talk to teabagging. Writing a whole-ass novel with the names barely changed about a 'secret' operation is on the higher end.
I'm not sure how I feel about ZFS using object storage systems as a backend. I guess there are lots of places where you want the best of both worlds but something like CephFS isn't appropriate.

The Weekly Weird - 2021-11-05

Skorgu

Tired: Python. Wired: Bank Python. See also the delightful first-person accounts in the hn thread.
It's fun to watch Zillow discover what every other market maker has known all along: "Behind every order is a thinking, breathing shark with a mortgage.": expect every error in your model to break in the worst possible way. Adverse selection is a thing.
Look, if you need to do this kind of cleverness to get a useful IP Address type, it might be a sign your underlying design is bad.
What you really want to hear: 300 single points of failure
Half a billion for nuclear fusion by 2024.
A verbatim transcript of going shopping with me: all those brands come from the same factory.
Vi is 45, Unix qualifies for its AARP card this year. The Matrix can drink in the US. Sigh.
Related: a new vi-like modal editor: helix.
More gradually-typed languages: luau.
Well, I guess we were promised a cyberpunk dystopia so here we are.
Beyond Zero Knowledge: Relativistically Impossible Zero Knowledge.
Self driving trucktrainthings
I don't know who these people are who can pay attention for an entire microcentury.
Existential horror comedy set entirely in Slack. (I haven't actually read it).

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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

Skorgu

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