The Weekly Weird - 2014-11-21
- "L1 cache is a beer in hand, L3 is fridge, main memory is walking to the store, disk access is flying to another country for beer."
- Some pictures of Facebook's new datacenter: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/11/20/photo-tour-new-facebook-data-center-in-iowa/
- Ever wonder how much better a giant, expensive DSLR is than your iPhone? Wonder no more! http://connect.dpreview.com/post/5533410947/smartphones-versus-dslr-versus-film
- Strangely soothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1sOPqM_VA
- Man, Amazon gets all the cool toys: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/11/13/intel-designs-custom-aws-cpu-for-fastest-ec2-instances-ever/
- An Oral History of Unix: http://www.princeton.edu/\~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory.htm
- What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers? http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2059
- There are /layers/ of fail involved in being stuck to an MRI machine for four hours, here are some of them. http://practicalfmri.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/a-failed-quench-circuit.html
- Be sure to note the last link there, to http://www.rad-planning.com/newsletter/2012/1203_2_MRI_fires.html which talks about Big Red Buttons and how they react to fires.
- The certificate authority infrastructure is stupid, we'll make our own with open source and automated provisioning! https://letsencrypt.org/2014/11/18/announcing-lets-encrypt.html
- If you're wondering what to get me for the Winter Gift Giving Holiday it's a K-MAX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53cBlCfLpZg
- From the Sapir-Whorf department: the sound of words affects how we perceive the subject: http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=63151