The Weekly Weird - 2015-06-19
- Repeat after me: flash is not just a faster disk: http://users.ece.cmu.edu/\~omutlu/pub/flash-memory-failures-in-the-field-at-facebook_sigmetrics15.pdf
- A good philosophical examination of cut and pasting code: http://yosefk.com/blog/redundancy-vs-dependencies-which-is-worse.html
- Even if it is golang (eww), this looks like a well thought out benchmarking library: https://github.com/garybernhardt/readygo
- This is just /super/ clever: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.00189v1.pdf
- as is this: http://stefan-marr.de/papers/pldi-marr-et-al-zero-overhead-metaprogramming/ (HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741072 )
- And a nice mental model of how x86 actually works: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/\~pes20/weakmemory/cacm.pdf
- WHEEEEE http://theaviationist.com/2015/06/19/emals-test-using-go-pro/
- If only they had put that creativity into something more productive: http://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
- /proc for your application: https://github.com/schmichael/mmstats
- I wish this had more details but free-standing fabrication is neat: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-mx3d-3d-print-steel-bridge-amsterdam.html
- Places you don't want to see "please plug in charger to continue" #1: an airplane: http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/electric-airbus-kills-your-excuses-for-not-having-a-pil-1710820730
- http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/11/start/heli-plane
- Today in "stretching the boundaries of the meaning of the word 'affordable'": http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/the-amazing-incredibly-affordable-atmos-clock-from-jaeger-lecoultre
- I'll be honest, my initial response was 'wat' https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/
- But on further read I think maybe it's not entirely insane? https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md
- Some comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9732827
- Microbial motors http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150616/ncomms8346/full/ncomms8346.html
- nginx is awesome: http://nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x/
- Presented entirely without comment: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-19/bitcoin-bucket-shop-kicks-bucket