The Weekly Weird - 2015-07-24
- I'm sure the Russian Army has thought this through thoroughly and we have nothing to worry about: http://rbth.com/defence/2014/07/02/new_combat_robot_is_russian_armys_very_own_deadly_wall-e_37871.html
- Wifi drone scoffs at your puny air gap: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/hacking-team-built-drone-based-wi-fi-hacking-hardware/
- Fire drone scoffs at your puny firefighters: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/us/california-freeway-fire/index.html
- I'm digging this whole de-structuring of compute, I can't wait to be able to upgrade my stuff anime-style by just plugging in more stuff: http://anandtech.com/show/9436/quick-note-intel-knights-landing-xeon-phi-omnipath-100-isc-2015
- Paging N. Stephenson, N. Stephenson please pick up a white courtesy phone: http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a15047/washington-state-aircraft-carrier-bridge/
- http://superopinionated.com/post/124488979338/sorayachemaly-women-scientists-made-up-25-of
- Oh Theo, never change: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143725996614627&w=2
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China is, well, China:
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1838620/foundations-planned-worlds-tallest-building-used-fish-farm-china
- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/world/asia/in-china-a-supercity-rises-around-beijing.html?_r=1
- Censors gonna cense, cense, cense: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/22/taylor-swift-1989-china-clothing-line-tiananmen-square
- of course we don't know wtf we're talking about: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/22/9017411/taylor-swift-china-tiananmen-square
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micro-optimization is the root of all evil\^Wfun: http://www.hanshq.net/nibble_sort.html (and the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920848 )
- No comment: http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/post/124823725833/systemd-evolving
- Oh PHP, never change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941364
- If it ain't broke... http://hackaday.com/2015/07/23/this-little-amiga-still-runs-school-districts-hvac/
- SpaceX lost a Falcon 9 due to a goddamn strut: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3dyvta/rspacex_crs7_failure_investigation_teleconference/ (As an aside, can you /imagine/ the angry phone call some supplier got from Elon?)
- Shoot holes in the ground with hypervelocity bullets: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/digging-for-geothermal-energy-with-hypersonic-projectiles
- Maybe I should switch from Nikola to this (because Ocaml): https://zoggy.github.io/stog/