The Weekly Weird - 2015-11-27

Skorgu

2015-11-27 11:00

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TO CANADA, BROTHERS!
Hokay, so here's the earth, 20 years later
I just want to point out that the naive, gb-for-gb price multiplier between hard drives and SSDs is about 5x(!). Between the premium dropping like a rock and available SSD sizes going up, I'm excited to be able to replace my 8-disk zfs box with the prize from a box of cereal in a few years.
If you like dark chocolate you're probably a psychopath. (am I doing this clickbait thing right?)
Congratulations to Blue Origin on its first flight and VTOL recovery! Of course, as my good buddy Elon points out, getting to space and getting to orbit are very different things. It doesn't matter of course, getting to space cheaply is the goal, whose name is on the rocket is secondary. The important thing is that this is another source of flight-miles and engine-burn-minutes, each of which brings us closer to making rocket science boring.
Even with mucho rockets the future won't resemble Star Trek. Unless you think P=NP. (Seriously, this explains so much)
Slate has a good insiders' account of the Sony hack. It's an interesting case study in what happens to a disrupted organization.
Realtime video captioning. Open source!
Formula E (the electric Formula 1 thing) is going to have AI drivers soon.
It must be so exhausting to be djb, having to descend from the clouds to explain why we're all wrong about how big our encryption keys should be.
Gravity is a pain in the ass but millions of years of evolution has made working without it obnoxious. The solution, of course, is jetpacks.
A series about adding garbage collection to rust: part 0 and part 1.
Postgres is grand, Paxos is grand, is the combination twice as good or half??
Just freaking use ECC memory.
"[Ganeti] doesn't manage VMs, it manages locks and the VMs are just an unfortunate side effect"