The Weekly Weird - 2016-02-19
- "we're already using ZFS in production on Ubuntu in a few areas at Netflix (not widespread yet)." --Brendan Gregg. But what about the licensing? Ubuntu thinks it's fine.
- Layer-0 automation.
- Ok, I minimized the LIGO discovery last week but of course I was joking. New science that opens up an entire new field of astronomy is awesome, even if the discovery itself isn't particularly surprising. That said, the LIGO folks did an absolutely amazing reddit AMA, giving solid answers to real questions for 3+ days. Well done, everyone involved.
- They also released the data in an ipython workbook so you can play around with it yourself.
- Isn't it a rule now that if you use TEMPEST to collect data through a wall the data must be a lengthy piece of erotica concerning antique furniture and black stockings?
- How CockroachDB works without having atomic clocks.
- A reasonable summary of the Apple/FBI nonsense.
- "Fixed wrong values of the physical constants speedOfLight, molarMassC12, and magneticFluxQuantum."
- "Hedonic Adjustments over long periods of time" or, Is inflation transitive? (h/t Chris Stuccio)
- Note to self: check out the amethyst game engine.
- You've gotta love an unsolved math problem that you can demonstrate with graph paper.
- TLEM, a high-speed netmap based link emulator.
- A very shiny robot hand.