The Weekly Weird - 2016-07-01
- Bitcoin and BATS, two great tastes that taste great together.
- SEASON YOUR PANS!
- Your cat is trying to kill you.
- Web Assembly, almost usable!
- Aren't posix filesystems great? They let you build something that lasts long enough for you to realize their performance characteristics are perfect for filesystems and not so perfect for whatever you're building.
- Reinforced concrete is pretty amazing but it has some long-term problems. The HN thread has some excellent commentary.
- Security!
- "Any sufficiently advanced backwards compatibility is indistinguishable from a security vulnerability."
- Sign AWS requests ... with your arduino? (Hat tip to, well you know who you are.)
- It's feasible (but expensive) to build a non-x86 workstation without much of the historical baggage it implies.
- If you were relying on an air gap to prevent exfiltration, I have some bad news for you.
- Rust!
- I don't really know what a GMM is but here they are in Rust.
- The Rust Belt conference has some appealing-sounding talks.
- Servo is coming.
- The US spends an outrageous amount of money on end of life treatments that don't actually help.
- I love making fun of java so here's a stacktrace.
- Some stock market return visualizations: A triangle and Meteors and Snakes. Note that all of them are implicitly for a single lump sum investment not the inherent dollar-cost averaging that us working schmucks do.
- Prediction is hard, especially of the future.