The Weekly Weird - 2016-09-09

Skorgu

2016-09-09 11:00

Quote of the day

<redacted> i just learned a really dirty hack.  
<redacted> exec &> >(tee -a x.log)   

<redacted> apparently that's in my codebase... god i'm a terrible tech lead  
<redacted> i thought my coworker was asking as a trivia question.

I like this story about a giant stockpile of alumin[i]um in the desert. HN Comments.
Why Modern Human Interactions Are So Hard To Film.
I don't really understand how neural networks are intimately tied to the laws of the universe but hey, now we have a theology to fall back on when the robots enslave us all.
Why I don't use a blog platform, volume XVII: the DMCA.
EEG-based identification systems, take two.
We know nothing, part elventy billion: there are four species of giraffe.
Cities are cool.
- What do those orange spraypaint markings on the ground mean?
- Did you know they're raising the Bayonne bridge because of the Panama Canal? (video)
- How the Japanese do zoning
- There's a musical about Robert Moses. I have no comment.