The Weekly Weird - 2017-04-07

Skorgu

2017-04-07 11:00

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The caloric content of humans: meh.
Ever wonder how well ECC protects your precious bits from radiation? Stick a GPU in an neutron beam. Then, if you're not convinced, do it again! I guess when you have a particle accelerator, everything looks like ~~a target~~ hours of fun.
It's just a little videogame about killing cockroaches, except the cockroaches are actual running CockroachDB instances. I love it!
One of the best things about Rust is the niceness of the community. This is not accidental, rather it's a deliberate choice implemented carefully by those who have seen the alternative.
James Hamilton explores a $100 million power outage. The comments also mention this lawsuit covering a single fiber cut and the resulting 4 hour service outage to US Airways.
Various tittering has been observed over this paper: On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines.
I love little stories like this that demonstrate how today's winners are just the luckiest survivors.
"The Curious Case of the PDF Converter that Likes Mozart".
What's coal for? FT Alphaville explains (free registration required).
Hackers are the new bank robbers.
...with their own infrastructure.
...which the fuzz are always sniffing around.
An absolutely insane collection of SpaceX flight plans from the livestream telemetry, all graphed up on the same axes.
A weird boat finds a useful home. (I swear I mentioned this sucker in a previous weird but I can't find it).
"Og to til javanissen!". Seriously, read this.
Some examination of leverage points, in an HN comment thread. Also kalled systempunkts.
I'm super interested in flow batteries, so this 8 megawatt installation in Washington state is great to read about.
Abecedarius via Constrained Writing.
I haven't read this but The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence sounds interesting.