The Weekly Weird - 2017-04-14
- "Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling".
- Blockchains. Rust. Zero knowledge proofs. The word 'snark'. Bellman is well-targeted to be included in the Weird.
- Also rust: the natural iterators over Result and Option that I keep forgetting exist.
- Ok, I dropped a little Aphyr on you last week but as your attorney I must insist you read the entire series: Reversing, Acing, Hexing, and Typing the technical interview. Especially the last one for you type theory otaku. Then, head on over to the mefi thread where the author pops in and provides some background.
- I didn't think the world needed another TCP load balancer but this one looks shiny: linkerd. LWN has a bit more background.
- In cephpfs you can apparently map different directories to be stored on different backing pools. Neat. As an aside, how do we all feel about the onload animation on that page? I'm not sure if I'm impressed or annoyed.
- Cephalopods can edit their own RNA (?!?!)
- Postgres 10 is coming out soon, complete with the requisite bevy of new features.
- There are positive and negative electrical charges, why aren't there positive and negative gravitational charges? The answer is surprisingly fundamental.
- In which an internet lawyer accidentally wanders into the intersection of furries and sovereign citizens and is adopted: "Free Furry of The Land". See what happens when you treat people like people?
- An article on inequality that I haven't read
- An article on..neutron stars and pasta that I haven't read.