The Weekly Weird - 2017-04-28
- If you like Iain M. Banks, the BBC has a radio dramatization of "The State of The Art" up for the next ~month (or forever if you can stomach using perl).
- I'd like you to watch an hour long lecture on fusion energy please: MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy.
- Some academic studies on how complex and high pressure failures are handled: "Examining and Learning from Complex Systems Failures" and "Trade-offs Under Pressure: Heuristics and Observations of Teams Resolving Internet Service Outages".
- Have I mentioned "don't talk to the police" before? Don't. Especially don't talk to the FBI.
- A fuse filesystem implementing a dungeon crawl. Oh yesss.
- Flying cars, get your flying cars here! Flying jetski things too, (you know, for the lucrative intra-lake vacation house commute market...)
- In a similar, light on details vein: I like this idea of trans-oceanic container freight drones.
- Finally the little arm board I wanted exists! 2x10gbe! 3xsata! $349!
- Demographic analysis is often touted as a method for prioritizing crime prevention. I suspect this is not what was in mind.
- I think this is just one guy shopping his debut scifi novel but sure, crude oil pumping states have a not-insane path to space resource extraction.
- How fast do you suppose the news of Lincoln's asassination traveled in 1865? If you guessed 12mph, you win a noprize.
- "Personally, I use 70s tube-effect memcpys() for that vintage sound."
- I like this ascii text file of scientific constants. I don't really know why.
- If your reaction to these transparent jeans isn't dismay that the zipper is still metal, we can't be friends.
- Blockchain...
- Tuning HAproxy to handle 2million ssl connections.
- Say what you will about Juicero but I bet the engineers had a blast overengineering it.
- Java will now auto-set heap size based on the containing cgroup.