The Weekly Weird - 2017-05-19
- "That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi’s paradox". Come for the exponent 1030, stay for reversible computing.
- "The process of claiming a name takes five (5) days and requires multiple transactions that are time sensitive and often irreversible, so it will be important for you to fully understand the process to ensure you do not irreversibly lose your ether."
- When your product has a fixed lifetime, problems that will only manifest after that lifetime can be ignored. So don't fix that memory leak in your missile guidance computer I guess.
- That billboard is looking at you, here are the logs to prove it.
- Extra credit to the Macron team in France for active defense against cyber attacks.
- Related, and I admit I haven't read it, Facebook's report on "information operations".
- Best part about killing a global ransomware botnet singlehandedly? Free pizza!
- Sticking things into particle beams is a recurring theme here. Let me advise you to not stick your head in one.
- Walmart > Belgium.
- That Intel AMT bug by the way? Pretty dumb.
- I have no words.
- I love maps and I love the subway so this geographically accurate NYC subway map makes me very happy.
- More progress on artificial pancreaseseses for Type-1 Diabetes. We're getting better and better at engineering the body.
- Why do we have words for some colors and not others?
- How to make your rust code fast: warp speed with Rust.
- ~150 space operas by female authors, regrettably in the format of a twitter thread.