The Weekly Weird - 2017-06-16
- Local and remote query processing in CockroachDB
- You'll be shocked to learn that a fixed price for unlimited use is not sustainable.
- As a fan of alcohol, I read this study on adverse brain outcomes with moderate consumption with concern. Tl;dr: 2 pints of beer a week.
- But at least we'll be able to just replace our livers, so that's something.
- At least it's not as bad as lead, which is amazingly bad for society. Good thing we phased that out in the...what's that? Oh. Never mind (Only applies to piston-engines which is ~2% of aviation. Still!).
- I love watching humanity struggle with adapting the heuristics of interpersonal interaction to the aliens that run the planet: "What does it mean to ask for an 'explainable' algorithm?"
- RAID is not a backup, in video form.
- What really happened to Vista.
- The HN thread on Base65536 encoding is pretty fun.
- "How to lose $8k worth of bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase". Spoiler: "2"fa.
- Traffic Engineering with segment routing in ipv6.
- Let's count the ways this BA datacenter 'power surge' story makes no sense, shall we?
- Borderline politics but it's infrastructure-related so: How the MTA got so broke. I'm not sure how to square this with all the bridge construction happening in the NYC metro area right now. I mean heck, the Bayonne Bridge raising finished ahead of schedule. Is that even legal in NJ?
- Also borderline politics (more "world events") but this tweet stream (ugh) on ISIS' news agency (yes) is pretty fascinating.
- Even more borderline politics: How YouGov predicted the UK election so well.
- Reason 9,278,581 why I don't trust SANs.
- Programmers who use spaces instead of tabs is correlated with an 8.6% higher salary.