The Weekly Weird - 2017-11-10
- Knowledge may be power but not many books will literally kill you.
- Lessons learned by Walmart in scaling Cassandra
- Implementing idempotency keys in Postgres.
- A report from RIPE 75.
- There's a MINIX OS at ring -1 on every x86 cpu, and now you can get root on it via usb. thisisfine.jpg
- Service discovery with CRDTs.
- Regeneration of the entire human epidermis using transgenic stem cells. Arstechnica has some analysis.
- Take with a giant grain of salt but Uber says they'll be testing a VTOL air taxi service in LA in 2020
- Blockchains are cool. I think it's fair to say the bugs have not yet been worked out yet.