The Weekly Weird - 2017-12-15
- Y'all, I forgot to talk about CryptoKitties last week. It's the best thing in the world. It's a decentralized virtual cat breeding and trading system. Well, except that it's not decentralized at all. Oops.
- I'm glad my internet bits come to me over fiber but it's good to know that wet string is now a viable fallback.
- I've been saying that the future is gonna get weird for a while and that's starting to show up. 'AI' is good enough to take some video and change species, actors (might be nsfw), and presidents. This is fine.
- Good news! Everything is getting more efficient.
- If you'd like to read a 63 page PDF of how to rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid, this is the link for you.
- How to put out a lithium ion battery fire.
- You may not notice this unless you tried to buy hardware recently but RAM prices are just stupid lately and not projected to get better any time soon.
- Using Postgres on an SSD? Make sure it knows that.