The Weekly Weird - 2018-03-02
- I uttered "what the fuck" out loud 3 times while reading this: A stand-alone 'cd' binary for Linux/i386.
- And then like twelve more times when I saw <%= system(%_REQUEST['cmd']) %>. Is that more or less dumb than sending 23k private keys via email?
- Can Emerging Markets Tilt Global Product Design? Impacts of Chinese Colorism on Hollywood Castings
- Adversarial Perturbation.
- ...with a surprisingly small number of pixels.
- It's been said for ages that there are two real estate markets in the US: New York and Everything Else. Finally, some data to back that up.
- Many problems become easy when you can accurately see the problem
- Yeah, sometimes the bug is in the kernel.
- People have been talking about micro-gravity manufacturing for ages yet it doesn't seem to ever actually happen. Until now. Good context in the HN comments.
- Hope you all declared your bitcoin to the feds...
- It has been ____ days since a crytpcurrency exchange has lost more than $100 million. A valuable public service.
- Oh, you thought your modem was safe? Hah.
- Sure. Fine. Why not.
- Bojack Horseman has a lot of hidden art references.
- Mildly NSFW but really interesting: A topless duel between a Princess and a Countess.
- This is a nice, long article on some of the non-tech parts of SRE: Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the World’s Busiest Gambling Sites.
- Brains are dumb.
- OH YEAH
- How much do uber drivers make? Not a lot. Of course it's worth it for the city, right? Oh.