The Weekly Weird - 2018-07-27
- Why bother with simple solutions when we could use drastically over-engineered construction to cool the planet and reinforce it's magnetic field (or, you know, some other planet's magnetic field).
- There might be liquid water on Mars! Which is good because melting ice is surprisingly difficult.
- Bluetooth is fucked. Err, double fucked? Things on networks are slowly fucked. Can we give up on computers now?
- A wonderful profile of Gwynne Shotwell who is probably the most important person to SpaceX's success.
- Run OCaml from Rust
- I've always had a fondness for old war stories like this one about tracking down some sabotaged code or this one about managing Steve Jobs.
- I'm pretty sure this headline translates to 3D-printing bones.
- The Moon was (briefly) habitable!
- Pretty niche but what's the best second passport?
- Yet another measure of computer performance: PSI.
- Random rust stuff: What is a pointer, anyway?, Unofficial design patterns.