The Weekly Weird - 2018-08-03
- "Electric Taste Augmentation" is definitely the name of my bluegrass ELO cover jugband.
- I'm not going to ruin this, just click the link.
- Of all the solutions to buffer overflows I've heard, signing pointers is certainly the most novel.
- Yet another regex from hell.
- The peculiar omnipresence of ads for crappy mobile games have always baffled me. How can the ad spend be justified for obvious off-brands? Turns out, it's money laundering.
- I would last nine seconds in one of these before crashing face-first into a wall. My morning commute is within its range though...
- Finally, a blockchain prediction market. Is that a thing we need?
- Big Dig, eat your heart out.
- I guess I knew that Solzhenitsyn lived in exile outside the USSR for a while. I did not realize it was in Vermont.
- From the be-extra-careful-when-your-audience-is-already-in-jail department: You'd think shopping carts would be a solved problem by now.
- What's the latest on the Shenandoah realtime-ish Java GC? This video has the answer!
- Wireguard seems promising and there are packages for Vyatta/EdgeRouter.
- Lithography for robust and editable atomic-scale silicon devices and memories.
- I'm sure it's impractical for all sorts of reasons but I dig both the process and result of evolving a floor plan based on intended use.
- More mildly-unexpected fallout from having tiny sensors everywhere: your wrist watch can feel the combination you just put into that lock.
- A fascinating HN thread on India's homegrown RISC-V chip, what an ISA really is, and how nice it'll be to have more open-source chips.
- Remember CDs? Yeah, me either but this guy takes ripping them seeeeriously.
- More flow battery advances.
- YES.