The Weekly Weird - 2019-06-28
- Repeat after me: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
- From the cryptonomicon-was-a-documentary department: When your enemy is making a mistake, don't interrupt him (h/t Ralph).
- I didn't know what a Winograd Schema was until yesterday so don't take me too seriously but this sure sounds like human-level performance at a pretty nuanced language interpretation task. Clippy 2.0 is going to be nuts.
- "Untethered flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing microscale aerial vehicle."
- Weren't we supposed to have asteroid mining already? Maybe the next trip 'round the bubble coaster.
- NSFWhale Lovers: The Cetacean League was no match for Soviet firepower.
- Neat multi-device synchronized frontend framework.
- Money laundering doesn't normally go in for world records or press releases.
- The more obviously critical it is to have strong security around a process, the less effective the actual security is likely to be.
- A minimal malloc implementation.
- OpenZFS had a big release: 0.8.0. Long-awaited features aplenty and, perhaps more importantly, alignment on doing future development on ZoL first instead of illumos (RIP Solaris).
- New Raspberry Pi website served on New Raspberry Pis. Real gigabit!
- Things you wouldn't expect on github: plans for a nuclear reactor.
- Guess what OS the MetroCard system runs on? Guess again.
- Are black holes super-high-energy singularities, beyond the realm of experimentation? Or should you just get a fishtank and do some science?