The Weekly Weird - 2019-08-02
- The thing about complexity is that the harder you pretend it doesn't exist, the more horrific it inevitably ends up when you have to bolt it back on.
- Note also that avoiding Fully Featured Operating Systems for tiny, embedded ones just means the inevitable security vulnerabilities are harder to update.
- From the too-good-to-be-true department: v.
- Want to feel old?
- You may not be aware that you can write whatever you want as the "city" on a letter without affecting deliverability. This is extremely obvious if you live in Queens.
- The International Potato Center (yep) has determined that those delicious tubers will grow on Mars just fine.
- "Gold, Anxiolytics and Myrrh" doesn't really have the right ring to it.
- A planet so hot, iron vaporizes. Still preferable to the subway in August.
- 250 pages of How To Launch A Big F...alcon Rocket.
- From the somehwo-not-actually-scifi department: Nuclear Bullets. They are exactly what they sound like.