The Weekly Weird - 2020-06-12

Skorgu

Can you mitigate/reduce/reverse aging just by flushing your old, dirty blood?
Where did the phrase 'sharding' (of databases) originate? Ultima Online, of course (HN comments)
One common complaint of scientific papers nowadays is reproducibility. The more data; the more iterations of gathering, processing, sanitizing, and analyzing it; and the more general tools used to do all those things the harder it is for an uninvolved party to reproduce all the little steps. If only we had a transparent automated setup for reproducible R workflows. Ah well.
The optimal way to use MS-DOS.
How long is a ruler? How do you know? Somewhere down the line, Bob or Bob's older brother was probably involved.
How much carbon is on the moon? Count the ions and find more than you expected.
Need to plot charts but only have a terminal? Unicode Plots has your back.
Man, what a great spy thriller plot hook: Doppelganger passport photos.
Bored with the modem pool from the other day? Build a modem! (for packet radio and not POTS lines but still)
Do some very, very, very slow computations on encrypted data without decrypting it.
Build your own 5G network. Nutjob arsonists sold separately.
Write python? Use enums. It's still no rust but it helps.
Finally, space tortillas.
Each of these links is 100% sfw.