The Weekly Weird - 2021-04-02
- Again, it's clickbait until 5σ but new physics? New physics? Brain cancer vaccine?
- How do particle detectors work, anyway? It's easy! (71 page pdf from cern)
- (And this is why we wait).
- Feel like things are moving too fast? The gyre is widening? Need to train yourself to stay a productive cog in the post-quantum multi-connected future? Instead, relax by playing a nice little game.
- Add to the list of words you do not want to hear next to "nuclear waste drum": sparking.
- Now your router will know when you're coming to power cycle it. And so will everyone else.
- I'm eternally grateful I've never been asked to reverse a linked list in a job interview (I would have failed). But why does anyone ask that anyway? There's an obvious successor (that I would also have failed).
- From the redaction-is-hard department: BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY
- Floating point is hard.
- One nice thing about that pesky stuck boat is it was a good way for satellite imaging companies to show off. Why is that grayscale one blurry? SAR is wild (yt video).
- Don't worry, PHP is exactly as safe as it always was.
- Stand down. Drop your memes and move away from Photoshop. NEVER! DEEP RAMEN WILL TRIUMPH. You look like a thing and I love you.
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- robust soldier crab ball gate. Not a spam subject line if you can believe it.