The Weekly Weird - 2021-09-10
- What is an "Operating System"? Is Linux one? No, seriously. Is Linux an operating system?
- OK, I admit my prior for "new project by someone involved in writing GCL" is ... quite low but Cue seems a quite cool, second try at a config language that avoids the sins of the predecessor (h/t Mike).
- I think my most-commonly-delivered piece of advice is to be more action biased. People stay in situations they clearly (from the outside) hate for way, way longer than seems reasonable from the outside. Science agrees.
- Did you need a new nightmare? Tough break, here's one anyway. Oops, I misstyped, here's another.
- Who needs ullage thrusters when you've got freaking electromagnets.
- No, the other kind of keygen.
- I fully do not understand the financialization of random item generators.
- I adore this mechanism of mechanically tying tests to the branches they validate: coverage marks