The Weekly Weird - 2021-11-05
- Tired: Python. Wired: Bank Python. See also the delightful first-person accounts in the hn thread.
- It's fun to watch Zillow discover what every other market maker has known all along: "Behind every order is a thinking, breathing shark with a mortgage.": expect every error in your model to break in the worst possible way. Adverse selection is a thing.
- Look, if you need to do this kind of cleverness to get a useful IP Address type, it might be a sign your underlying design is bad.
- What you really want to hear: 300 single points of failure
- Half a billion for nuclear fusion by 2024.
- A verbatim transcript of going shopping with me: all those brands come from the same factory.
- Vi is 45, Unix qualifies for its AARP card this year. The Matrix can drink in the US. Sigh.
- Related: a new vi-like modal editor: helix.
- More gradually-typed languages: luau.
- Well, I guess we were promised a cyberpunk dystopia so here we are.
- Beyond Zero Knowledge: Relativistically Impossible Zero Knowledge.
- Self driving trucktrainthings
- I don't know who these people are who can pay attention for an entire microcentury.
- Existential horror comedy set entirely in Slack. (I haven't actually read it).