The Weekly Weird - 2022-10-28
- It shall be used for good purposes only.
- Old and busted: serialization formats. New hotness: strict typesafe sqlite tables.
- I am an expand-into-space maximalist and it's thrilling to finally see someone else who understands what maximalist really means.
- Unshielded Twisted Pair strikes again. Seriously though, I'd totally do this.
- It's getting a bit silly how achievable it is to sequence DNA. All the more silly that it's left to highschoolers to make use of that fact.
- INSERT INTO POSTGRES IF NOT EXISTS.
- Not enough layers of encapsulation in your network? VXLAN over wireguard has you covered.
- I'm sure this will not come back to cause problems in any way.
- Adversarial Sweater is my death metal Weezer cover band.
- Problem: humans sometimes panic when training multi-ton industrial robots. Solution: mandatory calmness sensors.
- How does HTTP work? barely.
- Nudge your tail latencies.
- Please allow me to add livor to your stupible day by vigification
- Some short but interesting notes on high-throughput systems.
- This is perfectly normal behavior for a sane language. Picking the simplest-sounding of all possible design choices will never cause issues.
- You just know that Weird Al started breathing heavily and isn't sure why.
- One of my favorite genres is science journalists desperately trying to find household analogies for quantum events. Especially when it's not clear if describing a proton as 'stretchy' might just be accurate.
- Compiled software considered harmful.
- From the sufficiently-advanced-buggy-whip department: AIs make humans better.
- "Full tropospheric operational wind lidar".
- The natural evolution of browsers is to just become operating systems, Part SSH.
- The natural evolution of servers is to just become part of the client, Part Per-Session Backend.
- What's your industry coefficient?