2011-05-07 Nerd Roundup
James, Bob, and the dude ... back together again.
| STORY | BUT WHY? |
| C++ Constructors, Memory, and Lifetimes |
I liked this, dang it. It's old home week kind of stuff, remedial almost, but the author did a great job with it |
| US investigating possible mysterious directed energy attack near White House |
Ray guns! |
| Senate Intel leaders say mysterious directed energy attacks appear to be increasing |
(background and broader overview. not just one story) |
| Havana syndrome: NSA officer’s case hints at microwave attacks since 90s |
(yet another backgrounder on DE attacks) |
| Plant UML |
Cool tool! Played around with it a little bit, not a lot though |
| This Bladeless Air Taxi Has a Wild Propulsion System |
Holy #@$#! Would that really work? Really? |
| A Lock Picking Game Changer? |
I want this. Very educational and could save me a lot of practice. |
| How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility |
Seen this story a couple of times over the last year and still don't know what to make of it. |
| Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop along Arbitrary Computation Graphs |
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!? Beats me. Good example of content you might like to dive into, but life's short. It's nerdy. Freaking bodaciously nerdy. I wish I had time to dive down. |
| How we use Web Components at GitHub (skipped, sadly) |
Don't agree with using Rails as a back-end, but web components with a shared base-util component and something like Elixir as a back-end, alongside a robust linting suie outta be the bomb |
| Defenseless: UVA Engineering Computer Scientists Discover Vulnerability Affecting Computers Globally |
Another week, another disastrous security vuln. This time more SPECTRE. Poor, poor intel |
| Unix Magic |
Lots of Easter Eggs! |
| Manhunting the Manhunters: Digital Signature Management in the Age of Great Power Competition |
Military is playing digitial hide-and-seek. This is the future for the rest of us, maybe 10 years out |
| Somebody Might Hear Us: The Future of Secure Communications |
Same subject, some possible mitigations |
