2021-06-04 Nerd Roundup!
We've got aliens from within, Commodore Amigas in lock-boxes, rocket tank battalions, Steve Job's glide-slope theory of tech, and much more.
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| STORY | BUT WHY? |
| From tumors to species, a SCANDAL hypothesis | There's a theory that viruses evolve into new species. Could explain a lot of weird things, like various cancers and how sections of viruses appear so often in animal DNA code |
| Hugo the TV Troll | Serious question: How much of what we do is a con game? |
| Playing cards | Pretty cool multi-player net game. Neat idea |
| My version as a demo 2 years ago | I did something very similar. Add this to AWS Lambda for similar functionality. Compare page weights |
| For the first time, drones autonomously attacked humans. This is a turning point. | Drones are still in the "nothing to see here, folks!" category, but that might be changing. Like genetic modification, do we really have a choice not to implement? |
| The U.S. Military is startring to get really interested in Space-X's Starship | I could see 100 starships on standby. Deploy a tank company anywhere in the world in 90 minutes! If Elon gets his costs where he wants, changes a LOT of things |
| Amazon's Controversial hire to fire practice | Banding, quality-based ranking. In agile, to estimate we separate the process. Perhaps that might work here also? |
| Microsoft's Low-Code Strategy Paints a Target on UIPath and the Other RPA Companies | Not sure this writer knows what he's talking about, but this is still an interestign trend from MS |
| Steve Jobs on his glide slope theory of tech | Prescient |
| Anthropologist and sense making at work | We've covered this before. It's a nice redux from a different angle. A lot of enerds don't want to hear this, but bthat doesn't make it false |
| MLS Theory and Language | I'm going to mention this because it's just too weird not to. I spent a week poking at this essay idea, only to publish, then go to HN, then read _another_ essay that's in the same general area as this one |
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