2021-06-18 Nerd Roundup
James Grenning leads the roundup today and because we didn't have a lot of people, we had time to dig some little snippets of code out and talk about how and why they are structured the way they are.
| STORY | BUT WHY? |
| Artificial Life Environment | This looks really fun |
| It's time to break up the Ivy League Cartel | Stepdad was right: too much of this is a pyramid game |
| Incidence of kids doing the same as their parents | related |
| Tweet: "One of the funniest HN threads I've read" | this is so incredibly stupid that I believe it. gotta laugh to keep from crying |
| Source of HN quote | related - the actual comment |
| A general presentation about the OTH-Radar NOSTRADAMUS | French radar can see all current forms of stealth aircraft over the horizon ... but can't continuously track planes. Why didn't I know this? What else don't we know about stealth detection? |
| "...Now we know how much mass a minus sign has..." | Dafuq? |
| The Moons of Rogue Planets Could Have Liquid Surface Water and Thick Atmospheres. They Could be Habitable | If you ask me, rogue planets are where are the real action is when it comes to life ... and we haven't even begun to understand anything about them. |
| Supermassive Black Holes Affect The Universe Beyond The Bounds of Their Own Galaxies | I am not an astrophysicist, but there's something really, really weird going on with supermassive black holes. The effects and the correlations don't seem to match up to the physics |
| Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll | |
| Discover Classical Art | One of many really cool art sites that give you art that you can then use for video or desktop backgrounds |
| Smithsonian Institute Classical Art for backgrounds | related: more zoom backgrounds |
| Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art zoom backgrounds | related: more zoom backgrounds |
| zoom backgrounds from the Getty museum | related: more zoom backgrounds |
| Boston Museum of Fine Arts | related: more zoom backgrounds |
| America Without God | People act as if religion is some external force than changes people, instead of something built-in to all humans that just expresses itself in different ways |
| Why OO matters in F# | Syme says it's OOP, not OO. Languages don't do OO, they do OOP. (Good point) |
| The world's most copied code snippet from Stack Overflow is wrong | Shocked! I'm just shocked! |
| I'm the author of #6 .... | related |
| How to get back in the job market after spending a lot of time on startups, side-projects, etc | Bonus funny. Failed Internet Billionaire for the win! |
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