2022-03-18 Nerd Roundup
We had a complete failure of the remote audio this week, but we had a great roundup anyway!
If you're interested in the tech we discussed, here are the links. Drop by our Discord to chat more.
STORY | BUT WHY? |
The 40-year-old failure of the IRS to Fix It's Computer System | It's deja-vu all over again! |
Cron Best Practices
Use Systemd for timer jobs instead of cron |
This led to my discovery of systemd timers, which everybody agrees are far superior. Never heard of them |
Lost in Translation: The Global Streaming Boom Is Creating A Shortage Of Translators | But what about machine translation? What's the wait time for some of these streaming series? |
A Complete Guide To TypeScript's "Never" Type
Is there a real differerence between null and zero |
I really want to create some content around nothing. I have nothing to say, dang it! Hell, there's probably a really cool book in the idea of exploring our relationship to nothing |
Congress Must Reign In California's Out-Of-State Tax Craze | When everything is taxed, nothing is free. You've got to be freaking kidding me |
Five cool online APIs | Need to compile a list sometime along with publicly accessible databases |
Contributing to Complex Projects | Great advice that somebody obviously learned from the trenches. Reminds me of the many times I've learned complex frameworks (mostly) in just this fashion. It's a keeper, esp if you're a junior-to-mid-level-dev. What has been your experiences? |
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now
Making Deep Learning go brrr with first principles |
Most nerdy! Need time to read |
Space.com: New quantum gravity sensor could someday peel away the surfaces of other worlds. | More on superpowers of superclocks |
Dust mite juice: a new eczema treatment | What an odd story! |
Visualizing Black Holes with General Relativistic Ray Tracing
PDF paper of history of generalizing mathematcial imaging of black holes |
Another wowser. Would love to see more of this |
Software programmable analog know with virtual hardware detents | Damn I like this idea a lot. I'd hella love to have a big old metal box of gears, lights, sliders, knobs, and switches with this built into all of it |
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