2022-04-22 Nerd Roundup
Greg Young was our guest, we had a couple of people in the texting room, and tons of nerdy topics to review. It was a fun time.
| STORY | BUT WHY? |
| Opinion: Another Species of Hominin May Still Be Alive | How cool would this be? |
| From the vault: Who's Killing Physics? | Don't look at me! |
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Which computational universe do we live in?
Wormholes might be possible without exotic matter |
If the answer has anything to do with Javascript, I'm requesting another universe |
| Five years of serverless compute and I quit | It's very important to realize that True Microservices and Serverless, while admirable, lead to a completely new set of problems which need to be actively managed. Supercompilers can help here, but they're still a long ways off. Whether it's Agile or Serverless, slogans will always mislead more than educate |
| Pointer Provenance Exposed | Pointer Provenance for the win! I'll watch every episode of Antiques Pointer Show |
| New Command Line Utilities | The shell utilities they missed? very cool! |
| Message Queue in a shell | Nicely-done explainer essay |
| Google defuzzes Russian Satellite images | Nice! Wonder when they'll do that to other countries? |
| The Verge: Today I learned that the FBI has an 83-page guide to internet speak. | Greetings young nerd person! I am from the FBI, and I want to crypto your web3! |
| The Case For American Seriousnes | Nice |
| “Oreology” investigates mystery of why Oreo creme filling usually sticks to one side | We have to know! We have to know! |
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AG Healey: A financial services company illegally leased dogs
The Guide itself |
I had puppy 1.0. Do I need to upgrade to puppy 2.0 or lose my license? |
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