2021-02-20

Cool

• cdegroot comments on Do you use Emacs Lisp as a general purpose programming language?

  He showed me the code - page after page of Emacs Lisp, with exactly zero comments "because Lisp is self-documenting". I got scared, it was an air traffic control system after all, but I was no Herr Doktor so I whipped up the DCE native code for Emacs, made a hack to have it start headless in message router server mode, and we got messages to flow. I did a code hand-over, and drove back home a couple of days later. The "self-documenting" code, as far as I know, landed in production so at least for a while, all ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs.

Worthy

• Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water | Hacker News

• » Ultima VIII (or, How to Destroy a Gaming Franchise in One Easy Step) The Digital Antiquarian

• The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend · Gwern.net

  • Striking how much this resembles some church debates. "Why can't our faith shed this parable?"

• Plant of the Month: Cinnamon | JSTOR Daily

etc

• United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine

• Happy 30th birthday, Python: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

• Bill Gates: Tradeoffs in Texas Lead to Deaths

• Entire California school board resigns after it was caught on video mocking

Horseshit

• Recording and reproducing taste

• U.S. Airports No Longer Have to Build Their Own Terrible Trains

• Lab Grown Meat from Celebrity Tissue

• Griddy customers face $5k electric bills for 5 freezing days in Texas

TechSuck

• Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Ruined By Twitch - GameSpot

  • Twitch censors Metallica BlizzCon concert with dorkiest music imaginable

Economicon

• "Bitcoin soared above $57,500 overnight..." Another Day, Another Record High For Crypto: What Happens Next? | ZeroHedge

Politickles

• Twitter sued for libel by repairman of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop

• The Evolution of the Boogaloo Movement

World

• Cambridge moonflower: Wait over for 'UK's first' bloom - BBC News

• 2 Protesters Killed, Dozens Injured As Myanmar Junta Uses Live Ammo On Demonstrations  | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine / COVID

• FDA: No evidence COVID-19 spreads through food, food packaging - UPI.com

• Coronavirus Mutants Are Spreading Fast

• When COVID-19 and guns meet: A rise in shootings - ScienceDirect

• As Israel Reopens, ‘Whoever Does Not Get Vaccinated Will Be Left Behind’

• Russia Reports First Cases of H5N8 Bird Flu in Humans

Climate / Green Propaganda

• India's prosperity must not become hostage to European climate agenda

• What’s happening in Texas is climate nihilism