January 2019 Archive
1501.
No Pay Stub? No Problem. Unconventional Mortgages Make a Comeback (wsj.com)
1502.
Desalination Is Booming. But What About All That Toxic Brine? (wired.com)
1503.
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right? (wired.com)
1504.
Bring back the 40-hour work week (2012) (salon.com)
1505.
Livox Mid-40 lidar sensor (livoxtech.com)
1506.
Train ferry (en.wikipedia.org)
1507.
Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies (itnext.io)
1508.
IBM Q System One (research.ibm.com)
1509.
FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm nor Deny’ That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts (aclu.org)
1510.
GNU Bison 3.3 released (savannah.gnu.org)
1511.
Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers (github.com)
1512.
Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns (righto.com)
1513.
When to Buy Your Own ISBNs (mwl.io)
1514.
Hacking with private APIs on iPad (rambo.codes)
1515.
TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration tool (github.com)
1516.
Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX (blogs.perl.org)
1517.
Migrating from Redshift to ClickHouse (altinity.com)
1518.
Venture Capitalists are much less ambitious than their private equity siblings (summation.net)
1519.
The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1520.
San Diego’s Smart Streetlights Yield a Firehose of Data (spectrum.ieee.org)
1521.
Another Reason U.S. Fears Huawei: Its Gear Works and It's Cheap (bloomberg.com)
1522.
iRobot (Roomba) shares customer data with Google and other affiliates (webapi.irobot.com)
1523.
Privacy Inequality: The Most Brutal Form of Inequality You’ve Ever Imagined (medium.com)
1524.
12.1T Digits of Pi (numberworld.org)
1525.
Tumblr Opensources Kubernetes Utilities (engineering.tumblr.com)
1526.
Venus – RISC-V Simulator (thaumicmekanism.github.io)
1527.
Work on using AI to brain activity into speech (sciencemag.org)
1528.
Language-Agnostic Sentence Representations (github.com)
1529.
How “At the Gates” took 7 years of my life – and nearly the rest (jonshaferondesign.com)
1530.
Scans of early RFCs (write.as)