2019 Archive
9961.
Rayshader – An open-source R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps (rayshader.com)
9962.
Shell Completions in Rust (joshmcguigan.com)
9963.
Enzyme pathway in human gut microbiome that converts A to universal O type blood (naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com)
9964.
What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle? (quantamagazine.org)
9965.
PostgreSQL 11 Reestablishes Window Functions Leadership (modern-sql.com)
9966.
Zero elephants poached in a year in top Africa wildlife park (apnews.com)
9967.
Today’s Firefox Aims to Reduce Your Online Annoyances (blog.mozilla.org)
9968.
Tesla’s First-Quarter Deliveries Plummet (wsj.com)
9969.
Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over (wired.com)
9970.
McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs (bbc.com)
9971.
With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent (newyorker.com)
9972.
The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top (huffingtonpost.ca)
9973.
'Passengers are afraid of this airplane': How Boeing is handling 737 Max problem (cbc.ca)
9974.
Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take (backreaction.blogspot.com)
9975.
A barber shop on wheels that you book via an app (bbc.com)
9976.
Test-driven development: A great idea hiding behind a terrible implementation? (itnext.io)
9977.
San Francisco school board votes to destroy murals by Victor Arnautoff (nytimes.com)
9978.
Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal (bbc.co.uk)
9979.
The lat/lon floating point delusion (datafix.com.au)
9980.
From a life prison sentence to a computer engineering job (thehustle.co)
9981.
Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Difficult to Refurbish Macs (ifixit.com)
9982.
Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017) (stackoverflow.blog)
9983.
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city (reuters.com)
9984.
A Decade Ago, Suicides Rocked a French Telecom Firm – Now Its Execs Stand Trial (npr.org)
9985.
New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA (simonsfoundation.org)
9986.
The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found (twitter.com)
9987.
Just 10% of U.S. plastic gets recycled. A new kind of plastic could change that (sciencemag.org)
9988.
French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers (washingtonpost.com)
9989.
Why Investigators Fear the Two Boeing 737s Crashed for Similar Reasons (nytimes.com)
9990.
Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality (euractiv.com)