October 2020 Archive
2101.
Is it time to stop counselling patients to “finish the course of antibiotics”? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2102.
Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of (spectrum.ieee.org)
2103.
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Review (jeffgeerling.com)
2104.
Pepsi Once Owned the World’s 6th Largest Military Fleet (medium.com)
2105.
Sony Unveils 'Spatial Reality Display' with Eye-Tracking for Glasses-Free 3D (roadtovr.com)
2106.
Learning to Decapsulate Integrated Circuits Using Acid Deposition (jcjc-dev.com)
2107.
Microsoft Edge WebView2 is production ready (blogs.windows.com)
2108.
MusicNet (2016) (homes.cs.washington.edu)
2109.
Tech gig worker underclass: customer service reps who have to pay to talk to you (news.slashdot.org)
2110.
Diving into /proc/pid/mem (blog.cloudflare.com)
2111.
Berlin's 'new' BER Airport: A story of incompetence and corruption – DW News (youtube.com)
2112.
Planka – an open-source self-hosted Trello-like app (github.com)
2113.
A company whose name was an XSS injection attack (suite.endole.co.uk)
2114.
Git is not a success story, but a failure as a system with a bad user experience (twitter.com)
2115.
Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support (support.google.com)
2116.
“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates” (tekdeeps.com)
2117.
What is the PDP-11 instruction set? (ftp.dbit.com)
2118.
Federal Agents Say They Thwarted a Miltia Plot to Kidnap Michigan (detroitnews.com)
2119.
FEATool Multiphysics – Physics Simulation Made Easy (featool.com)
2120.
Draw on a PDF Online (goodannotations.com)
2121.
The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004) (mpg.de)
2122.
A Digital Euro (ecb.europa.eu)
2123.
AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics (spectrum.ieee.org)
2124.
Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the long run (pnas.org)
2125.
The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System (1981) [pdf] (lass.cs.umass.edu)
2126.
Quantopian’s Community Services Are Closing (quantopian.com)
2127.
Evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker (sr.ht)
2128.
The Last Ent of Affric (2019) (ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk)
2129.
Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom's End-to-End Encryption (soatok.blog)
2130.
The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas (qz.com)