Tabs for April 14th 2023
- 2 teens found a new proof for Pythagorus theorem. This brings me back to school, in a kind-of good way (as someone who was not good a math until, ironically, I left college).
- Modern HTML tables in email. Centering divs is still humanities greatest challenge.
- Typhoons. I know several tyophoonish types.
- Reverse engineering division microcode
- We're close to reading the mind of an Octopus. I don't know why, though.
- Mastodon CEO profile. Winding interview with Eugen Rochko, the CEO of FOSS' latest darling.
- The Amish Community of Dunmore East. We have a family holiday home here, and the Amish folks are very visible and present in the community. Not least in their farm shop & petrol station, JayBee's.
- Honest tech company website headlines. Hilarious Twitter thread.
- David Liu, chemist: ‘We now have the technology to correct misspellings in our DNA that cause known genetic diseases’.
- The Gist talks about housing.
- Hackers Are Stealing Cars by Injecting Code Into Headlight Wiring
- 20 things killed by our phones in 20 years. I typically hate these kinds of articles but this is fairly thought-provoking.
- Waves javascript trick. Font manipulation is great fun, until your gatsbyjs site throws a hundred errors and you throw in the towel.
- Radical futures re-emerging in mainstream science fiction
- Al Jaffee, Mad magazine’s cartoon maestro, dies at 102
- Ford Mustang Mach-E gets 'hands-off' self-driving... but you'll still need to pay attention. Government's really need to step in to ensure mis-information and poor selling techniques aren't misleading users.
- US president says the chance to address the Oireachtas was ‘one of the greatest honours’ of his career. I doubt that's true, but I am loving the snark from the Brits on all of this.
- Twitter thread eviscerating hummus Jedward. These guys just irritate me. And everyone else, apparently.
- NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'. So did others.
- Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech. A bad story made worse by speculation that this was a random act of violence.
- Niall McLaughlin Architects creates red-brick beacon for International Rugby Experience in Ireland. I was just in Limerick for the first time in years and spotted this, without exploring what it was and if I could go inside. Striking building in an otherwise gloomy city.
- Irish WRC driver Craig Breen dies. Tragic.
- A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut. The headline is awful but this innovative system will become adopted into universal frameworks for calculations.