The Weekly Weird - 2020-08-28

Welcome to this edition of the Weekly Weird for this, the 180th day of March, 2020.

• I've definitely seen this movie: AI defeats fighter pilots.
• I'm not sure this is ... ever useful but it's a neat example of optimizations available due to implementation details. In tar.
• If I ever build another webapp again, it will absolutely use this interface.
• Tired of relying on manufacturer's poorly secured out-of-band server management systems? Now you can build your own poorly-secured out of band server management system with a raspberry pi.
• The nice thing about slide rules is you can always just make them bigger.
• I feel like this should not be a surprise but if you own crypto but don't have the keys, it's not your crypto.
• You know you can walk from Rockefeller Center to Times Square underground, right?
• Also, delivering cargo to the Rusty Turtle involves an elevator and a giant turntable.
• We all know there is no cabal.
• Big bada boom
• Is Rust coming to the linux kernel? Probably! video, PDF slides.
• Speaking of kernel internals: finally, another out-of-tree latency-optimized scheduler.
• It doesn't feel this way from the inside but Earth just launched a fleet towards Mars.
• Honestly? I'm glad to hear the Culture TV series was canceled. I don't really trust anyone to get it right.
• More speculation on what exactly Oumuamua is.