tongue-in-cheek – Page 2

Last week, Sunde told TorrentFreak that he’d already made 120 million copies and “cost” the music industry $150 million in losses, at least by the music industry’s preferred accounting practices counting the dollar value of any copied song as lost revenue.

Inner City “Dueling” Over “Micro Aggressions”

From the comments section of a summary of a paper called “Microaggression and Moral Cultures“:

Screen Shot of the comments section 2015-10-04 at 14.35.41 — Now we just need to bring back a culture of dueling and the problem will sort itself out.
Re: In the inner city men are dueling over the smallest of, er, micro aggressions.

TMMD ?

IQ of Doom

If Eliezer Yudkowsky is right we’re doooomed:

Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

Drone Meteorology

Drone Meteorology, noun
the study of death “raining down” on congregations of people

This is especially useful when planning open-air weddings. 😶

Übergewicht senkt Demenzrisiko

Ein weiter Beweis dafür, dass der Verein zur Pflege des Wohlstandsbauches einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Volksgesundheit leistet. Wissenschaftler haben die Gesundheitsdaten von fast 2 Mio. Briten über 20 Jahre ausgewertet und kommen zum Ergebnis, dass Übergewicht das Demenzrisiko senkt.

JavaScript History as Seen From 2035

Gary Bernhardt presents a thought-provoking history of JavaScript as seen from 2035.

His arguments are that

With asm.js JavaScript VMs ran code with 50% of native speed (even in 2013)
Anything that can be compiled can be compiled into asm.js
Asm.js has basically become the universal runtime

So by further moving the JavaScript VM into the kernel we save ourselves the overhead of hardware process isolation as the VM does this any way.

All this lead to interesting consequences

Nobody uses binaries any more, everything is asm.js
The windowing systems of old have been ported to the DOM
Deployments are as simple as a push
JavaScript (as a language) is effectively dead
Overall developer happiness has increased

:’D