Human folly for 02017-06-14

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• En (wiki.das-labor.org):

  whoa, XTEA #crypto in 504 bytes of machine code on the #AVR! Plus lots of other things — I didn't know you could do AES in 2½K.

• (github.com):

  discussion about #CapnProto vs. #FlatBuffers #serialization

• Md benchmarks (google.github.io):

  #Wouter van Oortmerssen’s #FlatBuffers #serialization #performance; crudely it's about 16× slower than memcpying raw structs and about 32× faster than Protocol Buffers, which in turn is about 4× faster than JSON

• 2014 06 17 CapnProto FlatBuffers SBE (capnproto.org):

  #CapnProto #serialization #performance vs. #FlatBuffers and something called Simple Binary Encoding

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  #Wouter explains why he designed #FlatBuffers differently from #CapnProto (debating Kenton Varda, the former Protocol Buffers maintainer and author of Cap’n Proto)

• (is-milanesat-in.space):

  countdown page for #Milanesat (aka NewSat-3), launched by #Satellogic; sadly no link to video or anything #space

• Documentation ZeroMQ (nanomsg.org):

  "nanomsg" is an alternative to #0MQ with a simplified API, pluggable transports, a more flexible threading model, more efficient subscription matching, written by Martin Sustrik, the primary ZeroMQ author.

• FAQ (capnproto.org):

  explanation of the design of the #CapnProto #serialization library

• FlatUI (github.com):

  FlatUI is an #immediate-mode GUI library from Google’s Fun Propulsion Labs, but not by Wouter van Oortmerssen.

• Errata search (rfc-editor.org):

  Errata for RFC-7252, the #CoAP RFC

• Milanesat para que sirve El ultimo satelite lanzado por Argentina (infobae.com):

  #Satellogic #Milanesat. 800 mm × 500 mm, 50 kg, three-year lifetime, 95-minute orbital time (presumably polar)

• Constrained application protocol (en.wikipedia.org):

  #CoAP

• North Korea Dennis Rodman visit again (nba.com):

  Dennis #Rodman is visiting North #Korea, but not as an official emissary of #Trump. #USA #politics

• Citation (dl.acm.org):

  #Jean-Yang #paper on #formal-methods for #security, “Secure distributed programming with value-dependent types” #toread

• Citation (dl.acm.org):

  #Jean-Yang #paper on #formal-methods for #security, “Faceted execution of policy-agnostic programs” #toread

• Citation (dl.acm.org):

  #Jean-Yang #paper on #formal-methods for #security, ”A language for automatically enforcing #privacy policies” #toread

• Detail (queue.acm.org):

  #Jean-Yang article on #formal-methods for #security.

• (utilitydive.com):

  utility-scale #photovoltaic #solar #energy prices in #USA are below US$1 per peak watt now, including the whole plant cost. It was 39% of new US electricity generating capacity additions in 2016 (compared to 29% natural gas, 26% wind, and 6% coal) and 30% of new capacity additions in Q1 2017, but presumably that’s before you derate it for its lower capacity factor.

• ZMTP (rfc.zeromq.org):

  ZMTP is the #0MQ wire protocol that runs on top of TCP.

• All eyes are now on Robert Mueller (thenation.com):

  #Trump can fire special counsel Robert Mueller. #USA #politics

• Naxalbari Fifty years Uprising (caravanmagazine.in):

  How the #Naxalite insurgency began 50 years ago.

• Nature origins misperceptions (dartmouth.edu):

  #PDF #paper on the “#backfire effect” #cognitive-bias and when you might actually see it. #politics

• (poynter.org):

  #backfire #cognitive-bias researchers couldn’t reproduce the effect. #politics

• Guided by the beauty of our weapons (slatestarcodex.com):

  post on the #backfire effect and #USA #politics, among other things. A lot of it is about the “#Trump supporters are illogical because they disagree with us” meme.

• Slowerlight (projectrho.com):

  #space travel using The Ghost, a fusion rocket powered by a neutron-pumped laser, designed to go at 0.06c #propulsion

• 264248818 origins and impact of the term 'nsaid' (researchgate.net):

  on NSAID #drugs and how they tried to avoid the stigma of the iatrogenic catastrophe of "steroid wrecks". #medicine #history #paper

• The hidden stories lingering in radioshacks bankruptcy auction (motherboard.vice.com):

  RadioShack bankruptcy auction, including a TRS-80 Model 100

• Www (web.archive.org):

  Slow Wave is that webcomic about people’s dreams; it’s no longer on the live web.

• Spacesuits (projectrho.com):

  Spacesuit’s perineal access port contains miniature airlock; inflatable bedpans can be passed through the opening and removed while in vacuum without depressurizing the suit. #space

• Log what every software engineer should know about real time datas Unifying (engineering.linkedin.com):

  Jay Kreps describes how he invented #Kafka and how log-centric computing could or should work.

• (earthexplorer.usgs.gov):

  Earth Explorer is the system of USGS EROS for exploring remote sensing data from #satellites. You need to create an account to download datasets, but you do not need to pay. #space #remote-sensing

• Landsat data access (landsat.usgs.gov):

  How to get access to Landsat data #satellites #remote-sensing

• (ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov):

  MODIS (36-band, infrared, 250m resolution) data is available, but old #datasets are being “decommissioned”: “The Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) plans to decommission the following Terra and Aqua MODIS product collections on June 30, 2017. Starting on July 1, 2017, users interested in accessing and acquiring Collection-5 (C5) decommissioned land products may do so from the Land Processes DAAC. Users will have no recourse to access the C5.1 MODIS atmosphere collections starting August 1, 2017, and are advised to use the C6 collection. Users will have no recourse to access the C5 MODIS L1 products starting January 1, 2018, and are advised to use the C6 MODIS L1 collection.” Not sure if this has to do with #Trump #politics trying to cover up #climate-change. Also they have a self-signed TLS certificate. #space #remote-sensing