Some things I noticed 09/06/2020:
- Starship SN6 150m Hop
- “I’m gonna get some safety goggles next time. How was it?“
- “How’s X Æ A-12?” “Sorry? Oh you mean my kid. That sounds like a password.“
- “China successfully launched a reusable experimental spacecraft with a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center“
- “SoftBank bought billions worth of US equity derivatives that stoked the fevered rally in big tech stocks before a sharp pullback on Thursday“
- “Headley’s is more of a rewriting than a true translation, reënvisaging the poem for the modern reader rather than transmitting it line for line.“
- “Bro! Tell me we still know how to talk about kings! In the old days, everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound.”
- Grendel is “fucked by fate,” Wealhtheow, “hashtag: blessed.”
- Hamming codes — how to overcome noise, the elegance of it all, error correction in hardware
- “Almost all of the core logic in our scheme comes down to a single XOR reduction.”
- “It’s good to have goals but not when our well-being depends on us achieving those goals.“
- Kim Chiu — ‘NOT SHY’ Dance Cover
- Disney’s Mulan (Jimmy Wong)