Sunday, June 28, 2020

The Temporal Void by Peter F Hamilton

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Fantastic story.  5/5 Stars.
Saturday, June 27, 2020

Embers of War by Gareth L Powell

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Not bad; good awe-and-wonder.  Characters aren't great.  3/5 Stars.  I may read the next few.

Gods and Legionnaires, Galaxy's Edge Savage Wars, book 2

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OK, not great.  Luckily no telekinesis or other magic stuff, but the living-in-a-simulation stuff is weak.  3/5 Stars. 

Higher, faster, further

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(Nasa's X43-A Mach-10 X plane holds the jet aircraft speed record) You may share the " dream of flying " higher, faster, &...

Empirical Analysis of Academic Paper Reviewers

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Shockingly, this paper was actually published this quarter.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Bullies' brains are physically smaller

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This Lancet article with N=1037 indicates clear, morphological differences in bullies' brains. ". . . for the small proportion of ...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Customizing Linters and other tools for your code reviews

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As everyone knows, the single most-effective method and best possible investment of developer time to improve quality is serious code review...

accelerating Terraform code reviews

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Jay Wallace walks through methods and tools that supercharge your terraform code reviews to assure quality.  Very cool.

Amazon's true zero-touch Continuous Deployments

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Amazon's Clare Liguori walks us through how Amazon claims they fully automate continuous deployments .  Despite the long checklists and ...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

the doomed city by boris strugatsky

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The story itself is very interesting and the characters are quite good.  The writing is also (likely) amazing.  Unfortunately, the sociology...