Interesting Links for 06-07-2021

[andrewducker]

Students flee field as computer "fad" fades

(tags:computers history headline )

"'Mendel's Quest,' aka 'Angry Jew,' Helped Me Embrace My Heritage"

(tags:Jews apps history )

Green light in Edinburgh for Scotland's largest net zero housing project

(tags:Edinburgh housing globalwarming Scotland )

Epstein-Barr virus reactivation may be the cause of long COVID symptoms

(tags:pandemic immune_system virus )

Scotland to keep face masks for public transport and shops

(tags:Pandemic Scotland transport shopping )

Lambda variant: What is the new strain of Covid detected in the UK?

(tags:UK pandemic )

How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? (Incredible video)

(tags:robots shopping video )

Warhammer 40k Timeline In 20 Mins! From the 21st Century to the 41st Millenium

(tags:Warhammer history video )

Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions

(tags:Parasites lions brain )

Most attempts to improve the world fail. That doesn't mean they aren't important

(tags:Revolution history protests )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I can't help thinking that the face masks on public transport thing is rather unequal as it will tend to effect the elderly (most of whom are double jabbed) the less well off and the green by nature (we choose not to own a car).

It'll get complicated with buses and trains that cross the border- we have the same issue here with Wales.

[andrewducker]

It'll affect most people round here, taking a car into the city is getting harder and harder, and buses/trams are much easier.

[redbird]

I agree that it's unequal in terms of class. But I talked to my fully vaccinated 90-year-old mother yesterday, and while she doesn't like the mask in hot weather, she's nervous about people going unmasked on buses and the Tube. Her figuring is that yes, she has probably reduced her risk by 95% compared to without the vaccine, but also at 90 she 's more vulnerable to start with, and more likely to.

I think her plan is to wear a mask while actually on transit, if she needs to take a bus or train to get somewhere. (She has friends who have been eager to do her shopping, and drive her to the doctor and dentist, much moreso than a lot of other 90-year-old women.)

I'm in the US, and glad they're still mandating masks on transit--and that people in my area are mostly following that, enough so that I remember the one person who lowered her mask to drink coffee on the bus a couple of days ago. (I don't drive, so this affects my travel anywhere beyond walking distance of home.)

[symbioid]

"Rigorous mathematical discipline"

Then Douglas Crockford made Javascript

[andrewducker]

Brendan Eich surely?

[symbioid]

Oh yeah!

I guess in the process of trying to forget Eich existed I just replaced him with Crockford (who seems to be a bit more respectable and involved with the early design, but not the creator). LOL.

[marahmarie]

I guess in the process of trying to forget Eich existed

Lololol, long time pursuit for me as well *passes brain bleach*

Computer "Fad"

[dewline]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Re: Computer "Fad"

[andrewducker]

It'll never catch on

Re: Computer "Fad"

[calimac]

On the other side, I saw an ad from the mid 1960s encouraging students to get into the booming aerospace industry.

Re: Computer "Fad"

[snippy]

Now that just makes me sad.

Ah, toxoplasma

[agoodwinsmith]

Well, I guess we knew it wouldnt't be a unitasker. Ugh.

Robot Warehouse

[danieldwilliam]

I wonder when we start redesigning packaging to be robot friendly.