Interesting Links for 13-01-2022

[andrewducker]

Covid loses almost all its ability to infect after 20 minutes.

(tags:pandemic virus )

Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape

(tags:uk europe trade )

Having just finished re-reading Sandman I enjoyed this person documenting their re-read.

(tags:sandman comics neilgaiman )

Using American spellings is cheating, Wordle told

(tags:language words spelling usa uk satire )

Atomic mushroom clouds are big. Really big. You might think it's a long way up Mount Everest, but that's peanuts compared to an atomic mushroom cloud

(tags:size nuclearweapons visualisation viaSwampers )

Firefox bug is causing it to hang. Here's the solution

(tags:Firefox bug viaSwampers )

How a livestreamed roleplaying game's bid to make an animated version became the biggest kickstarter campaign ever, and got a Prime deal out of it.

(tags:tv animation roleplaying amazon streaming )

Satisfying simulations of bouncing balls obeying physical laws; for a fleeting moment during the simulation, the balls pass through a beautiful regular pattern

(tags:physics simulation maths video )

Comments

[dewline]

1. The faster the air dries out the virus particles, the better, it seems.

2. Depression in service to (a) dictatorship-building and money-laundering.

6. Okay...

[original_aj]

I for one was annoyed by Wordle using something which isn't a word!

[calimac]

"Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape"

Is that a bug, or a feature? I mean, people who voted for Brexit wanted a customs regime erected between the UK and the EU, right? That was part of the whole point. And now they've got what they wanted.

"Here's the solution"

Here's what? What I read at that link is a bunch of techies arguing with each other as to what the best solution is, and expressing their ideas in forms that lay readers can't follow. Change the thingamajig from bip to bop - well, how do you change the thingamajig?

[andrewducker]

Sorry, it was supposed to link to a specific part of the page, but I seem to have messed that up. In any case it should now be resolved.

I'm afraid you misunderstand, we were promised that Europe would give us an amazing deal that would be, if anything, even better than what we had before. I'm sure that will be along any minute now.

Brexit red tape

[channelpenguin]

So what is the solution? I can't see a link at all..

Re: Brexit red tape

[andrewducker]

The solution was referring to the Firefox issue.

Re: Brexit red tape

[channelpenguin]

Lol. Of course!

Re: Brexit red tape

[andrewducker]

The solution to Brexit is, of course, the EEA.

Re: Brexit red tape

[calimac]

I was quoting from two different entries. If it had occurred to me that the second item would be seen as relating to the first, I would have phrased it differently.

[agoodwinsmith]

I really love the bouncy ball thing. I am a little sceptical because the balls seem to always finish in a colour graded sequence. The sound is quite soothing.

[jducoeur]

I am a little sceptical because the balls seem to always finish in a colour graded sequence.

It's worth reading the text attached to the video. If I'm understanding it correctly, it looks improbably neat because they totally cheat -- they're starting with the nice brief image they want to show, and then run the physics backwards to get a starting point that produces that. It's a lovely proof of concept of what you can do when you completely control the world...