Bookmarks for August 20th from 09:01 to 11:10
by danhon
This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for August 20th from 09:01 to 11:10:
- Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6 times more performance’ and ray-tracing – The Verge –
- After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete – Bloomberg – Speaking of megaprojects
- Parable of the Sower (novel) – Wikipedia –
- First Time Tooter, Long Time Tweeter – "but other people were just born to be bulletin board moderators so let them do it." at a very high level this is basically my view of Mastodon (it's a good one, by the way)
- Swiss startup Energy Vault is stacking concrete blocks to store energy — Quartz – This is totally the kind of thing you’d see described in a sf/f story set in the past TWIST BUT IT’S THE EARTH’s FUTURE and the apts in the arbre are talking about maintaining the Hemmas to make sure they keep the Baskips moving against Mira.
- Whiteboards used as Gatwick flight information screens fail – BBC News – Redundant array of inexpensive dry-erase markers