Fri. 07/23 - Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping
- Author
- Cool Stuff Ride Home
- Published
- Fri 23 Jul 2021
- Episode Link
- https://chrt.fm/track/G481GD/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/0e49624f-553e-45fd-be6e-44b9fa5d0d58/KRHome202320July202021_mixdown.mp3
Rounding errors may cause winners to become losers and losers winners, Bezos and James Webb both fall to Earth, and beyond lobster shortages, now crabs.
Links:
The floating point: Rounding error in timing devices (American Journal of Physics)
Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge)
Progressives call out Jeff Bezos’s space flight as “self-indulgent” and renew calls for wealth tax (CNN)
NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims (Nature)
Consider the $34 Lobster Roll (New York Times)
Record lobster prices sign of sky-high demand (SeafoodSource)
Mysterious blue crab shortage spawns big-time sticker shock (E&E News)
Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)
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