The fear of programmers becoming obsolete, mobile addicts more dangerous than drunk drivers, NVIDIA vs AMD, consumerism, and the dangers of sleeping five more minutes. All that and much more in this week's Recommended Links. Things to read, things to watch, and things to learn. Don't miss them!
The syndrome of living in fear of becoming a rusty programmer: "According to The Language List, since 1991 there have been 2,500 programming languages, although today we could reduce them to 258 according to the TIOBE Index (which updates every month). And that's even though this ranking does not consider HTML and XML programming languages since they are not Turing complete. With so much supply, variety, and changing trends in the programming world, we wanted to ask developers if they are afraid of becoming rusty and how they deal with it."
Mobile addicts are the new drunk drivers: "A ZenDrive study follows the same line by suggesting that 'mobile addicts' are the new drunk drivers. The research reveals in its results that people who use their phones while driving are more likely to crash and are 9% slower at braking. The report asserts that 'mobile addicts' have replaced drunk drivers as public enemy number one when it comes to threats on the road."
Being politically correct could be covering up the real social problems: "True acceptance of the 'other' is cut short by the false notion of tolerance. One that for the Slovenian translates the domination that allows racism in socially accepted terms. Being tolerant is absolutely ambiguous and does not really imply the acceptance or respect that comes from knowledge, but rather an act of 'tolerating' that the other exists, as long as it is at a prudent distance. Tolerance implies a half-acceptance to comply with what society expects of us. Again, political correctness."
Japan and the need to recover pride in Shin Godzilla: "Cinema as a transmitter of ideas tends to have a lot of force in countries where the domestic market is very strong and American models can be copied in a hardly disguised way. It happens in Turkey, China, or Korea. In Japan, a new component is added: a particularly rich and prestigious cinematography, with an enviable balance between popular cinema and what we could call auteur cinema. A cinema that can afford to recover a pop culture icon created in 1954 and that already makes an appearance in its thirty-first film. Godzilla, certainly, seems immortal."
NVIDIA -vs- AMD; Which is the best graphics card right now?: "In the last year, new architectures have arrived such as Turing from NVIDIA, and others are giving their last gasps like CGN from AMD. And while other competitors join the party, as is the case with Intel, on the other end is the consumer a bit lost in this jungle of prices and models. To shed a little light on this whole mess, we have done a market study to get an idea of how the GPU landscape looks, but above all, have a guide to know today what is worth buying or not."
An infernal shoot: "The shoot on African soil lasted seven weeks during which the crew had to deal with various diseases, local fauna, logistical problems, and a director who disappeared in the middle of the shoot because he felt like going on a safari to hunt elephants. The truth is that the scenes filmed in Uganda did not cause too many headaches, but when the production moved to the Congo things turned completely bad. Technicians and actors were forced to live in a camp near the jungle, being very careful not to stumble upon snakes or crocodiles, trying not to be devoured by the swarms of mosquitoes that appeared during the night, and enduring the stings of wasps, ants, and scorpions."
Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove': human stupidity knows no limits: "This film, which was originally conceived as a dramatic look at the Cold War (loosely based on the novel Red Alert, by Peter George), became during its writing, and later in its production, a comedy, in the terrible irony of human disaster and atomic annihilation, when Kubrick felt that it would be more effective as a satire and that such a tone, groundbreaking for the moment and for the story it tells, would achieve even more vigor in its purpose. He succeeded in spades, achieving an unexpected forcefulness with even more passionate and reflective consequences about nuclear paranoia." More about cold war and red telephones in neoteo.
The '768k Day' approaches, when millions of internet users will lose their connection: "In the absence of a revolution that never came, today's Internet is made up of patches and 'temporary' solutions that have been in use for decades. And sometimes, that shows. Sometimes, the limitations of the Internet become evident and we run out of connection. That is what happened on August 12, 2014, the now known as '512k Day'. That was the day when hundreds of internet providers went down at the same time all over the world; countless connections were lost and confusion reigned on social media."
People resort to consumerism to face problems, grief, and feelings: "It is well known that consumers seek leisure activities and vacations to escape everyday life and real-world problems. However, a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, by Dr. Leighanne Higgins, from the School of Management at Lancaster University, and Dr. Kathy Hamilton, from the University of Strathclyde, reveals a new consumption trend: the important role of markets for consumers to confront their problems." More about consumerism by yours truly, in an article called: "Consumerism: Do we really need so much junk?"
Charles Darwin, the Beagle voyage, and natural selection: "The Galápagos Islands make up an archipelago of volcanic islands located about 1,000 kilometers from the coast of Ecuador, in the Pacific Ocean. In 1835, the Galápagos were visited by the British survey ship HMS Beagle, which sailed from 1831 to 1836 in South America and then Australia —before returning to Britain—, gathering valuable information about safe landing places and navigable rivers. The most famous passenger on board was Charles Darwin."
Sleep inertia or why the 'just 5 more minutes' is the worst thing you can do to yourself: "The alarm goes off (or if you are a normal person, your phone: according to this study by Tuenti and Ipsos, 70% of Spaniards between 16 and 35 don't even have an alarm clock) and instead of getting out of bed, you choose the option to repeat the alarm five minutes later. After all, nothing happens for five more minutes, 10 more minutes, 'x' more minutes... A function in which X tends to infinity (or to the maximum that your fear of losing your job allows) that, in reality, is not doing you any favors: sleep after the alarm is not more restorative, but quite the opposite."
Why is revolution not possible today?: "When a year ago I debated with Antonio Negri at the Berliner Schaubühne, there was a confrontation between two critiques of capitalism. Negri was enthusiastic about the idea of global resistance to the empire, to the neoliberal system of domination. He presented himself as a communist revolutionary and called himself a skeptical professor. With emphasis, he conjured up the multitude, the interconnected mass of protest and revolution, to which he entrusted the task of overthrowing the empire. The position of the communist revolutionary seemed to me very naive and far from reality. That is why I tried to explain to Negri why revolutions are no longer possible."
Videos
The most important Internet memes, lava vs hydraulic press, puppy wraps baby, the tuba in medieval butts, Japanese robotic wrestling, pinball collection, Time Crisis II with two hands, NES Tetris level 33, cat voice training, Iron Man sculpture, "Chandelier" on ukulele, termite commercial in Thailand, restoring the original Game Boy, when leaving your kids alone with a razor, jumping into a pool, border collie saves chihuahua, the edge of the universe, "If You're Happy and You Know It, Then Say Meow!", Lil Dicky - Earth (Music Video), The White Walkers: "Seven Kingdom Army", damn kangaroo!, the year 2001 in 1967, training like One Punch-Man, Bell Labs' incredible machine, the short films Filtrate, Song of a Toad, Fender The Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page's '59 Telecaster and the documentaries "Warning! Space Junk Increasing. Are we on the edge of the Kessler Syndrome?" and "The Twilight of the Insects".
Galleries
Tattoos made in ASCII code, the agoraphobic traveler, the art of Petri Levalahti, the monsters of Nicolas Kalmakoff, colorful art in coffee with milk, cartoons on food, the celebrities of the Morrison Hotel, pink animals, men's fashion, 3D tattoos, colorful historical photos, aerial photographs of New York, the covers of Top of the Pops, the ugliness of Belgian houses, Slavic mythology, the Google services cemetery, the Weekly Animated Dump and the Visual Dump.
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