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Not that there's anything wrong with such creative outlets, but the scale of these "projects" is often mind-boggling, with tens of thousands being spent on marginal increases in functionality.
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
Source: Ars Technica
The physics of bowling strike after strike
Humanoid Robots at Amazon Provide Glimpse of an Automated Workplace - Bloomberg Businessweek
Matt Day • Humanoid Robots at Amazon Provide Glimpse of an Automated Workplace — Bloomberg Businessweek
A profile of David Mills, an engineer who coded the Network Time Protocol that runs much of the internet. His methods, his code, are slowly be replaced by other ways of measuring and coordinating time, and this story does a good job of framing the personalities of those involved, the trade-offs, etc.