Fri. 07/23 - Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping
Jul 23, 2021•21 min
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Episode description
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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