Scientists Discover Enzyme That Turns Air Into Electricity – Slashdot

It seems too good to be true. Let’s hope they will be able to tackle it somehow.

Scientists Discover Enzyme That Turns Air Into Electricity – Slashdot

Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published in the journal Nature …..

the researchers extracted the enzyme responsible for using atmospheric hydrogen from a bacterium called Mycobacterium smegmatis. They showed that this enzyme, called Huc, turns hydrogen gas into an electrical current. Dr. Grinter notes, “Huc is extraordinarily efficient. Unlike all other known enzymes and chemical catalysts, it even consumes hydrogen below atmospheric levels — as little as 0.00005% of the air we breathe.”

Of course, they don’t need it

WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief – wrote Slashdot

Of course they would not remove it, they don’t need it!

Governments have their own Meta-provided comfortable backdoor to WhatsApp.

How can I be sure? I’m not, but being WhatsApp proprietary software it is pratically impossible to ensure there are no back doors. So as we can’t be sure there are no backdoor we must held for true that there are backdoor, until proof and behave accordingly.

The proper way should be not to use WhatsApp but far too many people use it. A more feasible approach should be to use it to suggest people to leave it, using more secure alternatives (in descending order of privacy Briar, Signal, Sessio, Telegram and others. I posted a comparison here, I think it’s time to refresh it)

È pazzesco: creano sempre nuovi modi per celebrare la mediocrità!

Robert Parr

Top 7 Must-Read Books for Developers

Top 7 Must-Read Books for Developers — Stay Ahead of the Game

Briefly:

  1. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
  2. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
  3. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
  4. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
  5. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
  6. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
  7. Data Structures and Algorithms Made Easy

Robust Arithmetic in Computational Geometry / Volodymyr Agafonkin | Observable

What an interesting piece!

Robust Arithmetic in Computational Geometry / Volodymyr Agafonkin | Observable

Every developer should know that floating point numbers implement approximations.

During my master thesys in Civil Enginineering (twenty years ago!) I learned that professor Jonathan R Shewchuk wrote almost perfect C code about this, and used in its Delaunay triangulation. At that time I hadn’t the time to really study it as it seemed to me a little like magic.

Now this page in its exact test is using robust-predicates, a modern JavaScript, a port of Jonathan Shewchuk’s robust predicates code.

Wow.

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