In order to seamlessly integrate with Irmin, we embarked on an effort to build a complete re-implementation of Git from scratch in pure OCaml. If you get a chance to try ocaml-git in your infrastructure, please let us know how you get along as we prepare a release of the git libraries with all these fixes (which will be used in Irmin 2.0). Crucially, because of the way Irmin is split into clean libraries and OCaml modules, we only had to modify a small part of the codebase and could also re-use elements of the Git 2.0 engineering effort we described above.

In 2016, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates Inc was retained by Mothers For Peace in San Luis Obispo to analyze documents presented by PG&E regarding the condition of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and to write a report for the California Public Utilities Control (CPUC) assessing its current condition for continued operation. Fairewinds identified numerous examples of dangerously deferred maintenance for critical mechanical portions of the Diablo Canyon atomic power plant that were submitted in Mr. Gundersen’s testimony to the CPUC on January 27th, 2017. As Fairewinds stated in its 2017 CPUC testimony,

“The scientific and engineering evidence demonstrates that it is imperative that both PG&E atomic reactors are shut down in 2019… Mechanical failure is likely and there remains a finite possibility of a serious mechanical failure with a significant release of radiation from the Diablo Canyon atomic power reactors as they age further.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – WhatsApp said on Tuesday that a security breach on its messaging app had signs of coming from a government using surveillance technology developed by a private company, and it may have targeted human rights groups. WhatsApp said its advice to all users to update came “out of an abundance of caution” and a recommendation by Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto that it notified about the vulnerability before the announcement. WhatsApp told human rights groups it believed the spyware was developed by Israeli cyber surveillance company NSO Group, best known for its mobile hacking tools, said Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit.

If you were building a team, would you rather have that meme image above, or a developer who only knows one part of the system? I think the best rationale for a “full stack dev” is that the healthiest teams are full of empathetic people who are willing to put themselves in the shoes of any member of their team (regardless of where they specialize) so they can learn about the challenges of their teammates. It’s a great way to ensure:

Modern web development is pushing hard for “full stack teams” not “full stack devs.”

When you visit an AMP page, your URL bar shows – that has led to lots of extremely dubious content being shared by people who think they’re looking at an “authoritative” Google Page. When a user uses Chrome for Android to search Google, they get AMP results. While there were some robust discussions, the AC seemed fairly unified that Google had to seriously rework parts of the AMP project.

Thus my first glimpse of Larry Archibald, who three years before had bought Stereophile from J. Gordon Holt, who’d founded the magazine in 1962 and moved to Santa Fe from Pennsylvania in 1978. The magazine occupied—perhaps a better verb phrase is lurked in—what I think was a former garage or small warehouse (above) on Early Street, in a pocket semi-industrial wasteland a block from the former site of the New Mexico State Penitentiary, and next to an ancient, abandoned graveyard full of the names of the Spanish families who had settled Santa Fe in the late 16th century: Vigil, Sena, Ortega, Jaramillo, Larragoite, Trujillo, Cabeza de Vaca/Baca. This was John Atkinson, who only days before had quit his job as editor of Hi-Fi News & Record Review, and moved from London to New Mexico to become Stereophile’s new editor-in-chief, a job he held from that day until March 31 of this year.

For fun, you can check Niko’s blog post on how Rust’s object system works, Marijn Haverbeke’s talk on features that never made it close to 1.0 or even the introductory slides about Servo, which present a language looking very different from today. Even with the changes from last year’s 2018 Edition, Rust is still very recognizable as what it was in 2015. While the time before and after release was a time where language changes had huge impact how Rust is perceived, it’s becoming more and more important what people start building in and around it.

After announcing them at the Mobile World Congress last February, the SanDisk 1-terabyte microSD card is now available. The card price is pretty nuts at this point, compared to the 512GB card with the same transfer speed specs selling for less than half the 1TB’s price tag: just $200. Other 1TB microSD cards are still missing.

In a review published in the journal Appetite, researchers from York University’s Faculty of Health examined numerous studies on a condition called orthorexia nervosa (ON), which is described as a pathological obsession with healthy eating. “For some people, they can become obsessed with pure or clean eating to the point where it becomes distressing and can actually impair them in certain areas of life,” the study’s senior author Jennifer Mills, an associate professor in York University’s department of psychology, told CTV News Channel. The team looked at how certain psychosocial risk factors could make someone more vulnerable or more likely to develop ON and found those who have a history of an eating disorder, obsessive-compulsive traits, dieting, poor body image, and a drive for thinness are more likely to develop a pathological obsession with healthy eating.

LED lightbulbs already account for half of the market and their share is growing (AFP Photo/David Becker)

Maisons-Alfort (France) (AFP) – The “blue light” in LED lighting can damage the eye’s retina and disturb natural sleep rhythms, France’s government-run health watchdog said this week. The report distinguished between acute exposure of high-intensity LED light, and “chronic exposure” to lower intensity sources. For domestic lighting, ANSES recommended buying “warm white” LED lighting, limiting exposure to LED sources with a high concentration of blue light, and avoiding LED screens before bedtime.