Gesellschaft / Kultur

• More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
  Long-ish read, but, yay, science! Also: How can a lobby group have so much power?
• What Happens Just Before Show Time At the Met Opera | The New York Times [VIDEO]
  Great method for a video.

Technologie

• macOS 10.13 High Sierra: The Ars Technica review
  The yearly read on all important changes with the new macOS update. This year: Nothing fancy, but many things under the hood.
• Sonos may have just saved itself
  About Sonos One, Sonos’ new spaker with built-in Alex functionality (and Google Home and Siri (via iOS and AirPlay 2) coming up). I repeatedly thought about buying a Sonos for our home in the past, but the lack of open-ness (stream-wise) stopped me. I did not want to use their proprietary app. That is changed now – great! But now I’d have an always cloud-listening device in my home, which I cannot wrap my mind around. (Apple’s HomePod promises to be a good privacy compromise, but super expensive…)

Programmierung

• Alice in Python projectland
  Written for beginners (so, nothing really new), but well-structured and with lots of links. I’m going to look into Flit to eventually bring rbc to PyPI.
• Seven Things You Might Not Know about Numba
  Some bits about Numba, the Python parallelizer in decorator form