TBH the entirety of the story is in the headline but I'm still glad to know this. Andor is my favorite Star Wars story -- like the original but for grownups. https://collider.com/andor-season-2-wraps-filming/

Get the Lead Out: Printer Uses Pencil Stubs and Old Erasers (2010) https://gajitz.com/get-the-lead-out-printer-uses-pencil-stubs-and-old-erasers/#google_vignette

Your aww of the morning https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sleepy-polar-bear-wildlife-photography-award/

Whose chair is this anyway?

Like, aside from the legal issues, how would that even work?
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-wars-gina-carano-cara-dune-the-mandalorian-lawsuit/

The Human Element in AI-Driven Testing Strategies

AI can do a lot. But it lacks human understanding and intuition… so QA testers aren’t out of a job. Yet.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/the-human-element-in-ai-driven-testing-strategies

Flipped Bit Could Mark The End Of Voyager 1‘s Interstellar Mission
Flight controllers have determined that the problem lies within the one remaining FDS on board (the backup FDS failed back in 1981), most likely thanks to a single bit of corrupted memory.
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/flipped-bit-could-mark-the-end-of-voyager-1s-interstellar-mission/

The weird feeling you get when someone responds to a 6-year-old reddit post.

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The civil suit stems from an Oklahoman news account that misidentified Sapulpa as the broadcaster responsible for a tirade of expletives and racial slurs that were caught in a hot mic moment inadvertently livestreamed by the National Federation of High School broadcast network.
https://journalrecord.com/2024/02/oklahoman-defamation-verdict-rocks-newspaper-industry/

The Smart Indoor Smoker by GE allows barbecue enthusiasts to enjoy an authentic smoking experience in their home kitchen, just in time for the Super Bowl. https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/i-used-ges-smart-indoor-smoker-to-make-authentic-bbq-in-my-kitchen-and-its-300-off-right-now/

An international experiment involving over 17,000 lost wallets has revealed that humans are far more honest and altruistic than anyone, including professional economists, had ever imagined. https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/behaviour/lost-your-wallet-it-may-not-end-badly/

John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/john-walker-1949-2024/4305

GitHub releases data on developer contributions quarterly as part of its Innovation Graph project. The most recent batch of data, released on January 18, shows a jump in the number of developers from Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Pakistan. The data only measures registered accounts rather than code commits, so it's heavily skewed to less active contributors. https://restofworld.org/2024/github-developer-bangladesh-nigeria-pakistan/

Fred Hebert published a page with definitions and descriptions of distributed system topics, as well as curated lists of resources for more in-depth studies.
https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html

HIVE MIND: What sins have you seen committed in the name of #Agile?

I'm collecting input for an article. I think you might enjoy contributing. For more info, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mm0jff8J4z9HmPkOt1cCrN7gGMLE4-vP7WKg8oV-034/edit

American candy has not advanced in two decades. Innovation has ceased. We have become complacent and stagnant, and a national initiative to regain our confectionary edge is needed, stat. https://www.startribune.com/its-time-for-a-new-halloween-candy/600312371/