Reading Log - August 18, 2023 (#40)
Hey there, this week I read about the question of if a "Regular Joe" could get a hit in the major leagues, more .NET 8 news, NYT and ChatGPT, and more.
In Depth
Eno Sarris: Would Chris Hayes Get a Hit in a Full Season of Play?
Hayes wondered the same. “I was recently at a batting cage and spent about half an hour, got the speed up to 70 mph, and after enough of them I was more or less getting around, though mostly fouling pitches off, with occasional solid contact,” he wrote in an email. “BUT: no breaking balls and no pitches out of the zone. I just think any major leaguer would be able to just terrify me with a first pitch fastball and then get me to chase garbage out of the zone and that would happen for literally an entire season.”
I played baseball growing up. I don’t think I’d have much success getting a hit. I think I’d be able to eventually make contact, but not much of any substance. Pitchers today are just too good.
Link Blast
🖥 Software Development & Design
.NET 8 Interceptors - Khalid Abuhakmeh
CSS Selectors: A Visual Guide - Sébastien Noël
Announcing .NET 8 Preview 7 - Richard Lander
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth
There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack - Jim Nielsen
📡 Technology & the Internet
Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over - Ashley Belanger
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - Faustine Ngila
How the iMac saved Apple - Jason Snell
Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media - Chris Freeland
🔬 Science
New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars - eso.org
Rogue planets may be more numerous than stars in our galaxy - Elizabeth Rayne
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe - Charlie Wood
📈 Business & Finance
How Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly Over Sports Trading Cards - Matt Stoller
The Era of Ultracheap Stuff Is Under Threat - Jon Emont
⚾️ Sports
How Kirk Cousins & Vikings QB Company Scored 23 in 'Immaculate Grid' - Lindsey Young
📺 Media & Entertainment
Star Trek is finally treating Spock like a human being - Susana Polo
🎒 Everything Else
What I’d put in my museum of the economy - Tim Harford
You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault - Chas Gillespie
Amazon won’t stop sending tortured woman unwanted boxes of shoes - Ashley Belanger
Ruins of Emperor Nero’s Theater Discovered near Vatican - Tom Metcalfe