Featured Links - July 28, 2019

Links to things that I found interesting but didn't want to do a full post about.

• The Laws of Language (with Benjamin Dreyer), on the Stay Tuned with Preet podcast, interview starts at about 12 minutes in. 
• Europe's Weeklong Satellite Outage Is Over—But Still Serves as a Warning. I am surprised there hasn't been more news about this; it was a serious outage of a major service.
• 12 Unnecessary Windows Programs and Apps You Should Uninstall. There's some good advice here for cleaning up junk from your Windows PC.
• Stream-Ripping Sites and YouTube Now Engaged in Whac-a-Mole. It's a battle that YouTube can't win.
• 10 Times Science Fiction and Fantasy Reinvented Sherlock Holmes. Out of all of these, I've only read the Neil Gaiman story. 
• This AI-powered autocompletion softare is Gmail's Smart Compose for coders. It's really too bad that it doesn't support VBA for Word. 
• Guy Gavriel Kay on why writing fantasy fiction about destiny, dominion and deceit will never go out of style. Kay is one of the best writers in Canada and deserves more recognition than he gets. 
• SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posts uncut Raptor, drone videos of Starhopper's flight test debut. The article also explains why the Raptor engine is unique.