Sunday, November 18

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Daily News Stuff 18 November 2018

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  • If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century.

    This guy should take a look at the Progress 4GL.  Wait, he's talking about COBOL, and about programming in general.

    And he's not wrong.

  • Huawei's Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro are out.  (AnandTech)

    Both have Huawei's own Kirin 980 CPU with the new Arm Cortex A76 core, 128GB of storage, and 4GB or 6GB RAM.  The Mate 20 has a 2244x1080 LCD, while the Pro has a 3120x1440 OLED screen.

    The other big difference is in the cameras.  Both have three rear cameras - main, zoom, and wide-angle, but the main camera on the Mate 20 is 12MP while the Pro has a huge 40MP main camera.

    Also, for some insane reason, the Pro doesn't have a headphone jack.

    They are also very expensive - from €799 to €1049.

    Oh, and if you wanted to upgrade that 128GB internal storage, haha fuck you, Huawei just invented "nanoSD" (The Verge) which is not a thing that exists anywhere (Amazon).

  • Nvidia has a hangover.  (Tom's Hardware)

    The crypto mining bubble left a lot of unsold inventory and also dumped a lot of second-hand cards on the market.  This is why AMD didn't move to increase supply of cards last year when you couldn't get a card for love or money.  (Which is how I ended up with a Dell system rather than building my own.)

    Nvidia had a great quarter, but their stock price dived anyway because they have a lot of unsold inventory of old mid-range cards which is blocking their release of next-generation mid-range cards, which is blocking widespread uptake of their new RTX architecture, which is blocking widespread use of RTX features, which is blocking uptake of high-end RTX cards.

    Oops.

    They're not going anywhere, though; this is just a fumble, not a disaster.

Video of the Day


You spin me right round, baby, right round...


Picture of the Day

https://ai.mee.nu/images/PotatoChips.jpg?size=720x&q=95

Art Science by Bangzhen Du

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1 I *like* Progress (although they stopped calling it a 4GL a while back, I guess because they were embarrassed by it, and now call it ABL.)  I wouldn't say it's the best language out there but it's certainly concise without looking like line noise, and it works well for the kind of stuff it was designed to do.
The picture of the day--is that done by the same guy who did the civet-cat-coffee building you featured a while back?  I like his work--it'd be cool to see more complex stuff.

Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, November 18 2018 12:50 PM (Iwkd4)

2 I haven't used Progress for about ten years, but yes, I liked it too.  It worked very well in its target area.

And yes, this is the civet cat coffee guy.  He has a whole series of these little documentary illustrations.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, November 18 2018 01:03 PM (PiXy!)

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