Sunday, October 13
Daily News Stuff 12 October 2019
Fibre Rich Edition
I like everything about this song.
Fibre Rich Edition
Tech News
- Fibres considered harmful. (PDF)
Says Microsoft, who have a terrible implementation of fibres.
Go and Erlang developers expressed surprise at hearing that the feature they had been successfully using for years to develop robust and scalable software was not useful in developing robust and scalable software.
- Why enterprise software sucks. (Twitter)
- One day that DB-25 to 50-pin Centronics adaptor will come in useful. (ZDNet)
On that day, you won't be able to find it.
- Everyone loves Facebook. (ZDNet)
I'm doing some work with Facebook's Libra - but as a technology platform, not a payment platform. So I don't care that all of Facebook's payment processing partners - Paypal, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard - have pulled out of the project. I suspect Facebook does care, though.
- There's nothing to see here. (One Angry Gamer)
A $175 Mei statue disappeared from pre-order on Blizzard's online store. So did another $175 pre-order statue of a different character. Other Mei merchandise is still available.
In case you have a life and haven't been keeping track, after Blizzard kowtowed to China over a player's Hong Kong comments, the character Mei from their game Overwatch has become an overnight symbol for the Hong Kong civil rights movement.
- EM8ER will have a butt slider. (One Angry Gamer)
At last, a worthwhile task for that 2080ti.
- Do not pour coffee directly into your Panasonic Toughbook 55. (ZDNet)
It's designed to be splashproof, not entire-cup-of-coffee-proof. Though a post-mortem did highlight an odd design choice that could significantly improve the coffeeproofing with a quick aftermarket add-on.
- Supermicro's X11SPA-T motherboard only has one 10G Ethernet port. (Serve the Home)
It does have twelve DIMM slots, four M.2 22110 slots, four PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, three PCIe 3.0 x8 slots, eight SATA ports, and both remote management and integrated audio, always an interesting combination.
Video of the Day
I like everything about this song.
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$35 for a c-store cable? Hah, the guy's a sucker and deserved it. (I considered and discarded the possibility that the UK, like Australia, is being ripped off by tech prices.)
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, October 13 2019 01:21 AM (Iwkd4)
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Yeah, those cables are stocked for precisely this person - someone who is travelling and needs it right now and isn't going to be coming back anyway so it doesn't matter if they hate you for ripping them off.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, October 13 2019 01:51 AM (PiXy!)
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Re: Toughbook
Some laptops (some ThinkPads for example) have drain holes under the keyboard to safely allow spilled liquids to exit the machine. But given the machine stopped working, that probably isn't the case here.
Some laptops (some ThinkPads for example) have drain holes under the keyboard to safely allow spilled liquids to exit the machine. But given the machine stopped working, that probably isn't the case here.
Posted by: Kayle at Sunday, October 13 2019 02:20 AM (EaJqS)
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I was just in a chain c-store today, and they had 10-foot lightning-to-USB cables (A or C) for $15-20, which is fairly typical.
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, October 13 2019 07:13 AM (Iwkd4)
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That's not too bad for a 10' cable.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, October 13 2019 01:15 PM (PiXy!)
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