• TCL showed off Frank's 2000" TV.  (AnandTech)
  
  Well technically it's 132" but 132 is close to 2000, right?  Right.
  
  It used 24 million micro-LEDs rather than a conventional LCD or OLED panel.  I have no idea what that means in terms of cost, colour accuracy and so on, but does that really matter when it's 2000"?
  
  
• France and Germany just banned private blockchains and probably a million other things too.  (Reuters)
  
  Their target was Facebook, but they are idiots and took out everything within a fifty-mile radius.
  
  
• When a large company urges the government to regulate its industry it is invariably in order to kill off smaller competitors.  (NPR)
  
  
• It's time to break up everything.
  
  
• The emulator for the Commander X16 I posted about yesterday.  (GitHub)
  
  40K of shiny 8-bit goodness awaits!  Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
  
  
• JPMorgan's Athena platform has 35 million lines of Python code.  (TechRepublic)
  
  Python 2.7, to be precise.  Which means that no matter what the Python Software Foundation decides, Python 2 will be alive and supported for a long time yet.
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, September 15 2019 01:26 AM (Iwkd4)

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