Saturday, October 19
Daily News Stuff 19 October 2019
Fish And Chips And Vinegar Edition
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Fish And Chips And Vinegar Edition
Tech News
- Percona now has a PostgreSQL distribution.
Only 11.5 right now; they usually have a delay while they verify new releases themselves. This builds on their long history with MySQL and several years with MongoDB (starting with TokuMX).
Would be nice if they had a one-stop repo to grab everything from again. They did have one but it seems only be for MySQL now.
- A big little SSD from Toshiba. (AnandTech)
1TB in an M.2 2230 module. Performance is fairly good, but it's an OEM DRAMless part, designed to be cheap and trouble-free rather than for maximum performance.
- The Ryzen 3950X - a mainstream desktop part - outruns the Threadripper 2950X by up to 14%. (Tom's Hardware)
The 3950X has a 105W TDP; the 2950X is 180W. Though the exact power consumption running these benchmarks remains to be seen.
- The first one is free. (Free-for.dev)
In some cases - AWS for instance - you can run a small app for free in perpetuity.
- SATA needs to be replaced with USB-C so that internal drives are external. (Serve the Home)
- Measuring the Spectre migitation performance impact on Ice Lake. (Phoronix)
It averages 4.5% but the worst case is 36%.
And yes, this means that Intel's latest CPUs still need software patches to plaster over their security flaws.
Video of the Day
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Lost Doctor Who Episode of the Day
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Disclaimer: Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop.
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