Sunday, October 20
Daily News Stuff 20 October 2019
Not Mutually Exclusive Edition
Not Mutually Exclusive Edition
Tech News
- Facebook isn't free speech, it's an outrage engine. (Tech Crunch)
Well, that's like, just your opinion, man.
- Verizon is reportedly looking to unload the Huffington Post. (Tech Crunch)
Why anyone would buy it is another matter.
- AMD beats Intel by up to 5.6x on performance-per-dollar for server workloads unless it doesn't. (WCCFTech)
The trick here is the numbers only consider the cost of the CPU, not the rest of the server, the storage, or the software. For some applications this difference is enough to win out even when all the costs are considered, for others (Oracle, SAP) the cost of the CPU itself is lost in the noise.
- Red means red. (Nautil.us)
How language shapes perception.
- If a bubble bursts in a forest full of unicorns and... Where were we going with this metaphor, exactly? (The Atlantic)
The Second Great Dot Com Bubble is bursting, only people have actually learned since last time. Overvalued companies like WeWork are getting systematically slaughtered before their IPOs, hurting incautious institutional investors like SoftBank but not damaging the market the way events unfolded in 2000.
- Build your own NES emulator in Rust.
It actually looks pretty straightforward.
- Index all the things: The ups and downs of MongoDB 4.2's wildcard indexes. (Medium)
These are very cool for a data-warehouse / exploratory environment. You can index everything in one go, even fields that aren't defined at the time you create the index. This does have an impact on insert and update performance, of course, so you're still better off defining specific indexes if you can predict your access patterns.
Disclaimer: If I could predict our access patterns I wouldn't be here at 11:30 at night.
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