Thursday, January 24
Daily News Stuff 24 January 2019
Everything you ever wanted to know about the sea cucumber.
The terrifying alien being silhouetted by the Aurora Australis above the Antarctic Peninsula.
The animation got a lot more fluid as the series progressed.
Tech News
- Looks like AMD will offer a 12-core Ryzen 3000. (Tom's Hardware)
Which doesn't exactly come as a surprise since their CEO all but announced it at CES, but anyway, someone was testing an engineering sample and it landed in a benchmark database.
- Why are eyeglasses so expensive? (LA Times)
Lack of transparency, my dear Watson.
- Intel's Pentium Silver J5005... Wait, I recognise that numbering scheme. That's an Atom. (Serve the Home)
It's one of the good Atoms, though, and is actually a little faster than the Excavator-based Opteron X3421. But both get squashed like bugs by any real CPU.
- Do those double-height, double-capacity DDR4 DRAMs do their duty? (AnandTech)
Yeah, basically. If you have a system with only two memory slots (like many Dell Inspiron desktops) these might be the perfect solution to upgrade it to 128GB of RAM. If and when the BIOS supports that.
Social Media News
- The Supreme Court has denied cert to an appeal of a failed lawsuit against Yelp. (TechDirt)
This means California Supreme Court decision stands - which is good because they got it right, upholding the protection of social network operators against lawsuits for user-generated content.
- Facebook will ban you if, among a whole list of other activities, you post in support of someone else they banned. (Bleeping Computer)
But they have a nice new user interface to tell you so, so there's that.
- Millennials say they plan to contact companies for customer service using social media. (ZDNet)
Hi, Delta Airlines? This is @SluttyKitty94, and I wanted to complain about... DON'T LOOK AT MY TUMBLR!
Yeah, no.
Video of the Day
Everything you ever wanted to know about the sea cucumber.
Wait - 13:05 - that's clearly an Old One.
The terrifying alien being silhouetted by the Aurora Australis above the Antarctic Peninsula.
Anime Op/Ed of the Day
The animation got a lot more fluid as the series progressed.
Picture of the Day
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Glasses prices are an utter ripoff. The quoted article says the average price for a pair of frames is $231. Meanwhile, you can get glasses online from places like Zenni Optical with frames starting at $6. I have extreme nearsightedness, and even with high-index plastic and a surcharge for a high prescription I can still buy a pair of glasses for $100 or so. I have to wait a week or two for it to be shipped from China, but with my prescription strength I was already waiting a week or so because even places that make lenses in house would farm mine out.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, January 25 2019 04:04 AM (Q/JG2)
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"What the Vision Council probably didn’t want to get into is the fact
that for years a single company, Luxottica, has controlled much of the
eyewear market."
And then Luxottica merged with another giant. So basically they're like De Beers--the only reason diamonds are so expensive is that De Beers pretty much buys 100% of global production.
And then Luxottica merged with another giant. So basically they're like De Beers--the only reason diamonds are so expensive is that De Beers pretty much buys 100% of global production.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, January 25 2019 04:06 AM (Q/JG2)
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The comments over at that Tom's article about Ryzen...sheesh. One guy says that if the midrange part is only a 6C12T, he probably won't want to upgrade from his i5-3470. Right, because you won't want something that's probably clocked a bit higher, but also has an extra 2 cores and 6 threads over what you're using now, plus has USB3, m.2, etc.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, January 25 2019 10:15 AM (Iwkd4)
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My last glasses were about A$600 per pair - and I needed both reading and distance. And that was with some of the cheaper frames.
This time I'm going to order online.
This time I'm going to order online.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, January 25 2019 08:04 PM (PiXy!)
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