Tuesday, September 03
Daily News Stuff 2 September 2019
I Can't Believe My Little Sister Could Be A Dimension Hopping Con Artist Edition
I Can't Believe My Little Sister Could Be A Dimension Hopping Con Artist Edition
Tech News
- Dark Patterns are tricks websites play on you to get you to do what they want. (Dark Patterns)
Their Hall of Shame ranges from amusing to irritating to horrifying.
I don't know whether that Chrome setting from yesterday was a deliberate dark pattern or if Chrome is designed by morons and it just came out that way. Hard to tell sometimes.
- Mmm. Gluten-free dark chocolate Tim Tam clones.
- Don't count on your Ryzen 3900X hitting 4.6GHz. (Tom's Hardware)
Though that is the advertised boost clock, a large majority of chips only seem to reach 4.5GHz.
This is based on survey results and is not authoritative, but there are enough chips failing to hit the rated boost clock to indicate a problem.
- Is Cobol holding you hostage? (Medium)
Only if you're an idiot, because the examples used in the article show that Python solves the problem better than Cobol does.
- The Radeon Pro WX 4100 is a half-height half-length single-slot card that can drive four 4K monitors. (Serve the Home)
We pit it against dual Nvidia Titan RTX cards with NVLink. Turns out it's not as fast.
Disclaimer: We tried to rewrite the code in Java but we had no idea what we were doing and completely ignored the built-in BigDecimal library which would have immediately solved our problem and blamed the language instead of ourselves.
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"I don't know whether that Chrome setting from yesterday was a deliberate
dark pattern or if Chrome is designed by morons and it just came out
that way. "
You should assume the former. Google's behavior the last several years has lost them the benefit of the doubt. I mean, these are the people who won't help block tracking cookies because doing so would invade people's privacy or something.
You should assume the former. Google's behavior the last several years has lost them the benefit of the doubt. I mean, these are the people who won't help block tracking cookies because doing so would invade people's privacy or something.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, September 03 2019 02:25 AM (Iwkd4)
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Ryzen: My 3600X won't even hit the 4.4 advertised boost. According to HWInfo64 it'll do 4.25 or rarely 4.275 single-core. All-core is about 4.1 if running a stress test, a bit higher in normal use. It's better than the all-core 3.9 of my 1600x but if I'd known I would've skipped this generation.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, September 03 2019 02:26 AM (Iwkd4)
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Dark patterns: I really love the twitter thread by one guy talking about how one English news site (the Independent?) has 252 ad "partners", with 245 of them prechecked and "accept" as a default. I've seen this garbage in the US with the Direct Marketing Alliance or whoever it is, and it's bull. If you want to opt out, you have to wait several minutes while it contacts all of the sites. In my experience about 75% of them will not let you opt out of targeted advertising via this page. You are expected to visit each of them yourself and jump through whatever hoops they put in front of you. Oh, and that only covers one browser on one machine anyway. Use Firefox and Edge, or have two computers? Do it twice.
Or you just install an adblocker.
Or you just install an adblocker.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, September 03 2019 02:35 AM (Iwkd4)
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