• At least they didn't sell themselves cheap: The .org domain sold for $1.135 billion.
  
  Further discussion and links here.  (Hacker News)
  
  
• AMD's Threadripper 3970X presents a much more uniform memory architecture than the 2990WX, with fewer but faster chip-to-chip links and a central memory controller.
  
  This is good news for Windows users delivering performance generally competitive with Linux.  (Phoronix)
  
  Windows is still slowest overall (compared to several flavours of Linux across ten pages of benchmarks) but not by much.
  
  Threadripper was originally a low-cost low-risk play for the workstation market, and it was good enough to create a niche for itself.  Threadripper 3 is a much better design and no longer the underdog.
  
  
• Your smart TV tracks everything you do.  (Washington Post)
  
  That page - you probably don't want to click on it - uses 78 cookies and 195 local storage entries.
  
  
• Yes, still slow news time.  At least tech news.  At least good tech news.
  
  
• Oh.  MongoDB 4.2 doesn't support Lucene search.  MongoDB's SAAS platform based on MongoDB 4.2 supports Lucene search.  Unfortunately it would cost us our entire server budget, and we'd have to switch hosting providers.
  
  So I'll be stuck with Elasticsearch for a while yet it seems.
  
  
• Was doing some coding in Crystal today.  Nothing complicated - a data collector for server monitoring - but I wanted a portable, static binary and I didn't want to use Go.
  
  Good news: Once I got past the obvious errors (mostly compile time errors due to this being the first real Crystal code I've written, plus other things like not calling the right method in my own code) it worked.  No weird runtime nonsense, no fussing about with JSON-encoding my hash.  It scooped up the server status and squirted it over to the data collector (written in Python).
  
  Good news: The static binary, built on WSL running Ubuntu 18.04, runs just fine on an old CentOS 6 system.
  
  Bad news: It's 5MB stripped.  The linker isn't at all smart about removing unused libraries, and when I added the HTTP client library it hauled in a few megabytes of dependencies.
  
  Good news: Still builds in 8 seconds even with all that baggage.

Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, December 01 2019 06:24 AM (Iwkd4)

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