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Thursday, March 07

Daily News Stuff 7 March 2019

Tech News

Surprising exactly no-one, AMD will be releasing a third-generation Threadripper CPU this year. (AnandTech)

No specs yet, but it will be using the new chiplet and I/O die design shown off at CES, which means it could go as high as 64 cores.

Intel are stuck at 28 cores for now, so it will be an interesting year for the high-end desktop.
A leak by Fujitsu confirmed earlier leaks of Intel's 9th generation family. (Fanless Tech)

This includes a 35W 8 core i9-9900T and 8 core Xeon E2200 parts, which will arrive just in time to get stomped by AMD.
GPU prices are down and likely to stay down and cards are actually in stock for a change. (PC Perspective)

Yay, I guess. I'm good for at least a couple of years though.
But someone forgot to tell Colorful. (Tom's Hardware)
Windows 7 goes into extended support on April 1. Support plans will start at $25 per system per year which sounds fine. (WCCFTech)

But the price doubles every year, meaning that after just 100 years we'll all probably be dead and won't care anyway.
Supermicro's M11SDV-4CT-LN4F is another embedded mini-ITX server board. (Serve the Home)

Only four SATA ports on this one though so meh.
Consciousness is one of the few scientific fields of studies where people can earn PhDs and spend decades working on theories and gathering data and end up knowing less about the subject than a dead turtle does about magnetic containment fusion reactors. (Quanta)

Panpsychism? Yeah, sure, and phlogiston and luminiferous aether and the inheritance of acquired characteristics you goddamn frauds.

Update: Why can a random layperson on Twitter not only grasp but eloquently convey what these boneheads cannot?

It's the brain contemplating itself, the ultimate Escher sketch.
â€” dicentra Ù† (@dicentra33) March 7, 2019

Social Media News

The American mainstream news media has an aggregate IQ of 3. (TechDirt)

In this case taking "America" fairly broadly.

Disclaimer: For did not the Buddha say, "If you meet a panpsychist on the road, kick him in the nuts"?

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1 "I'm good for at least a couple of years though."
Ditto. I got a 3-fan 3-slot EVGA RTX 2070 several weeks ago. Very nice.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, March 08 2019 08:38 AM (Iwkd4)

2 As far as the Momo hoax goes, that's the <i>modus operandi</i> of the news: scare you so you'll stay home and watch more news. Bear in mind every year we hear about poisoned Halloween candy or razor blades in candy...never mind there's only ever been one recorded instance found of a poisoned candy bar...and it was the kid's own father, trying to kill his own son as an insurance scam.
I read yesterday the original Mother Bird sculpture wasn't meant to be permanent, and the artist recently said that it was decaying pretty badly and he destroyed it.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, March 08 2019 08:42 AM (Iwkd4)

3 Here, you might find this funny for tomorrow's news:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/06/hipsters_all_look_the_same_fact/
"Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster"

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, March 08 2019 12:25 PM (Iwkd4)

4 I'm confused, angry and a little bit afraid. I just read that Quanta article. I suspect some correlation. But I also feel dumber now, so I need a second opinion.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Friday, March 08 2019 12:47 PM (xOgT9)

I read yesterday the original Mother Bird sculpture wasn't meant to be permanent, and the artist recently said that it was decaying pretty badly and he destroyed it.

Uh...

Someday we'll get the real story when some shakey-cam footage is found amongst the belongings of some missing teenagers in an abandoned house deep in Aokigahara Forest.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Friday, March 08 2019 12:54 PM (xOgT9)

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