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Tuesday, November 03
Daily News Stuff 3 November 2020
Take Off And Turn The Entire Planet Into Paper Clips Edition
The funniest part - which I missed while watching the live stream - is that while four of the girls were dying like flies, Sora (the very first Hololive girl), was.... Well, just watch it.
* Government by robot catgirls from Mars.
Take Off And Turn The Entire Planet Into Paper Clips Edition
Tech News
- Apple has an event on the 10th where they will be inviting everyone to their new combination Arm-based Mac / Walled Garden / Roach Motel. (AnandTech)
Unless Apple surprises us, this is the end of the line for Mac as anything resembling an open platform.
- What social networks have learned since the 2016 election. (Tech Crunch)
1984 is a cookbook, apparently.
- The Ryzen 5600X is slightly slower than the 3700X on Cinebench. (WCCFTech)
Since that's comparing a 6 core Zen 3 against an 8 core Zen 2, that's a pretty respectable result.
Compared to Intel's 6 core 10600K, it's just embarrassing. 25-40% better performance at half the TDP.
- Second-tier Chinese phone makers could be looking to Samsung for their chipsets. (WCCFTech)
Huawei is out of the running for now because they've lost access to TSMC's fabs because they're filthy commies.
- How to make your Git repo unpublishable on GitHub. (Joey)
Of course, someone can still publish your code to GitHub, just not the repo.
- Benchmarking the Samsung 980 Pro. (Serve the Home)
This is their new PCIe 4.0 SSD. Despite the "pro" moniker, it is TLC flash just like the current "evo" models.
It's fast, but at $150 for 500GB it's unreasonably expensive. That's more than two 500GB WD Blue SN500 drives which you could RAID-0 for similar speed and double the capacity.
- Tech startups are complaining that Republicans took their slaves away. (WSJ)
Move out of San Francisco, you idiots.
- Undocumented colours on the Tandy Colour Computer. (Vintage is the New Old)
I remember finding these, many, many years ago. The CoCo officially had 9 colours available (not all at once) but unofficially there were several more. I found dark green and brown (shown in the article) while playing with the 6847 registers. Which is to say, poking values into addresses and seeing what would happen.
- An overpriced, underpowered desktop motherboard. (CNX Software)
It's a 1.4GHz quad core, probably a fair bit slower than a Raspberry Pi. But if you want to develop for Linux on the RISC-V architecture, it's something that exists.
$665.
Take a Ride on the Death Coaster Video of the Day
The funniest part - which I missed while watching the live stream - is that while four of the girls were dying like flies, Sora (the very first Hololive girl), was.... Well, just watch it.
Areorobonekomimiocracy* Video of the Day
* Government by robot catgirls from Mars.
Disclaimer: Baby stoat doo doo de doo doo.
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Monday, November 02
Daily News Stuff 2 November 2020
Political Event Horizon Edition
Political Event Horizon Edition
Tech News
- The Raspberry Pi 400 squooshes a 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 into the Raspberry Pi keyboard. (Tom's Hardware)
$100 in a kit with mouse, power supply, a pre-loaded microSD card, cables, and other stuff. You'll need the cables because for some stupid reason it still uses micro HDMI ports.
I was looking at benchmark chart and wondering why it was slower than the regular Pi 4, then my eyes focused and I realised that was a temperature chart. It actually uses a new version of the Pi 4 SOC and runs 20% faster than the regular model.
- Samsung has entered early production on their 5nm node. (Tom's Hardware)
The first devices with 5nm chips are expected to ship in Q4... Which is now.
I'm guessing the device will also be made by Samsung.
It's great to have two companies now on a leading edge process node. Samsung may be a little behind TSMC here, but it's measured in months rather than years, and TSMC's capacity is sold out anyway.
- Leaked benchmarks of the RX 6800 running games with ray tracing suggest it works pretty well. (WCCFTech)
Ray tracing is a key feature of both the Xbox Series X/S and the PS5, so one would hope AMD had it sorted out.
- San Francisco and New York are screwed. (NPR)
As many as 23 million Americans are planning to relocate now that they can work from home, and they're not going to be moving to dirty, smelly, dilapidated, socialist shitholes.
- Apple's iCloud is having a few problems. (9to5Mac)
Fortunately, the outage is limited to just these services:
- Find My
- iCloud Account & Sign In
- iCloud Backup
- iCloud Bookmarks & Tabs
- iCloud Calendar
- iCloud Contacts
- iCloud Drive
- iCloud Keychain
- iCloud Mail
- iCloud Storage Upgrades
- Photos
- Screen Time
Yeah, basically you're fucked.
- It's not the hardware that's going to be the problem. (MSN)
NASA's SLS is built by five different companies in traditional pork-barrel style. The hardware works, kind of. The big problem is getting five separate software systems to co-ordinate with each other.
I've done that. It's not a lot of fun, even with hardware that doesn't literally blow up when you have a problem.
Disclaimer: I mean, there was that one time... But they put the fire out.
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Sunday, November 01
Daily News Stuff 1 November 2020
Minecart Edition
Since when was there a mini map? Since when were there minecarts? Okay, yes, it's been a while.
Coco is eager to get a multi-player server set up and drag the other girls into this. I'd love to see them battling the various bosses together, because it would be complete chaos. They can't even ride a virtual roller coaster without multiple fatalities.
Update: Someone clipped and translated yesterday's Death Coaster insanity. This is just a few of the highlights, I counted at least six fatal falls while I was watching.
Since leaving a slot open would allow random people to join the game, the HoloEN manager joined in - and turned out to be the MVP. Fans quickly dubbed her Enma (EN manager).
Minecart Edition
Tech News
- Wait, when did those get added to Terraria?
- Paging Big Hero 6. (IEEE Spectrum)
Swarms of tiny self-assembling robots. What could possibly go wrong?
- Intel's DG1 GPU card is coming to the desktop. (AnandTech)
It's currently only for laptops and sold bundled with Intel CPUs, and the card will also be OEM-only. I'm not sure who exactly would want it, though it should support QuickSync for video transcoding.
- There were zero new local cases of Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague in Australia yesterday. (WuhanBatSoupDeathPlagueData)
People in Melbourne are now able to freely travel... A maximum of 25km.
A colleague had to co-ordinate with her parents to meet half-way for lunch.
Oh, and the Melbourne Cup is on Tuesday. This year it will be virtual. Robot horses or something.
One Million Yubis
Planning to get a new computer next year. Rough specs - subject to a lot of change.- Ryzen 5900X
- Radeon 6800 XT
- ASRock X570 Taichi
- 128GB RAM
- 3TB NVMe RAID-0
- 4TB SATA SSD RAID-0
- Maybe a 14TB hard disk
- 3 x 4K monitors
That's a really high spec, but I want to put it under my desk and then not touch it for the next four years. So I'm strongly considering not having an internal hard drive at all, because the iron rule of computing is that hard drives fail.
I already have three 4K monitors - the two Dell desktops have HDMI input, and I have a Samsung 4K TN monitor - so I can replace the monitors at any time, not necessarily when I buy the system. As long as my video card has two HDMI outputs, anyway.
And I can buy the SSDs now and put them in the Dells until I'm ready to do the rest of it. Can't do that with memory unfortunately, since the Dells use SO-DIMMs.
And I can buy the SSDs now and put them in the Dells until I'm ready to do the rest of it. Can't do that with memory unfortunately, since the Dells use SO-DIMMs.
It will be named Korone, to honor the doggo who just hit a million subscribers.
Honestly I could halve everything and still be pretty happy, but I am going to be running VMs, databases, cryptocurrency nodes, and all sorts of other crap on it, and expecting it to run games smoothly at the same time, so it needs to be overkill.
Or... I could just buy two smaller systems. I guess.
Update: Thinking about it, two systems makes more sense. One Windows and one Linux. Probably just with the 5600X and a 6700 XT or whatever they come up with on the Windows system.
Let's see what reasonably-priced motherboards are available with faster than 1Gb Ethernet... Well, if I wanted to stick with ASRock, the answer is none. Better off getting a couple of 10Gb cards rather than paying nearly as much to upgrade to a motherboard with integrated 2.5Gb.
Honestly I could halve everything and still be pretty happy, but I am going to be running VMs, databases, cryptocurrency nodes, and all sorts of other crap on it, and expecting it to run games smoothly at the same time, so it needs to be overkill.
Or... I could just buy two smaller systems. I guess.
Update: Thinking about it, two systems makes more sense. One Windows and one Linux. Probably just with the 5600X and a 6700 XT or whatever they come up with on the Windows system.
Let's see what reasonably-priced motherboards are available with faster than 1Gb Ethernet... Well, if I wanted to stick with ASRock, the answer is none. Better off getting a couple of 10Gb cards rather than paying nearly as much to upgrade to a motherboard with integrated 2.5Gb.
Not At All Tech News
Terraria Video of the Day
Since when was there a mini map? Since when were there minecarts? Okay, yes, it's been a while.
Coco is eager to get a multi-player server set up and drag the other girls into this. I'd love to see them battling the various bosses together, because it would be complete chaos. They can't even ride a virtual roller coaster without multiple fatalities.
Update: Someone clipped and translated yesterday's Death Coaster insanity. This is just a few of the highlights, I counted at least six fatal falls while I was watching.
Picture of the Day
Three of the HoloEN girls were streaming Left4Dead, a four-player game. Calli had a recording session and Kiara had a collab with one of the HoloJP members, I think.Since leaving a slot open would allow random people to join the game, the HoloEN manager joined in - and turned out to be the MVP. Fans quickly dubbed her Enma (EN manager).
Enma is also the Buddhist god of the dead, so it fits perfectly into the Holomyth theme.
Disclaimer: She is Calli's boss, after all.
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