Tuesday, July 28
Daily News Stuff 27 July 2020
Doggone It Roy Gene Edition
Doggone It Roy Gene Edition
Tech News
- The One Plus Nord delivers $450 worth of phone for $450. (Ars Technica)
Six cameras and a flat screen, but no headphone jack or microSD slot, so fuck 'em.
Also, not something you'd want to leave in your back pocket. (WCCFTech)
Not currently for sale in the US anyway.
Warning: Do not watch the above video.
- The Ryzen 4750G's graphics are faster than the Xbox One or Playstation 4. (WCCFTech)
Interesting benchmarks included, highlighting that yes, the GPU side delivers over 2 TFLOPS, but the CPU side is not shabby at all with over 1 TFLOPS. In double-precision mode the CPU is four times faster than the GPU.
- PHP 8 supports named arguments. (Stitcher.io)
Congratulations, PHP! You've caught up with ALGOL 60. In one specific area, anyway; you're worse at everything else.
- Well, that wasn't predictable at all. (ZDNet)
Step 1: Store your code on a public web service, where your only protection is authentication.
Step 2: Grant authentication token to a third party to gather code analytics.
Step 3: Third party gets hacked.
- Dave's not here, man. (ZDNet)
Step 4: Now that hackers have access to your code, they can comb through it for weak points or accidentally leaked tokens.
Step 5: You get hacked.
Disclaimer: Now look at that, what you have there is no bigger'n a grapefruit.
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If ever there were proof we're living in a perverse sort of simulation, the fact that 'lacks perhaps the most long-lived and universally used electrical connector ever devised' is somehow a flagship phone feature has to be it.
Posted by: Jay at Tuesday, July 28 2020 02:47 AM (0jVI9)
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, July 28 2020 05:03 AM (Iwkd4)
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$450 is budget if you're one of those types.
I paid around $50 for my most recent phone, and that's pretty stupidly expensive for something that was probably $2 FOB if you ask me.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, July 28 2020 08:14 PM (obo9H)
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