Sunday, January 01
Daily News Stuff 1 January 2023
New Year Who Dis Edition
There's a Taco Bell nearby. I could drive there and back in a day, nearly.
New Year Who Dis Edition
Top Story
- New industries come from crazy people. (Palladium)
It's an interesting cultural point and the article discusses why so much innovation came from England and later the United States even when key scientific discoveries often happened in continental Europe.
I wonder how this played out more recently in Japan and Korea. Both countries are socially conservative and tend towards top-down structure, but both had massive social disruptions in the mid 20th century due to, uh, events.
And yes, the article mentions Elon Musk, though it's from 2021 so it doesn't cover any of the recent brouhahas.
Tech News
- Looking to build a new computer for the new year? Supermicro has a heck of a motherboard on the way. (Tom's Hardware)
This is for Intel's upcoming Sapphire Rapids workstation chips. It has 16 DIMM slots for 512GB of cheap desktop RAM or as much as 4TB of server RAM, four M.2 slots,two U.2 ports,8 SATA ports, six full-size PCIe x16 slots - five of them PCIe 5.0, 10Gb Ethernet, separate 1Gb Ethernet for remote management, 7.1 audio, a bunch of USB, VGA output, and a serial port.
It will likely cost as much as a good laptop, just for the motherboard.
- TSMC's 3nm node is already achieving yields above 60%. (Tom's Hardware)
Samsung's 3nm process is more advanced - they've gone with a transistor design called Gate All Around, where TSMC stuck with the more traditional FinFET - but at last report they were only getting yields of 20%, so their costs will be much higher until they get that fixed.
- Who the heck is Solidigm and are their SSDs worth buying? (PC Perspective)
Solidigm is the new brand name created after Hynix bought Intel's consumer SSD division, and yes. The P44 Pro reviewed here falls between Samsung's 980 Pro and 990 Pro in benchmarks, which makes it very fast indeed, and at $220 for 2TB it's not particularly expensive.
Starting the Year Off With a Bang Video of the Day
There's a Taco Bell nearby. I could drive there and back in a day, nearly.
Welcome back.
That scenery at the end is what I see within five minutes' drive in any direction now. Though in some directions you quickly run out of paved road.
Disclaimer: Mairsy stones and dosey stones and little lambsie stonesy, kidney stonesy too, wouldn't you?
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We have a Taco Bell within 10 minutes walk of the House. Of course we have a much much more built up area too. I miss the Taco Bell / KFC combo location, The Kentucky Fried Taco.
Posted by: Mark Gosdin at Sunday, January 01 2023 09:26 PM (FKpVG)
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Whatifalthist on YouTube had a recent video that touched on family structures shaped their political structures and (briefly) touches how both impact how dynamic and inventive a society is. An interesting thinker who brings a lot of deep thought about how societies work and what drives them. He also puts a lot of supplemental material in the video portion, including regular walls of text.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Monday, January 02 2023 03:32 AM (QEshC)
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I must confess that I don't know how far away the nearest Taco Bell is. I think I saw one about 13 miles away when I drove to the airport last week, but there must be one closer than that.
Posted by: David Eastman at Monday, January 02 2023 08:07 AM (sYlgI)
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I checked and I can get to the nearest Taco Bell and back in a day.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, January 02 2023 08:36 PM (PiXy!)
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