Monday, December 10
Daily News Stuff 10 December 2018
Tech News
- Eye holes are the new notch. (WCCFTech)
Case manufacturers necessarily know the dimensions and camera positioning of new phones before launch, so this might be real. When I saw "in-display camera" I thought it might be something more significant, but no.
- Impossible functions in Swift.
This is not one of those look how awful this language is posts. It looks like both the designers and implementers of Swift knew what they were doing. It can, for example, trace the possible paths of a recursive function and give you a compile-time error if it can be proven never to return. (Which is not the logical inverse of being proven to always return, since in between lies undecidability and the Halting Problem.)
I still don't like the language much.
- Why not to use Quora. Even when they've already leaked your email address and password.
Short answer: Because the site is run by shitheads.
- The problem with Jira. (Tech Crunch)
Or at least, with how Jira tends to be used. Just like some programmers can write Fortran in any language, some managers can implement waterfall development with any tool.
- NEC's SX Aurora supercomputer processor can perform 2.4 double-precision teraflops per 8 core CPU. Also, you can buy one and stick it in your PC,because it's available on a PCIe card. (WikiChip)
- Google's management seems to be in a slow-motion meltdown, now viewing stopping leakers as more important than actually shipping working products (Business Insider India)
Looking at you, Pixel 3.
- WinUAE can emulate not only your old Amiga that's sitting in the closet, but the Sidecar that you sold umpty-odd years ago.
My Amiga Sidecar once killed 40,000 people. It locked up while I was playing SimCity, and I was using it as a shared hard drive so I couldn't save my game.
- If you run a Kubernetes cluster you already know about this. (Serve the Home)
If you don't run a Kubernetes cluster, go back to bed.
- Axios is right on the edge of working out that the Russians didn't elect Donald Trump but will probably recover tomorrow.
- Australia's new internet insecurity legislation is a complete pile of shit. (ZDNet)
The imbeciles in Labor having thrown their weight behind the Liberals' legislation to get it passed, now hope that their proposed amendments will be considered next year.
Social Media News
- The outrage mob has a brand new target: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. (Tech Crunch)
He is charged with wrongwoke, the worst crime there can be.
- The ACCC is going after Google and Facebook for being, respectively, Google and Facebook. (ZDNet)
It's a fair cop, guv.
(The ACCC is Australia's Combat Camel Corps, but they also monitor corporate behaviour, like the FTC, but with supernumerary dromedaries.)
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I've never even so much as read up on Jira, but I can't think of any problem tracking system that would have made a good base as a project management system. I mean, with enough added machinery you could turn a problem tracker into a project manager but that seems to be the backwards way of doing things. Handing out and tracking tasks falls out naturally from a project manager, but problem trackers usually are more focused on managing contacts with the external sources of problems.
Posted by: Kayle at Tuesday, December 11 2018 01:10 AM (magRz)
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Notches and holes, ugh. Look, ignore the morons who write phone reviews and only care about tiny bezels. Notches suck. Just go back to the old way of having a top bezel big enough for the cameras and other sensors until you can figure out how to put them behind the screen and not lose parts of the screen, like you did with fingerprint readers.
Or put the camera at the bottom like the Mi Mix 2s and tell people to rotate the phone to take selfies (or maybe just flip the image in software?)
"the next great worldwide independence movement could be prosperous, powerful cities breaking off on their own."
And then the new rural countries get rich, tripling the price of food.
Or put the camera at the bottom like the Mi Mix 2s and tell people to rotate the phone to take selfies (or maybe just flip the image in software?)
"the next great worldwide independence movement could be prosperous, powerful cities breaking off on their own."
And then the new rural countries get rich, tripling the price of food.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, December 11 2018 01:44 AM (Q/JG2)
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No, if you put the selfie-cam at the bottom, people will just complain about all the nose-hairs in their pictures, and there's no Steve Jobs to convince them that it's supposed to be that way.
I really should move the new complete Nuku-Nuku collection to my Christmas list, just in case...
-j
I really should move the new complete Nuku-Nuku collection to my Christmas list, just in case...
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, December 11 2018 03:14 AM (tgyIO)
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"No, if you put the selfie-cam at the bottom, people will just complain about all the nose-hairs in their pictures"
Actually I just checked and my phone--which DOES have the selfie-cam at the bottom right--displays your face right-side up with the phone right-side up. Yeah, the angle is a little off, so you have to tilt it a bit to get a better perspective, but no, you can't see your nose hairs--if you stick the phone right up to your face to get your nostrils as large as they can be, the picture's too blurred to see them.
Actually I just checked and my phone--which DOES have the selfie-cam at the bottom right--displays your face right-side up with the phone right-side up. Yeah, the angle is a little off, so you have to tilt it a bit to get a better perspective, but no, you can't see your nose hairs--if you stick the phone right up to your face to get your nostrils as large as they can be, the picture's too blurred to see them.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, December 11 2018 05:46 AM (Q/JG2)
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