• I really need to get that autosave feature working.
  
  
• Wacom's Cintiq 16 is their least expensive Cintiq yet at $649.  (PC Perspective)
  
  The display is cut down significantly - from 4K on the Cintiq 16 Pro to 1080p - but the pen function is all there.
  
  
• Intel's new GPU-free CPUs save you exactly nothing.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Yes, the price is exactly the same as the version with the iGPU, because Intel.
  
  
• Tech Crunch frets that Trump is driving dream unicorns to extinction.
  
  The Bay Area is another planet.
  
  
• Porting Cowgol to the Z80.
  
  Cowgol is just a hobby project but is better designed than 98% of progamming languages in the industry.
  
  
• Correction: The Radeon VII doesn't support double precision.  (TechGage)
  
  Even without DP support it still has faster DP than Nvidia's RTX, but only by a factor of two, not sixteen, so there's little reason for anybody to buy Radeon VII at all.
  
  Oh well.  The card was interesting for nearly a day.
  
  I suspect that AMD isn't planning to sell any of these but needed something to show at CES because Navi is delayed a few months.  I don't have any direct evidence of this, but only a couple of months ago, AMD was saying it would not release a consumer version of 7nm Vega.
  
  
• Way back in 2010, someone stole a bunch of Bitcoin with an overflow attack.  (Hackernoon)
  
  The bug was promptly fixed and the blockchain was forked to orphan those coins, but if that hadn't happened those coins would be worth $650 trillion at today's prices.  Well, in reality Bitcoin would have died and the coins would be worth exactly zero, but that's less interesting.  Maybe better for the world, but less interesting.
  
  
• How Kubernetes solves the persistent storage problem.
  
  
1. Make it so unnecessarily complicated and downright painful that you are forced to hire someone to manage just that one function.
   
   
2. Now it's their problem.
   
   
• NTT DoCoMo and NEC used 5G to stream 8K video of steam trains.  (ZDNet)
  
  Priorities.
  
  
• Apple Death Watch: Prices of iPhone XR and iPhone 8 slashed by up to 20% - in China.  (ZDNet)
  
  Doooom.
  
  
• Google has discovered that it makes something called Chromecast Audio that is cheap and well-received by users and killed it.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  
• There was a security bug in systemd.  My servers all automatically patched themselves.  And that set off all their watchdogs that check for modifications to critical files, and they felt that they absolutely had to tell me about this.  It's like having thirty babies that all start screaming at the exact same moment.
  
  
• Why do Nvidia's cards only have 12GB of RAM?  (Actually 11GB mostly, but anyway.)
  
  
  
  Because wiring.  Further on in the video he really dumps on Nvidia, but he doesn't say he'd buy this card either.
  
  
• The manufacturers' TDP figures for AMD's Athlon 200GE and Intel's Pentium Gold G5400 do not present an accurate picture.  (AnandTech)
  
  The AMD part is rated at 35W, but under full load it actually uses...  A little over 18W.   The Intel chip is rated at a higher 58W, but the truth of the matter is that it will uses as much as, um, 24W.
  
  Well, that was anticlimactic.

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