Monday, August 13

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Daily News Stuff 13 August 2018

Tech News
  • AMD announced the Radeon PRO WX 8200, a workstation Vega 56 card with 8GB HBM and four mini-DP outputs.  At $999 it's less than half the price of the WX 9100 while delivering 80% of the performance - but it does have half the memory, so if you need 16GB the 9100 is your only option.  (AnandTech)

  • Lenovo announced the ThinkPad P1, a workstation version of their popular X1 Carbon.  With a 15.6" 4K screen, six core CPU, up to 64GB ECC RAM, 4TB of SSD, and NVIDIA Quadro graphics squooshed into a 1.7kg frame, this is an impressive system.  (AnandTech)

    Unfortunately it has a numeric keypad, which I hate on laptops because it pushes the keyboard and trackpad off center.  Fortunately, there's no way I can afford one so it doesn't matter a whole lot.

    Correction: The P1 does not have a numeric keypad; I was looking at a comparison photo with the larger P72 and misidentified what was being shown.

    Rather, it has a similar key layout to the ThinkPad E, with PgUp / PgDn by the arrow keys and Home / End by the function keys.  Not my ideal layout, but workable.
    https://ai.mee.nu/images/ThinkPadP12.jpg?size=680x&q=95
    So if anyone wants to drop one off at my door, I'm now interested.

  • Birds eating your blueberries?  Maybe a laser cannon array is the answer.  (NPR)

    To be fair, a laser cannon array can answer most questions.

  • On average, programmers and writers create 10 lines for each line that reaches their audience.  The reasons why this happens are complex and hard to eliminate, but the ratio is pretty consistent.

Video of the Day


Ducks explain wormholes.



Bonus Video of the Day


Red panda = best panda.


Picture of the Day

https://ai.mee.nu/images/Toothless.jpg?size=720x&q=95

Toothless, from How to Train Your Dragon, re-imagined by @LittleJem4.

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1 Ducks explain wormholes.
Ducks are the explanation for a lot of things.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, August 13 2018 05:35 PM (/23No)

2 The wormholes are left behind after a duck ate the worm, just like me with donuts.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, August 13 2018 05:52 PM (PiXy!)

3 Nice touch with the red-and-white hip cover, although the belt looks even sillier than such things do when animated.

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 14 2018 01:57 AM (Q/JG2)

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Apple pies are delicious. But never mind apple pies. What colour is a green orange?




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