Tuesday, October 23
Daily News Stuff 23 October 2018
Tech News
- Intel says their 10nm process is not dead, just
pining for the fjordsshagged out after a long squawk. (Tom's Hardware)
- Nvidia rolls out a slightly faster GTX 1060 ahead of AMD's slightly faster RX 580. (Tom's Hardware)
- Apple's new 4th generation iWatch doesn't understand daylight saving time. (The Verge)
- Bloomberg's rice chip hacking story continues to circle the drain. Serve the Home gives it a five-page courtesy flush.
- What's that Lassie? GitHub's fallen in the well?
(Thanks to J Greely)
- GitLab 11.4 is out, with added stuff.
- RISC OS has gone open source.
Real open source. Apache License.
This is the operating system that ran the Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC, for which the Arm chips were originally developed. It now runs on a wide range of hardware including all versions of the Raspberry Pi.
- An analysis of the MongoDB definitely-not-open-source license from ScyllaDB.
ScyllaDB is AGPL, which is bad enough, but still technically open source.
- Amazon joins Apple in their holy war against the Bloombots. (CNBC)
Social Media News
- In a hilariously un-self-aware article, Dylan Byers says that journalists should be banned from Twitter because they keep showing their true colours and scaring the horses. (NBC News)
"How can we convince people we're not biased when they can see we obviously are biased?" asked Jim VandeHei of Axios. "And also stupid and ignorant and dishonest and - wait, is this mic on?"
Video of the Day
Kids, don't try this at home, in case you happen to have a Large Hadron Collider at home.
Bonus Video of the Day
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We may not be sure what happens if a hand is put in the Large Hadron Collider, but apparently there was at least one Soviet technician who found out the hard way what getting hit in the head with a 76 GeV proton beam is like: Wikipedia Link
Posted by: stargazera5 at Wednesday, October 24 2018 08:00 AM (Q7Wqc)
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Yes, I've heard of his case. He's still alive, apparently, 40 years later.
But the LHC beam contains about 100 times as much energy, so if the Russian accelerator were equivalent to a 7.62mm rifle round, the LHC would be a 30mm anti-tank round from an A-10.
But the LHC beam contains about 100 times as much energy, so if the Russian accelerator were equivalent to a 7.62mm rifle round, the LHC would be a 30mm anti-tank round from an A-10.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, October 24 2018 02:28 PM (PiXy!)
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