Tuesday, September 03
Daily News Stuff 3 September 2024
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- Andreesen Horowitz partner Joshua Lu says the future of gaming is AI, and Discord. (Tech Crunch)
What would he know?Andreessen Horowitz’s partner Joshua Lu knows that, in the video game industry, you can never get too comfortable. When he was head of product at Zynga, he experienced the height of mobile games, working on hits like Words with Friends; then as a vice president at Blizzard Entertainment, he helped produce tentpole hits like Diablo Immortal.
Wait. Diablo Immortal? I've heard of that.
Oh, yeah.
Diablo Immortal slammed on Metacritic, now holds lowest user score ever. (Kotaku)
It scored 0.2. Out of 10.
After some updates the score increased slightly. It now stands at 0.3.
Of course, that's on PC. On iOS they're more tolerant of pay-to-win mobile slop. It scored 0.5 there.
This was the game where it infamously cost $110,000 to fully equip a single character. (GameRant)
The future of gaming smells like a sewer.
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- The Rust for Linux maintainer has stepped down because other Linux developers just refused to see the light he was shining upon them. (The Register)
"Almost four years into this, I expected we would be past tantrums from respected members of the Linux kernel community. I just ran out of steam to deal with them, as I said in my email."
Why, yes, he does work for Microsoft. How did you know?
- What's inside a 128TB SSD? (Serve the Home)
Flash memory chips. What a surprise.
- Ugh. 5Gb Ethernet. (WCCFTech)
2.5Gb Ethernet switches are readily available and getting cheaper. 10Gb Ethernet switches are readily available and getting cheaper - very slowly.
5Gb Ethernet switches do not exist. You need to find a 10Gb switch with multi-gig support for 2.5Gb and 5Gb speeds.
- I was wrong.
Yesterday I said that Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPUs will have more bits.
They actually have less bits. (Tom's Hardware)
While they will have up to 16 cores, that's made up of four low-power Efficiency cores, eight regular Efficiency cores, and only four Performance cores.
- Microsoft has announced that the ability to easily uninstall the Recall Metavirus is a bug and will be fixed. (The Verge)
The Recall Metavirus itself is not a bug. It is intentional.
The ability to remove it will be removed.
- A federal judge has granted a partial injunction on the Texas online child protection (SCOPE) act. (The Verge)
At issue are arguments that in trying to protect children the law would unconstitutionally infringe upon the free speech of adults.
Which it probably would. Laws like this are hard to draft without running into First Amendment issues.
Disclaimer: I'm holding out for five-and-a-half gig/
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I've watched Rust off and on with some degree of foreboding. I could tell just from the rhetoric of the language designers that it was going to be the programming equivalent of a Maoist humiliation ritual. One of the most stable and secure operating systems in the world was apparently bashed together by "cowboy coders", whose every keyboard stroke was "unsafe". Tantrums?! It sounds a lot like Boeing's remarks about their "highly talented assholes" that they needed to put in their place.
Why do we let these human toothaches insult productive men, their craft, their skills, and their way of working? What do you think an industrial electrician would tell you if you took away his wire-strippers, and demanded that he do his job on his knees, with tweezers, and that he wire the site with yarn? Is he not being a team player when he gives you the finger and no amount of money could induce him to put up with it? Make no mistake, the things that have been done to programmers, the micromanagement, the agile Taylorism, and these byzantine straightjackets are an *insult*. In more civilized times, we dealt with insults with pistols and swords.
Why do we let these human toothaches insult productive men, their craft, their skills, and their way of working? What do you think an industrial electrician would tell you if you took away his wire-strippers, and demanded that he do his job on his knees, with tweezers, and that he wire the site with yarn? Is he not being a team player when he gives you the finger and no amount of money could induce him to put up with it? Make no mistake, the things that have been done to programmers, the micromanagement, the agile Taylorism, and these byzantine straightjackets are an *insult*. In more civilized times, we dealt with insults with pistols and swords.
Posted by: madrocketsci at Tuesday, September 03 2024 09:47 PM (hRoyQ)
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Made the usual stupid mistake: read the comments. The ones that sound like they come from people with souls are all aggressively downvoted. One of *those* places. The entire internet has become one of *those* places. The 90s, the cathedral and the bazaar, etc lead me to expect a different kind of person in the "tech" industry.
Posted by: madrocketsci at Tuesday, September 03 2024 10:14 PM (hRoyQ)
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@madrocketsci the safetyism nannies always want to wrap you up in bubble-wrap so tightly you can't move, to make you "safe". It's like they think "With Folded Hands" was a how-to guide, not a warning.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, September 03 2024 10:42 PM (MItL9)
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5Gb Ethernet....and 27 power stages? Why not put some gold plating on there as well.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, September 03 2024 10:44 PM (MItL9)
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Panther Lake has a 16-core + 12 Xe core chip at 25W and a 16-core + no Xe core (?) chip at 45W. Wow, I bet those will be record-setting performance machines.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, September 03 2024 10:46 PM (MItL9)
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"Bug" feels like a weird way to describe "a feature someone had to spend time to add into the system, that we didn't actually want there."
It's kind of like how Google Search occasionally "accidentally" gets code added to it that blocks search results they don't like, like any inconvenient-to-Democrats news about Trump. "Someone getting caught adding a feature users despise" isn't a _bug_; it's closer to a Kinsley gaffe.
It's kind of like how Google Search occasionally "accidentally" gets code added to it that blocks search results they don't like, like any inconvenient-to-Democrats news about Trump. "Someone getting caught adding a feature users despise" isn't a _bug_; it's closer to a Kinsley gaffe.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, September 03 2024 10:49 PM (MItL9)
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I checked articles last night on register to audit the quality there.
One, I think the big government push for 'convert everything to memory safe languages' is ill advised. It is part of the wider effort by totalitarian academics and government bureaucrats to pretend they aren't making security worse.
Second, Linux kernel is probably the last place to demonstrate that sort of project, so of course there were people eager to push it early.
Thirdly, where the cult of Rust, Microsoft, and the US and EU central governments are concerned, they can take 'convert it to Rust because of vague government statemetns', and go frustrate themselves with it. If they want more code in memory safe languages, they can make a better language. Okay, Rust's problem is probably mostly the cult, and having the cult develop a new 'improved' language is going to get more cult.
Now, learning C/C++ is probably a real issue, given that it does not seem that the demand for those languages will go away. There are add ons that test/reject compilation for more stringent cases for those, but not obvious/intuitive for learners. (I _may_ just be too early in my own reading on that stuff, and if I were a little deeper, everything would be clear.)
I think the government suggestions on cyber security are mostly a way to make things worse.
I thought "Rust fans should write a kernel entirely in it" was good advice.
I feel pretty strongly that Microsoft can go frustrate itself, as well, on the recall/11/other points I am salty about.
Register also had an article on the 11/10 market share situation. For a linux focused place I would forgive the oversight, but some companies need specific packages, that are not supported for 11 yet.
One, I think the big government push for 'convert everything to memory safe languages' is ill advised. It is part of the wider effort by totalitarian academics and government bureaucrats to pretend they aren't making security worse.
Second, Linux kernel is probably the last place to demonstrate that sort of project, so of course there were people eager to push it early.
Thirdly, where the cult of Rust, Microsoft, and the US and EU central governments are concerned, they can take 'convert it to Rust because of vague government statemetns', and go frustrate themselves with it. If they want more code in memory safe languages, they can make a better language. Okay, Rust's problem is probably mostly the cult, and having the cult develop a new 'improved' language is going to get more cult.
Now, learning C/C++ is probably a real issue, given that it does not seem that the demand for those languages will go away. There are add ons that test/reject compilation for more stringent cases for those, but not obvious/intuitive for learners. (I _may_ just be too early in my own reading on that stuff, and if I were a little deeper, everything would be clear.)
I think the government suggestions on cyber security are mostly a way to make things worse.
I thought "Rust fans should write a kernel entirely in it" was good advice.
I feel pretty strongly that Microsoft can go frustrate itself, as well, on the recall/11/other points I am salty about.
Register also had an article on the 11/10 market share situation. For a linux focused place I would forgive the oversight, but some companies need specific packages, that are not supported for 11 yet.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, September 04 2024 01:03 AM (rcPLc)
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Let's look at the last time a language was mandated:
Ada was mandated for all government computer requirements in 1991 by bean-counters in the US DOD. The compilers at that time were clunky at best. Despite the language having been designed to run on embedded systems and for real-time applications, it would only do so if you turned off most of the protection features. At that point, you might as well be coding in FORTRAN or JOVIAL. Many exemptions were given, and by 1997, the DOD moved on to the "next big thing," COTS software, which came with its own set of problems.
Here we go again. One thing you can count on is that bean-counters never learn. (No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?)
Ada was mandated for all government computer requirements in 1991 by bean-counters in the US DOD. The compilers at that time were clunky at best. Despite the language having been designed to run on embedded systems and for real-time applications, it would only do so if you turned off most of the protection features. At that point, you might as well be coding in FORTRAN or JOVIAL. Many exemptions were given, and by 1997, the DOD moved on to the "next big thing," COTS software, which came with its own set of problems.
Here we go again. One thing you can count on is that bean-counters never learn. (No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?)
Posted by: John Donigan at Wednesday, September 04 2024 03:16 AM (VAiJm)
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In fairness, 1991 is 33 years ago. I think that maybe the intersection of people who know anything about the Ada requirement then, and are involved in the current government decisions now, might be zero. Knowing anything about technical policy previously might be the opposite of what the decision makers are selected for.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, September 04 2024 04:52 AM (rcPLc)
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Re: what's inside an SSD. I unscrewed the case of my dead 1 Tb laptop drive (barely 2 years old! Feh!) and it was mostly empty. The actual circuit board, including connectors, was 1.5" x 2" with only two major chips on it.
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