Tuesday, December 18

Geek

Daily News Stuff 18 December 2018

Tech News

  • The HBM spec has been updated to support 2.4Gbps and 24GB stacks.  (PC Perspective)

    HBM - high bandwidth memory - is only moderately fast but very, very wide.  Where a desktop or laptop memory chip might run at 3.2GHz and be 16 bits wide, and a graphics memory chip might run at 8GHz and be 32 bits wide, HBM runs at 2GHz but is 1024 bits wide.

    The new standard bumps the speed up by 20%, and also allows for 16Gb dies (from the current 8Gb) and up to 12 dies in a package, making for 24GB in a stack.  AMD's Vega graphics cards currently use two 4GB stacks for 8GB of RAM, so this would allow for quite a significant increase there.

  • Finland is building a 200,000 core supercomputer based on AMD's new Rome parts.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Actually, it's just for heating; the CPU power is a bonus.

Social Media News

  • Why nobody cares about the Nate Silver / Nassim Taleb Twitter war and you shouldn't either.  (Towards Data Science)

    What if we held a Twitter war and no-one came?

  • Patreon has apparently decided that it is their assigned task to police speech - any speech, anywhere - that may offend neo-Nazis.

    Many people have applauded Patreon for their stance on this issue.  Those people are idiots.

  • I clicked like on a Tweet about that news story banned in Australia which I can't talk about so forget I mentioned it and Twitter told me the tweet had been deleted.  So they got to you too, Twitter?

    Turns out, no.  It was just a glitch.  True enough, Twitter is run by far-left censorious hacks, but it's also buggy as hell.

Video of the Day



An irascible Romanian discusses the Patreon / Sargon brouhaha.  (Though he doesn't understand - as many don't - what the term protected class means in US law, so he gets a bit derailed at that point.)

Also, apparently Patreon has been slowly removing all NSFW content.  That's likely much bigger than the political / free speech mess they've created for themselves.  And they simply delete accounts and all related content without any prior notice.

What all this shows is not so much that Patreon leans left - we knew that from the beginning - but that there are no adults at the company at all.  No-one is saying maybe we should communicate this better let alone maybe we should reverse this decision.  It's shrieking idiot children all the way down.


Picture of the Day

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1 I came late to paying attention about Patreon, but in the last 6-12 months there are a number of people I have been considering supporting, as the adpocalypse continues.
Not now.  Liberals spent a couple of decades saying to non-liberals "if you don't like the vulgar or offensive crap on TV, just don't watch it."  But as soon as they started hearing stuff they don't like, they started suppressing it instead of just ignoring it, like they'd been preaching.

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