• The Ryzen 9 3950X lands in two weeks unless it doesn't.  (WCCFTech)
  
  AMD haven't said anything more specific than September but there's only so much September to go around.
  
  
• Meanwhile the Ryzen 3900X has the third highest PassMark score.
  
  At 31,877 the $499 3900X is just behind the Intel's $3000 Xeon W-3175X at 33,358.
  
  The large L3 cache on Zen 2 seems to give a significant boost to AMD on this benchmark - the 3700X outperforms the Threadripper 2990WX.  So this may or may not apply to your particular workload.
  
  
• Z is a functional language that installs with NPM and compiles to JavaScript.
  
  Having just spent a couple of days working with TypeScript, I can confidently say that this entire concept needs to die in a fire.
  
  
• Build your own 6502 computer.  (Eater.net)
  
  All the nerdy kids are doing it.
  
  
  
  
• Unionise, get fired is the new get woke, go broke.  (BBC)
  
  I seem to recall hearing of these particular idiots before.  But it's possible I'm thinking of different idiots.
  
  
• Buried in this typically moronic article about France banning Facebook's Libra is an absolute gem.  (Vice)

  "The monetary sovereignty of countries is at stake [from] possible privatization of money by a sole actor with more than 2 billion users on the planet,” [said French finance minister Bruno Le Maire].

  The monetary sovereignty.  Of France.
  
  
• Discord's Nitro game store is dead, surprising absolutely no-one.  (Neowin)
  
  Except possibly Google, who are very easily surprised, being complete morons.
  
  
• Ash finally won a Pokemon tournament.
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, September 16 2019 03:03 AM (Iwkd4)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, September 16 2019 12:23 PM (PiXy!)

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