• Xilinx's Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P is an FPGA.  (Serve the Home)
  
  A big FPGA.  It has 9 million logic elements.
  
  The FPGA I was looking at for video timing for the A750, by comparison, has 1280 logic elements.  That's enough to create your own 32-bit RISC processor so exactly what you'd do with 9 million logic elements I don't know.
  
  Still not that huge module from TSMC.
  
  
• JavaScript is terrible, lets all go back to C.
  
  Or maybe not.
  
  
• China is deeply offended to find itself on the wrong end of the censorship stick.  (TechDirt)

  A Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed the allegations, made by the companies a day earlier, that the government had done something wrong in using online resources to portray the protests roiling Hong Kong as the work of "cockroaches” spurred to action by shadowy Western forces.

• So they're unlikely to be pleased with YouTube, who just shut down 210 channels posting government-friendly propaganda about Hong Kong.  (CNN)
  
  
• Compiled languages are bad at generics and polymorphism.  In general, the safer the compiled language, the worse they are.
  
  Rust is exceptionally safe.
  
  
• Question: Why Clojure?
  
  Answer: Because you're an alien who probably also likes the pentatonic scale.
  
  
• WeWork isn't a tech company.  (Harvard Business Review)
  
  But then, neither is Apple (fashion), Google or Facebook (advertising), Amazon (parcel delivery), Netflix (terrible movies), or Twitter (coprophagy).

Posted by: Jay at Friday, August 23 2019 10:46 PM (mrlXS)

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