• Western Digital's 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 and 20TB HC650 EAMR drives do not use a spin-torque oscillator.  (AnandTech)
  
  I know many of you were wondering.
  
  
• Intel's Tiger Lake has reportedly reached speeds of 4GHz.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Tiger Lake will potentially deliver 20% better IPC than current Coffee Lake cores, but runs at around 20% slower clock speeds.
  
  Oops.
  
  
• The UK, US, and Australian governments are working together to demand that people stop doing mathematics.  (Gov.UK)
  
  Ijits gonna ij.
  
  
• WTF Python.  (GitHub)
  
  Python is remarkably free of WTF moments compared to other languages, so here's  huge directory of some of the WTFiest.
  
  
• Step One: Ban all existing messaging apps.
  Step Two: Release your own messaging app that is really just spyware.  (New York Times)
  Step Three: Realise that this is more profitable than running a country.
  
  
• Andrew Yang on nuclear power scores 30% in a fact check.  (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
  
  One true, one technically true but misleading, and three false.  Which is a good score for Yang.
  
  
• Star Wars: A New Hope did not hit theatres in 1977.  (Variety)
  
  The film was named Star Wars.
  
  Also, no, the future is not in streaming.  The future is in making movies that don't suck.
  
  
• People are apparently buying AirPods.  (9to5Mac)
  
  A population that will eat Tide Pods can be convinced to buy anything, it seems.
  
  
• The old "Help, I'm being held prisoner in a fortune cookie factory" has apparently come true.  (The Australian)
  
  Or very close.  One Christmas card in a packet sold in England had the extra message:

  We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.

I recently - as in, six months ago - mentioned in passing that Hedetniemi's Conjecture had been proven false.  Here's all the tasty deets, as the kids say.

Disclaimer: There was a merry passenger,

Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, December 24 2019 02:59 AM (ZlYZd)

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