Monday, March 16
Daily News Stuff 16 March 2020
Yes We Have No Deliveries, We Have No Deliveries Today Edition
Yes We Have No Deliveries, We Have No Deliveries Today Edition
Tech News
- Coles - one of Australia's two big supermarket chains - has cancelled grocery deliveries until further notice. Starting on the day my delivery was due.
Woolworths - the other of Australia's two big supermarket chains - hasn't cancelled grocery deliveries. They're just not accepting orders or delivering anything.
Oh, and they're reducing store hours. So I can't go there late at night when I might actually be free to do so.
- Ethereum upgradeable contracts actually work.
This came as something of a shock given how painful it can be to get anything working on Ethereum at all.
Such as when congestion spikes the transaction price by a factor of 40. Which is what it is doing right now.
- 96 cores is the new 80. (AnandTech)
This one has 8 DDR4 memory channels but only 64 PCIe 4.0 lanes per socket. But the CPU interconnect doesn't re-use the PCIe pins, so a dual-socket configuration has 128 PCIe lanes, the same as a dual-socket Epyc.
This one is a custom design with 4 threads per core, so 768 hardware threads in a dual-socket system. Which is quite a lot.
- Google just launched that Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plage screening site it wasn't developing as of yesterday. (Tech Crunch)
Okay, Verily. But that's a dumb name so it doesn't count.
- Never let a global viral bat soup pandemic go to waste. (Bitcoin News)
US fuckwits - sorry, Senators - want to ban arithmetic in the name of protecting the children. Specifically banning end-to-end encryption, which you can't do because all it is, is arithmetic.
- Microsoft has revealed all the specs of the Xbox Xeriex X. (Thurrott.com)
- 8 Zen 2 cores at 3.8GHz
- 52 RDNA 2 CUs at 1.825GHz for 12TFLOPs single precision
- 16GB GDDR6 on some weird split bus thingy
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Put Windows 10 on it and it would make a pretty good desktop. The only thing it's short of is RAM, and you can't really upgrade GDDR6.
- It was worth a shot. (Daily Press)
When the only tool you have is the US Army Air Corps, everything starts to look like a lava flow.
- France has fined Apple 1.1 billion funny-E-symbols for being Apple. (9to5Mac)
Let them eat Android.
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