• What idiot decided that?
  
  
  
• TSMC has started work on their 2nm process node but then someone sneezed and now they can't find it.  (WCCFTech)
  
  I'm not sure this is actually new news; WCCFTech links to a paywalled Digitimes article, so I don't know what's in there, but there was an announcement last year that they were starting R&D.  (Hexus)
  
  Based on the gate pitch in that older article, 2nm should be 40% smaller than 3nm, which is already 66% smaller than 7nm.  So a 2nm version of the current 4800U in 2025 could pack 40 cores, 40 CUs, and 40MB of RAM into the same 150mm2.  And if 2nm hits the same power target as 3nm, it would use less than 40W.
  
  Can't wait for the Ryzen 7 9800U.
  
  
  
• AMD vs. Intel: Who makes the best CPUs?  AMD.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Out of ten categories, Intel won three: Gaming (specifically, maximum frame rates), overclocking, and drivers.  AMD does need to do some work on their driver support, I'll grant that.
  
  
  
• ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_TARGET  (GitHub)
  
  A flaw in a one-line package broke npm create-react-app.  (Hacker News)
  
  And, oh, an estimated 3.4 million other projects.  (GitHub)
  
  What did this package do?
  
  It checked if a particular object was a "promise".  That is, it hard-coded one example of what in Python would be a call to the isinstance() built-in function, or in Ruby a call to is_a. 
  
  That is, what would in a sensible language be the trivial test if my_object is a promise became a project of its own that failed and broke millions of other projects.
  
  Not only that, but the single line of code in that project still has bugs.
  
  The new edition of the DSM has change the definition of insanity to continuing to use JavaScript for server apps.
  
  
  
• Ubuntu 20.04 is available for WSL.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  That's a good place for it.  You sure don't want to put it on a server just yet.
  
  
  
• Australia promises that people who aren't health officials won't have access to the new app that tracks the movement of everyone in the entire country.  (Slashdot)
  
  And they have such a wonderful track record on that.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile America is outsourcing their tracking to Sauron.  (The Verge)
  
  
  
• 10 extinct varieties of apple have been rediscovered.  (CNN)
  
  They were hiding in an apple orchard.
  
  
  
• There hasn't been a spike in calls to poison control centres after President Trump didn't suggest injecting disinfectant.  (MSN)
  
  MSN's headline is wrong in every possible way.
  
  There has been a spike in calls to poison control centres going back to early March because people are failing to understand that the universal warning not to mix different cleaning products together actually means DO NOT MIX DIFFERENT CLEANING PRODUCTS TOGETHER OR YOU MIGHT PRODUCE POISON GAS OR IF YOU ARE REALLY INVENTIVE AN ACTUAL FUNCTIONING EXPLOSIVE YOU GODDAMN MORON.
  
  Specifically ammonia and chlorine bleach, but good advice in general.
  
  Also, don't give your husband fish tank cleaner to drink and then blame it on the daily Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague briefing.  The media may buy it.  Maggie Haberman may buy it.  The police won't.
  
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, April 27 2020 04:07 AM (Iwkd4)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, April 28 2020 12:39 AM (PiXy!)

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