Tuesday, January 28
Daily News Stuff 28 January 2020
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- Friday long weekends are better than Monday long weekends.
- DDR4-5000? I think you can stop now. (AnandTech)
My two Dell Ryzen systems have DDR4-2400 RAM. My iMac has DDR3-1600.
- A look at Western Digital's 4TB NAS SSD. (Tom's Hardware)
If they can keep pushing prices down and capacities up, at some point there'll be no reason to buy spinning disks anymore. Right now though, local prices in Australia are 4¢ per GB for disk drives and 15¢ per GB for low-end SSDs.
- Britain, which is leaving the EU in three days, won't implement the EU's terrible horrible no good very bad copyright legislation. (TechDirt)
TechDirt doesn't know quite what to make of this.
- The fact that the CIA hired this lunatic in the first place tells you everything you need to know about the CIA. (TechDirt)
Leaking classified documents from your jail cell while awaiting trial for leaking classified documents, and documenting yourself doing so, is taking the quote-whistleblower-unquote thing to a whole new level.Response: My lawyer advised me not to. Fucking incredible. Fucking. Incredible.
Top. Men.
- Beware the mean.
Not nasty people, but naive statistical averages.If you’ll excuse the pun, means are meaningless in power-laws.
Which is exactly what happened to yesterday's airhead heroine.
Mitsuru/Adele/Mile should have read this article. On the other hand, if she had, she would have got eaten by a dragon, so it's kind of a wash.
- Another day, another speculative execution attack with a cute name on Intel CPUs. (CacheOut)
Intel recently announced firmware updates that disabled TSX - transactional memory extensions. This is why. Not many people use TSX (and it doesn't work on all Intel chips or any AMD chips) and it opened up yet another security hole.
- Is the Ring app for Android deliberate spyware, or just yet another crappy PWA? (ZDNet)
Despite all the fuss, it looks like the latter. Yes, browsers - and browser-based apps - do squirt personally-identifying information all over the place.
- The Podcast and the Curious. (Medium)
How fast is too fast for a podcast? The answer is none. None more fast.
Well, actually it's 3.
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Bunch of complains in the comments to that DDR-5000 article about the tests used. They didn't show much, if any, benefit to the stuff, but they thought there were different tests that might have.
I have 32GB of what's supposed to be Samsung B-die in my primary home desktop. I'm trying to decide if I want to mess around with trying to overclock it.
I have 32GB of what's supposed to be Samsung B-die in my primary home desktop. I'm trying to decide if I want to mess around with trying to overclock it.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 29 2020 01:43 AM (Iwkd4)
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"How fast is too fast for a podcast?'
I generally dislike podcasts & videos (as opposed to seeing the same info in print precisely because I can read a lot faster than most people talk.
I generally dislike podcasts & videos (as opposed to seeing the same info in print precisely because I can read a lot faster than most people talk.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 29 2020 01:51 AM (Iwkd4)
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On the topic of podcasts and speed listening, there's a 99% Invisible episode about a blind architect who sets his screen reader to absurd speed, about 1:30 in:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-10-99-sound-and-feel/
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-10-99-sound-and-feel/
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