Thursday, March 05
Daily News Stuff 5 March 2020
Timey Wimey Child Edition
Timey Wimey Child Edition
Tech News
- If you've kept up with this season of Doctor Who, well, none of that made any sense. Within the same season the Time Lords are simultaneously extra double dead and actively intervening in the Universe in a way we haven't seen since The War Games.
- Western Digital has announced a range of enterprise SSDs - their Gold series, following the hard disk models. (AnandTech)
Enterprise TLC, so more for file storage than really heavy database workloads. 2.5" NVMe format with capacities up to 7.68TB. No prices yet, so these might be amazing or they might be meh.
- YouTube took down a video by NYU explaining YouTube's takedown process. (NYU)
Or rather, one copy of the video got multiple copyright infringement notices for the audio content while an earlier version of the video with identical audio did not.
And NYU discovered that filing a counterclaim either would or would not end up with YouTube wiping out their law school's entire channel. They were unable to determine which, and YouTube was its useful unhelpful self.
If an entire law school can't navigate YouTube's copyright system, no-one else has any hope at all.
- Meanwhile CBS News managed to file copyright claims against live streams of speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden. (TechDirt)
So at least there's that to be thankful for.
- Google I/O is the latest conference to be banned over Corona-chan. (ZDNet)
No loss. It hasn't been interesting since 2014.
- You don't need Kubernetes. (Pythonspeed)
Same situation as Hadoop, really. If you're using it because it sounds cool rather than because it solves a specific problem that has already caused several engineers to quit and move to Idaho, you probably don't need or want it.
Disclaimer: It has a dumb name anyway.
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Doctor Who: Ugh. What a hot mess. Worst. Fanfic. Ever. Much as I couldn't stand the capering lunatic performance of the new guy playing the Master, his objection to the Cybermens' plan was spot on. And the Timeless Child thing was just abjectly stupid. I cut away after an hour to watch The Walking Dead and haven't gone back to catch the rest of it yet and I'm relatively sure I don't want to.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, March 06 2020 01:24 AM (Iwkd4)
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I don't object to the notion that Time Lord history is false - that goes back at least as far as The Three Doctors. But they couldn't leave it at that; they had to go full Mary Sue.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, March 06 2020 09:30 AM (PiXy!)
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Right--I object to this particular fanfic retcon.
I'm willing to bet that the Child's first incarnation being black--just like the prior incarnation of the Doctor in an earlier episode--was an attempt to stoke outrage, too, but it's such stupidly transparent bait it would be embarrassing to be annoyed by it.
I'm willing to bet that the Child's first incarnation being black--just like the prior incarnation of the Doctor in an earlier episode--was an attempt to stoke outrage, too, but it's such stupidly transparent bait it would be embarrassing to be annoyed by it.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, March 06 2020 11:21 AM (Iwkd4)
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