Tuesday, May 05
Daily News Stuff 5 May 2020
Celebrating The Mexican Victory Over French Forces At Puebla Edition
Celebrating The Mexican Victory Over French Forces At Puebla Edition
Tech News
- Why is there no man page for LXD? The
lxcandlxdcommands have help options, but that's it. Want to know the valid options for--compressiononlxc export? Haha fuck you. Want to know anything at all aboutlxc network? See above.
- The Acer Swift 3 SF314 is a Ryzen 4000U laptop. (AnandTech)
Specifically the 4500U and 4700U, though if the pricing given in the review is correct you'd have to be nuts to buy the 4500U. Update: The pricing matches that on Acer's online store. Don't buy the 4500U model.
For $649 you get an eight-core CPU, Vega 7 graphics, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and a 14" 1080p IPS screen, weighing 1.2kg. No Thunderbolt but it does have USB-C with power delivery and DisplayPort out, and separate USB-A and HDMI, and a traditional charging port.
It has dedicated PgUp and PgDn keys but not Home and End.
- Oh and there's a new 13" MacBook Pro. (AnandTech)
- Why does the 2TB model cost three times as much as the 1TB model? (Tom's Hardware)
Oh, right. Patriot P300, budget M.2 NVMe SSD.
- Backblaze B2 is now S3 compatible. (Backblaze)
It originally had a more complicated API that was harder to use but cheaper for Backblaze to deploy. Now it's directly compatible with S3 and thus with everything else.
For $5 per terabyte per month, and $10 per terabyte for transfers out. The competition charges up to 12 times as much for bandwidth. (Though transfers in are free for all of them.)
- Julia 1.5 can capture Heisenbugs. (JuliaLang)
But not recursive Heisenbugs. The new bug reporter can capture bugs on a user's system and reproduce them on the developer's machine, no matter what the underlying cause of the bug is, unless the bug stops happening when you turn on the bug reporter.
- It may now be cheaper to shoot space scenes in space than to do them in CGI. (Deadline)
- Apple's T2 security chip prevents MacBooks from being refurbished. (Vice)
Without the password, you're left with $12 worth of scrap.
Disclaimer: Okay, $12 and a dead raccoon, but that's my best offer.
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If you mail the dead raccoon to Tim Cook, I'll take it!
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 06 2020 01:13 AM (Iwkd4)
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Someone ought to spread the meme "Apple is wasteful and doesn't believe in recycling hardware".
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 06 2020 01:13 AM (Iwkd4)
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"Apple is wasteful and doesn't believe in recycling hardware"
"Waste is okay when Sterv Jerbs does it." --mactards everywhere
Also, if that Acer had the 4800U and was only a hundred or so more, I would buy it right now.
"Waste is okay when Sterv Jerbs does it." --mactards everywhere
Also, if that Acer had the 4800U and was only a hundred or so more, I would buy it right now.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, May 06 2020 02:16 AM (LADmw)
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Because obviously that would give aid and comfort to the patriarchy and not serve diversity in any way. (Duh!)
Why is there no man page for LXD?
Because obviously that would give aid and comfort to the patriarchy and not serve diversity in any way. (Duh!)
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wednesday, May 06 2020 08:49 AM (5iiQK)
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normal - The 4700U is fine for me. I have a laptop with a much nicer display, pen input, twice the memory and storage - but it's only a dual core.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 06 2020 04:29 PM (PiXy!)
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Oh, and mine doesn't have dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys. It's what convinced me of their necessity.
I used to have a reserved desk at the office with a keyboard and monitor that I'd plug my laptop into on the days I went in. I no longer do, so I actually need to type on the laptop keyboard, and immediately discovered that this is not fun on most laptops.
Of course right now I'm sitting at home with a full-sized keyboard and dual 27" screens so it's become a non-problem again.
I used to have a reserved desk at the office with a keyboard and monitor that I'd plug my laptop into on the days I went in. I no longer do, so I actually need to type on the laptop keyboard, and immediately discovered that this is not fun on most laptops.
Of course right now I'm sitting at home with a full-sized keyboard and dual 27" screens so it's become a non-problem again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 06 2020 04:33 PM (PiXy!)
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At $650 the 4700u might be fine for me too (I have a 3200u (2 core, 4 thread), which I picked up for <$300 which is fine, actually). I agree 100% on the pgup/pgdn keys.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, May 06 2020 10:44 PM (obo9H)
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Pixy, why not just get an extra keyboard & bring it with you when you go in? (I got tired years ago of the garbage keyboards Dells ship with and convinced my company to buy me a mechanical keyboard for my desktop. 
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Also, someday my Ergodox will get built & shipped, I'm just sure of it! I'll probably need to douse it in hand sanitizer, though.
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Also, someday my Ergodox will get built & shipped, I'm just sure of it! I'll probably need to douse it in hand sanitizer, though.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, May 07 2020 12:02 AM (Iwkd4)
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