Monday, September 13
Daily News Stuff 13 September 2021
Pyrrhus Phone Home Edition
A nice illustration of how making one element of a system better can make the overall system worse. The example is a little contrived for simplicity, but this has really happened in the real world, such as it is.
Disclaimer: New worlds for old!
Pyrrhus Phone Home Edition
Top Story
- Apple won a battle to lose the war. (500ish)
An interesting examination of the recent ruling that suggests Apple is incapable of doing what is needed to avoid further antitrust cases - which they will eventually lose.
- Another look at the Apple ruling. (MacStories)
This one gets key facts immediately and comically wrong, spinning wildly in Apple's favour, and even it says that Apple lost.
- Ethereum sucks. I don't mean the ecosystem or the inflationary nature or the weird cult followers or any of that, I mean the technical implementation of the blockchain. It's fucking garbage.
Tech News
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to reinvent XML, badly. (KDL)
We don't need a JSON alternative that is simultaneously more complicated and less powerful than JSON.
- Nvidia might be bringing back the RTX 2060 - only with double the memory. (Tom's Hardware)
With capacity constraints and products selling out as fast as they can make them, no-one is in a rush to bring out new low-end video cards. But if you already have the chips - or the capacity, since the 2060 was built on an older 12nm process - then maybe adding it back in to the product line is not a terrible idea.
- Why Firefox is losing users. (It's FOSS)
Because, in short, they write bad code and hate their users.
Second Order Problem Video of the Day
A nice illustration of how making one element of a system better can make the overall system worse. The example is a little contrived for simplicity, but this has really happened in the real world, such as it is.
Disclaimer: New worlds for old!
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I am still stuck with using Firefox (Older version, before it went totally garbage.) most of the time because of one single feature which not even the mighty Edge has. However, when I have over hundred links in most of the folders of my Favorites, I like to be able to scroll through my Favorite sub-folder, click a link or turn to do something, before going back to scrolling through the folder from where I was last. If I click a link or turn to do something else while scrolling through my Favorites in Edge, I have to start the scroll from the beginning the next time around.
Posted by: cxt217 at Tuesday, September 14 2021 09:21 AM (MuaLM)
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Yeah, the Chrome bookmark management UI is just plain bad.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, September 14 2021 10:55 AM (PiXy!)
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