Tuesday, November 02
Daily News Stuff 2 November 2021
Load Imbalancer Edition
Load Imbalancer Edition
Top Story
- An in-depth review of the Surface Pro8. (Thurrott.com
He judges it the best tablet PC you can buy, but there isn't that much competition right now. Apple doesn't make one, Dell's attempts kind of suck, and HP has a nice model but seems to hide it away where customers won't find it.
Tech News
- A new storage method can pack 500TB onto an optical disk using a technique known as notched quanta. (Tom's Hardware)
Albeit a glass disk rather than a more robust polymer like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays.
Downside is it writes at CD speed, and can't be pressed in bulk like existing formats. But they're working on it.
- Nvidia's rumoured video cards only with more RAM are rumoured again. (WCCFTech)
This time it's a 3070 Ti with 16GB and a 3080 with 12GB, because... I dunno.
- MangoDB is an, um, thing. (MangoDB)
It's an interface that talks MongoDB wire protocol on one side and PostgreSQL on the other. Which is, um, useful I guess.
- Complexity is killing software developers. (InfoWorld)
The solution is to throw Node.js developers into a volcano. It may or may not appease the Volcano God, but at least you'll be rid of the Node.js guys.
- Some older MacBooks are being bricked by the MacOS whatever update. (MacRumors)
"Well, don't do that then" applies.
As bad as Windows updates can be, they generally don't destroy your computer.
Disclaimer: Generally.
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I confess, I had to click on the MangoDB link, just to find out which direction it went.
The optical storage thingie doesn't appear to be a spinning disc, just a slab of glass, so I'm disappointed that they didn't shape it like a proper SFnal data crystal. I was really looking forward to our distant descendants finally breaking into the control room of the worldship and triumphantly inserting the data crystal that they won back from the Prog tribe, only to discover that they've got a copy of Tumblr. Asteroids fall, everyone dies.
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The optical storage thingie doesn't appear to be a spinning disc, just a slab of glass, so I'm disappointed that they didn't shape it like a proper SFnal data crystal. I was really looking forward to our distant descendants finally breaking into the control room of the worldship and triumphantly inserting the data crystal that they won back from the Prog tribe, only to discover that they've got a copy of Tumblr. Asteroids fall, everyone dies.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, November 02 2021 11:53 PM (ZlYZd)
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When you get a minute (ha!), Brickmuppet's getting spam-hammered again. It's all the same Hammad Amir guy who's hit you a few times too.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, November 03 2021 05:26 AM (Z0GF0)
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