• SSD prices are expected to fall below 10¢ per GB which is a safe bet because they already have.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  
• 28 cores and six-channel RAM on Mini-ITX.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Haha, I said, no, the CPU supports six-channel RAM but the motherboard does...  Does?  
  
  There's two models.  Both have four SO-DIMM slots on top in the usual place.  One version has two M.2 slots on the underside; the other has two SO-DIMM slots in the same place.
  
  So yes, they got it right.
  
  
• How did John Brunner get the future world of Stand on Zanzibar "spookily accurate"?  (BBC)
  
  The secret is that unlike the BBC, he could do arithmetic.
  
  
• How does an ancient quad-core 2600K compare to a modern eight core 9700K?  (AnandTech)
  
  If you're gaming at 720p, the latest CPUs are twice as fast.  If you're gaming at 1440p or higher, the differences are miniscule.
  
  If you're doing something other than gaming, though, it's night and day.  If your workload is multi-threaded, the new CPUs can be more than three times as fast.
  
  
• Windows 10 is active on 825 million devices.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Only eight of those are me, I think.  Including virtual machines.
  
  
• It is impossible to improve upon this headline:
  
  Rolled Out! Devs Kick Artist Off Project for Misgendering a Non-Binary Rat.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  
• In their efforts to prevent social network interference with political campaigns, YouTube has demonetised EU Parliament candidate Carl Benjamin's entire account.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  That's Sargon of Akkad.
  
  
  
  
  
• A sufficiently determined programmer can write C in any language.
  
      require "lib_c"
    require "c/stdio"

    LibC.printf pointerof("HELLO!\n".@c)
  
  That's Crystal.  It doesn't normally look like that, but if you really want to...

Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, May 12 2019 05:42 AM (Iwkd4)

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