Ambient Irony

Monday, January 02

Daily News Stuff 2 January 2023

Supersonic Bees Edition

Top Story

Boom Supersonic has announced the unveiling of a drawing of a proposed design for a planned engine for its supersonic passenger jet. (Space)

Which is to say, they have nothing.
Commenters like to press little wooden downvote buttons as a form of play, study finds. (Ars Technica)

These people make sphex wasps look like an improv comedy troupe.
Pixy is currently watching Natsuki Subaru Dies a Lot.

I want to get to the new stuff but it's been a few years so I'm watching from the beginning. I'd forgotten how dark the witch cult arc of the story was.
TMI: My pee has faded from high alert pink back to moderate caution yellow. Not sure what I did to deserve this because I've managed to avoid a bad bout of kidney stones for years and I haven't changed my routine with respect to fluid intake. This lot at least seem to be manageably small, just multitudinous.

Tech News

GeIL stands for Golden Emperor International, Limited. (PC Perspective)

I didn't know that. Oh, and they've announced 8GHz DDR5 modules. I'm not sure how much benefit that provides, and if you have more than two modules in your system the actual speeds will drop precipitously, but they exist.
If the 4070 Ti sells for $799 it will basically be half a 4090 for half the price. (WCCFTech)

40 TFLOPs vs. 80 TFLOPs, and 12GB of RAM vs 24GB. That makes it significantly better value than the 4080.

Still costs $799 of course. Good value doesn't necessarily mean good sense.
Southwest Airlines' computer systems are crap. (New York Times)

Southwest Airlines' management? Also crap. You can't create a mess of that magnitude just because one piece of software fails. Your corporate structure has to be fundamentally screwed up.
The rise of monolithic software. (IT Next)

I appreciate this honesty:
What is the solution? I am not really offering a solution. I wrote this article primarily to clarify why I don’t like modern software very much.

Man With No Sense of Smell Creates Smelliest Chemical Known to Man Video of the Day

Nigel: (sniffs chemical) Yeah, it's not all that bad.

Cameraman: (dies)

Special Bonus Post-New Year Kidney Stone Blues Do Not Try This at Home Video of the Day

Hey, YouTube? You suck.

Click on the link; it's short and it's worth it.

Disclaimer: Do not try this at home. Try this at someone else's home.

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1 on 12/30/2022 at oldnfo dot org, 'Old NFO' shared something from a friend at SWA about a decade and a half of SWA management getting more and more lost.

I'm not sure I want to hear the NYT's version.

Are they blaming promotion and retention of senior leadership that were accounting and not operations?

Posted by: Pat Buckman at Tuesday, January 03 2023 04:04 AM (r9O5h)

2 interesting new claim in the comments there.

Apparent the start of the cascade of problems was Denver, and involved covid policy.

If true, this is very interesting.

Colorado is one of the minority of states where the Democrat fraud set up leaves them feeling very secure, and hence maybe correlated to a lot of capricious malice in covid policy.

Posted by: Pat Buckman at Tuesday, January 03 2023 04:14 AM (r9O5h)

3 Regarding the TMI: Do you drink tap water or is all of your fluid intake from bottled sources? If it's the former, then your new house may have harder water than where you used to live, and that might be the difference.

Posted by: three-humped camel at Wednesday, January 04 2023 01:10 AM (tZjYc)

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