Tuesday, December 31
Daily News Stuff 31 December 2019
Last Day Of The Second Last Year Of The Second Decade Of The First Century Of The Third Millennium Edition
Last Day Of The Second Last Year Of The Second Decade Of The First Century Of The Third Millennium Edition
Tech News
- Mark Papermaster of AMD says there's more where that came from. (AnandTech)
The interview is irritatingly vague because you only really want to as a C-suite exec about future products and they can't talk about that without inviting a visit from the SEC.
- Meanwhile, here's a fanless Epyc desktop. (AnandTech)
The heatsink alone weighs 2.5kg.
- Police are getting a clue and keeping a registry of swatting targets. (TechDirt)
It's another damn thing that emergency responders have to check on, but it will save lives, and hopefully some bastiches will end up having a lot of time to reflect on their life choices.
- Horrible company Uber has sued horrible state California over the horrible law that protects gig workers from exploitation by denying them their gigs. (Bloomberg)
California, could you do us all a favour and slide quietly beneath the Pacific? Thanks.
- The Chinese scientist who created genetically modified human babies has been banned from creating any more genetically modified human babies. (Bloomberg)
And sent to prison for three years.
- France will monitor your social media posts to check that you are not under-reporting your income. (Reuters)
As Isaac Asimov said, Welcome to the goldfish bowl.
- Updating the template parser for the new system. I wrote some code for this a few years ago but never got it into production. Dug it out today, and turns out (a) it worked perfectly and (b) it runs cleanly under Python 3.6 which didn't even exist at the time I wrote the code. So score one for past me.
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Disclaimer: There was no year zero.
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