AMD Ryzen 3000 Announced – 12 cores for $499, coming 7/7

AMD Ryzen 3000 Announced – 12 cores for $499, coming 7/7

Among other things, AMD is unveiling its new Ryzen 9 product tier, which it is using for its 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X processor, and which runs at 4.6 GHz boost. The Ryzen 9 3900X is the new mainstream desktop flagship, although AMD clearly has enough headroom on this design to enable a full 16 cores. AMD ‘Matisse’ Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs

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32 Ryzen 7 3700X is an eight core, sixteen thread CPU with a 3.6 GHz base frequency and a 4.4 GHz turbo frequency.

Source: www.anandtech.com

Annette Kellerman – the modern swimmer for modern women

Annette Kellerman – the modern swimmer for modern women

Known as the ‘Diving Venus’ and the ‘Australian Mermaid’, Annette Kellerman (1887–1975) was an athlete as well as a vaudeville and movie star, one of the most famous women of her day. In 1905, holding all the world records for women’s swimming, Kellerman set off for London with her father. Theatre magazine’s review said:

Kellerman was famous for her advocacy of the right of women to wear a one-piece swimsuit.

Source: web.archive.org

5G Is Bullshit

5G Is Bullshit

Everyone — the wireless industry, Democrats, Republicans, the major media, you name it — frames the building of next-generation 5G networks as a “race” in which the United States needs to demonstrate “leadership.” The other main argument for winning the “race” to 5G is that having the world’s best and fastest networks will create new economic opportunities for businesses of all kinds — we’ll enable self-driving cars and telemedicine and all the other stuff you hear about during interminable 5G slideshows at trade conferences. The “race” is to there to make serious trade-offs seem worth it so we can “win”

And once the “race” to build out 5G in big cities is “won,” the pressure to expand access to other places in the country will vanish, making that divide even worse.

Source: www.theverge.com

Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects

Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects

Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds. In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Lieutenant Graves and four other Navy pilots, who said in interviews with The New York Times that they saw the objects in 2014 and 2015 in training maneuvers from Virginia to Florida off the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, make no assertions of their provenance.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Scientists uncover exotic matter in the sun’s atmosphere

Scientists uncover exotic matter in the sun’s atmosphere

Scientists from Ireland and France today announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme conditions of the Sun’s atmosphere. “We worked closely with scientists at the Paris Observatory and performed observations of the Sun with a large radio telescope located in Nançay in central France. We combined the radio observations with ultraviolet cameras on NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft to show that plasma on the sun can often emit radio light that pulses like a light-house.

Source: phys.org

“Wow – what is that?” Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects

“Wow – what is that?” Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects

Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds. In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Lieutenant Graves and four other Navy pilots, who said in interviews with The New York Times that they saw the objects in 2014 and 2015 in training maneuvers from Virginia to Florida off the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, make no assertions of their provenance.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Dependabot Is Now Free and It’s Amazing

Dependabot Is Now Free and It’s Amazing

Immediately after installing, Dependabot opened 5 PRs for our repository, proposing bumps to a number of crusty, out of dates gems. With Review Apps configured in StatusGator, we can quickly and easily launch a temporary instance of each of Dependabot’s dependency bump PRs. Since those edits are pushed to the Dependabot branches, could GitHub run static analysis on the code, find those breaking changes, and incorporate the updates themselves?

Source: nimbleindustries.io

Lisp on Bare Metal for Makers

Lisp on Bare Metal for Makers

The MakerLisp Machine is a portable, modular computer system,  designed to recapture the feel of classic computing, with modern hardware. 5/18/2019: Great Hackaday / Tindie meetup Saturday night after a day at the Bay Area Maker Faire, showed the machine, and met so many great people sharing their cool projects:

5/1/2019: Playing games on the MakerLisp Machine ! This talk is a little dense but if you’re interested, there’s a bunch of information about the machine and the MakerLisp software system.

Source: makerlisp.com

Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook’s Dirty Tricks

Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook’s Dirty Tricks

“But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I’m sure a lot of leaders and public figures we respect do too, and I just don’t think that it is the right thing to say, ‘We’re going to take someone off the platform if they get things wrong, even multiple times.’’ Mr. Zuckerberg’s own pile of dumb mistakes were the same thing as anti-Semitic lies?

Source: www.nytimes.com

Scrum is fragile, not Agile

Scrum is fragile, not Agile

Isn’t Scrum the number one Agile software development process?” I am not sure if this was historically always the case, but if the author’s of the Scrum Guide do not claim that Scrum is Agile, then we would already be done with the first part of this blog post. I would like to finish this post with a bit of my personal view regarding software development, Agile and Scrum.

Source: www.dennisweyland.net