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It's the Queen's Birthday long weekend in certain parts of Oz. The last two long weekends here marked the start and the end of the problems related to the datacenter fire, so I not only didn't get long weekends then, I didn't get weekends at all. This time it looks like I'll at least get the normal two days off.
I need to configure some new servers tomorrow, but they'll make my life a lot easier. And make our newly hired sysadmin's life a lot easier, which will make my life even more easier.
This doesn't mean that support and bugfixes will stop then, but it does indicate that there's an entirely new version of Windows on its way.
We'll see what that brings. As long as they don't drop 32-bit application support like MacOS. I doubt that will happen, because there's still a 32-bit version of Windows and that can still run ancient 16-bit apps.
Anime of the day is Kamichu! from 2005. It's the story of Yurie Hitotsubashi, who wakes up one morning to discover that she's become a god. That is, a kami in the Shinto tradition, a minor supernatural being, not the creator deity.
She doesn't know what she's the god of, though, so she tries some experiments with her friends, and soon finds out.
It's lovingly drawn and animated, almost Ghibliesque in its art style, and the story just follows Yurie's daily life as she navigates her new responsibilities and tries to avoid inadvertent natural disasters.
Interesting too is that the show is set in a very specific time and place, from 1983 to 1984 in the city of Onomichi on Japan's Inland Sea. The background illustrations of the city take great care to capture that particular period.
That would be great if you could use it in your own desktop builds. But because this is Intel and we can't have nice things, that's not possible. It's a surface-mount BGA package and only useful to OEMs.
Think of it as 5.2GHz. Technically it's half that because all memory these days is DDR - double data rate, transferring two bits of data per clock - but it doesn't matter unless you're actually designing hardware yourself.
Since the idea behind HBM - high bandwidth memory - is that it would run at relatively low clocks but use very wide buses - 1024 bits for a single chip - pushing the clock up to 5.2GHz makes it very fast indeed.
GDDR6X can currently reach 19GHz, but those chips are only 32 bits wide.
The company has already expanded earlier expansion plans and is looking to build as many as six leading-edge fabs - chip factories - in the US, but those would produce raw silicon dies that would need to be shipped to another factory to be packaged. On this scale adding local packaging facilities makes sense.
Also, the first of the new buildings looks like a WiFi router. I mean, you can see the ventilation slots and the RJ-45 ports and everything.
Before you scoff - I mean, go ahead and scoff anyway, just before that - they won the prize for documenting China's genocide of the Uyghurs. The New York Times won the same prize for covering up the Soviet genocide in Ukraine.
It's progress. It's not much progress, but its something.
No, I don't know why. Water getting too hot with the recent spate of high-profile hacks? More profitable avenues to pursue? Government funding dried up? Don't know.
It's not the dumbest thing they've ever done, not even close, but the three big companies lobbying for this handout have a combined market cap over $5 trillion.
Amazon hates this. Real companies that actually get sued for selling fake products are strongly in favour.
Radeon 6800 and 6800 XT cards seem to be back in stock after going missing for several weeks. Supply is still limited, but they are there, and prices for the 6700 XT are heading back down into the troposphere with the higher-end cards trailing behind. The 6900 XT is still about 20% higher than it was a few weeks ago, but hopefully that will correct itself soon.
I might get a new PC this year after all. I'm currently running on a Ryzen 1700 and a Radeon 580; I'm looking at a 5900X and a 6700 XT for the new build. That would be about 2.5 times as fast.
Nvidia, as yet, need not apply. The RTX 3060 is currently priced as high as the 6700 XT despite being a much slower card.
Satellites Anime Music Video of the Day
Not technically groundbreaking but I love the energy of this one.
Disclaimer: The creator of that AMV said he just wanted to put some clips from his favourite anime together before his hard drive exploded. Mission accomplished.