Daily Tech News 15 November 2021

• PixyLab TNG: 24 cores, 176GB RAM, 10TB SSD, 100TB HDD, and 30 million pixels of glorious 95% DCI-P3 colour.
  
  Just... Not all in one system.
  
  
  
• No qubits though. IBM has announced a new quantum computer with 127 qubits. (Bloomberg)
  
  This allows it to do, um, stuff. In theory the compute capacity of a quantum computer is exponential with the number of qubits, so this should be able to do almost anything - like find the password for your crypto wallet containing 50 Bitcoin. Or find the password for someone else's crypto wallet containing 50 Bitcoin.
  
  In practice, well, not a whole lot seems to be happening.
  
  
  

• yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, Mojave 10.14.4+, Catalina 10.15.0+ and Big Sur 11.0.1. (GitHub)

  It automatically modifies your window layout using a binary space partitioning algorithm to allow you to focus on the content of your windows without distractions.
  
  A flexible and easy-to-grok command line interface allows you to control and query windows, spaces and displays to enable powerful integration with tools like ↗ skhd to allow you to work more efficiently with macOS. Create custom keybindings to control windows, spaces and displays in practically no time and get your hands off the mouse and trackpad and back onto the keyboard where actual work gets done.

  Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to learn to speak English.
  
  
  
• Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work. (eta)
  
  Rust is a systems programming language. Systems are not asynchronous, not in that sense. They just aren't; that's not how computers work. Use threads, or use a different language.
  
  
  
• Used tractors are the new GPU. (Bloomberg)
  
  There aren't enough of them to go around and the price index is at a record high. The difference is that if there aren't enough tractors, that affects more than some kid's score in League of Apex.
  
  
  
• Speaking of GPUs, Serve the Home tried out some GPU servers.
  
  Four cards - or rather, modules.
  Eight cards.
  Ten cards.
  
  And, uh, 3.5" drive bays. Why? Who is going to pair 500 TFLOPS of compute capacity with spinning rust?

posted by Pixy Misa at 03:26 AM

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