Daily Tech News 30 October 2022

• Nvidia's RTX 4090 is a power-hungry monster - unless you ask it not to be. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The reviewers put the card through benchmarks of four games with the power budget set from 50% to 120% of stock, in 10% increments.
  
  At 70% power you lose about 5% in performance, while bringing power consumption down from 450W to a little over 300W. They really have this thing dialed to the absolute max, even though that buys very little.
  
  
  
• Ghostbusters movies ranked from best to worst for Halloween:
  
  1. Ghostbusters, 1984
  2. Ghostbusters Afterlife, 2021
  3. Ghostbusters 2, 1989
  4 - 999,997. Almost a million other movies, most of which have little or nothing to do with ghosts.
  999,998. Ghostbusters 2016
  999,999. Naked, a Netflix original with a justifiable 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, and easily the worst film I have ever watched. Which also has nothing to do with ghosts, it's just really bad.
  
  
  

• What did you get done this week?
  
  

  Parag Agrawal texts Elon Musk
  
  April 9, 2022 pic.twitter.com/40bP9RDCSA

  — Internal Tech Emails (@TechEmails) September 29, 2022

  
  Parag Agrawal, in his entire term as CEO of Twitter, does not seem to have done anything.
  
  
  
• The Washington Post has an article about the transition at Twitter, but to quote Ben Rhodes' one factual statement, they literally know nothing. Also the story is written in part by Taylor Lorenz, the second least honest person in all of journalism.
  
  
  
• Teenagers are watching videos by idiots on social media and diagnosing themselves with rare and bizarre forms of mental illness, leading to inappropriate and even dangerous treatments when doctors are not aware of this social contagion. (The New York Times)

  And when clients become fixated on a particular diagnosis, providers say they must walk the fine line between offering a reality check and finding a way to support their client by chopping his dick off.

  Well, I might have edited that very slightly.
  
  Ctrl-F gender.
  
  0 results.
  
  Of course, this has been going on a lot longer than TikTok. It's just a convenient target to blame, when the primary culprit in this is the media itself.
  
  
  
• The inventor of assembly language has passed away at the age of 1100100. (The Telegraph / MSN)
  
  Kathleen Booth was an early computer scientist - her degree was in applied mathematics because there were no computer science degrees in 1947 - and worked as the programmer for a British team building some of the very first von Neumann architecture systems. Which is, basically, every computer in the world today.
  
  Her last research paper, on neural networks, was published in 1993.
  
  
  
• The Go programming language is great, let's change it. (Medium)
  
  I don't like Go all that much. I call it hipster COBOL, because that's what it is. Not that COBOL doesn't have its place; the problem is the hipsters.
  
  
  

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