Daily Tech News 2 January 2023

• Boom Supersonic has announced the unveiling of a drawing of a proposed design for a planned engine for its supersonic passenger jet. (Space)
  
  Which is to say, they have nothing.
  
  
  
• Commenters like to press little wooden downvote buttons as a form of play, study finds. (Ars Technica)
  
  These people make sphex wasps look like an improv comedy troupe.
  
  
  
• Pixy is currently watching Natsuki Subaru Dies a Lot.
  
  I want to get to the new stuff but it's been a few years so I'm watching from the beginning. I'd forgotten how dark the witch cult arc of the story was.
  
  
  

• GeIL stands for Golden Emperor International, Limited. (PC Perspective)
  
  I didn't know that. Oh, and they've announced 8GHz DDR5 modules. I'm not sure how much benefit that provides, and if you have more than two modules in your system the actual speeds will drop precipitously, but they exist.
  
  
  
• If the 4070 Ti sells for $799 it will basically be half a 4090 for half the price. (WCCFTech)
  
  40 TFLOPs vs. 80 TFLOPs, and 12GB of RAM vs 24GB. That makes it significantly better value than the 4080.
  
  Still costs $799 of course. Good value doesn't necessarily mean good sense.
  
  
  
• Southwest Airlines' computer systems are crap. (New York Times)
  
  Southwest Airlines' management? Also crap. You can't create a mess of that magnitude just because one piece of software fails. Your corporate structure has to be fundamentally screwed up.
  
  
  
• The rise of monolithic software. (IT Next)
  
  I appreciate this honesty:

  What is the solution? I am not really offering a solution. I wrote this article primarily to clarify why I don't like modern software very much.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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