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by RachelF 2y ago
Thank you for that detailed explanation!
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by RachelF 2y ago
How were the active parts "buried deep inside the semiconductor crystal" of BJTs? Surely doping is a surface phenomenon?
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by RachelF 2y ago
indeed, it is hard to compete on quality in the long term.
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by RachelF 2y ago
I suspect that modern CPUs will not have the lifespan of a Z80 of 6502.
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Z80 is dead – The chip that changed my world – and yours(theregister.com)
8 points by RachelF 2y ago|2 comments
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by RachelF 2y ago
Their Alumni have infested many big corps now, including Sundar Pichai who rules Google.
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by RachelF 2y ago
When a reporter asked [ex] Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about encryption: “Won’t the laws of mathematics trump the laws of Australia?” Mr. Turnbull reportedly responded: “Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, the wise will stay away from any Atlassian product like Confluence and Jira.
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by RachelF 3y ago
It is the same with military history. Many wars are lost because of blunders, often your military can do more damage to itself than an enemy can do.
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by RachelF 3y ago
I am sceptical, too. There are no efficiency numbers on their website, just marketing boilerplate. In terms of pure frontal area, their design looks fatter. Would be interesting to see some drag data from wind tunnel tests.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Take a look at the spec. The speeds are so high that they use some modem channel characterization features on the memory bus. Linus was right about ECC being needed, with higher capacities and speeds and reduced feature size it's becom
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by RachelF 3y ago
It's been happening for a long time. Back when one had to rip CDs I was surprised by how many recordings clipped. It wasn't just pop, good classical studios like Deutshe Gramaphon also did it.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Reminds me of Germany in WW2 where citizens would get locked up or worse for listening to the BBC to get non-government approved news.
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The Proxinator: an appliance that comes pre-installed with Linux and Proxmox(theregister.com)
2 points by RachelF 3y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yeah, Fractint was great. The VGA color palette cycling was trippy. In the mid 1980's I typed in a Mandlebrot set program from a magazine. It was for the Apple 2, written in BASIC. It took around 12 hours to generate a 280x192 monochro
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by RachelF 3y ago
Very true, Windows has gotten worse faster than Linux has got better. Windows being so bad has pushed people to find a better OS.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Don't forget the US government was spying on the French to get Airbus commercial contract details for Boeing.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Dbeaver has quite a few Java annoyances. Windows don't resize properly, the tree list often requires multiple clicks and most annoying of all is running out of heap space on Java, especially if one tries to run more than one task at a
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by RachelF 3y ago
The free version supports a few, but you need to pay $500 a year if you to talk to more databases or want security or cloud features: https://dbeaver.com/edition/ It's a great tool, though, a bit buggy but most us
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by RachelF 3y ago
Quats are widely used in eyedrops as a preservative. Some companies have started to remove them recently.
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by RachelF 3y ago
My 5950x idles at 35W. It's a known problem with AMD. It isn't the CPUs using the power its the uncore/SoC that eats the power.
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by RachelF 3y ago
The main problem with the AMD 5000 series is their high idle (non-core) power draw of around 20 to 30W. AMD have reduced this in their 7000 series.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yes, I had the same thought. The DNA data is completely uncalibrated. From the NYT article, it looks like they've beaten the DNA data until it supports their hypothesis.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yeah, AMD look like idiots for doing this. Either they are very stupid, or open sourcing the library stops NVidia from suing them in a repeat of the Oracle/Google lawsuit over Java APIs? I'm not sure what the reason is?
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Unmodified Nvidia CUDA apps can now run on AMD GPUs thanks to ZLUDA(videocardz.com)
12 points by RachelF 3y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 3y ago
No, they were on the boat, they just mis-managed it. They used to make Arm chips, but sold it off just before the first iPhone was released as they saw no future in mobile CPUs. Same with network processors for routers around the same time.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yeah, we built a similar system a generation ago using FireWire on x86 and Linux. FireWire at 800Mbps beat Gigabit Ethernet in terms of latency for a rather hard real-time system.
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by RachelF 3y ago
A big reason for not updating avionics to more secure versions is price. Anything that is qualified to fly is very expensive.
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Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come(theregister.com)
33 points by RachelF 3y ago|17 comments
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by RachelF 3y ago
Me too - strangely, one of the reasons I stay on Windows is Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com/ ) - it is just so useful.

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