RachelF

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by RachelF 3y ago
It's not a myth, I've been involved in these sort of negotiations. The particular industry was maybe 10 years older than Google, but the number of patents, rather than their quality was the key factor.
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by RachelF 3y ago
In fact they have the opposite effect on smaller players. The big players all have a few thousand (junk) patents and they make deals with each other to exclude the smaller players, who can't afford to file thousands of patents to join
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by RachelF 3y ago
True, I was being glib, but the devil's in the details here - unfortunately, it was very hard to use after Microsoft bought it. It became unreliable, and the licensing was hard to understand for customers who wanted to use it.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Windows NT 3.x and 4 were Posix complaint. In the mid-1990's there were a few vendors that sold products that let you run full X11 apps on NT. Microsoft bought and extinguished the largest one: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by RachelF 3y ago
Hard to tell. Google does lose data, but they aren't going to own up to it. Anecdotally, I use a different Google Drive client (Syncdocs) and haven't lost anything. However, I don't know what % of users are affected.
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by RachelF 3y ago
It's a good language, better and safer than C/C++. However, Microsoft has messed it up in multiple ways: - It was great for Windows desktop applications, then they came out with Silverlight which then got abandoned. - It has its o
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by RachelF 3y ago
Nice app and writeup - but she won't have a radar - she'll have an app that displays the positions of airplanes. A true radar needs to transmit and receive. The SDR is still just listening to the telemetry from the plane, which th
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by RachelF 3y ago
True, but it's always good to have a backup of Google Drive through something like Syncdocs or Duplicati.
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by RachelF 3y ago
I've had a similar experience. VMWare Workstation (desktop edition) is faster and more polished than VirtualBox. I'd like to try it all on top of ProxMox one day.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Looks nice, but the pricing is steep, and the subscription model has drawbacks as other commenters have mentioned. Perhaps consider a limited free version, say 1000 rows and 10 tables as a limit. The positive side of this is that it will pu
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by RachelF 3y ago
It's called the registry. A very long linked list data structure designed to scare experts into using another OS. This process takes time as despair finally wins against hope.
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by RachelF 3y ago
They did warn you - they put the words "Extreme Pro" in the name. I guess the "Extreme Pro" solder reflowing skillz are required ;-)
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by RachelF 3y ago
and if you want some rather funny videos on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reasontv+uninte...
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by RachelF 3y ago
Good points.
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by RachelF 3y ago
He's not an idiot, perhaps a smart crook?
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by RachelF 3y ago
If China's military use is the concern here, then it is worth remembering that most weapons systems don't contain the most modern chips. CPUs 10 to 20 years old are common.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Sadly, the letter would be more effective if it included a large "donation" check, for an amount greater than those Intel is writing.
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by RachelF 3y ago
I've sometimes wondered how they get the non-stick Teflon to stick to the metal pan base?
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yep, it is odd that the CPUs on Raspberry Pis have so little documentation.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yep, I was about to say that. Much modern software is written in incredibly inefficient non-compiled languages, but it is easy for developers. The same goes with app size, cos hard drive space and bandwidth are almost free.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Here's a very simple example of the problem: - landlord gets a loan on a building, say 10 shops at $100 - 3 of them go under and are empty, total income still $700, 3 empty ones still valued at $100 - if he rents out those 3 for $50, t
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by RachelF 3y ago
True, I wonder how much power the inefficient "Windows Update" uses every month, too. I can hear the fans on my Windows machine spin up, and I know it's Windows Update time.
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by RachelF 3y ago
I wonder what the CO2 emissions of all these ads are?
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yes, I stand corrected, the M.52 not the M.1 Late and postwar co-operation between the US and UK involved much reneging by the US. Nuclear weapons, V2 rocket research and afterburning jet engines come to mind. Some US loans to the UK were c
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by RachelF 3y ago
The failure is primarily due to stagnation in single core speed improvements since 2003, compared to previous decades. Yes we have more cores now, and single cores have got faster, but nothing like the scale of the 1990's when raw cloc
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by RachelF 3y ago
The UK's version of Chuck Yeager in more ways than one. There are some good documentaries on him on Youtube, and his book "Wings on my Sleeve" is interesting. He might have been the first person to break the sound barrier if
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by RachelF 3y ago
There were rumours that the DX and SX chips were exactly the same: Intel zapped the FPU on the SX to disable it. Apparently it cost more to make, but sold for less.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yes, it is a huge jump to assume the were cold blooded, rather than slow growing, or seasonal depending on the plants they ate. There's a lot of mammalian metabolism that stops working at room temperature.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Some hang gliders have a Jesus clip at the top, holding all the wire wing struts to the frame. Old kite surfers had a Jesus rope, that you pulled to collapse the canopy and stop you flying away in a gust.
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Washington Is Using China to Destroy Open Source(interconnect.substack.com)
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