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by RachelF 3y ago
Yes, in many ways it is not a well-written article for those outside the the field.
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by RachelF 3y ago
I worked for a company that did this in the 1990's. Small gas turbine, the size of two show boxes (200hp) powering a generator, which charged the batteries and/or electric motors. The advantages are efficiency, low weight and no g
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A Murder Story: Whatever Happened to Interoperability?(theamericanconservative.com)
2 points by RachelF 3y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 3y ago
I see from the article that: "Qualcomm has an exclusive on ARM laptops until the end of 2024" So no one else is allowed to make an ARM laptop chip?
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by RachelF 3y ago
Dell as well. In fact in 2007 Dell would have made a loss if it weren't for the Intel kickbacks.
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EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access(neowin.net)
300 points by RachelF 3y ago|124 comments
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by RachelF 3y ago
stream to a csv file!
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yes, this is what most people don't understand with data breaches: it's not the company's data, it's data on others. That's why they don't really care about protecting it.
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by RachelF 3y ago
A tiny penalty. The CIO got a $3M bonus, too. Odd thing is that she had a music degree and little experience in IT, but was an old friend of the board members.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yes, it is a continuous fight with Microsoft, though. They are pretty hostile to their end-users.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yes, TC is superb, almost 30 years old and still in development. For those who want to take TC even further, there is the TCUP project here: https://tcup.pl/news/
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by RachelF 3y ago
It's still legal in Spain, and kills vultures there.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Australia also relies on migration to keep wages down. This was paused during Covid, so there is more supply of people now.
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by RachelF 3y ago
The Sarbanes-Oxley act in ~2002 after the Enron mess made it harder to IPO with much more paperwork required.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Another factor is increased regulation: Big companies have an advantage that they can afford the lawyers to navigate the laws, often written by them via lobbyists.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Frankly, and with 20 years of hindsight, Bin Laden won. He has caused anti-Muslim feeling in the West, and demonstrated our weakness by badly losing the wars in Afghanistan and creating a mess in Iraq and Syria. He hated the US because of t
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by RachelF 3y ago
Paypal had it, then removed it, then added it again recently.
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by RachelF 3y ago
I agree, Dark Sun and Rhodes' other recent books are OK, but Dark Sun is not a good read. It's almost as if he had some notes left over and turned them into a book in a hurry.
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by RachelF 3y ago
Yeah, I've been in this game for 40+ years. Fads come and go. When I started 4GLs were going to take over everything. 10 years later it was SDDs and SDSs, then it was UML and it goes on to what's mentioned in the article. Perhaps
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by RachelF 3y ago
The early days (1996-2000) of the web Scientific American articles were fantastic for how they linked to source articles and explainers. Unfortunately, these days it is close to rubbish.
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by RachelF 3y ago
In truth it depends on the software. For web or phone or desktop apps which can be upgraded on the fly, short cycles are ok. On the other hand, Boeing's crappy software practices resulting in the 737-MAX crashes are an area where short
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by RachelF 3y ago
keys which Microsoft decided to bring back in their original Surface line.
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by RachelF 3y ago
I've been having to use both Outlook 365 and Thunderbird in the last few years. Thunderbird is way better than Outlook.
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by RachelF 4y ago
The thing is users are OK with poor performance. As the speed of computers increases, software speed remains pretty much the same. Teams is an Electron app, I think, so the whole thing needs a huge baseline in order to work. Being proud of
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Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed(theregister.com)
26 points by RachelF 4y ago|9 comments
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by RachelF 4y ago
No. The 8088/86 was similar in speed to the 6502, around 1.4x faster. The clock speed was higher (4.77 vs 1MHz) but it was generally less efficient. However, it was an easier machine to use. The Apple 2 was full of Woz shortcuts as the
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by RachelF 4y ago
This is one of the best articles about software and tech I have read in years!
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by RachelF 4y ago
Benefit is that SBF keeps quite about the not-so-legal "donations"? However he can only play that game so much until he ends up like Epstein.
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by RachelF 4y ago
Yes, the UK has supplied competent people to the world via emmigration for a long time. One wonders if the average intelligence of the place is going down?
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by RachelF 4y ago
I've been wishing that for the last 15 years.

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