RachelF

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   Genetically modified tobacco plant produces cocaine in its leaves(newscientist.com)

   3 points by RachelF 4y ago|0 comments
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   by RachelF 4y ago

   The dangers are to modern stealth aircraft like the F-35. They optimize the stealth to work in the ~5-20GHz range. They are easy to pick up in the UHF and lower band, although at these lower frequencies much accuracy is lost. This is how NA
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   Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Nov. 12 and Nov. 13(eff.org)

   9 points by RachelF 4y ago|1 comments
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   by RachelF 4y ago

   Yes, it is great. I have to use Outlook 365 and am surprised how much better Thunderbird is than Microsoft's offering.
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   by RachelF 4y ago

   I've used Thunderbird with GMail for years, using POP, not IMAP. It works well. However, in the last few months, the GMail Spam filtering service has stopped working with POP. Items marked as Spam in GMail still get downloaded. I guess
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   by RachelF 4y ago

   Intel has been doing the opposite - borrowing money and using profits to do $70B in share buybacks. The executives get better short term returns on this than by spending money on R&D.
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   by RachelF 4y ago

   There were rumours that Wordperfect lost their source code of Version 5.0
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   by RachelF 4y ago

   Once bitten, twice shy? MS released Windows on ARM with Windows 8. It them abandoned it and the users.
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   by RachelF 4y ago

   Great for writing terms of service small print!
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    You also get cameras that take micro-SD cards and can write video to that as well as streaming it.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    One reason may be that Teams is an Electron app. There's a huge stack of APIs between you and your headphones.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Things would have been a bit harder for Boeing if they'd killed more US citizens instead of mostly Ethiopians and Indonesians.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    The Economist writing is not what it used to be. I've noticed many more grammatical errors and bad writing in the last 4 years. Perhaps they have fewer editors?
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Except the small statically linked executable. C# needs .NET which has its very own circle of dll hell with compatibility and confusion version numbers for your users.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    It is probably because judges don't want to send their colleagues to jail. Same with big corporations, they can sign a "deferred prosecution agreement" pay a fine and CEO ever goes to jail.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    James web can see in the infra-red. Light from long ago is shifted into this band. Hubble could not see as far into the infra-red.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Yes, this is the crux of the matter. Forget the ad-hominem "he's a known crank" arguments. He raises valid questions in his article, if he's a crank, then refute his facts or conclusions.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    There's a law of economics [1] that describes how bad products drive out good ones if they look the same: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    I am familiar with a product that did this. At 600 dpi we stored 1.8M of data on an A4 page with ~30% ECC codes. QR codes were not designed for this. To get this reliable there were many image processing, coding and practical issues to solv
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    HP did the same with their CD writers in the late 1990's. They would only write a certain number of CDs and then would fail. Reflashing the ROM counter would fix the issue.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Steve and Bill, ironically.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    At the same time as this Apple deal, Microsoft also invested around $100M in another semi-competitor, Borland. Borland had an office suite and a bunch of developer tools that competed with Microsoft. I guess the Apple investment turned out
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    There's a great 3rd party upgrade to it. Best for power users: https://www.tcup.pl/index.php/en/ To continue with the 1990's vibe, Mr T would "pity the fool who don't use TCUP"
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    The end of Optane is bad news(theregister.com)

    270 points by RachelF 4y ago|249 comments
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Odd that lobbying is legal, while bribery is not. Are they not both the same thing?
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Thanks for that!
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Why no line numbers?
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Economists are modern astrologers. The GFC proved that most of them know nothing.
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    ah, thanks for that!
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    by RachelF 4y ago

    Impressive page layout for a paper from 1961!