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by RachelF 5y ago
Rapamycin can have bad side effects, especially on the kidneys and making the patient more susceptible to bacterial infections. Wise to look at dogs, if that is the case. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31586989/
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by RachelF 5y ago
"16 Physical Functions, 32 Virtual Functions" Does anyone know what this means in the specs?
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by RachelF 5y ago
However, looking at other Phoronix benchmarks, Windows beats Linux on Intel systems.
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Why does Lenovo sabotage its flagship ThinkPad X1-series?(notebookcheck.net)
3 points by RachelF 5y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 5y ago
"it's a digital disease"
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by RachelF 5y ago
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists released a long, but well argued article on the lab leak theory: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop... It appears the US was sponsoring "gain of fun
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by RachelF 5y ago
No, that's the opposite of how they work. They will say your 13 year old HD 4750 costs next to nothing these days. They compare like specs now with those last year, so technological progress is counted as deflation.
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by RachelF 5y ago
There's a lot of fiddling done on the numbers. One thing they do to keep CPI low is using "equivalent items". So if the iPhone 4 cost $500 ten years ago, and you can now buy an "equivalent" cheap Android from WalMar
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by RachelF 5y ago
or https://leakedreality.com/
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by RachelF 5y ago
In the very early years of home computers - 1982 you could buy the Jupiter Ace which ran FORTH instead of BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
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RISC-V International to give away 1k RISC-V development boards(cnx-software.com)
3 points by RachelF 5y ago|0 comments
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SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty(guru3d.com)
358 points by RachelF 5y ago|399 comments
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by RachelF 5y ago
Yes, each separate service wants to show you ads, hence each service has its own app.
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by RachelF 5y ago
Perhaps, however there are other indications of pre-columbian contact: Traces of nicotine and cocaine, both New World drugs, have been detected in Egyptian mummies. A counter argument is why would a pineapple have been brought over and not
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by RachelF 5y ago
We are already seeing inflation in the US. The Fed has chosen not to measure it - in their parlance they will "look through inflation".
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by RachelF 5y ago
An old joke: c - the speed of light, independent of the speed of the observer. w - the speed of Windows, independent of the speed of the hardware.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Most of your 32 bit extensions probably won't work on the 64 bit version. I'd wait a year or so before bug testing for Microsoft.
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Hard Drive and SSD Shortages Could Be Imminent If New Cryptocurrency Blooms(tomshardware.com)
10 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
Unlike most Linux distro's, the "ultimate edition" is not free.
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Huawei blames US for global chip supply crunch(asia.nikkei.com)
38 points by RachelF 6y ago|19 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
The errors that Matthew Walker make in "Why We Sleep" go beyond simple errors or conformation bias. The look like scientific fraud - inventing data.
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by RachelF 6y ago
The problem is that companies don't care about securing their data, because the data is not theirs, it is about their users. Mark Zuckerberg probably spends more on personal and family security and privacy than Facebook spends on their
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Mathematicians who unravelled computational complexity win Abel prize(newscientist.com)
8 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
It's a low profile bulletproof boat, looking at the air intakes and spikes on the prow, it is not designed with X-band stealth as a primary concern.
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Before the feds feared Bitcoin, they feared e-gold(reason.com)
4 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
a few months after the first fusion reactor starts producing power for the grid /s
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by RachelF 6y ago
If only they were not soldered on, they could be replaced.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Intel have well-documented processes: Page 1: Chemical alarms keep going off, remove them
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by RachelF 6y ago
In the early days of FB, they relied on Google Docs and Gmail. More importantly, they used pre-built social networks by letting you import your GMail contacts.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Many hiring managers read your CV for the first time during the interview.

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