RachelF

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by RachelF 3mo ago
Yes, Australia destroys his whole argument. They went the Swiss way with a single provider (NBN). But then broke it badly when a major lobbyist (Rupert Murdoch) wanted to kill streaming competition for as long as possible.
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by RachelF 3mo ago
Yes, at the time the Commodore drive was jokingly referred to as "the Cadillac of disk drives" - long and slow.
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by RachelF 3mo ago
Age verification is just one part of this crackdown. Device attestation is another - making sure you're using an unmodified government approved operating system and apps linked to your ID.
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by RachelF 3mo ago
No, not if it involves a web browser. Most web sites today will not work on a 2012 web browser. The PC stopped existing in isolation, for most useful tasks now, it needs an Internet connection.
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by RachelF 3mo ago
In some way it is short-sited, as radio is a good backup medium for global communications in case the entire Internet ever goes down. Vacuum tubes also aren't vulnerable to nuclear weapon electro-magnetic pulses. However, other than ha
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by RachelF 3mo ago
Every PCIe 10G ethernet card I've seen has a heatsink on it, sometimes covering the entire card or even have little fans on the heatsink. Expecting it to work full time in a laptop is a bit of a stretch of the heat dissipation budget.
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by RachelF 3mo ago
Thank you for that link!
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by RachelF 3mo ago
And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you.
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by RachelF 3mo ago
The "innovation" is that everything is now attached to a watercooled block. The rest is marketing: The Cray supercomputer were fluid cooled back in the 1980's, the entire board had an inert liquid flowing across it.
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by RachelF 4mo ago
A lot of this has to do with segmenting the market into high-end and low-end products. When they were the underdog to Intel, they gave away lots of premium features to beat Intel. Since they got more popular, AMD has been taking away featur
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by RachelF 4mo ago
Microsoft is also doing this, Microsoft Authenticator, no longer works under GrapheneOS for corporate creds, and coming in July they will delete any Entra-related IDs from your phone. https://www.theregister.com/on-prem&#x2F
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by RachelF 4mo ago
I too, liked it. However, some apps that I need for work, like Microsoft Authenticator, no longer work under GrapheneOS. https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/03/10/microsoft-tig...
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by RachelF 4mo ago
Yes, their software is terrible across CPUs and GPUs, and continues to be. So many trivial bugs just never fixed. It has literally cost them a Trillion dollars in market cap - Nvidia's CUDA is a big reason they're so much bigger t
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by RachelF 4mo ago
Me too. Many government or banking sites only work properly on Chrome. Anything with Docusign is Chrome-only.
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by RachelF 4mo ago
I wonder how fast it performs on just a CPU? If the model performs say 10x on a GPU cluster, would it also perform faster on a CPU? This could bring proper desktop AI to the average laptop user, which could be a game changer for running loc
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by RachelF 4mo ago
This sort of thing really annoys me. Part numbers are for use of engineers, not for the marketing dept. If you change the specs, change the part number.
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by RachelF 4mo ago
Nice idea, but something has gone very wrong here: >Sequential throughput: ~1.3 GB/s [on a RTX 3070 Laptop] This RTX 3070 chip is on PCIe 4.0 x16 which should give 64GB/s. The 8GB of GDDR6 is 448GB/s. Swapping to an NVMe d
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by RachelF 4mo ago
Don't use find, use Voidtools' Everything. It finds filenames instantly, by searching the NTFS structures. This is one of the few features that Linux file systems do not have.
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by RachelF 5mo ago
I think the weak precedent here is Apple vs Palm: Palm devices pretended to be iPods so that users could use iTunes to copy music to them. Apple threatened legal action and Palm backed down.
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by RachelF 5mo ago
Yeah, modern software towers of libraries literally eat memory. MS Teams uses around 1000MB of RAM to do exactly the same things that Microsoft Messenger could do in 8MB.
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by RachelF 5mo ago
Why not just remove the antenna or SIM card from the modem?
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by RachelF 5mo ago
I really battled to read his memo. The it was written in English, but a very odd style indeed.
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by RachelF 5mo ago
The late 1970's were the golden age of documentaries: Connections, Cosmos, Civilization, The Ascent of Man and Attenborough's Life on Earth. Perhaps it's just me, but modern documentaries are rather dumbed down? As a side not
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by RachelF 5mo ago
Yeah, everything being black on modern motherboards might look cool with RGB lighting, but makes it harder to work on. I like the older green PCBs with white PCI slots. I also lament the demise of color coded connectors at the back. I knew
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by RachelF 5mo ago
Faster is only needed when you need the speed. 2.5G and 10G NICs eat power - all the ones I seen have heatsinks.
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by RachelF 6mo ago
A cunning move from Anthropic, nevertheless - their system has now seen and trained on a many big organization's source code.
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by RachelF 6mo ago
In the early 1980s there were actually word processors for the Apple 2 which had a 40 column display (7 pixel wide fonts default) that gave 60 columns using the a 5x5 font in graphics mode. It was a selling point. The hardware solution was
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by RachelF 6mo ago
Another trick I've seen on LinkedIn is job applications open from 12:00 am to 12:01 am. The employer can legally say they advertized the job and had no applicants and need an H1B employee.
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by RachelF 7mo ago
It is a superb project, and a hard thing to do. It is a pity that the apps most business people use everyday, like Word and Excel and Outlook don't work in it (Excel 2010 is the last version that has Platinum status). It is interesting
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by RachelF 7mo ago
Australian house transactions are also commonly used for low-million dollar money laundering operations. Australia specifically exempts house purchases and the associated agents and their lawyers from AML laws.

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