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by RachelF 6y ago
Listen to most people's opinions with a grain of salt, but don't censor them or try to shut them up.
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by RachelF 6y ago
That's what happens when you have little competition. Right now the high capacity, non-SSD hard drive market is a duopoly between WD and Seagate. Customers have little choice.
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by RachelF 6y ago
China spends a lot in the US, too. Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Boeing all sell lots to the PLA. We are arming our enemies.
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by RachelF 6y ago
It is a huge hassle in PC software development. Even if you sign your exe and build package, you have a 50% chance of being detected as a virus by some "heuristic" AV engine (looking at you, Norton and Kaspersky). Basically, the h
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by RachelF 6y ago
Good luck with that - read GSuite's terms, they, Google, define what an outage is, not the customer.
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Why laptops are sold out, and what to do(nytimes.com)
2 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
The author has never had a look at any of Atlassian's business software. Atlassian has grown large by producing business software that can be described as "low quality" at best!
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by RachelF 6y ago
Yep, you'd need to write a device driver for all the hardware if Microsoft hasn't done it for you. I would not use Windows on a Pi, it can be done, but makes no sense to me.
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by RachelF 6y ago
The Economist is still one of the best, but they have also deteriorated in the last 3 years, and continue slowly descending into NewSpeak.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Yeah - the article is well written, but junk and full of hyperbole like: "He saw, instead, the impossibility of flying these planes at all." Really! B-17's completed hundreds of thousands of missions. And pilots still land mo
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by RachelF 6y ago
Yes, a PR disaster when your company president drives your main product over a cliff.
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by RachelF 6y ago
It doesn't matter whether it is crap or not, whether it is true or BS, whether we like their opinion or not; Google should not be in the business of censoring sites, given its monopoly on advertising.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Yeah, the USA shot down a lot of competing aircraft projects in the 1960's. This a good summary of the TSR2 https://youtu.be/PhXcd-881xA The F-104 is also a similar story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by RachelF 6y ago
it's still better than Outlook!
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by RachelF 6y ago
Thanks for that. The Economist's paywall seems to be on every article now.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Most high power microwave devices aren't build on semiconductors like Silicon (solid state), yet. They are normally valves of some sort, like magnetrons, klystrons or travelling wave tubes. Some radars would be in the mega-watt range,
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by RachelF 6y ago
I suspect that is behind many problems with Google Drive. Sometimes old versions seems to take precedence over newer ones, for some reason.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Dropbox did the same thing a few years back - moved everything from Amazon S3 to their own storage. My guess is they did it for cost reasons.
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by RachelF 7y ago
In the US, you only get 200kHz between stations, while other countries allocate 300kHz spacing, giving them slightly more bandwidth.
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The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13(theatlantic.com)
1 points by RachelF 7y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 7y ago
The Register (as usual) has excellent coverage of this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/09/cia_hacking_trial_v... It seems like the CIA's opsec was bad: "It didn’t help that during the course
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by RachelF 7y ago
Nope, Ethernet was originally broadcast on co-ax, multi-drop, similar to today's WiFi. In the early days other architectures like token-ring were better in theory but not in practise. In the real world Ethernet won.
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by RachelF 7y ago
Paywalled in US too. The Economist have a new paywall.
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by RachelF 7y ago
are the Geekbench benchmarks equivalent across versions of Geekbench?
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by RachelF 7y ago
Yeah, back in the days before their 2007 Conde Nast pivot and they moved towards softer stories.
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Does Music Boost Your Cognitive Performance?(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by RachelF 7y ago|0 comments
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A man atop the world’s biggest tech fund paid an intermediary to smear rivals(wsj.com)
4 points by RachelF 7y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 7y ago
Many are trafficked from Africa. Rhinos are almost extinct thanks to Chinese demand for their horns. African Pangolins are now critically endangered thanks to Chinese demand.
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by RachelF 7y ago
Thanks for that. Seems like The Economist has strengthened their paywall in 2020!
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by RachelF 7y ago
Makes you wonder about other Swiss based encryption providers like Proton Mail? Proton Mail would be a great honey pot for the CIA.

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