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by RachelF 7y ago
Most electronic engineering component-related documentation is good. It has a long history tracing back through National Instruments. Intel's 80386 documentation was superb.
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by RachelF 7y ago
They were incredibly negligent and nepotistic. Their head of security, Susan Mauldin, had zero security or computer skills - she was a music teacher. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-...
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by RachelF 7y ago
Interestingly China managed to get the book censored and withdrawn by threatening the original publisher [1]. It was later taken up by an independent publisher. [1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/free-speech-fears-afte
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by RachelF 7y ago
And it is not just the generic, but the original too: https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/regulators-...
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by RachelF 7y ago
This whole episode of "self regulation" of pharma companies by the FDA reminds my of the FAA's acceptance of Boeing's "self regulation" on the 737 MAX.
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by RachelF 7y ago
The Atom CPU should be faster than an Arm.
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by RachelF 7y ago
We had similar ideas, but the bootloaders were always problematic. These Atom chips are still probably limited to 32bit boot loaders.
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by RachelF 7y ago
The USA has learned what the Soviets and British did before them.
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The great university con: how the British degree lost its value(newstatesman.com)
5 points by RachelF 7y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 7y ago
On the Android side, attempts at small, high-spec phones seem to have been abandoned. Sony had the excellent "Compact" series which now seems abandoned, and the Samsung Galaxy S9 Mini never made it to market.
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by RachelF 7y ago
Dell is already studied as a case of corruption. "Intel paid Dell in the form of rebates as part of an agreement to ensure that Dell would not use computer chips made by Advanced Micro Devices in its personal computers and computer ser
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The End of the Free Internet Is Near(reason.com)
2 points by RachelF 7y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 7y ago
Hoyle was great man, who said what he thought. His outspoken character probably cost him a Nobel Prize, though.
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by RachelF 7y ago
Also many of the .wav files in Windows 98SE were edited with a pirated version of Sony's Soundforge, the metadata in the media files contained the Soundforge cracker's name.
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by RachelF 7y ago
Most managers only think short-term. In the short term it saved money. In the long term is cost Boeing their reputation. But in the long term the MBA manager has been likely been promoted and is working elsewhere, killing another company, w
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by RachelF 7y ago
Yes, I only see positive results for him. Same on Bing and Duckduckgo. His record appears clean in the first page.
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The Promotion Curse(economist.com)
1 points by RachelF 7y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 7y ago
Changing the IMEI number of a phone is illegal in many countries.
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Google has more temp and contract workers than actual employees(marketwatch.com)
7 points by RachelF 7y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 7y ago
Unfortunately the unemployment statistics that they base this on are a bit wonky. You are now classified as employed if you work 1 hour a month. You are not classified as unemployed if you are not actively looking for work. Many unemployed
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AI can now animate the Mona Lisa's face or any other portrait you give it(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by RachelF 7y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 7y ago
Also note the inventors of VisiCalc failed to patent it for various reasons[1]. This led to quick improvements of the spreadsheet by Lotus, Borland and Microsoft. If it had been patented, it is unlikely innovation would have been so fast wi
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by RachelF 7y ago
True, but the figures can be misleading. The US economy is probably 4x the size it was in 1978, so without these productivity advances we'd need 4x as many book-keepers and accountants. Whether the economy could have grown to 4x the si
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by RachelF 7y ago
Yes, Paypal is bad, they took away their support for the Symantec 2FA codes and forced users in many countries to use SMS instead. This is pretty easy for the telco to prevent, though. Your existing telco should simply phone you and ask if
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by RachelF 7y ago
Compared to the 1990's Moore's law stopped really making CPUs faster around 10 years ago. We now have more cores, but getting performance gains from parallelism can be hard. I think the real reason software may be more buggy is th
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by RachelF 7y ago
There's a BBC TV series that R.V. Jones helped make. Here's the episode on the V-2 - well worth watching https://youtu.be/fkCW4g8It_A
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by RachelF 7y ago
Interesting that the V-2 project cost $2 billion. This is around the same as the Manhattan project, and 1 billion less than the B-29 programme. The V-2 was ludicrously expensive, especially compared to the V-1 which the RAF estimated cost a
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by RachelF 8y ago
True, it is easy to be wise after the event. However, the management culture at NASA, which was also responsible for the loss of Challenger, and something Richard Feynman also criticized, did not change. This lead to managers ignoring engi
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by RachelF 8y ago
Two years back they synthesized the both halves of the steps for creating morphine using yeast. If you feed the yeast sugar, which is made from sunlight it will be worth it if the yields are high enough.
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by RachelF 8y ago
His website [1] claims he is retired. He goes on to saying how he is like a hermit and needs long batches on un-interrupted time. Worth a look, he's an interesting fellow. 1: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth&#

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