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by RachelF 8y ago
He also wrote the manual for the MITS Altair 8800, the microcomputer Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed BASIC for.
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by RachelF 8y ago
Yes, the kids have always been delinquent: “Young people are so pampered nowadays that they have forgotten that there was such a thing as Rhetoric" Aristotle, 4th Century BC
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by RachelF 8y ago
When you dumb things down, and shorten them you reach a larger audience. Another factor to consider is that journalism is no longer attracting the quality of authors it used to, and that clickbait is the easiest way for online newspapers to
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by RachelF 8y ago
I guess this would explain the low quality of Windows updates recently. Almost every patch Tuesday we patch, and then something that should have been caught by Microsoft QA breaks. The increasingly low quality of Microsoft products makes it
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by RachelF 8y ago
He's a great presenter, not the normal dumbed down documentaries that are fashionable these days. He actually tries to explain things, not just waffle and make the watcher feel good. He recently made a full length movie: https:/&
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by RachelF 8y ago
Disney has a long history of screwing other copyright holders over. The song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was stolen from Zulu musician Solomon Linda. His estate fought Disney for years for compensation. Most of their stories are bas
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Workers in open-plan spaces have a 62% higher incidence of sickness(jstor.org)
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Cyber-security startups receive expert advice from spooks(economist.com)
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by RachelF 8y ago
Odd fact: VMS is to WNT as HAL is to IBM.
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by RachelF 8y ago
Britain's first attempt to get into the EU was vetoed by de Gaulle; a strange was of repaying the UK's effort in getting France a permanent seat on the UN security council in 1945.
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by RachelF 8y ago
Fake spot is great. I don't buy anything on Amazon until I check it on FakeSpot.
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by RachelF 8y ago
No there's a serious belief in this, mainly among well-fed white intellectuals who believe in the "noble savage'. Yuval Harari, author of the excellent "Sapiens" also believes it.
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by RachelF 8y ago
CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich sold $24M of his Intel shares when he heard about Spectre, but before Intel made it public to stockholders. The Intel "inside" was Insider Trading.
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by RachelF 8y ago
A PCIe card with a AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB is $280 from Amazon. You are paying a lot for the cool looking case, USB hub and PSU. I would have hoped that they would have put a premium graphics card like a AMD Vega64 or 1080 in to justify the p
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by RachelF 8y ago
Not everyone has fast enough bandwidth to watch live videos. Many people rely on downloaders to actually watch the video.
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In my experience with consultants, McKinsey and their ilk do similar things in many other countries, too, and not just the poor African ones. It is not uncommon for government officials to retire to lucrative positions at these consultancie
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by RachelF 8y ago
More details today at The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/22/intel_tlbleed_key_d...
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How an algorithm may decide your career – To get a job get past the computer(economist.com)
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Apple Australia fined $9M for misleading customers with faulty iPhones and iPads(abc.net.au)
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The matte screen is one of the main reasons I got an XPS 13. In many environments I don't like the reflections of a bright window behind me or the ceiling office lights. You can buy matte stickers to put on glossy Mac screens, but they
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by RachelF 8y ago
There is a feeling among some economists that some key data like inflation, wages and unemployment are fudged by government departments to make them look good. Things like the definition of "unemployment" have changed. If you work
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by RachelF 8y ago
Indeed, a cynic would say Bitfinex were just copying the Fed's QE. Creating tether out of nothing to buy bitcoin is similar to the Fed creating dollars by QE to prop up asset prices.
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by RachelF 8y ago
Split GitHub into "Github Home" and "Github Enterprise" but not allow you to use both at the same time Github for Business only supported on Windows 10 Enterprise. GitHub Home will only work on the Edge browser. Only all
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The Kill Zone: American tech giants are making life tough for startups(economist.com)
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The surveillance state, perfected in China, a threat in the West(economist.com)
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by RachelF 8y ago
As some some anti-virus tools. Norton AV used to "clean up" my build folders of exes because it was classifying the newly built exe as viruses because they were not on a whitelist.
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Microsoft is now worth more than Google(fastcompany.com)
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This is not new, there are systems dating back to at least the 1980s that do exactly the same thing.
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or micro SD card support
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by RachelF 8y ago
...and overpriced for what it was. Perhaps if they hadn't hyped it up so much before release, there would have been less disappointment.

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