RachelF

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America is losing the battle against robocalls(economist.com)
72 points by RachelF 8y ago|103 comments
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by RachelF 8y ago
20 to 30dBA is probably the base noise level of most environments. No point in making your PC less noisy than the noise floor.
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by RachelF 8y ago
I have a similar system. What OS do you run on it?
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by RachelF 8y ago
The Dell XPS 13 should also be noiseless when the fan is not on, but many models also suffer from coil whine. I find coil whine a worse background sound than the lower frequency fan hum.
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by RachelF 8y ago
Not everything, but think of the workflows they are used for: Printing: They spool print jobs to their hard drive before printing. Scanning: They create temporary image files for ocr and pdf conversion. These files then need to be emailed t
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by RachelF 8y ago
Very true. There is a very good article[1] in The Economist about this. Their conclusion: "These are all things that China is working on. America’s use of its new weapons simultaneously demonstrates its power and will hasten its relati
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by RachelF 8y ago
Long term, this will backfire on the US. China will probably just develop more stuff locally, further reducing US influence.
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Hackers led warplanes to Syrian hospital claims British surgeon(smh.com.au)
1 points by RachelF 9y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 9y ago
Windows 8-10 users will also notice that host file entries for any Microsoft or Bing entries will be ignored. I guess they hardware the IPs into Windows.
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by RachelF 9y ago
I know nothing about their trustworthiness - they do have a good reputation. In general, though, if a three letter agency wanted to spy on interesting web traffic, the traffic of people who "have something to hide", then targeting
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by RachelF 9y ago
There are very similar stories from Australia, with IBM being sued for being late on major (billion dollar) government projects and releasing products that just don't work. IBM produced a $1.2 billion payroll project for Queensland hea
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by RachelF 9y ago
It is a good book, Matt Ridley's "The Rational Optimist" is better written, and less Polyanna. Nassim Taleb argued successfully against his previous "Better Angels"book
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by RachelF 9y ago
Please do bring it back. In my opinion, it looks better than the flat modern interfaces that everybody now uses. Starting with Windows 8 phone minimalism has made computer interfaces uglier, and harder to use. It seems like UI designers are
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by RachelF 9y ago
> "Not many psychologists are very good at maths," Most social scientists are not that good at maths. It used to be mostly harmless before they started dabbling in experimental science involving statistics. A bigger problem is
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by RachelF 9y ago
Actually, to off-topic nitpick, the triple point of pure water is at 0.01°C (273.16K), not 0°C
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by RachelF 9y ago
Add The Economist to that list of publications getting rid of comments. They seem to have disappeared from the site in the last two weeks.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Exactly. The good old "eat less" diet works, but is not as sexy as all the fad ones.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Reminded me of this https://youtu.be/SNPJMk2fgJU I don't think it is real, but it shows the future.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Perhaps another reason is that they already have these small engines? Why not use what you have already built and debugged rather than build a bigger, expensive engine, for only marginal gains.
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by RachelF 9y ago
PC CPUs have not really got that much faster in the last ten years compared to the previous decade. Each new Intel generation of the i- series was maybe 10% faster than the preceding one. A fast Core2 or 1st gen i7 is perhaps half the speed
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by RachelF 9y ago
You can get a PCIe card for NVME. If you are lucky, your BIOS can boot from it.
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by RachelF 9y ago
I can't help suspecting that Zuck has long-term presidential plans.
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by RachelF 9y ago
The problem is that it is very hard to compete with "free". Users are now used to free services, getting them to pay will prove hard, especially if there is a free alternative, as many app makers and news sites have discovered.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Linus is not mincing his words on this issue: "Patches slammed as 'complete and utter garbage' as Chipzilla U-turns on microcode" https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/22/intel_spectre_fix_
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New Zealand startup successfully launches rocket(abc.net.au)
223 points by RachelF 9y ago|102 comments
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by RachelF 9y ago
My personal experience is that Dropbox just works, and works well and reliably and quickly on all platforms. OneDrive is almost as good, but Google Drive is not, especially their client is unreliable.
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by RachelF 9y ago
I doubt it. The very rich seldom go to prison, especially if they are US citizens at US companies. Intel can afford very good and very many lawyers for him. Intel may pay a fine to the SEC, after many years.
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by RachelF 9y ago
The Register did a great analysis of turning the Intel Press release into English. "We translated Intel's attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare as Linus Torvalds lets rip on Chipzilla" https:/&#x2
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by RachelF 9y ago
An excellent, succinct explanation!
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by RachelF 9y ago
True, but it skipped the Xbox 360', so maybe spin 1/2?

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