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by RachelF 9y ago
Yes, but it is new to ignorant executives. There is always a business selling an old thing with extra marketing.
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by RachelF 9y ago
I've always wondered how they do it. They use the same 18650 cells that power laptops, yet laptop batteries degrade badly over time. My 1 year old XPS13 reports a battery "wear level" of 29%. I wonder if Tesla's battery
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by RachelF 9y ago
Exactly my thoughts. Give me a .NET compiler to a native binary.
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by RachelF 9y ago
To be replaced soon by "4k video is very silly indeed" If you look at the angular resolution of the eye, unless you are sitting very close to the screen, you can't resolve 4k video.
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by RachelF 9y ago
It is one of many topics in "Fooled by Randomness". However, Taleb's views on luck profoundly influenced how I see the world.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Luck is a huge factor, but mostly blamed for failure, few of us have the insight to attribute much of our success to luck.
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by RachelF 9y ago
The Economist had an article on this is Issue last week. Mistrust in America could sink the economy https://www.economist.com/news/business/21726079-part-proble...
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by RachelF 9y ago
Yes, it isn't as innovative as the marketing dept would have you believe. The Xiaomi Mi Mix from 2016 contained more innovative features. The Essential phone is just another large, high end Android very similar to the Samsung S7/S
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by RachelF 9y ago
And another thing, you have little or no access to the physical layout of the SSD - you are writing through a complex algorithm that does wear levelling, block remapping and lazy deletions. To write to NAND flash, you need to erase the enti
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by RachelF 9y ago
Nice, but Microsoft restarting the .NET numbering scheme is going to confuse many, even if they added the word "Core" to it. I guess this is equivalent to ASP.NET 7?
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by RachelF 9y ago
The should be thankful, but they do not know. FOSS doesn't spend money on PR. Few know that free Linux lurks under Android, and OS/X an iOS have large parts of BSD in them.
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Milk jug–sized detector captures neutrinos in a whole new way(sciencemag.org)
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Mistrust in America could sink the economy(economist.com)
7 points by RachelF 9y ago|1 comments
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by RachelF 9y ago
He has gone a bit off the deep end recently. I guess too much arguing with opponents radicalised him, similar to Dawkins. IMHO his best book is his first mass market one: "Fooled by Randomness". It contains all the big ideas of hi
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by RachelF 9y ago
I was wrong. Thanks for your clear explanation, taviso.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Also, existing employees at the company will see what the new hires will be earning. This might be less than they are getting at the moment for the same job, leading to demands for increased pay.
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by RachelF 9y ago
While this is an interesting exercise, it ignores the fact that the anti-virus apps run with SYSTEM privileges for a reason: they need to access all the files on the machine. Running Windows Defender in a sandbox will mitigate its own vulne
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by RachelF 9y ago
A good article. There is way more to it than a Mac vs PC debate. Path dependence is something that is worth understanding, but seldom thought of. To his examples, I'd add these: - The way modern computers and their operating systems ar
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by RachelF 9y ago
An interesting analysis of the evidence here: Breaking open the MtGox case, part 1 http://blog.wizsec.jp/2017/07/breaking-open-mtgox-1.html
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The name of a startup can have a huge influence on how much funding it gets(businessinsider.com.au)
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by RachelF 9y ago
There were lots of headlines about this last year, most involving Peter Thiel[1]. It sounds a bit like a tabloid vampire headline. "The Blood of Young People Won’t Help Peter Thiel Fight Death" https://www.vice.com&#x2F
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by RachelF 9y ago
Yeah, heaven is old software on new hardware!
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by RachelF 9y ago
Bing News is unfashionable, but it looks like old Google News: https://www.bing.com/news
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by RachelF 9y ago
Analog (or analogue) computers have their uses, however, in my experience, with analogue electronic computers, they have many problems: - limited dynamic range of perhaps 30dB (1000) - it is easy to saturate a signal (there is no overflow b
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by RachelF 9y ago
Most modern Intel and AMD CPUs have a truly random number generator, generated in a non-digital way.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Yes, it's amazing what Intel can pull out of the hat when they finally get a little competition again.
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MIT Researchers Offer Algorithm for Picking Winning Startups(motherboard.vice.com)
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by RachelF 9y ago
You should contact the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto, they might want it, and then everyone can see it. http://www.computerhistory.org/
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by RachelF 9y ago
Looks like Google news has employed the Windows 10 UI designers from Microsoft.
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by RachelF 9y ago
After nuclear weapons were first invented, the big powers spent a lot of effort in non-proliferation, to stop smaller countries building them. Cyber weapons are not as dangerous as nukes, but much easier to copy, and much harder to know who

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