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by RachelF 7mo ago
Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches speech" at the start of WW2: Output: I’m fully confident that if we all lean in, stay hyper-focused on execution, and optimize our current workflows, we’re going to successfully
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A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard for Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts(phoronix.com)
25 points by RachelF 7mo ago|2 comments
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by RachelF 7mo ago
This is the best way of marking regions of RAM as bad in Windows: https://github.com/prsyahmi/BadMemory I've used it for many years. It only fixes physical hardware faults, not timing errors. For example if a RAM
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GrapheneOS: Microsoft Authenticator does not support secure Android OS(heise.de)
7 points by RachelF 7mo ago|2 comments
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by RachelF 7mo ago
>The amount of money Microsoft makes from the OS apart from corporations is a rounding error. Yes, if you analyse revenue (not profit), sales of Windows count 9% of the total. Microsoft makes around the same percentage from LinkedIn and
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by RachelF 8mo ago
Teams is a terrible app, although Electron isn't the only reason for that: It needs a Gig of RAM to do things that older chat apps could do in 4 Meg. The free ride of ever increasing RAM on consumer devices is over because of the AI hy
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by RachelF 8mo ago
I haven't used 3.1 yet, but 3.0 Pro has been frustrating for two reasons: - it is "lazy": I keep having to tell it to finish, or continue, it wants to stop the task early. - it hallucinates: I have arguments with it about mak
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by RachelF 8mo ago
wow! Thanks for that.
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by RachelF 8mo ago
Yes, it is very lacking in details. The Claude output would have been interesting, or a few logs or protocol dumps. The lack of detail makes me suspect the truth of most of the story.
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by RachelF 8mo ago
Not in my experience with Gemini Pro and coding. It hallucinates APIs that aren't there. Claude does not do that. Gemini has flashes of brilliance, but I regard it as unpolished some things work amazingly, some basics don't work.
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by RachelF 9mo ago
There fans are still good, but not the quietest anymore. Noctua no longer manufactures them, they are now made by YS Tech.
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by RachelF 9mo ago
I don't understand the threat model that banks worry about on rooted phones. What is it? I can access their websites on a PC running as root or Administrator. What is the problem with rooted Android phones?
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by RachelF 9mo ago
Mine is not 200MB on Android - the base apk is 67MB + 32MB for the ARM v8a specific libs. This is the code, the local caching and other data might make up the rest. For Android, you can check [1] Download the apk, rename it as a zip and loo
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by RachelF 9mo ago
Interesting timing, given that the PS4 has been hacked via various exploits, and the PS5 has just had its root encryption keys exposed.
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by RachelF 9mo ago
Anna's archive has a great analysis of the Spotify data. They identify a huge surge in tracks that few listen to after gen AI started. The analysis is worth reading. The distribution is (Pareto)^3 ~99% of the tracks played are 1% of th
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by RachelF 9mo ago
> iAPX 432 Yes, this was a failure, the Itanium of the 1980's I also regard ADA as a failure. I worked with it many years ago. ADA would take 30 minutes to compile a program. Turbo C++ compiled equivalent code in a few seconds.
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by RachelF 9mo ago
Windows has been my main operating system for the last 35 years (from version 2). I've used Linux and to a lessor extent BSD and Mac as well, but my main desktop has always been Windows, as it ran most of the apps that I needed. Window
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by RachelF 9mo ago
The Chinese tech manufacturers are so sick of the HDMI licencing mafia that they've developed their own replacement for it: https://www.techpowerup.com/335152/china-develops-hdmi-alter...
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by RachelF 9mo ago
In the late 1990's many HP workstations used Abit motherboards. I remember being surprised that HP did not make the boards themselves.
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by RachelF 10mo ago
Or more recently Dan Kahneman, Dan Arielly or Stephen Jay Gould have also been caught fabricating details or whole results.
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by RachelF 10mo ago
and Borland's Eureka solver https://nagodede.github.io/eureka/
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by RachelF 10mo ago
A lot of the time engineers are focussed with solving a problem, to build a working machine/program, while academics just want to publish. This is also true with patents.
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by RachelF 10mo ago
I would argue that designing avionics without EDAC is negligent design by Airbus. Most modern servers at least implement ECC on their RAM. I would expect flight electronics to be designed to a higher standard.
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by RachelF 10mo ago
Sad to see Half Life 3 hasn't been released yet.
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All of Russia's Porsches Were Bricked by a Mysterious Satellite Outage(autoblog.com)
23 points by RachelF 10mo ago|2 comments
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by RachelF 10mo ago
As someone who used QNX back then, they didn't target end-users but embedded and real-time users. They were expensive too. You had to pay for each device driver you used.
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by RachelF 10mo ago
Sadly, society also optimizes for cheating. Meritocracy is a myth. In many ways Stanford is preparing students for the real world by encouraging cheating.
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by RachelF 10mo ago
Perhaps we'll have to start optimizing software for performance and RAM usage again. I look at MS Teams currently using 1.5GB of RAM doing nothing.
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by RachelF 11mo ago
Perhaps the memory manufacturers have seen how much Apple gets away with charging for the memory on their laptops and have decided to copy them ;-)
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by RachelF 11mo ago
Well put. Since the 1980's consumer has been driving the segment. Even supercomputers were built out of higher end consumer hardware (or playstations in one example). The move to cloud computing and now AI mean that we're back in

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