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by RachelF 11mo ago
Endurance going down is hardly a surprise given that the feature size has gone down too. The same goes for logic and DRAM memory. I suspect that 2035 years time, hardware from 2010 will work, while that from 2020 will be less reliable.
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by RachelF 11mo ago
Raspberry Pi was never really that open hardware-wise. They've IPO'd and gone fully corporate/profit driven now. The ESP32 is probably the most vibrant platform now.
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GrapheneOS accuses compeitors of sabotage, exits France over police threats(piunikaweb.com)
16 points by RachelF 11mo ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 11mo ago
These very narrow speed measurements are getting out of hand: 1 petaFLOP using FP4, that's 4 petaFLOPS using FP1 and infinite petaFLOPS using FP0.
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by RachelF 1y ago
That's how he gets paid - increasing short term stock price. "Show me the incentives and I'll show you the results" - Charlie Munger
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by RachelF 1y ago
I really don't understand why they do this - what is so special about banking apps vs a banking site in a web browser. What is the particular threat model of a rooted phone?
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by RachelF 1y ago
The counterpoint for having your own domain is that emails you send have a good chance of being classified as spam.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Yeah they got burned. Sony stopped selling their Clie PalmOS phones/PDA's in the USA as they said Americans were too lazy to read the manual. The innovation of the iPhone was the capacitive touch screen (a Japanese invention) coup
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by RachelF 1y ago
Many other recent Microsoft products are below average. I'm thinking Teams, Outlook, Windows 11. Azure and Office are better. I guess they spend their money on sales and licensing and not on developing good products now?
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by RachelF 1y ago
AI has provided a great excuse for your manager to fire you and replace you with someone much cheaper.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Yes. AMD is a little better. But bear in mind that Geekbench runs very short benchmarks for single core especially, so that the CPU never starts thermal throttling. The Apple chips are fast and efficient, and "feel" even faster be
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Australia wants to know if GitHub is a social network that endangers children?(theregister.com)
3 points by RachelF 1y ago|1 comments
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by RachelF 1y ago
Microsoft also invested $100M in Borland at the same time. Investing in Apple and Borland were an counter-anti-trust legal move, keeping the competitors alive, but on life support. This way they could say to the government "yes there i
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by RachelF 1y ago
I think the best tool for Windows is Total Commander or TCUP if you want the kitchen sink included: https://tcup.pl/
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$142 upgrade kit and spare modules turn Nvidia RTX 4090 24GB to 48GB AI card(tomshardware.com)
49 points by RachelF 1y ago|11 comments
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by RachelF 1y ago
I find it odd that given the billions of dollars involved, no competitor has managed to replicate the functions of CUDA. Is it that hard to do, or is the software lock-in so great?
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by RachelF 1y ago
I wonder what happened to Wavelet transforms? The were very popular years ago, and now one never hears about them.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Given Atlassian's terrible product quality, I give it two years until anything they buy becomes borderline unusable frustration.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Software standards are already falling, sadly. I look at the recent problems with Microsoft Windows, Teams and Outlook and despair. How much of it is to be blamed on AI, and how much on a culture of making users test their products, I do no
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by RachelF 1y ago
How corrupt are judges in the USA? Are their any measures that audit their finances or stop them or their relations from taking work with companies they have issued judgements on? I'm not saying this is the case here, it is a general q
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by RachelF 1y ago
The repeating of the message is how the Allies initially broke the Geheimskreiber a much more secure encryption machine to Enigma that used XOR and rotors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_and_Halske_T52
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by RachelF 1y ago
AMD has failed to be reliable with its Zen 4 and Zen 5 consumer CPUs, just at the same time Intel did the same with their 13k and 14k higher end CPUs. AMD is somewhat worse than Intel as their DDR5 memory bus is very "twitchy" mak
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by RachelF 1y ago
Yes, this is the point - software should never be able to physically damage the hardware it is on. If it can, then the hardware is to blame.
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by RachelF 1y ago
A small reason for less power consumption with on die RAM is that you don't need active termination, which does use a few watts of power. It isn't the main reason that the Macs use less power, though.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Lots of things aren't clear. Copilot is accessing the indexed contents of the file, not the file itself, when you tell it not to access the file. The blog writer/marketer needs to look at the index access logs.
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by RachelF 1y ago
This, and the fact that Ascorbic acid leads to hardening of the arteries also makes it suspect. Many of the studies he refers to are old. There was a widely held belief in the early 1980's promoted by Linus Pauling that Vit C cured can
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by RachelF 1y ago
Yeah, it was a great word processor. Better than MS Word, and it had features Word still lacks like mixing styles on a single line. What I find curious is how, as the market expanded, all these other Vendors died. One would expect the oppos
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by RachelF 1y ago
Thermal diodes would open up a huge range of applications.
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by RachelF 1y ago
This is why keyless "start button" functions on cars is a bad idea. The old approach of keyfob to unlock the car and a real key for the ignition is safer. Having multiple levels of security is good. However, having worked in the c
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Windows 10 10: How Microsoft led developers round in circles(theregister.com)
5 points by RachelF 1y ago|0 comments

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