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by RachelF 1y ago
Mini-PCs are quite a bit better dollar for dollar. Pi's were great when they were cheap, but now the Raspberry Pi has IPO'd those days are over.
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Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub articles on tech exec(freedom.press)
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by RachelF 1y ago
X-Plane is a good alternative. https://www.x-plane.com/
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by RachelF 1y ago
I wonder how much slower it is than C/C++ compiled dlls?
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by RachelF 1y ago
People don't realize how fragile this makes things. Requiring an online ID to log into a local computer creates all sorts of vulnerabilities. When Microsoft gets hacked again, it can let hackers lock you out of your computer. It's
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by RachelF 1y ago
Sadly Western IT workers are too expensive for the MBAs running modern corporations. Just before their last big US layoffs, Microsoft announced: "Microsoft is expanding our presence in India with a $3 billion investment"
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by RachelF 1y ago
Australia is slowly copying China. They will move on banning VPNs in a year of two. It may be government incompetence, but it might also be a plan to identify everyone online.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Yes, it's bad, but the users _do_ care. Most don't have a choice, business machines have MS Office/Outlook/Teams as default and they can't change.
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by RachelF 1y ago
The Samsung S10e was probably peak Android. Small, high-end, SD card and 3.5mm jack. There are some decent small Android phones, if you're willing to buy non-mainstream brands. Take a look at: https://www.reddit.com/r&#
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by RachelF 1y ago
The "online safety" of kids is just an excuse, I suspect. Australia really wants to be able to identify and track the ID of all their citizens online. No more Internet anonymity for them.
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by RachelF 1y ago
It still leaks GPU memory on Windows. It's still a great browser, though. A bigger problem is that the web is now a mono-culture of Chrome/Chromium. Many sites don't work 100% on Firefox.
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by RachelF 1y ago
WhatsApp by default backs up messages to Google Drive. It has done so for many years. Google likely already has all your chat data.
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by RachelF 1y ago
In the 1970's George Carlin had "7 Words You Can't Say On TV" and got into legal trouble for saying them during his live skits. Seems like Apple now has a list of 7,000 words you can't use on an iPhone now.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Similarly the disappearing menu items in common software. Take a simple example: Open a read-only file in MS Word. There is no option to save? Where's it gone? Why can I edit but not save the file? A much better user experience would b
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by RachelF 1y ago
It requires "CUDA >= 11.2"
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by RachelF 1y ago
Pity it requires Volta 7 which is rather high end for fiddling around on at home.
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by RachelF 1y ago
It's a bit crazy that Apple still prosecutes people who put these old ROMs online.
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by RachelF 1y ago
European Neanderthals probably had 15% more neurons than modern Homo Sapiens, based on brain volume. We're still here, so bigger brains alone might not be the reason.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Or the ZX Spectrum keyboard https://www.retrotechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Sinc...
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by RachelF 1y ago
Farmers have a reason to be sceptical: The BoM caused hundreds of millions of $ of damage to livestock farming - they warned about a huge drought in 2022 causing massive livestock culling. Instead there were years of above-average rainfall.
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by RachelF 1y ago
Sounds a lot like it is BlackSky NYSE: BKSY https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250508909866/en/Bla...
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by RachelF 1y ago
you need "Docker for Windows", which runs a Linux VM which then runs Docker.
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by RachelF 1y ago
> How so or why so, considering their brain size relative to their body, is not well understood. One factor is neuron size. Bird neurons are around 0.4 the length of mammalian neurons, so you can pack in around 8 times the neurons in a g
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by RachelF 1y ago
I've seen Windows 11 ignoring DNS settings too, for Microsoft telemetry, ads and updates.
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by RachelF 1y ago
I wondered how Microsoft SQL Server fares, but not it's tested in the long list of databases: https://jepsen.io/analyses
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by RachelF 1y ago
I appears that this academic is very good at public relations. They mix interrupts and polling depending on the load. The interrupt service routine and user-kernel context-switch overhead is tiny computationally and hence in power usage. Al
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by RachelF 1y ago
Speaking of Cheetahs, pigeon fanciers like to compare their birds to Cheetahs. A 200gram grain-fueled homing pigeon can maintain 60km/h for an hour. A cheetah can do that for maybe a minute. I've always thought this is not really
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by RachelF 1y ago
Bird neurons are typically around 40% of the length, or 1/9 the volume of mammalian neurons. This means they have around 9x the number of neurons per unit volume. A large parrot has around the same number of neurons as a beagle dog. Co
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by RachelF 1y ago
I've had a similar experience. Most of the people I've worked with are 4-6 out of 10. But I suppose that's a normal distribution. I've encountered a few 1's and 2's but they generally don't last too long.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Foreign countries like Japan and China own around $1.8T in US bonds. These are valued in dollars, like stocks.

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