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by RachelF 2y ago
I wonder why? Some possibilities: 1. Extra silicon area being used by NPUs and TPUs instead of extra performance? 2. Passmark runs under Windows, which is probably using increasing overhead with newer versions? 3. Fixes for speculative exec
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by RachelF 2y ago
...and many used Seagate drives have been resold as new in the last 3 years. They were used for crypto mining and then had their SMART parameters wiped back to "new" 0 hours usage. https://www.heise.de/en/news
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by RachelF 2y ago
True, but it is mostly profit - GDDR6 sells for $2.30 a gigabyte [1] [1] https://www.dramexchange.com
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by RachelF 2y ago
AMD and Intel copy Nvidia's VRAM lead. The RTX 1060 came with 6GB of VRAM. Four generations later, the 5060 comes with only 2GB more. I suspect NVidia does not want consumer cards to eat into those lucrative data centre profits? The co
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by RachelF 2y ago
>birds have no receptors for capsaicin, while mammals do. True. I suspect it is only placental mammals. Brush-tailed possums (a marsupial mammal) do not seem repelled by it at all. I've had my birds eyes and Carolina Reaper chilly p
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by RachelF 2y ago
The British and GCHQ kept the stuff secret for ~30 years. They kept it secret from the public only, the Americans knew, and the place was riddled with Soviet spies. GCHQ also had invented the RSA algorithm before Rivest et al but kept it qu
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by RachelF 2y ago
I wonder how many hundreds of millions of Windows 10 machines are going to become e-waste because of Windows 11's TPM requirements?
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by RachelF 2y ago
Will the OS fix the microcode, or will a BIOS flash be required?
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, this in an interesting question. Are they just trying to hide from anti-virus signatures, or are they hiding code they perceive as valuable?
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by RachelF 2y ago
Sounds like a political decision - closing the gate after the horse has bolted.
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by RachelF 2y ago
The last 3 Pixel designs have been uninspired. The CPUs in them have also been disappointing. It's almost as if Google doesn't really care anymore.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Interesting to see from the graphs that Windows software is the fastest falling category.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Ebay and, to a lessor extent, Amazon, have many vendors selling "new" Seagate HDDs that are actually refurbished. The SMART data is just reflashed to zero. There is speculation that these are ex-Chinese drives from crypto currenci
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by RachelF 2y ago
OK, that makes more sense.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, the idea of businesses is to reduce costs. Labor costs are a big expense. It's harder to do than it looks. Offshoring to places with lower wages has kept wages for many white- and blue-collar workers in the West from growing. But
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by RachelF 2y ago
Recently there's been another shift - processing power. In the past you could do almost anything on a personal computer, it was generally about as fast as mainframe or high end workstation. Training large AI models is currently impossi
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by RachelF 2y ago
Very true, the Australian scene is so dismal, it makes the UK look great.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Interesting that the examples in the article are from Australia. Perhaps employee protection is better in Australia than in the US?
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yep, this is a big factor for banks. No audit trail in face-to-face chats.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Thanks for that. The paper is way overhyped. They've just built a meta material near field antenna. Nothing new I can see. There are other papers available via Googling that glucose can be measured at around 4.2GHz. Seems hard to do it
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, the article is thin on facts. No mention of the frequency that they use, and how they measure the glucose level, which I'm guessing is some sort of spectral response. I'll take a closer look at the paper in Nature.
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by RachelF 2y ago
So true, and well put. I read all the Aubrey Maturin books first and then read four Hornblower novels. Aubrey Maturin is better in terms of style, plot, environment and language. I'd recommend the Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series
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by RachelF 2y ago
Windows has a proposed memory encryption option along with memory compression. Both Intel and AMD are working on embedding this into their CPUs. However, the target use appears to be servers with multiple VMs, not laptops.
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by RachelF 2y ago
The public forgets pretty quickly - the media has been very quiet about the two Boeing whistleblowers who apparently killed themselves.
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by RachelF 2y ago
The FDA has to give the factories 90 days notice of an upcoming inspection.
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by RachelF 2y ago
They were never really properly investigated. Eban's "Bottle of Lies" book is shocking: https://www.katherineeban.com/bottleoflies Peter Attia on Youtube also did an investigation on this. If you're luck
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by RachelF 2y ago
Some bird species can live quite long, especially for their size, compared to mammals. 120 gram lories and parakeets can live to 30 years in captivity. They appear to keep breeding until they die. There are sulphur-crested cockatoos (a type
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Why Did Intel Fire CEO Pat Gelsinger?(semiaccurate.com)
20 points by RachelF 2y ago|11 comments
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by RachelF 2y ago
Thanks for that!
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by RachelF 2y ago
Interesting, but why bother. Pi's were great when they were cheap, but one can get a better performing Intel N100 box for a similar price and power consumption now. The only reason I can think of to use a Pi is GPIO.

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