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by RachelF 2y ago
howstuffworks.com in the 1990's was an amazing website I just went to it and had a look. Turned to junk now by the looks of things.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, Chrome is necessary for some sites that don't work on Firefox.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Another trick I've seen in the public sector is to advertise the job for 10 minutes. Typically from 12.00 to 12.10pm. That way, they've advertised, could not find anyone suitable, and can employ the person they really want.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Been fooled by QNX before, a long time ago, and it cost us a lot. Never again. Go away now QNX, real-time Linux has won.
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by RachelF 2y ago
This is not novel in general - the same technique has been used in lens alignment for decades.
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by RachelF 2y ago
I wonder how this will work on Windows Workstation hosts?
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by RachelF 2y ago
This can also be viewed as advertising - there are board members in common between The Economist's holding company and Novo N.
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by RachelF 2y ago
A GLP-1 drug trial 12 years ago by a major pharma company was stopped because of increased suicide risk (2 in 10,000) among the cohort. We will see what happens long term the second time around.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, there is cheaper hardware like the Adalm Pluto with enough bandwidth and dynamic range, but it is not supported by the looks of things.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Our "Director of First Impressions" (receptionist) would like a word with you ;-)
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by RachelF 2y ago
True. The modern company is a very very limited liability company: - Cut corners so your jets crash and kill people (Boeing)? - Cheat on emissions testing so your product kill people (VW)? - Hush up drug trial results so you kills people (P
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by RachelF 2y ago
The title of the article is incorrect, the worms live in the crust, not "beneath the planetary crust" (in the magma). The Economist magazine is not what it used to be, sadly.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Good to see some competition, the FlipperZero is very pricey for what it is. Then again, I guess you're paying for the software.
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by RachelF 2y ago
For the more budget concious - you can get ESP32 modules with USB C, Wifi/BT and a few IO pins from AliExpress for $4. These things are amazingly cheap.
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by RachelF 2y ago
The Qansheng's that I've tested have been fine, first harmonic down 44dB, which is OK for the FCC. However, if you hack the firmware and transmit outside the bands the radio's RF is designed to transmit on, then you will prob
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by RachelF 2y ago
Anything aviation-related normally has 5 to 10x cost of mass-market products. Plus you probably need a licence to transmit in those bands.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yeah those "autopatch" devices were illegal - Ma Bell had rules against connecting any radio to the telephone system. Probably worried about long distance revenue. The portable radios/cord free telephones back then were a bit
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, it's deliberately a low bandwidth, cheap protocol. It's hard to make something with a big margin off it. Still, it's bad for Cisco's reputation to abandon support for existing customers.
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by RachelF 2y ago
I agree, this CPU has double the transistors of a 6502, and runs at 1/20th of a 6502 speed. A silicon product will be faster, the size of a printed dot and use less power. No word either on how many bending cycles the product supports.
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SpinRite 6.1 claims to improve old SSD read data rates(grc.com)
4 points by RachelF 2y ago|1 comments
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by RachelF 2y ago
Note that JPEGs can be rotated without decompression, just by swapping the axes of the compression cells. Some of the software he uses may do this, others may decompress, rotate and recompress.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Sadly, not knowing what used to be, erases history. “The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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by RachelF 2y ago
Semi off topic: Interesting to look at picture of the text of the 1890 paper. That typesetting is almost the same as modern scientific papers. Maybe Rayleigh had an early copy of LaTeX? ;-)
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by RachelF 2y ago
It's hard to generalize. The whole field of behavioural intelligence has lots of fake/unrepeatable studies. Even Kahneman, who got a Economics Nobel has this issue: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20&
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by RachelF 2y ago
The irony is that Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely are famous for their pop-sci/TED talks studying dishonesty. Turns out they were dishonest themselves. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ari
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OneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits in your EFI system partition(theregister.com)
14 points by RachelF 2y ago|1 comments
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by RachelF 2y ago
The original NT was a great design, built by people who knew what they were doing and had done it before (for VMS). It was superior to the Unix design when it came out, benefiting from the knowledge of 15 years. I worked on kernel drivers s
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by RachelF 2y ago
Also bear in mind that many of today's network cards have processors in them that handle much of the TCP/IP overhead.
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by RachelF 2y ago
If you like Hornblower, you should read the Aubrey Maturin series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, it's impressive. I had to write one in assembly years ago. However, could only do UDP unfortunately as I didn't have enough memory for code and TCP buffers in 64kB.

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