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by RachelF 2y ago
One wonders how many giga-watts of electricity Windows update consumes each year?
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by RachelF 2y ago
It's more complex than that now. For the last 4 years, Microsoft has a "Medic Service" that will put Windows update back if you just move those files.
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by RachelF 2y ago
That capsule better keep quiet - Boeing doesn't like Whistleblowers ;-)
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by RachelF 2y ago
For me, the interesting thing about Japanese work culture is that they pay white collar jobs overtime. Paid overtime seems to be a blue-collar only thing in most English-speaking countries.
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by RachelF 2y ago
For a digital-only lightweight alternative that does everything a watch should do, the Casio F-E10 is ideal.
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by RachelF 2y ago
"- Invest in good docs..." In my experience, end users don't read the docs or FAQ's or help search - they send you a question.
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by RachelF 2y ago
That's what comes with actually using the instruction set of modern CPU's instead of the lowest common denominator instruction set. However, note that some of the modern instructions like AVX-512 use a lot of electrical power on t
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by RachelF 2y ago
Very true. Their journalists understand the technology they are writing about and explain it clearly. They also provide background and a bigger picture. One can view them as sceptical, perhaps even jaded hacks, but what they write generally
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by RachelF 2y ago
The important axiom you forgot: - The government needs to take your money via tax on profits. Result: Via fancy accounting, businesses can pretend not to have profits and avoid tax.
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by RachelF 2y ago
NI used to be big and well known to the electronic engineers in the 1980's and 90's who helped develop the early Internet. See ti.com - Texas Instruments
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yeah, I have a Moto G84 12GB RAM for $180 - and it has features that these Pixels do not have: - SD Card up to 1TB - 3.5mm headphone jack
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by RachelF 2y ago
Microsoft don't seem to have a QA dept anymore.
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Average Chinese national now eats more protein than an American(scmp.com)
3 points by RachelF 2y ago|4 comments
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by RachelF 2y ago
Very true, there are other sources of the same ideas. It's even in the Bible: "You shall have no other gods before me", implying that El is the number 1 god. Paul Johnson has gone out of fashion but his wide works have stood
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by RachelF 2y ago
Indeed. For most solid-state transmitters many of these non-linearities in envelope and frequency are temperature dependent too. The same device will give different signatures at different temps.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Google "umop ew" for a list. UMOP stands for unintentional modulation on pulse. This will start you off with the foundation papers in the field.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Thank you for that link. There are many flaws in the paper's approach. There is much literature on this already, it has been investigated for decades. Much of the fingerprinting used comes from non-linearities in the RF power amplifier
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by RachelF 2y ago
iPhone 4 or 12 mini size is probably ideal for me personally. While this is small, it is double the thickness of most modern phones. Still, it is great to see a bit of creativity in the smartphone market. Most phones are pretty much the sam
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, too much for one person, but collectively it is possible to keep it alive. If anyone wishes to help, you can generate a chunk in 1TB units and seed via BitTorrent here: https://annas-archive.gs/torrents
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by RachelF 2y ago
There are a few applications that do that - but it is a patent minefield, courtesy of the biggest patent troll in history: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/12/14/the-pat...
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, Samsung has had their "Dex" which looks just like NexDock. Modern Motorola phones have a similar feature. VNC has been around for a long time. It just seems like something people don't want to use. I'm not sure why,
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by RachelF 2y ago
Nice big attack surface there. I wonder what's to stop someone modifying the vdx virus definition files to include something like Edge.exe or Explorer.exe?
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by RachelF 2y ago
Ironic, because MS are now saying that anything on the Internet can be used to train AI, and their ISO's are available. Perhaps using AI in the process of making these patches will make it OK ;-)
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by RachelF 2y ago
Don't forget BSD - all Apple operating systems are based on it.
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by RachelF 2y ago
No one wants to talk about it or Delphi anymore. Programmers are just as fashion-concious as the Milan catwalk designers.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Sadly, advertising is the best way to pay for your online product in most cases. Micro-payments have been tried a few times but most people did'nt like to pay for stuff that they used to get for "free". Since everyone is now
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by RachelF 2y ago
Thank you for that!
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by RachelF 2y ago
I agree that MS is not completely serious about C#. They spend too much time on adding new language features but not enough on the essentials: There are big holes and missing bits in the Windows API wrapper that have been there for two deca
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Qualcomm AI/Copilot PCs don't live up to the hype(semiaccurate.com)
19 points by RachelF 2y ago|7 comments
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by RachelF 2y ago
Something amusing about Japanese vs Xhosa (a Bantu language) is that their words for yes and no are reversed: Japanese Hai = yes, Xhosa - Hai is a no Japanese eeye = no, Xhosa - ewe is yes

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