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Comment Re:fuck these articles (Score 1) 129

This study showed they do something. Taking vitamins actually increases your mortality. WTH? Large long-term study too. Maybe they didn't correctly sample or normalize?

"On the contrary, mortality risk was 4% higher among multivitamin users, compared with nonusers, in the initial years of follow-up (multivariable-adjusted hazard ratio, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.02-1.07).1"

Comment Re:Back in my day... (Score 1) 74

For performance, aren't you talking about RAID? But RAID in a single form factor sounds like. Stack five disks in one so you double speed with redundancy for failure and a spare...

The last time I ran RAID it was great until the controller crapped out and all was lost. So buy two RAID arrays? :-)

On advances in capacity, I would argue CPUs have discrete jumps as you make new manufacturing fabs/processes. A few incremental increases but some significant jumps along the way as well.

Comment Back in my day... (Score 1) 74

First PC: HarCard slot-and-half 20 MB HDD in a Compaq luggable beast. I was the boss with 1 MB RAM and dual 5.25" floppies and a tiny monochrome screen.

Now literally 1,000,000 times as much storage in a little under 40 years.

That's basically doubling every 2 years, sorta like Moore's law...

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Submission + - Red Hat Addresses Source Code Policy (phoronix.com) 1

gatzke writes: Red Hat tried to clarify their stance on recent changes to their source code release policy which prohibits licensees from publicly releasing source code under threat of license revocation.

âoeSimply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere. âoe

Comment Re:$100 billion share movement is silly (Score 2) 91

I lost a lot of faith in ChatGPT / AI after the examples where it made up citations.

At least with a search engine you get links that you can evaluate. I know folks play the SEO AI page spam scam, but generally you get to published pages instead of made up information.

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Comment Re:foot (Score 2) 286

I use MobaXTerm for X windows stuff but it seems to be a bit heavy. And I think the last time I checked I had trouble finding how to modify keybaord shortcuts for tab switching to match my browser, CTRL-PgUp etc.

I found Console and I am pretty happy with it for most basic console stuff on windows.
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