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There fans are still good, but not the quietest anymore.

Noctua no longer manufactures them, they are now made by YS Tech.


I don't understand the threat model that banks worry about on rooted phones.

What is it? I can access their websites on a PC running as root or Administrator. What is the problem with rooted Android phones?


Mine is not 200MB on Android - the base apk is 67MB + 32MB for the ARM v8a specific libs. This is the code, the local caching and other data might make up the rest.

For Android, you can check [1] Download the apk, rename it as a zip and look inside to see the files.

A quick file analysis of the 67MB shows around 58MB of java code and some 32MB of ARM libs, 31MB of this is the libvideochat.

[1] https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/gmail/gmail-2025-11...


Interesting timing, given that the PS4 has been hacked via various exploits, and the PS5 has just had its root encryption keys exposed.

Anna's archive has a great analysis of the Spotify data.

They identify a huge surge in tracks that few listen to after gen AI started.

The analysis is worth reading. The distribution is (Pareto)^3 ~99% of the tracks played are 1% of the catalogue.


> iAPX 432 Yes, this was a failure, the Itanium of the 1980's

I also regard ADA as a failure. I worked with it many years ago. ADA would take 30 minutes to compile a program. Turbo C++ compiled equivalent code in a few seconds.


Machines are thousands of times faster now, yet C++ compilation is still slow somehow (templates? optimization? disinterest in compiler/linker performance? who knows?) Saving grace is having tons of cores and memory for parallel builds. Linking is still slow, though.

Of course Pascal compilers (Turbo Pascal etc.) could be blazingly fast since Pascal was designed to be compiled in a single pass, but presumably linking was faster as well. I wonder how Delphi or current Pascal compilers compare? (Pascal also supports bounded strings and array bounds checks IIRC.)


> I wonder how Delphi or current Pascal compilers compare?

Just did a full build of our main Delphi application on my work laptop, sporting an Intel i7-1260P. It compiled and linked just shy of 1.9 million lines of code in 31 seconds. So, still quite fast.


Windows has been my main operating system for the last 35 years (from version 2). I've used Linux and to a lessor extent BSD and Mac as well, but my main desktop has always been Windows, as it ran most of the apps that I needed.

Windows 11 UI and spyware are so bad, that Windows 10 is where my 35 years of using Windows as my main OS has ended.


I dislike windows 11 also and mostly use a mac these days and my gaming pc is dual booted with arch… but windows 10 and windows 11 for me are so very similar that I’m confused about the outrage between them. In both situations I turned off all the crap that was awful like the bloatware and so on, and then it’s kinda the same experience after that.

The Chinese tech manufacturers are so sick of the HDMI licencing mafia that they've developed their own replacement for it:

https://www.techpowerup.com/335152/china-develops-hdmi-alter...


In the late 1990's many HP workstations used Abit motherboards.

I remember being surprised that HP did not make the boards themselves.


Or more recently Dan Kahneman, Dan Arielly or Stephen Jay Gould have also been caught fabricating details or whole results.


I don't know of any thimble recent (or non-recent) where Gould was "caught fabricating details or whole results".

In 1981 Gould accused Morton of fabricating details. Gould died 20 years after that. Nine years after Gould died, some said Morton had not fabricated details.

I should add Morton was a phrenologist who did not believe in common descent.


> Dan Kahneman

I know the underpowered studies cited in Thinking Fast and Slow didn't replicate but I don't think there was any fabrication?


The famously ironic case of honesty in a study about honesty

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/09/14/highly-criticized-pap...


That's Dan Ariely. I don't think there's any known example of Kahnemann fabricating data.


As fair as I know none of the research by Kahemann himself is suspect, but a lot of the studies he cited in Thinking Fast and Slow, especially the ones about priming, have failed to replicate. YMMV on what this implies for the book as a whole.


He's open about the priming chapter concern:

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...


The Fifty Minute Hour / The Jet Propelled Couch would be a classic example. Lindner's 'patients' were composite characters.


Mudslinging without the slightest trace of proof.


Citation needed.


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