ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
The first "start up" I worked at was Sun Microsystems (I joined the day after they went public :-) so maybe not a startup at that point). But I was (and am) good friends with a number of people who worked there before I did. Prett
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yeah, the "success definition" trap is real. For me I was having coffee with a former co-worker who was now a VC because they had been at one of the same companies I had been but had joined "pre-IPO" and so probably had
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That is quite a thing. I've been out of the 'design loop' for chips like this for a while so I don't know if they still do full chip simulations prior to tapeout but woah trying to simulate that thing would take quite th
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
From the post: " ...but also despite multi-million dollar annual spend, we get about as much support from them as you would spending $100. " -- Ouch! That is a pretty huge problem for Google. I really enjoyed this post, mostly bec
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
The answer is, of course, no. (Betteridge's law and all that) Are there going to be massive changes in building codes? Yes. Will that make owning a building more expensive? Yes. Will the pundits tell you it is the fault of the what eve
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is a fun little module. I used them for a project and found them both easy to use and to work fairly reliably. That said, when trying to measure their spectral 'footprint' we discovered that the local oscillator on an Agilent
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yup, apparently Raptors have more dynamic range in their throttling.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I would be surprised if that was the case, my reasoning to that is that computing where a thing is going, when it's under going with changing acceleration AND changing mass, is pretty complicated. Especially if you already have the cap
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Will be interesting to hear the postmortem on the second stage. The booster part seemed to work pretty flawlessly with the exception of a non-firing engine on boost back which then did fire during the landing burn. If the person doing the
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It could diagram a sentence it had never seen.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
What gave you the impression I was assuming bad faith? It's off topic to the discussion (which is fine) but can be annoying in the middle of an HN thread.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Well this was the patent they were threatening with as I recall ( https://patents.google.com/patent/US20030023912A1/en ) and there was this one too: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5576554A&
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I could guess that it helps with heat dissipation/management. But I don't know. That guess is from looking at the list of patents[1] they have. [1] https://patents.justia.com/assignee/cerebras-systems-inc
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I would guess you're not asking a serious question here but if you were feel free to contact me, it's why I put my email address in my profile.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I think this is an important step, but it skips over that 'fault tolerant routing architecture' means you're spending die space on routes vs transistors. This is exactly analogous to using bits in your storage for error corre
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Heh, and I thought Roger Arrick using a BMW driver seat as a programmer's chair was cool :-). That looks like a great project and I'm jealous my Dad (or my Mom!) were not that kind of motivated to do a project like that with me.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
My experience is limited to technical teams in technology companies (primarily CA Bay Area based), as such what I've experienced and learned may not be as applicable to what you're getting into. That said, there are some common th
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This from the Bath County website : "Net generating capacity is 3,003-megawatts (6 units)." That is 1/1000th the capacity of the 3.6 Gigawatts that this Chinese facility can produce.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
36GW hours of water storage is pretty amazing. Looking at how much Solar/Wind over capacity you would need to take advantage of that is an interesting exercise in itself. That said, from a "we're doing things to be 100% renew
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I was just quoting the article. Apparently 'bespoke' saffron gets a premium?
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
At $100/g 3.5kg is $350,000 which is pretty decent cash for a crop that was planted in September and harvested in November. And unlike marijuana you probably don't need to have armed guards. I'm intrigued by the harvesting te
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Once Blizzard released the Burning Crusade characters wearing gear for those levels and at level 70 could 5 or 10 man what had been raids in WoW vanilla. And then by the end of Cataclysm you could solo Molten Core with most character types.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Well we didn't have the resources to start our own game studio and Blizzard wasn't interested in developing it. The group felt that if we built it with the same game mechanics we'd be at risk of getting sued into oblivion.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I think one aspect of it is 'how complicated is your life?' I know queer/trans folks who were always anonymous because they were in the closet in their early life and needed that to survive, but the anonymity allowed them to
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I find it oddly satisfying that 'classic' or 'vanilla' WoW is still so valued. I really enjoyed playing it. It is the high bar in my book for balance/humor/gameplay/story. I briefly looked at the mechanics
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is a much more accurate statement than the hate on the TPM. As the article describes, it is the GPU that has its own separate memory space that it can show on the screen without the CPU being involved at all. I expect next generation w
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
And recently, many payloads had their booster fly exactly once because the payload needed some extra 'oomph' to get into orbit so the booster was going to fast and to high to re-enter. When you are pricing for an average of 10x bo
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I'm looking at overall re-use numbers. Yes, boosters are now being certified for more launches which will, over time, bring both the average and the median number of launches per booster up. In this conversation, I think the relevant p
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I'm not sure I see it that way, I wonder sometimes how much of the expensive construction can be systematized into something less expensive, and how much of Starship's "cheap" construction will remain as they work harder
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This. If, and it’s a big if, starship can be 100% reusable and less than 24 hours turn around, then it will be the space truck NASA envisioned with the shuttle

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