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by KK7NIL 10mo ago
> And from the employees’ perspective, as an investor, I’d see them being on an early founding team as a risk going forward. Every employee is a flight risk if you don't pay them a competitive salary; that's just FUD from VC br
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by KK7NIL 10mo ago
Is it? What's wrong with hiring talent for a higher salary? You have no responsibility for an unrelated company's operations; if that was important to them they could have paid their talent more.
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
> These non-axial forces are a known cause of USB-C port failures and are explicitly not accounted for in the standard 10k-cycle durability claim. I agree and that's par for the course for any standard, they have to limit the requir
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
> USB-C is a worse mechanical connector for a device plugged in thousands of times over its lifetime. USB-C connectors are usually rated for 10k cycles. Do you have any evidence that lighting connectors are rated for more cycles than tha
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
> This is only the EUV light source, not an entire wafer fab. When we say "EUV machine" in the semiconductor context, it's pretty unambiguous that we're talking about a lithography machine using EUV and that can do, a
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
That's fair, thanks for the heads up.
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
If you read the article you'd notice that running an LLM locally would not fix this vulnerability.
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
> They have a desktop-sized 14nm EUV Who falls for this crap? An ASML EUV machine costs over $100 million and is delivered in dozens of shipping containers, taking up 2 floors in a fab. You're going to need really extraordinary evid
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
> Being behind doesn't mean they're permanently stuck where they are today Without EUV, they very much are. > but aren't our processes running into the wall of soon trying to make transistors smaller than an atom? No, t
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
I would stay away from US fixed income due to low spreads, higher than usual inflation and a devaluing currency in forex. I'd say ex-US international value stocks, especially EU, are a better hedge.
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
If each node provides a 10-15% improvement in power, performance and area, how many of those need to compound until your already uncompetitive 7 nm is 10x less efficient, slower and more expensive?
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
I rewatched the whole video and did not find where he said that. Quite the opposite, he says Chinese EUV academic research is at 2005 levels and is rather unimpressive.
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
No, they don't. Their "7 nm" relied on multi patterning DUV which leads to restrictive design rules, more steps and masks and lower yields, which is why I put it in quotes and said it's uncompetitive. The last DUV node w
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
Substrate is a scam; their marketing is misleading and they have yet to answer to the fundamental reason why X-ray and e-beam failed over 40 years ago (despite it being generally agreed they were the future of litho and optical would soon b
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
If you ask PRC shills, it's just around the corner because this one Chinese lab demonstrated a very small part of the system. And a surprising number of westerners fall for that crap. My guess is that it's at least 10 years away,
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
The best China has is an internationally uncompetitive "7nm" fab and that's the best they'll have until they can manufacture EUV machines domestically. So the EUV blockade has absolutely been effective and the fact that
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
The main part of the E6B is a very standard logarithmic slide rule. Having it loop unto itself is a neat trick but very ancient. But perhaps you were referring to one of the many other parts of the E6B which I am not familiar with.
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
Very few online services are so essential that they require a fail-over plan for an AWS outage, so this is just plain over-engineering. > Then laugh at the people who are experiencing AWS downtime... Let's not stroke our egos too mu
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
Have you considered that a widespread outage is a feature, not a bug? If AWS goes down, no one will blame you for your web store being down as pretty much every other online service will be seeing major disruptions. But when your super smal
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
You know very well it basically only applies to diplomats, but you good faith debate was never your plan here.
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
That is a total lie, the 14th amendment is absolutely clear and it was passed after the Civil War with the explicit point of granting citizenship to black slaves who, you'll notice, did not have citizen parents: > Section 1. All per
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
You imply in your argument that finance mainly makes money from HFT("it's hard to me to see how market trading activity that provides a price for equities to the second") but this is simply not true, HFT and quants make up a
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by KK7NIL 11mo ago
What point are you trying to make? That article could be reduced to one phrase: "banks off-load mortgage risk by selling that debt to investors". But that doesn't drive clicks or strike the fear of corporations into your soul
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
You can get pretty darn close to static typing by using ty (from the same team as uv). I've been using it professionally and its been a big improvement for code quality.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Global Foundries sent their EUV machine back (and paid a fat restocking fee to do it), they've stopped trying to compete at the leading edge of logic processes. SMIC has a DUV multi-patterning 7 nm node which is already economically un
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Presumably referring to the logic foundry business where TSMC is the monopoly power and Intel, Samsung and SMIC are looking to turn it into a duopoly.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
You're confusing quite a few things together. The basic peripherals (keyboard and monitor) of today still present the same interface as they did back in the IBM PC era. Everything else is due to massive hardware expansion, not hardware
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
I don't, but I do restrict that you run it on the same OS as it was designed for.
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
> The shift from 16-bit to 32-bit protected mode with the Intel 80386 processor that fundamentally altered how the processor managed memory. I said x86 has "over 30 years of backwards compatibility". The 80386 was released in
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by KK7NIL 1y ago
Do you have any examples that aren't because of the OS (as in, not trying to run a 90's game on Windows 11) or specialized hardware (like an old Voodoo GPU or something)?

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