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by KSS42 10y ago
This EPA page seems to imply that activated carbon would help remove it: https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/drinking... ---------------- Can PFOA and/or PFOS be boiled out of my water? No; PFOA an
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by KSS42 10y ago
The problem with CableCard is that it was difficult to get working. The cable companies were against and it did not put too much effort into make it work. I recall someone saying that technicians would bring a basket of CableCards and hope
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by KSS42 10y ago
All things considered, there were a lot of resources out there but you had to do some leg work. I subscribed to Compute! There were also a fair number of machine language programming books by the likes of Richard Mansfield and Jim Butterfie
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by KSS42 10y ago
In high school, I used a similar setup from Heathkit with a 6800 processor. http://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml
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by KSS42 10y ago
How is the Mexican food in Paris?
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by KSS42 10y ago
See also : http://www.ccixconsortium.com
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by KSS42 10y ago
Good catch.
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by KSS42 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation. In the x86 code, is there an advantage of using the xor instead of a load/mov? Is it to avoid a fetch? (I programmed 6502/6510 assembly as a kid, but have no experience with x86 assembly)
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by KSS42 10y ago
Can you explain the example? // test.asm main: movb $1, 53280 xorl %eax, %eax ret And get this output: main: ldy #$1 sty 53280 lda $00 rts I can see "movb $1, 53280" getting mapped to
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by KSS42 10y ago
Another reason they bought Altera was to keep the their FAB utilization high. They have to "feed the beast.
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by KSS42 10y ago
My guess is that it is not really DRAM but flash memory on a DIMM like this product form Diablo Technology: http://www.diablo-technologies.com/memory1/
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by KSS42 10y ago
You might find this interesting: https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=ev52-ev54
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by KSS42 10y ago
In theory but not in practice. 24hr RTL to GDS has been the promise, but the design and process complexities keep growing. Depending on the complexity of the chip, the backend process takes several months. It's an iterative process. A
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by KSS42 10y ago
Were your tapeouts shuttles or full production tapeouts?
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by KSS42 11y ago
One Language to rule them all ...
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by KSS42 11y ago
Blaine Guest? Typo?
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by KSS42 12y ago
No, it would be 8 times harder.
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by KSS42 12y ago
The sales graph in the middle looks remarkably like the sound envelope for the SID chip (attack, decay, sustain, release).
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by KSS42 12y ago
Some info gleaned from these site: At Apple, one VP of SW has a salary of approx $400K.
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by KSS42 12y ago
In Toronto, Safari Online is available for everyone with a Toronto Public Library card (anyone who lives or works in Toronto)
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by KSS42 13y ago
1/3 Talent, 1/3 Effort, 1/3 Luck
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by KSS42 13y ago
This passage bugged me : ".. was grossing $1.2 million a month in the first half of 2012. Since then the site has doubled its product listings, and revenue now hits an annual run-rate of $30 million to $45 million by FORBES’ estimate.&
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by KSS42 13y ago
Many years ago I read an article in a Toronto newspaper that did a study of the least popular numbers. They are essentially prime numbers like 31, 37, 41 etc.
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by KSS42 15y ago
Seems like a rip off of: http://www.amazon.com/Just-Bed-Little-Critter-Pictureback/dp...
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by KSS42 15y ago
The post reminds very much of the "Back to Work" podcast by Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann: http://5by5.tv/b2w/10
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by KSS42 16y ago
Gruber's point is that the CEO should not have tried to justify the value of their product by pointing out the data mining aspect. It is not good PR. (BTW, Gruber blogged the "you are the product" last Sept.) http://daringfireball.net/lin
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by KSS42 16y ago
Sorry, it was meant to tongue in cheek. s/new kitchen, a new bathroom, new wardrobe and\/or appliances/New truck, new Stereo and\/or 17" MacBook Pro/g Or maybe: s/wife/husband/g My little joke was meant to be a play on the old adage: "Bewa
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by KSS42 16y ago
Don't fall for it. Expect a new kitchen, a new bathroom, new wardrobe and/or appliances in the near future.
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by KSS42 16y ago
Although not directly related, here's some interesting reading from 1999: http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/int-j12.shtml http://www.economist.com/node/183857
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by KSS42 16y ago
That's because of the SARS outbreak.

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