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by Kliment 5y ago
NIH (a US government run institution) holds the main patents on mRNA technology.
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by Kliment 5y ago
projects only, remote only (located in Germany) I do electronics. Normally I help companies turn their idea into a prototype but at the moment all I seem to be doing is putting out fires related to the current part availability crisis. If y
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by Kliment 5y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote only (located in Germany) I do electronics. Normally I help companies turn their idea into a prototype but at the moment all I seem to be doing is putting out fires related to the current part availability crisis. If y
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Long-term societal consequences of important exams (2003) [pdf](web.archive.org)
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by Kliment 5y ago
For German users who are blocked from Project Gutenberg, here is the original text (in German) http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Kafka,+Franz/Romane/Der+Proz...
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by Kliment 5y ago
Yes. See my reply to your other comment.
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by Kliment 5y ago
I work in this industry, I talk to vendors, I see this stuff daily. If you want the manufacturing-side background, nikkei's semiconductor news has lots of material on this ( https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech&#x
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by Kliment 5y ago
Customized car parts are often a major part of a subvendor's revenue, but they are stuck in a monopsony situation - nobody but audi will buy an audi rear seat height adjustment lever. The market power of large automakers mean that they
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by Kliment 5y ago
There is a cost to switching, and a time delay. If you switch faster than the optimal interval, you lose some of the stock that was in-process. Because of this, a large industry changing their mind back and forth rapidly with a particular a
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by Kliment 5y ago
Nobody is scrapping old equipment when they move to a new node. The equipment just gets sold to whoever is one rung down on the pecking order, to keep producing parts at a lower profit margin. Early 2000s processes are still in extensive us
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by Kliment 5y ago
That's not the case here - the case is that they are big and powerful enough to bully suppliers so that suppliers assume a lot of the risks that any normal-sized company with fewer political connections would have to assume itself.
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by Kliment 5y ago
No, that's wrong. Fab slots are not a limited resource (except at the very high end). They just have a lead time of 12-18 months and it takes a lot of time and a lot of lost production to change what they produce any faster than that.
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by Kliment 5y ago
My dramatic shift - never work on a project that helps the car industry. They're now on the same shitlist as weapons, coal, and surveillance capitalism.
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by Kliment 5y ago
Yes. The CPU and GPU demand has nothing to do with it. The reason is the car industry. For some reason in early 2020 all the car industry execs were convinced that people would buy dramatically fewer cars in 2020, due to pandemic crashing d
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by Kliment 5y ago
Sure you can, you just need to low-temp bake them before reflow to get the moisture back out.
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by Kliment 5y ago
Hey, if you need help finding replacements I might be able to help - I've literally been doing mostly this for customers since January. It's absolute bullshit and I've never seen this before in all my time in this industry. e
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by Kliment 5y ago
They actually did disrupt the entire market like that. They cancelled all their orders, causing fab capacity to be redirected to other markets, then they came back and asked for their orders back, at any price, and everyone who was already
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by Kliment 5y ago
I explained it in a comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842924 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26659709
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by Kliment 5y ago
Car companies are literally paying 6x to 8x 2019 prices right now and still can't get stock.
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by Kliment 5y ago
It's more than that. I explained this last time someone asked, here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842924
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by Kliment 5y ago
They hang out at the same parties. For some reason all the car industry execs were convinced that people would buy dramatically fewer cars in 2020. Because they have a religious aversion to holding any stock they decided to shift the risk o
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by Kliment 5y ago
a "tape out" is the process of transforming a design into a physical die - i.e. a manufacturing run. It's when you hand over a design to a foundry to do their thing with it.
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by Kliment 5y ago
This is an extremely low volume prototype run. You can get those scheduled on short notice. Fabs love them because they can do process optimization using them, without impacting production customers. They're ridiculously expensive per-
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by Kliment 5y ago
Oh wow what happened? Their 2019 numbers were terrible.
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by Kliment 5y ago
Not the person you're asking but here's my take anyway: I use wx for my own stuff and also use a lot of wx-based applications. Wx is quirky and has some bugs but it's not going to go away or have a massive breaking change wit
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by Kliment 5y ago
You understand semi-correctly. Here's my analysis on this from another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26659709 The suppliers didn't mothball the facilities (which are not at all antiquated, and are ma
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by Kliment 6y ago
Yep, and those are a recent development and much less likely to last than 4-legged chairs. So are, for that matter, offices.
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by Kliment 6y ago
Sure, if you add extra remapping hardware, nonvolatile storage, and eat the performance penalties. Makes sense for massive quantities of crappy cheap flash, not so much for this.
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by Kliment 6y ago
Don't work with/for companies that use patents. Don't consent to companies using your work to file patents. If they do anyway, publish prior art where possible. Write down and publish as many things as possible to enable prio
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by Kliment 6y ago
Have you seen the die images of the ESP32? Basically the entire die area is SRAM. SRAM eats a ton of space, and with a bigger die area you have a much higher likelihood per part that you will have a defect and have to scrap the entire chip.

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