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by Panzer04 2y ago
This isn't even close. Cars globally emit 4x as much CO2 as the global fleet. You might be referring to sulphur emissions, which are much higher for ships because they are basically unregulated, while car fuel has virtually zero sulphu
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by Panzer04 2y ago
If your sole reason for a car is long distance, and there's no scope for convenient half-hour or so supercharging, I think you're better off with gas.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
In what way is it in the MFG interest? They don't exist in a vacuum, and batteries are a commodity market. Cheap ways to improve their product seem like an easy win to me. Demand for batteries is virtually insatiable. The only constrai
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by Panzer04 2y ago
As others have mentioned - features that preserve battery longevity have become common in many consumer devices, usually at the cost of current battery capacity. I'm not sure your conspirational side is all that accurate here :P
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I would frame TSMCs lead to be as much down to a failure st intel rather than a success at TSMC. Intel invested a ton of money into making a non-EUV 7nm process work and basically got it wrong. Now they have EUV, it seems largely a matter o
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by Panzer04 2y ago
As it currently stands, it is reproducible. In 5 years, it might not be, if Samsung/Intel throw in the towel. I don't really see that happening yet, but at some point if TSMC maintains its lead and the alternative options don&#x27
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Because debt was cheap. Easy to keep it on balance sheet a few % rather than give it to shareholders. Remember, for the decade before this point INTC was throwing off 20B+ profits every year. They've had a couple of bad results recentl
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by Panzer04 2y ago
They aren't competitive right this moment, I suppose. Is that a reason to completely give up on all of the embedded knowledge inside the Intel IFS organisation? Surely at some point you can make the argument that it's worth the in
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I thought historically companies always wanted "second sources" for things like this. Surely all the fabless semis can't be blithely running off a cliff with TSMC as their only parts source? That would be a catastrophic risk
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Their revenue is >twice AMD's. If IFS disappeared they'd probably have a better valuation than they do right now solely based on processor performance, but their success in the foundry business is probably contributing negative
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Intel's revenue is 54B to AMD 22B. If Intel's CPU division was spun off, I see little reason to believe AMD deserves a 3x premium to that - and you get IFS with Intel as well right now! Granted, IFS is the millstone hanging around
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by Panzer04 2y ago
In fairness to Google, costs to host video would scale with viewers. Unless creators are willing to pay increasingly excessive costs as their viewerbass grows (which I doubt) some kind of per-viewer cost (like ads) needs to be charged. Ther
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by Panzer04 2y ago
But how much of the monetary value generation derives from small nodes? Surely the vast majority of fab income derives from these small nodes, just based on the sheer pricing disparity between complex semiconductors and everything else.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I used kagi for a while, but it honestly just didn't return great results. Maybe I'll try it out again and see if it's gotten any better...
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Moore's law isn't carrying the weight it used to :( Also squeezing ever more single threaded performance from inherently parallel scaling only (more transistors running at the same speed), as well as memory not being able to scale
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Most motors connected directly to AC power are likely to be induction motors, which require no special magnets. From fans, to fridges, to AC etc. Because they don't need drive electronics they can be very cheap compared to BLDC and the
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The design looks pretty terrible. If the same UI can do very different things based on checkboxes and controls can be spread out over multiple stations non-obviously, that's about recipe for causing the problems above. It sounds like t
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by Panzer04 2y ago
w.r.t article. Very wordy, could easily have been summarised. I guess if your costs are high enough, you can eat any amount of profit. They clearly need to get their expenses under control (if they care about generating an actual profit). T
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by Panzer04 2y ago
That blows up pretty quickly though? Even a 10 minute video will take in the worst case ~20 seconds to decode at that rate. Not really an excuse not to have it (since most video wont be encoded in such an insane way), but the developers owe
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The issue is there's a huge disparity in the fees for certain payment methods. Some cards cost merchants much more than others, but they are contractually forbidden from differentiating their prices based on that. It's anticompeti
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by Panzer04 2y ago
That's fair. Get something working > Doing it right/perfectly the first time, most of the time. That being said, you should be able to have enough awareness to avoid anything particularly egregious - eg. avoid things that you w
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by Panzer04 2y ago
This seems insane to me. It's not that hard to have a ballpark awareness of how much things cost. You need accountants etc because you need to ensure that all of the little things are done, not so that everyone else in the business can
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The real answer is just don't use apples stuff. The fact that you can fairly trivially just get an android phone and a windows/Linux computer and do pretty much everything demonstrates that Apple doesn't have a monopoly on an
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Especially in laptops, AMD has a downright insane naming scheme designed to confuse buyers - so this is honestly kind of understandable..
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by Panzer04 2y ago
There's a lot of options from both mfgs above the bottom end. Alder lake CPUs (eg. 12600h is simarly priced with 12 cores) are pretty solid in the same price class as Zen 3. I think both have pretty competitive miniPC offerings (with i
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Probably depends on the tier of processor too. Not all servers probably need 10k 64/128core CPUs.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I don't see an ISA switch being worth much. As I understand it today, most cores are basically an ISA interpreter on the front of a bespoke core. There's not much to be gained from using a specific ISA or arch (unless it's so
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by Panzer04 2y ago
>5hr Battery life in laptops is mostly a function of how well idle is managed, i think. The less work you can do while running the users core program, the better. I'm not sure how much impact CPU efficiency really has in that case.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
You missed the part where they mention ARM ends up implementing the same thing to go fast. The point is processors are either slow and efficient, or fast and inefficient. It's just a tradeoff along the curve.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Definitely my favourite perspective on death.

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