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Climate change misinformation spreads online(carbonbrief.org)
16 points by Xixi 6y ago|5 comments
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by Xixi 6y ago
The thing with x86_64 is that Apple/Amazon/Google/Samsung/Fujitsu/etc cannot license it. There are only two corporations with x86 licenses granted by Intel: AMD and VIA. These licenses are not transferable, and a ev
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by Xixi 6y ago
My understanding is that the actual machineries and materials necessary to make and run fabs are made in US, Japan and Europe, not in China or Taiwan. For example photo-lithography machines are made by the like of ASML (Netherlands), Nikon
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by Xixi 6y ago
It might be running at a somewhat higher frequency, because why not. But the DTK is not a production model, so I don't expect Apple to spend significant resources on it. After all the A12Z should be good enough as-is. You have to consi
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by Xixi 6y ago
I was looking at the benchmarks of the latest MacBook Air here [1]. In GPU performance it's not competitive with the iPad Pro, and that's quite an understatement. For me the most obvious win of this migration to "Apple Silico
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by Xixi 6y ago
The A12Z is already shipping in the latest iPad Pro, so it's not like its performance is some unknown quantity: benchmarks are aplenty... Although I guess this dev kit could run at a different frequency, and have more/less memory
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by Xixi 6y ago
Apple kicked Imagination Technologies out of its SoCs in 2017, and arguably was designing most of the GPUs even before. Going with AMD would have been a way more surprising route (and nvidia even more...), unless we are talking about the su
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ITER Now 1.7: The Divertor Section(youtube.com)
1 points by Xixi 6y ago|0 comments
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Delphi 10.4 Sydney Now Available(community.idera.com)
4 points by Xixi 6y ago|1 comments
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by Xixi 6y ago
The only effect the A380 had was to trick Boeing into developing the 747-8, a major failure as a passenger plane, but doing fairly decently as a freighter. Boeing didn't have the cash to develop a clean ship 737 successor because of th
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by Xixi 6y ago
From what I read the "757-Plus" comments have been widely miss-understood: Boeing is looking at developing a new plane in roughly the same market segment as where the 757 was sitting. They are not looking at restarting the 757 pro
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by Xixi 6y ago
My opinion only: The 757 is out of production, although the tooling is in storage somewhere. Restarting production would be a huge undertaking by itself, not accounting for modernizing the airliner. It's all blueprints on sheets of pap
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by Xixi 6y ago
About Airbus and American nationals, you might want to check out John Leahy: Head of Sales from 1985 until 2017, sold 16000 planes, brought Airbus inside US airlines, and overall probably the most well known Airbus executive. Regarding mili
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by Xixi 6y ago
I think you misunderstood maple3142 comment: he is only saying that from Python 3.7 onward you could not use "async" as an identifier in your code, as it became a reserved word. So maybe you were using "async" as a varia
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Europe EV Sales Report(cleantechnica.com)
12 points by Xixi 7y ago|1 comments
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by Xixi 7y ago
Is true when normalized for localization? Is the average landlord in SF wealthier or poorer than the average programmer in SF? Is the average landlord in NYC wealthier or poorer than the average programmer in NYC? I don't have figures,
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by Xixi 7y ago
In my experience from spending several years in Japan where a lot of women opt out of continuing their career after getting married/having a child: a lot of time is spent socializing with other housewives. But the harsh economic realit
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by Xixi 7y ago
Also note that the makers of these three products are completely different. The Rafale was helmed by Dassault, the A400M by former CASA (Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA in Spain, now part of Airbus) and the Typhoon by what I believe is a for
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by Xixi 7y ago
It's very hard to compare sales figures with fly-away costs as they measure completely different things. Sales figures usually include many extras like weapons, simulators, training, support, spare parts, spare engines, integration wit
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by Xixi 7y ago
France's Rafale program is usually considered to have been very competently managed. Of course it's quite a bit older than the F-35, as the program started in the early 80s. But it has been mostly on time [1], on budget and on spe
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Boeing announces first annual net loss since 1997(leehamnews.com)
1 points by Xixi 7y ago|0 comments
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by Xixi 7y ago
It only means that device makers will have to agree on a new standard before they can drop the previous one. I agree that it will slow down things, but there is no chicken and egg problem.
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by Xixi 7y ago
IIRC Skype peer-to-peer architecture was a very bad fit for smartphones. For instance text messages in Skype were sent directly from client to client, requiring the two PCs to be up and running at the same time for the communication to happ
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by Xixi 7y ago
Fusion is already working. Not well enough to be commercially viable, but it's already working. ITER will produce more energy than it will be using - albeit only enough usable energy to break even. It's not a matter of making it w
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by Xixi 7y ago
Maybe they are starting to see the writing on the wall: if they keep hiding their profit away, governments are eventually going to tax them on their revenues, regardless of profit. Or based on worldwide profit rather than local profit. That
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by Xixi 7y ago
"A loophole is an ambiguity or inadequacy in a system, such as a law or security, which can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the purpose, implied or explicitly stated, of the system." [1] A loophole is by definition legal,
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by Xixi 7y ago
The reason the Japanese government stuck its nose in Ghosn affairs is not particularly secret: it was to prevent the merger of Renault and Nissan, and was driven by Nissan employees who felt the merger was very one-sided (all power going to
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by Xixi 7y ago
Indeed I looked into it a little bit more and found that planes are about three orders or magnitude safer than cars [1] (fatality per miles traveled). So even assuming that the MAX is two orders of magnitude less safe than the 737 NG (based
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by Xixi 7y ago
Did you actually run the numbers? The 737 MAX statistics are abysmal [1]. It stands at 3.08 crashes per million flights, compared to 0.06 for the 737 NG. It's two orders of magnitude worse. Are cars really two orders of magnitude more
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by Xixi 7y ago
195 for the A320 vs 189 for the 737-800 are the exit limits. It is what the plane is certified for, and is mostly a function of the size and number of doors. It has little to do with typical or comparable seating configurations. At similar

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