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by ajb 1y ago
Yes, chemists don't need to reverse engineer that (although they can) because it will be in the patent. I'm not sure if the production process is though.
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by ajb 1y ago
"LED will burn when battery wrong way round" . I don't know about the rest of it, but I think this is just an idiosyncratic translation of "LED will light when battery wrong way round" - IE it's a warning LED.
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by ajb 1y ago
It's quite likely (and not necessarily bad) that they didn't really read the application. Most obviously, if they already chose someone but didn't close the deal yet, it's common for listings to still be up, but no-one w
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by ajb 1y ago
Likely so. I've noticed that those whose first language is one of those with fewer vowels - and thus must have more syllables per second to convey the same information rate- sometimes speak English much faster than I (as a monolingual
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by ajb 1y ago
Amazon is worse than this, though the AWS bait and switch is that you are supposed to save over the alternatives. So it should be worth switching if you would save more than the dev time you would invest in doing so right? But your company
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by ajb 1y ago
Are you using separate accounts per use case? That's the only real way to get a cost breakdown, otherwise you have no idea what piece of infrastructure is for what. They provide a tagging system but it's only informative if someon
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by ajb 1y ago
In the long term, it might be best to disable the ability to switch off checks using command line flags (which usually means, the whole executable) and only allow it on individual functions. Although the current mechanism to switch them off
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by ajb 1y ago
If you have billions of dollars of revenue, you can make the law of tort work the way it is supposed to.
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by ajb 1y ago
This is actually a valid question*, although you probably won't like the answer. One side will concede in a war if there are no gains to be had, and conceding will stem the losses. So at a minimum, the side that wants a victorious peac
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by ajb 1y ago
Makes sense. In my ex-employers case, the sale was what's called a "pre-pack" sale. That means the sale was advertised and proposed before the administrator were appointed and the administration was noticed. So you would not
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by ajb 1y ago
When a previous employer went bust, it was bought by the CEO after being listed by the administrator on an obscure website (ip-bid.com) which you have to make an account and log in to just to see the listings. There was only one bid. (I le
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by ajb 1y ago
The equivalent on mine (a Bosch) is to wait to start anything at all until 1 cycle-time less than ten specified number of hours. Churning all night instead seems a peculiar design choice.
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by ajb 1y ago
You're right, that was the hole here. The reply by Tuna-Fish gives the correct reason for this setup (different voltages). The actual power converter usually needs at least an off-chip capacitor, even if the logic is integrated, becaus
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by ajb 1y ago
Chips often have multiple VCC pins exactly because otherwise there is voltage drop across the chip. This is a hard problem. For chips where this is a security issue, I guess one answer may be to do voltage distribution on the interposer, s
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by ajb 1y ago
It's interesting that the only devices complying with the security requirements are Google's. I wonder if Google actually has an internal version of Android that's more security-focussed. Given that critical engineers' p
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by ajb 1y ago
The sad part is, both the EU and the UK (which has the same issue) have the capacity to do this as we have enough software engineers. But most software companies end up being bought out by US ones at some point.
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by ajb 1y ago
I think there is a general principle here: - evolutionarily evolved feelings do not need to be logically consistent with the evolutionary benefit, as a long as they cause the evolutionarily beneficial behavior An example that I observe is i
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by ajb 1y ago
He's not saying advertisers don't compete. He's saying it changes from advertising being a massive risk as well as a cost, to just a cost. So the auction is won by the company with the biggest instantaneous profit margin on
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by ajb 1y ago
There are some pretty big longitudinal studies with consent ( "45 and up" are a quarter of a million people, for example - that's big enough that working predictions within the cohort would be a worthwhile health outcome).
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by ajb 1y ago
I am not proposing injecting chips.
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by ajb 1y ago
Here's what may seem like an unrelated question in response: how can we get 10^7+ bits of information out of the human body every day? There are a lot of companies right now trying to apply AI to health, but what they are ignoring is t
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by ajb 1y ago
It would be interesting to know more about why it failed. It's not obviously a dumb idea -it's basically Pinyin but for English, and that works very well for Mandarin as far as I know, which has a similar memorisation hump to get
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by ajb 1y ago
For the pub, probably a discount on insurance.
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by ajb 1y ago
I would guess simply cost. Air conditioning has a high energy cost, especially if your building isn't air tight, which many old buildings are not. In the UK companies can be tight fisted about air conditioning even though they could af
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by ajb 1y ago
This isn't using setjmp/longjmp It's using Simon Tatham's method based on Duff's device ( https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html )
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by ajb 1y ago
If you do them both with one hand, would they not be moved at the same instant rather than 1 second apart?
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by ajb 1y ago
As a small company with relatively low volumes (10,000s) , the only way to work with them is via an OEM who has an existing relationship with a distributor (not with the actual semiconductor company). That means you won't own your PCB
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by ajb 1y ago
Here is one: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/microarchitectures/vulca... I don't know the details of how much rework they had to do. As I understand it cavium still sells processors but only directly
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by ajb 1y ago
There's nothing especially wrong with using an existing backend design and transitioning it to another ISA; a number of teams did that from mips->arm and had success with the result. Of course, if you ship too early you may be missi
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by ajb 1y ago
It's an interesting comparison because MIPS used to occupy the niche that RV does now - an ISA that anyone could implement. Lots of companies had their own mips implementation, but still might use an implementation from mips-the-compan

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