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by awalton 9y ago
This is not correct at all. Most chips made today are created with multipatterning processes using 193nm lasers and optical masks, known in the field as "Deep Ultraviolet Lithography" (DUV(L)). The industry is pushing towards repl
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by awalton 9y ago
> I can't really find yield numbers This is not surprising - this is trade secret information as it directly translates to profit margin for the process. AFAIK nobody publishes process yield information other than vague handwavy per
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by awalton 9y ago
Yeah, you should take the fact they're not using EUV as the tremendous boulder of salt that it is: these are actually 10nm parts. Node names continue to be washed into Megahertz War-style naming schemes. TSMC's process lines up pr
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by awalton 9y ago
1) I'm not always on a Mac. In fact, I'm most frequently not on a Mac. And even on my Mac laptop, I spend my day in Linux VMs and interact with few pieces of Apple-native software. An email client I use must be portable, and w
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by awalton 9y ago
> seriously, when you scroll through a 10,000 email folder in moments Err, no. Scrolling through 10k emails is a UX disaster. There's a reason why Search exists, and it's this use case. If your email is properly categorized, yo
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by awalton 9y ago
Feel free to put your money wherever you want. We're not stopping you from funding Thunderbird development. ...we're just gmail users because, however sadly, it's still the best damned mail client on the planet. Nobody's
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by awalton 9y ago
They have a metadata block type defined and you can shove whatever metadata format you want into it (EXIF, etc), and it has "image properties" for the necessary bits (presumably DPI would land itself as an image property, but I ca
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by awalton 9y ago
The Franchise fee is a separate issue and is charged on any company doing business in CA\... Only way to avoid it is not to be in California at all. \edit: according to my tax attorney. Get your own legal advice, etc.
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by awalton 9y ago
> I'd like to see a social network that limits the number of people you can interact with to ~100. Want to add a new person? Then get rid of an old one. You can do this on your own if you so care - I use Twitter in pretty close to t
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by awalton 9y ago
...as is any multibillion dollar public corporation. They're literally chartered to avoid taxes, and are willing to pay accounting firms millions of dollars to find new and innovative loopholes. The tax code could be simpler and elimin
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by awalton 9y ago
> If you do those 3 things you will not stay in poverty 99.8% of the time. I know a lot of people in poverty, having come from it myself. I refuse to believe this without a direct citation.
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by awalton 9y ago
...and sadly, Apple will never admit the mistake, and give us back the nice keyboard of the 2013 model. All in the quest to save a millimeter or two of height. My Late 2013 15" MBP is starting to fall apart in its old age - its battery
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by awalton 9y ago
Does being an "e-resident" make you subject to the GDPR? So you can tell e.g. Facebook and not have to lie about your country of residence? If so, I could see this becoming very popular over the next few years...
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by awalton 9y ago
...to compete with Intel? Why would Apple want to and nVidia not want to? Apple sells computers, nVidia sells chips. Apple loves vertical integration and all, but selling chips is the reason nVidia exists. Apple could put out a clothing l
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by awalton 9y ago
> All the redesigns look Facebook-ish. This isn't by chance... Reddit is actively pushing themselves towards being the next Facebook, down to the whole "deprioritize subreddits/emphasize profile pages and groups of friends
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by awalton 9y ago
Even at $15-20B all cash, Apple would be overpaying, and then having to deal with all of the continuing business of supporting AMD, including the ATi problem - there's just no way to acquire AMD without destroying the graphics/gpu
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by awalton 9y ago
If other companies could legally figure out how to license and build x86 chips, nVidia would already be there stamping them out. It's a legal minefield that's simply not worth exploring, even for Apple.
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by awalton 9y ago
...in one benchmark, from a heavily Apple-favoring company. I'm sorry, we need better evidence.
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by awalton 9y ago
> Apple's CPUs are already faster in single-core benchmarks than the Intel competition Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. "But Geekbench..." is not extraordinary evidence. Give me a board where I can do a
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by awalton 9y ago
But you could also call it, "BombproofDB", "NukesafeDB", "GeodistDB" or something that gets the same idea across.
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by awalton 9y ago
People have been complaining about "The GIMP" for literally decades... (edit: in case this isn't clear, Spencer Kimball, the CEO of CockroachLabs, also created "The GIMP" at Berkeley). Sadly, names do matter. Cockro
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by awalton 9y ago
Knowing Canon it still only supports 1080p video...
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by awalton 9y ago
> Most places are pretty good about sending unsubscribe links these days. Yeah, but unfortunately companies are also really, really, really good at putting you on mailing lists/ADLs that you never , ever would have signed up for
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by awalton 9y ago
> Legally yes, they had permission. California is a two-party consent state for recording, and it's not an unreasonable stretch to say this should also include call metadata. If one party (i.e. Me) opted out, and someone else didn
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by awalton 9y ago
> Tesla isn't even at 2000 cars a month https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/ Current rate of 700 cars/week * ~4 weeks/month = ~2800 cars/month.
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by awalton 9y ago
> As an answer big techs will likely break these companies into 100 smaller ones to avoid the thresholds? That sounds like a huge win to me. More competition is better for the market at a whole, and these 100 smaller companies will not b
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by awalton 9y ago
> I'll pay the taxes--I just don't want to have to calculate the taxes. You, me and most everyone else reasonable. In some countries, taxes are as simple as the tax agency sending you a bill or a check. But, America's love
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by awalton 9y ago
Yeah that's not a strong argument at all. The 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands are known widely as "garbage bands" due to how terrible they are to work with (e.g. rain will heavily attenuate your signal, they're literally how micro
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by awalton 9y ago
I don't think that documentation truly exists. You can read the Gtk+ documentation and the Cairo documentation, but that really only tells you what the APIs do in the grand scheme, not why they were added, what problems they solve, or
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by awalton 9y ago
Typical hackernews half-off-topic reposte. Not even sure why I bother... > There are times when you absolutely DO want to use image surfaces, such as when you need raw access to the pixel data, or if you want to combine cairo rendering w

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