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by baybal2 4y ago
Indeed, it's basically an expensive ROM chip with BIOS.
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by baybal2 4y ago
Hmmm, is there such a thing as 200mm 65nm equipment?
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by baybal2 4y ago
China is an odd case, all ISPs (really there is no choice it's either China Telecom, or Unicom) use IPV6 internally, but often don't give you V6 address depending on the region.
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by baybal2 4y ago
Will Framework sell knockdown kits to assemblers?
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by baybal2 4y ago
One of my traumas from life in Russia during my childhood is the understanding that you live in a North Korea redux, and you have McDonalds, and other Western companies from democratic countries coming here, and feeding that regime. US poli
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by baybal2 4y ago
> The sad thing is that it’s a joke that many people don’t seem to be in on. On each of my job in my early career, I spent considerable effort weeding out people who got too used to such mode of work. There are software developers with v
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by baybal2 4y ago
> Something I never understood about embedded systems work: why is the pay so bad? Because there is no demand. Because today, you get all the software along with hardware. And that software is already written somewhere in China, by same
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by baybal2 4y ago
1. zStandard is not a standard 2. Bzip2 is somewhat is a standard 3. zStandard is not a substitute for Bzip2
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by baybal2 4y ago
You can have pushbutton on/off controlled by an MCU, and having near zero leakage. Just lookup circuits.
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by baybal2 4y ago
Can you tell whether you work in a product design company, or an engineering company? Does that come from clients? I used the same 3-in-1 latch circuit for power on/off, pairing, and software power off for 12 years. A good enhancement
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by baybal2 4y ago
I regularly work for companies working for Apple, have a number of ex-coworkers who worked, or went to work to Apple. Lose tongues are everywhere, and Apple can't seem to keep anything secret in its China RnD unit. Shenzhen is a city o
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by baybal2 4y ago
Google so far been trying to do this for 6-7 years since they attempted to force push FIDO through Android. W3C adoption stalled, and they shot them in the foot with de-facto 3 incompatible standards rolled out under the same name. Smartcar
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by baybal2 4y ago
You mean BGA laptop chips? Or desktop ones?
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by baybal2 4y ago
Of few generations older varieties mostly. Alder lake is impossible to get from distributors. ULP Alders are only sold to tier 1, a teaspoon at a time. On other hand, 2-3, even 4 years old dies from Intel stocks are flooding distributors wh
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by baybal2 4y ago
> With the benefit of hindsight, non-proliferation stemmed from the same misplaced optimism that led the U.S. to welcome China into the WTO. Totally correct. It's impossible to talk of global peace when you know that 2 most malevole
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by baybal2 4y ago
I am doing electronics since my first job in 2007, and I never managed to get a university education in it. I greatly regret. Even 15 years later, I still can't do things every uni grad should be able to through practice, and drill. Yo
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by baybal2 4y ago
> Being from a third world country, I completely agree with you on how technological investment can change lives. Being from a soon north korea 2.0 to be (russia,) I can say it was my surprise to see Internet being so bad across the deve
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by baybal2 5y ago
I sold my surplus STM32 reels at 12x of the original price a year ago.
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by baybal2 5y ago
I lived in Russia since early childhood till 2007. When I tell foreigners abroad that Russia has an aggressive, militarist culture in a way an unrepentant Germany was, I am often called a nazi, and a rusophobe. https://i1.kknews.
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by baybal2 5y ago
I'm a Russian citizen. My late parents sent me off to Singapore when it became clear that Russia is done for as a country in 2007. What they told me "you can't stay human if you will live in Russia."
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by baybal2 5y ago
No, it's because they need money for new tactical missiles, and standoff weapons. And because US marines conceded on the idea of fighting China amphibiously. Honestly, the idea to take, and hold those tiny islandlets in the South Sea b
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by baybal2 5y ago
For the interest of HN reader demographics: The salary of experienced assembly line worker in South China has passed that of USA's central states few years ago, just before the CoVID. For places like Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan,
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by baybal2 5y ago
> So even if you have your own farms, property rights are basically over under a catastrophe of that scale 1. And for the same reason, just any kind of government will be forced to seize land from vapid hipsters, and grow something edibl
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by baybal2 5y ago
> On paper the Russian missile defense systems should be able to easily defeat 2 missiles like the neptune. Mokva air defence radar only looks one way. They made it look away from the coast using a drone, and then launched missiles when
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by baybal2 5y ago
> You know that Russian tanks are throwaway tanks. Low quality, cheap and fast production, built to abandon. Russians could've easily lost as much even with better military hardware. Most of Russian military hardware losses are not
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Does this include boomers? No, only silo based. No submarines at sea, or any mobile land based ones, as they will delay the first strike, and out the preparations for it. Warheads on them are tiny as well.
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by baybal2 5y ago
I find it amusing how Google went an extra mile to kill IrDA on Android, to push own Google Beam. I remember at around the age of first OHA phones, Japanese all had IrDA ports, but google has persistently stonewalled IrDA inclusion into And
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by baybal2 5y ago
The predictions I read cite 300 to 500 warheads if Russia will chose to specifically target Europe, which is unrealistic, as US will (hopefully) retaliate. It's not me saying that NATO should not attack at all. Having even 300 nuclear
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by baybal2 5y ago
This only possible if command, and control infrastructure is intact. If C&C is destroyed, Russia cannot do a coordinated launch of its full arsenal. If C&C in Moscow is taken out, it will be up to people in command bunkers in Russia
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by baybal2 5y ago
NATO would still have a multiple of conventional firepower to defeat Russia few times over. That's based on a scenarios if Russia somehow manages to fire all of its 1000 warheads into NATO force in Europe, without being fired back at.

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