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by blihp 7y ago
Was going to make the same comment. I remember Peter talking about how he used foot traffic at the mall to size up retailers he was looking at back in the early 90's. These were interviews on channels like CNBC, so pretty widely watc
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by blihp 7y ago
Because strategically, the move to ARM makes more sense for them to focus on even if sticking with Intel is a bit more painful in the short term. They already have a large team working on ARM processors and an architecture license for the
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by blihp 7y ago
You lose 10% of the power output of the solar panel. i.e. solar panels utilize 20% of the solar energy they receive but within hours that drops to 18% for the life of the panel. So yes, it's a 2% absolute drop relative to the solar e
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by blihp 7y ago
Nothing has really changed on those fronts. (i.e. I think they've always required Apple-specific versions of cards and nVidia support has been an issue for much of the past decade as the two companies effectively stopped working with
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by blihp 7y ago
It's absolutely part of the process... just not something companies always realize they're signing up for, or the degree to which they are, when they initiate projects. One problem is that the cost of cleaning it up can easily ex
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by blihp 7y ago
No and probably not. I have newer devices too, I was just using my older devices to make the point that the fragmentation problem hasn't been solved as much as it's been swept under the carpet.
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by blihp 7y ago
It wasn't 'just' hype, but it was over-hyped. There are companies that have their act together from a data standpoint and can make use of data scientists, whatever that term actually means in the context of their organizatio
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by blihp 7y ago
Point taken that the U.S./Canada stats likely skew to more recent versions. However, I'm in the U.S. and several of my devices couldn't possibly even download his company's app. Granted, I'm an outlier and tend to
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by blihp 7y ago
It sounds like you're rolling with whatever Google's latest 'solution' to fragmentation is, so of course it's not going to be an issue: Google is dropping old devices for you so they never even appear in your consol
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by blihp 7y ago
It sounds like it was a combination of them still being civil servants (meaning they weren't eligible for severance pay) and management was doing everything they could to push them out while they were privatizing the company. Extremel
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by blihp 7y ago
You don't even have to look at recent languages... probably the best example of (a) is SQL. SQL arrived a couple of years after Prolog in the 70's, but over the decades SQL has absolutely dominated. Unfortunately for Prolog, SQL
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by blihp 7y ago
The issue isn't about giving away any big secret, it's about violating the 'quiet period' rules. It's a 'if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile' situation regarding what some insiders will try
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by blihp 7y ago
They fell out of favor after one of the previous 'AI winters' but still have their uses.
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by blihp 7y ago
The good news is the mid- to high-end of the hard drive market will be the last to go as SSD can't compete there (yet). The bad news is that in the short term I would expect progress in mechanical drives (both cost and absolute capaci
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by blihp 7y ago
Lobbying groups working on behalf of the telcos and related business interests that oppose any measures to deal with this, and most other, issues that someone is making money as a result of.
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by blihp 7y ago
The question was about spinning rust drives ('before SSDs') and the corresponding CPUs that were available at the same time.
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by blihp 7y ago
Individually no, collectively (i.e. storage arrays) yes.
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by blihp 8y ago
Because some of us want to game on Linux. I can both dual-boot or fire up a VM but typically won't for games because it's a hassle, especially when I can get most of the games I want to run without resorting to that. Granted, it&
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by blihp 8y ago
I'm really interested to see how those high capacity Helium-filled drives hold up over time. (i.e. I've been wondering how much leakage is going to be a problem)
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by blihp 8y ago
It's pretty clear the author knows what they're doing and pretty much anytime I see a post like this I assume they are (smartly) doing some self-marketing rather than a 'see how easy/cool this project is?' So it&#x
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by blihp 8y ago
They only do that as a short term move to grab market share and put weak competitors out of business. Generally that's just a phase in the early days and eventually prices start creeping up, often higher than they were before.
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by blihp 8y ago
My understanding is that it was part of the mold. (the case was some sort of plastic and I recall seeing a lot of metal shielding inside as a result) I had a 1000 back in the day and it was a great machine.
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by blihp 8y ago
There's more to the lack of radical new applications than faster single core performance. We've had increasingly multi-core systems for over a decade now, but applications have been slow to appear. We've also had increasing
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by blihp 8y ago
I suspect the reason they released a scanned version of the redacted document is probably a policy decision to avoid serious screw-ups.[1] Also, organizations of all sizes have known how to photocopy/scan documents for decades so it&#
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by blihp 8y ago
That misses the point: it's effectively a (cheap) speeding ticket for bad behavior over the life of the company. It would be a bargain at twice the price from their point of view.
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by blihp 8y ago
Historically speaking, you didn't. It is only relatively recently that microcontrollers have become powerful and spacious enough for that to be an option.
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by blihp 8y ago
Because they expect to be able to have their cake and eat it too.
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by blihp 8y ago
Profit sharing no, revenue sharing yes.
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by blihp 8y ago
That's the whole point of the nit-picky requirements: they often don't want to fill the positions with locals. They really want a more malleable, and often cheaper, workforce using H-1B's etc. but can't go that route un
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by blihp 8y ago
The problem with that approach is that varying the length of the redacted text would effectively alter the document and forever muddy the waters as to what the original text could be. This would likely result in endless speculation that wh

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