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by blihp 5y ago
Everything I've been reading has been that 7nm has been having excellent yields and chiplets do bring their own costs. Lisa Su (AMD CEO) indicated in an interview a while back that there is a price floor at which chiplets make sense.
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by blihp 5y ago
I don't take it that way. Zen 4 is likely to only release high-end parts at first. Given the timing of these releases, I'd expect Zen 3 to serve as the mid- to low-end of the product range at least through mid- to late-2023 if n
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by blihp 5y ago
They're trying make switching to Intel less appealing when upgrade time comes. Until 12th gen, they didn't seem to view that as much of a threat. Now it apparently is. Competition is good!
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by blihp 5y ago
IIRC, it was the lead developer who implemented the original prototype in his own time who decided the license, not the Blender project. I don't think Cycles was ever GPL as it was developed as a standalone project that could be integ
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by blihp 5y ago
Not likely as long as Russia has at least one major trading partner (i.e. China) who can redirect critical goods to them. If all major trading partners cut them off, then possibly.
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by blihp 5y ago
I agree that the scope and scale of these sanctions are beyond anything I think we've seen before. However, I don't think that invalidates the question 'how effective are they really?' Let's not fool ourselves int
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by blihp 5y ago
You're not seeing the bigger picture... Once most of the retailers have installed the product obscuring screens, another startup can produce an Augmented Reality 'x-ray' app that lets you see what's behind the screen by
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by blihp 5y ago
IIRC, from the previously discussed article since trees aren't native to that environment, the microbes etc. that would normally exist in more moderate climates and would feed on the ship aren't present. So being submerged has ac
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by blihp 5y ago
Dynamic linking is Debian's preferred approach. When it works as intended (which is usually), it's generally a good thing.
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by blihp 5y ago
They were competing with the ubiquity of CDs back then. To get people to go for the whole digital download thing, they had to be more convenient. A big part of that was not having gaps in their offerings in terms of back catalog.
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by blihp 5y ago
It was an example of Steve being Steve: he wanted their back catalog but he also wanted to extract a pound of flesh for their perceived slight more. He had absolutely no problem doing or saying things that put partners (such as the Motorol
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by blihp 5y ago
This is exactly the effect economic sanctions are supposed to have. It's no secret that businesses respond to fear and greed rather than calls for moral courage.
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by blihp 5y ago
I think a lot of it depends on how a given product is branded/marketed. Mrs. Buttersworth's is a good recent example here in the U.S. Had this brand actually been originally founded by a kindly grandmother who happened to be bla
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by blihp 5y ago
While the 'Intellectual Property' terminology probably did start in the 1980's alongside personal computers, the concerns about wide scale infringement definitely existed prior to that via Xerox (i.e. copy) machines (paper),
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by blihp 5y ago
I have no idea what the percentages are but based on a lifetime of anecdotal experience esp with incandescent, I'd bet you're wrong. Being across the room from a light bulb will warm you a bit, but nothing like proximity to the b
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by blihp 5y ago
And yet I've had two (name brand) LED bulbs die in the past year with <3 years of operational life. The drivers in most of these bulbs are garbage.
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by blihp 5y ago
Here's another quote from the article: > The cartel lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours[6] (down from 2,500 hours),[6] and raised prices without fear of competition.
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by blihp 5y ago
Don't believe the hype. OpenGL is still fine for getting started with and applications where Vulkan etc is overkill. It makes perfect sense for game engines and heavy duty applications to make the switch, but for the simple stuff sti
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by blihp 5y ago
Only in the sense that when Google wants a new web standard the Firefox devs need to be convinced before it happens there. That has stopped a few, but not all, user hostile things from becoming defacto standards over the years.
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by blihp 5y ago
That argument falls apart when you realize that LHR didn't cripple nVidia's cards, it merely reduced their mining performance to being just a bit stronger (but still stronger) than AMD. Had they really wanted to kill miner inte
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by blihp 5y ago
It's entirely rational. To this day IBM is often cited as an example of a western company that did business with the Nazis.[1] No consumer company wants that kind of stigma attached to them. Also, they are rightly concerned about the
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by blihp 5y ago
Not at all. The first noticeable things they'd probably do are ramp down production to meet demand and stretch out product generations even longer. The improvements between generations would be much smaller when they did arrive. Pri
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by blihp 5y ago
You're looking at it purely from the short term perspective of say GPUs, cars etc. as a consumer. Sure, a short term oversupply to drive prices back down to a sane level (or even below sane for a little while) would be a good and heal
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by blihp 5y ago
Oversupply is great for consumers but very bad for suppliers. Neither extreme is healthy long term. You generally want a balance between supply and demand so that suppliers have a predictable target they're aiming at and can expect a
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by blihp 5y ago
You're actually reinforcing my point about the change in the industry. Many of the people who came up in tech prior to the mid-90's didn't care of the industry was in boom or bust mode: they just wanted to work in/with
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by blihp 5y ago
Great suggestion. I'd bet that many people, even if they know what the bar signifies, look around the front page to try to figure out who but unless it's a massively upvoted post and/or very prominent name aren't quite
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by blihp 5y ago
It was different prior to the mid-90's and the 80's (despite much more primitive tech) were even more fun. Two things happened around the same time: Bill Gates became the worlds richest man (and a household name) and a bunch of c
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by blihp 5y ago
Or... and I'm just spitballing here... perhaps switch to more productive crops? I would hope that no one believes we need fewer farmers here in the U.S. (we need more, IMO), but don't incentivize them to produce more of a given t
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by blihp 5y ago
Basically it was the smart contract[1] that came with the NFT where the victim is essentially executing foreign code that gets granted access to their digital wallet. That's the reason the scammers were so insistent that he did it on
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by blihp 5y ago
Replicants were bio-engineered, not bred. They weren't human, they were superior to humans in many ways with the notable exception of life expectancy. So it was more the classic question of what does it mean to be alive and what righ

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