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by esmi 6y ago
Apple is in many states and countries. It’s way simpler to say no then try to manage it on a case by case basis for 1000s of engineers.
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by esmi 6y ago
> We have lots of mature, debuggable languages to process text... You mean like sed? Sed was written in the 70s and has been in mission critical stuff for decades on many platforms. What are you recommending that is more mature than tha
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by esmi 6y ago
Not only that I’m sure programmers are not unique in that regard. Surely musicians do music in their off time. Artist do art. Carpenters build. Mechanics have beaters, etc. etc.
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by esmi 6y ago
Wouldn’t it be more surprising if Apple wasn’t working on something like this? Even if it is true, basically it sounds like someone leaked out a test build of something. They’re probably prototypes for all kinds of crazy things, some good
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by esmi 7y ago
That exists. If a larger process is ok you can get 10 custom packaged ICs for less than $5K. It doesn’t meet your budget but it’s about the cost of a beater car. Depending on the car. ;) https://www.planetanalog.com/desig
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by esmi 7y ago
I guess I was wondering what make a fab open source. I.e. say you did have a 3D chip printer, but you didn’t know how it worked and you couldn’t look inside, would that be open source? If that printer counts as open source then I would a
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by esmi 7y ago
Cool paper. Thanks for sharing. I’ve worked with OTFT before and this paragraph from the paper pretty much sums up my experience too. “The operating frequency of the base-line design for OTFTs is approximately 200 Hz while for silicon it
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by esmi 7y ago
What’s an open source VLSI fab?
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by esmi 7y ago
The correct answer is, it’s complicated. (Of course) It depends greatly on the definition of the output, for example, which can vary by application. Easy answer is, for a fixed load (I.e. a resistor) and frequency, one varies amplitude with
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by esmi 7y ago
That shouldn’t be that case for a well designed battery pack. An unavoidable issue with all lithium ion batteries is plating during charging. This process increases the output impedance of the battery reducing its ability to deliver power
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by esmi 7y ago
Probably only if there is some type of class action law suit. If customers actually lost millions due to robinhood’s negligence then there is almost certainly going to be one.
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by esmi 7y ago
> How reliable are electronics as a whole? Given sufficient time, budget and management will very reliable system can be made. The probes have software too, so there’s that... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager
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by esmi 7y ago
Say you’ve asked an I2C ROM for a block read. After the first byte something, also on the bus, asserts an interrupt via a side band GPIO. I can’t read the something until the block read finishes.
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by esmi 7y ago
Why? Obviously the satellite can detect the predator.
45.
by esmi 7y ago
Or you could prototype the algorithm in matlab then convert to HDL. https://www.mathworks.com/products/hdl-coder.html
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by esmi 7y ago
Do you think this is true in Google’s European sites too? I have a hunch this is more of a Google thing than a US thing. I can assure you that plenty of engineers in the US grind away too.
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by esmi 7y ago
I don’t know. If junior = lack of experience implementing circuits in practice then I don’t think they should. After all, in theory you don’t need to bypass. In practice, you might. :)
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by esmi 7y ago
Are you an analog EE? If so that’s surprising. Did you have any microelectronics classes where you essentially build up your own opamp, one stage at a time? Bypassing is usually covered in this class, or in its lab, especially when discus
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by esmi 7y ago
It’s not obvious that you need them. In modern hw especially, often you don’t. Most people add them because it is (usually) not harmful and it can be helpful and they don’t care if it’s wasteful. https://youtu.be/P8MpZGjwgR
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by esmi 7y ago
It’s definitely perfect for that. It’s from this book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6398634-the-happiness-pr... Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus.
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by esmi 7y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
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by esmi 7y ago
In the US we call this engineering form. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#E-notati... I misread the question though and now realize it’s not needed.
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by esmi 7y ago
I suppose this is what happens in a teacher shortage. https://www.epi.org/publication/the-teacher-shortage-is-real...
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by esmi 7y ago
Is the answer to the second question allowed to be in engineering form? :) What grade level is question 3 considered?
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by esmi 7y ago
An American company is likely run by American citizens which comes with some protection from the Chinese government. Chinese companies owned by Chinese citizens don’t have that luxury so it’s similar but not the same.
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by esmi 7y ago
I don't know Go so I am not sure what file.Read does exactly but wc, on my system which uses the same wc.c as Jenner's article, is doing blocking reads in a naive way which I argue makes it somewhat of a paper target. Maybe the Li
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by esmi 7y ago
wc seems like a bad example because it’s basically IO bound. The title should read, “Go’s built in bufio reader is faster than raw reads on the file descriptor.” Which it should be because that’s the point of bufio.
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by esmi 7y ago
> You are implying that an article that is only two years old is too old, No. I’m stating that policy changed after this article was published, who knows maybe it was in response to this article, so the facts may have changed. The age
59.
by esmi 7y ago
The article is from 2017 and references data from 2016 and 2012. In 2018 Apple announced it stepped up its recycling efforts but I don’t know how things have changed and I haven’t read the full environmental report. Apple forces recyclers
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by esmi 7y ago
You can’t dump a laptop in a blue bin but you can recycle it. You can also resell or get a trade-in credit from Apple. https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/

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