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by esmi 8y ago
I imagine those paid hourly (wages, contractors, construction, accountants, lawyers, etc.) track their work time very closely and have very precise definitions for not work, paid work and unpaid work. It’s not everyone but it should be a s
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by esmi 8y ago
A billion here a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
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by esmi 8y ago
The parent didn't claim 50ppm clock inaccuracy but I think their claim is very credible. For example, the uC I am working on right now has built-in DACs which are good enough for audio and a 5% accurate internal clock (uncalibrated).
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by esmi 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_Plug-in_Hybrid
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by esmi 8y ago
I don’t realize that. It happens all the time. There are many services dedicated to helping stranded people because of it. The analogy is not quite right though. It’s more like they are forcibly reducing max speed to prevent a high speed
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by esmi 8y ago
I don’t think iPhones are the problem as it’s not just Apple that’s having sales issues in China. You can find articles like the one below for many tech luxury brands. https://www.google.com/amp/s/observer.com&#x2
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by esmi 8y ago
Thanks. I’ll give them both a shot. I was recently given an iPad Pro and I was wondering what I was going to do with it. :)
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by esmi 8y ago
I’m an electrical engineer and I also do the initial design with pencil and paper and only skip over to CAD once I have the design space understood. But I do everything in paper notebooks and old notebooks do get lost and/or damaged (
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by esmi 8y ago
First sentance in the linked article. "Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc told customers on Tuesday that an outside investigations firm had found no evidence of any malicious hardware in its current or older-model motherb
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by esmi 8y ago
This is very interesting. Can you be a bit more specific about the design? When you say you created a two terminal device; do you mean you have a PCB (or equivalent) with two IO pads which you soldered to the pads which would normally be o
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by esmi 8y ago
Not sure what the parent drives but there are a number of variables to consider, for example with Tesla supercharing often will degrade the battery faster as will charing it in trip mode for the same number of miles driven, but there is a g
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by esmi 8y ago
They’ve also been writing roughly the same article for years. Here’s one from 2014 https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article91482... It does contain some interesting things about the cost of cotton a
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by esmi 8y ago
It’s defineatly not comprehensive. When PNaCL was first announced I thought the idea was interesting but Google didn’t really do anything with it and now web assembly is the thing. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www
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by esmi 8y ago
Maybe not today. But we’ve had our moments. https://youtu.be/-P28LKWTzrI
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by esmi 8y ago
0x11 = 17 That’s like 6 above 11! About right in my opinion.
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by esmi 8y ago
Thanks for the links I didn't know about these services. They use TG-130 or TG-140 which are lower temperature (130C/140C) FR4 board ratings. The surface may melt when de-soldering at high temperature. I usually prefer TG-170&#x
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by esmi 8y ago
No need to guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg97ovaD-b4 What Does it Take to get a 10 out of 10 iFixit Repairability Score? They've even issued a few. This one is for a phone. https://arstechnica.c
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by esmi 8y ago
20% of $50K is $10K/year which is like 15% of the take-home pay on a $100K salary, and all you did was pay interest. That's not something to sneeze at.
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by esmi 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil “The use of unprocessed human feces as fertilizer is a risky practice as it may contain disease-causing pathogens. Nevertheless, in some developing nations it is still widespr
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by esmi 8y ago
Do you have a source for this? The Silicon Valley one has a stated school policy that requires students and faculty to follow state law. http://waldorfpeninsula.org/about-us/immunization-policy/
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by esmi 8y ago
> So GPUs are good for bulk compute (big matrix multiplies, Deep Learning, etc. etc.) Maybe. Sparsity of the matrix in question matters a lot. Matrixes with very little sparsity, like say an image, do well. Others may not. It’s more
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by esmi 8y ago
If your goal is to be employed and anywhere will do this might be true but if you’re seeking a specific job, like research scientist, then you’ll have trouble (not impossible but very difficult) finding that job without a degree.
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by esmi 8y ago
There are a huge number of cheap timing parts. You can even get an entire waveform generator in a 10pin MSOP. http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-... There are many better alternative
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by esmi 8y ago
Usually there is a change in voltage on the processor when the processor changes state. This change in voltage expends energy due to the capacitance of the power rail and the circuit itself (the capacitance of one transitor itself is small
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by esmi 8y ago
If only things were so simple... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Harvard_architectur...
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by esmi 8y ago
They do document how the chip is laid out and exactly what HW resources the chip has. If you want to make your own backend you can. Use the get_ set_ property of physical constraints, extract and redo placement on the entire design via TC
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by esmi 8y ago
From your link: Vivado HL WebPACK™ Edition: no-cost, device-limited version of the Vivado HL Design Edition It's not as simple as an upload to github. https://opensource.com/business/16/5/how-transition
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by esmi 8y ago
The arguement in [1] doesn't make sense to me. Xilinx tools are free, as in beer, and the sale of ICs funds those tools so they are implementing your system of a "tax on every chip". Surely the VP of tools at Xilinx knows t
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by esmi 8y ago
Keep in mind ASIC fabrication and tool prices are way down compared to 10 years ago so "cheaper than an ASIC" is a moving target too.
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by esmi 8y ago
Why do you think this information is unavailable today? I can get the critical paths, device utilization, power, etc. from every vendor's software suite I'm aware of. And they are all fully scriptable from the TCL interface. On

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