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by ezsmi 4y ago
This argument has been made before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion Unfortunately, it didn't work out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
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by ezsmi 4y ago
What market is Intel a monopoly in? They don't even have all of the x86 market. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/335650-amd-achieves-al...
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by ezsmi 4y ago
And there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Fab "The X-FAB Silicon Foundries is a German group of semiconductor foundries, with headquarters in Erfurt (X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG is located in the
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by ezsmi 4y ago
They stopped doing that in Q1 of 2021 for obvious reasons. Notice all the zeroes https://www.intc.com/stock-info/dividends-and-buybacks Also, "Upcoming Dividends: There are no future dividends presently declared f
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by ezsmi 4y ago
Assembly services are all over the place. Here's a large one in Escondido, CA which is commonly used. https://www.qptechnologies.com/about-us/company-info-bios/
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by ezsmi 4y ago
Manufacturing anything large is an international affair these days. https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2020/inside-high-tech-m... "ASML has five manufacturing locations worldwide. Our lithography
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by ezsmi 4y ago
This is the first sentence of that article, “MacBook rarely shows overheating issues.” I can say that’s definitely not the case of the Intel laptop I’m currently using.
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by ezsmi 4y ago
Because lots of power makes a system hot. And a hot system is a slow system, even if the battery is full. https://www.novatech.co.uk/blog/cpu-and-thermal-throttling/
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by ezsmi 4y ago
I agree that the world basically runs on excel, but given that, the world cares about excel’s performance. Especially as spreadsheets are only getting bigger. And then there’s this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/
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by ezsmi 4y ago
I wondered why someone would publish such a list, and happily there is a FAQ which answers that. https://sive.rs/bfaq Your comment was also addressed. “Why don’t I see __(some book)___?” I do read fiction, but I don’t take
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by ezsmi 4y ago
> Any true difficult problems I’ve faced professionally have been predominately organizational. If I was the interviewer I would love to hear that story. Much like in political debates, answering the question asked is not required to per
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by ezsmi 4y ago
> There are rice paddies surrounding the capital city of Sacramento. Believe it or not but the area where they grow rice in Sacramento is actually a flood plain. [1] Given your handle maybe you knew that? Surprisingly rice's water
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by ezsmi 4y ago
If the +2 is kids than you left off an important $48K/yr expense. https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/how-much-it-costs...
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by ezsmi 4y ago
Agriculture and municipal uses much more water than industry in AZ. Shockingly even with the population growth total state water use hasn’t increased due to conservation efforts. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news&#x2
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by ezsmi 4y ago
I think you make a fair point but on the other hand I don’t see many “top 20 alternatives to http in 2022” articles (which implies there are more than 20 alternatives) like we have for front end technologies. I.e. https://www.net
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by ezsmi 4y ago
https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/
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by ezsmi 4y ago
> no ship-on-ship Do submarines count? If so, then yes. An important detail of the battle of midway was the Japanese didn’t think the American carriers were present. If they knew from the get go then the out come very likely would’ve b