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by genmud 6y ago
Speaking as someone in AZ, the fact that we can get a 5nm fab going here in the US speaks volumes to how effective that pressure was. I actually disagree with Mark Liu, on his opinion on it leading to a lot of nonprofitable business... I th
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by genmud 6y ago
If I was running an authoritarian country, I would probably do this too. But its still kind of an asshole move.
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by genmud 6y ago
No, the chip vendors had their orders cancelled by ford/gm/etc., so they cancelled their orders with the fabs, who then sold the fab time to other chip vendors for different products. Why would you build chips you know you can&#x2
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by genmud 6y ago
Dude, I ended up buying like 10 or 15 blue pills a year or two ago with genuine STM32 chips for like $2/each. If they are clones, they have all the peripherals and complete ram/flash from my testing.
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Ask HN: How do we deal with the cybersecurity supply chain issues?
2 points by genmud 6y ago|1 comments
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by genmud 6y ago
It is certainly a difficult problem and as such, like most difficult problems, it will likely not be fixed in any meaningful manner. We will likely be talking about this exact issue in 5 years, 10 years, and 20 years from now. Cyberspace So
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by genmud 6y ago
I think at $450 its a bit of a tough sell. Without history it is hard to sell it on the basis of the security aspect. Especially when something like YubiHSM [1] is $650 and has relatively good support from an API standpoint. I may be wrong,
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by genmud 6y ago
I don't think that it is a solvable problem if the economics stay the same. SolarWinds is actually trading almost $2/share more than it did 1 year ago today ($15.67 v $17.23). Sure, it is down from its 52 week high ($24.34). I w
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by genmud 6y ago
There are 2 things that I do to help mitigate this: 1) Block off a day (or two) for no meetings 2) If there is no agenda, no clear reason for meeting, I decline or email them asking for clarity for the meeting reason. If it is something tha
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by genmud 6y ago
I would love to hear sources on that, I doubt that apple refurbs their 2-3 year old laptops and sells them to customers. Maybe they are doing this for iPhone lines, but I doubt they are doing it for their MBP/iPad stuff. TBH, refurb st
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by genmud 6y ago
Definitely not, but the way they probably calculate this is: Total Bill of Materials = display + motherboard + laptop case + keyboard + trackpad + charger + cable Then they figure out what percentage each subassembly costs in the B
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by genmud 6y ago
Because parts of similar make/capabilities by the exact same manufacturer are sold at that price. What Apple is doing is working with the supplier to roll a specific IC that is for use exclusively by them. The issue is that many of the
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by genmud 6y ago
Depends on the fault. If the schematics are readily available and replacement parts are there, it would take maybe 20-40 minutes of troubleshooting? Sure its complicated, but if you charge $150-200/hour, it can certainly be cost effect
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by genmud 6y ago
> "While investigation is still underway, we have decided that maintaining our own git infrastructure is an unnecessary security risk, and that we will discontinue the git.php.net server." Why did it take them till 2021 to figu
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by genmud 6y ago
I wish apple would stop using/forcing IC manufacturers to restrict supply of components on their board. The IRP provides parts, but when it comes to apple, the only parts available are the entire assemblies, which is a bummer. Instead
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by genmud 6y ago
I had a customer email SolarWinds a question as to why it was messing their EDR and were told that was expected behavior by their support. Saying they had no indication prior to December 12 is just not accurate and they have been found in m
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by genmud 6y ago
Did Windi credit all the people who have pioneered JIT compilation? There is nothing to be upset about here, you had an idea... Cool. Someone thought that was a good idea and re-implemented it in their framework. If the windi devs are this
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by genmud 6y ago
Uhh, that may be what apple is reporting but most SSDs only last for about 100-200TB of write, so I would take that percentage used with a grain of salt. They are probably counting wear leveling percentage used. On the low end assuming 200T
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by genmud 6y ago
I have fond memories of waiting in line for this and 10.2. I think I had one of the black powerbooks at the time, but can't remember. Blast from the past!
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by genmud 6y ago
There are tons of options that aren't ESP32s. Many just aren't in the package that you are used to with a ESP32. Nordic, NXP, SiLabs and Microchip all have pretty comparable offerings at a similar price point for bare ICs (and if
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by genmud 6y ago
I'm sure that swapping isn't a huge deal, but the big issue is around longevity of the SSD. If you have workloads that use more than 16gb of ram, swapping a lot will prematurely wear the SSD, which isn't replaceable.
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by genmud 6y ago
They say that because the SSD is fast and the performance hit for hitting swap isn't that big of a deal. Without mentioning that the SSD is soldered to the motherboard and is a wear item. The fact you can't swap hard drives is sil
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by genmud 6y ago
You absolutely should be quick to fault them... They cut off nearly all orders from suppliers anticipating an economic downturn and had no risk mitigation strategy if they were to resume production. In essence they left the line at a concer
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by genmud 6y ago
I was skeptical about the m1 processors, specifically around performance on something like a desktop where you expect snappy performance. I have definitely changed my thoughts and if apple can solve getting more ram in their systems (it’s p
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by genmud 6y ago
TSMC might not be responsible for 90% of the chips, but estimates are they account for 28% of the mature market [1]. They don't only do new nodes, but older nodes as well. Between them and UMC (also Taiwan based), those 2 companies acc
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by genmud 6y ago
> Is MIPS still a big enough name to make this much of a coup for RISC-V? Or is this the last-ditch effort of a fallen star of the semi market? Not really, I think the only thing they have going for them is that they probably have IP cor
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by genmud 6y ago
I wouldn't consider cisco to be a tech-forward company or look to them as the barometer to where the networking industry is headed. Most of Broadcoms stuff is ARM based now, which is what most folks are putting in white label switches.
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by genmud 6y ago
What does IQT have to do with any of this? I get where you are coming from and to a certain extent agree with the principal. The problem is that the us government is a giant beast of an organization and can't be thought of as a single
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by genmud 6y ago
I will always chuckle at people who are running their own mail infrastructure because "Its more secure than trusting the cloud with my data". They always seem to have issues with their DMARC and SPF for some reason. And never are
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by genmud 6y ago
You are absolutely wrong on your approach to this. If there is no transparency into what happened, there is nothing but the companies word that it won't happen again. In the case of SolarWinds, their word means less than nothing. When

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