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ip26
3y ago
Which suggests one excellent play could be learning to find satiation in the act of filling the container.
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ip26
3y ago
I’m curious to hear what problems are you thinking of in particular that make it no-go? Strong model has challenges, but I am not aware of any total showstoppers. x86 has also illustrated the triangle, garnering some weakly ordered benefits
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I don’t think it’s “meh”, but I was surprised by the scale factors. High end product might cost 10x more, but it often feels like it’s only 50% better. It was disorienting given my misinformed understanding of wealth & the wealthy. Se
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3y ago
The cross-subsidy means that while they have gross margin on the 555, it would not be enough to cover R&D & make net profit without the additional sales of the higher margin 595. In other words, they could not afford to develop &
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3y ago
I’m pretty sure it’s “gyp”, as in “gypsy”. (Yes, exactly what you are thinking)
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3y ago
Silicon Lottery shut down two years back. It isn't clear to me whether manufacturer binning got tighter, overclocking just doesn’t work anymore, or auto-boosting are their lunch.
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3y ago
there is an iron triangle operating on ISA design. I would propose the vertexes are complexity, performance, and memory model. The ideal ISA has high performance, a strong memory model, and a simple instruction set, but it cannot exist.
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ip26
3y ago
1870, 2010, 2023, ????
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3y ago
Living hand-to-mouth in the bush offers certain kinds of autonomy and freedom, but lacks others. Your stomach is not a lenient master.
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3y ago
As far as I know from studying history, it's impossible to win without violence The threat of violence can be both effective and nonviolent. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- and by corollary, it is possible to win withou
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3y ago
wanting to be able to cook and serve a meal for 4 people because it's nice to eat with friends Don’t be silly, having three friends is hardly minimalist. Have you ever considered how friends weigh you down? One is more than enough, a
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3y ago
However, not having to drive to Home Depot every single time you need a screwdriver does. As does having more than one bowl.
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3y ago
You never know, some people go to extremes. One fork, one toothbrush, one sleeping bag, one laptop, one credit card, done. Toothbrush doubles as a shower brush and credit card is used to scrape off water instead of a towel.
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3y ago
If you dig, most people you consider successful probably have kids, you just don’t hear about it. It seems to me like a gauntlet that can provide drive and focus that can potentially outweigh the ability to dabble or move at the drop of a h
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3y ago
An incinerator is a significant improvement over an open pit burn, and trash incinerators are widely used in Europe.
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3y ago
When the rivers are running during the wet season, there is plenty of power, but as soon as the dry season rolls around, entire rivers run dry … It is literally in the culture to use plastic, for everything and to just dump/burn it ev
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3y ago
It suggest its applications are fundamentally not power or performance sensitive, and care only about cost. It’s the lagging edge of microarchitecture, where any improvement whatsoever is uninteresting because it would cost more than zero t
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3y ago
The fed holds the bag, which means those same consumers, but as a group. It works out because stability is generally in everyone’s interest.
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I’m actually surprised they have lasted so long... Watching ARM's repeatedly eat unsophisticated investors, it makes a certain sense why.
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In this context it’s basically pro-social, cooperative strategy. An environment where social ability is a meaningful factor in success, not just physical prowess.
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3y ago
How long did it take you to get that fast? Any training, or just on the job?
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3y ago
Going by the StrongTowns archives, what will happen when these properties go underwater is the rent will be held the same and the building will be vacant. Writ across the entire office space of San Francisco, the result will be a disappeara
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That's an interesting angle I'd never considered. If the government simply creates a lot of potential employers via funding, the labor market becomes competitive, which improves working conditions, compensation, and ultimately att
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By "very young", I'm talking about industry that is still figuring out the right direction. Monoplanes made biplanes obsolete, no matter how perfectly the biplane's wing was designed. That kind of dramatic and rapid chan
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(Or it's a very young industry)
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My suspicion is it boils down to maturity and scope of the domain. When it is brand-new, one guy can change the world in his garage in a few months. As it matures, you start to need large teams to build the next incredible thing. Even if yo
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Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited defect in how the body recycles LDL (bad) cholesterol. As a result, LDL levels in the blood remain very high – in severe cases, levels can reach above 190 milligrams per deciliter (mg/
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If I could advise my younger self, I would say: “Learn how to cook” (for real). It turns out olive oil is all you need, and even not much of that. I discovered that most of my use of oil was simply covering for my lack of ability. It’s inst
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Fair, I should probably say "the public" instead of "you". Many things enjoy a long second-hand life before the public's appetite for the product is gone.
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It's a trade-off between problems. Variable length instructions are not as trivial to decode wide, so you need more cleverness here. However, fixed length instructions decrease code density, which asks more of the instruction cache. No
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