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by jng 6y ago
The last extra comma is valid javascript, but, (possibly) unfortunately, invalid JSON.
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by jng 6y ago
I love Alan Watts too. In any case, I need to insert the necessary reference to recently passed John Conway's Free Will Theorem. I recommend every one to watch his 6-lecture long presentation on this, available on YouTube and underappr
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by jng 6y ago
Wow, mind blown. Thanks for correcting me. Amazing to learn that the wave function is so directly sampled by TEM that the image we get shows Moiré patterns caused by its phase :)
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by jng 6y ago
I would think that the coming in and out of view at the beginning is more related to the crystal moving around and falling "in and out of focus" (whatever that means for this type of camera). I'd love to watch quantum probabi
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by jng 6y ago
Modern process node designations (5nm, 3nm...) are not measurements any more, they are marketing terms. The actual measure of shrinking is a lot smaller than the name would mean to indicate, and not approaching the quantum limits as fast as
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by jng 6y ago
I've known of XOR tricks since the 80s, when you would "undraw" a graphic on the screen by redrawing it with XOR. But only recently I learned that the implementation of multiport memory for CPU caches and the likes often uses
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by jng 6y ago
I am very familiar with the new Zynq family, embedding ARM cores on the same die together with FPGA fabric. I didn't know that the PowerPC version allowed such a tight coupling as handing off an instruction to programmable logic, the c
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by jng 6y ago
Not an expert here, but there probably are many other strains out there with fewer mutations (and some with more). Most of them residual because they don't provide a clear advantage. The reason we know about this 17-mutation one is t
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by jng 6y ago
Thanks! That may be very useful at some point.
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by jng 6y ago
Does anyone know about similar programs for non-US residents? I understand the original author is Canadian, but it seems they got granted a "special exception" that is unlikely to be available to, say, people from the EU (my case)
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by jng 6y ago
Journalist or, more likely, EU press release office not very knowledgeable on the semiconductor industry choosing to mention the three largest countries by population in the headline, and the rest in a list embedded in the article. Journali
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by jng 6y ago
Very kind and nice note and I can confirm the precision of most of that, even the less-than-ideal things :) Your phrase in Basque is accurate, standard orthography would be "printzesen" but it's pronounced quite similarly and
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by jng 6y ago
My guess is that cod is widespread in countries around the North Atlantic. Hospitality in a bit of an excessive degree and bordering on comical annoyance due to unawareness is an even more widespread phenomenon around the world, as attested
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by jng 6y ago
Cool story! How did your greatgranddad's son & daughter's last name look like? I understand they are formed adding -son and -dotir to the father's first name, would be interesting if it's a Basque name (Iñakison? Ait
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by jng 6y ago
Just quite long ones. Nobody got disconcerted so far, afaik :)
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by jng 6y ago
Yes, that's true. I also think this is due the history of linguistics itself as a field. Until the 19th century, I think scholars focused on european languages. Nearly all of them of indoeuropean origin: Maltese probably just ignored,
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by jng 6y ago
I'm Basque, I'm a very long time HN regular, and I love linguistics related topics. So I'm keen to see this, but I still don't fully understand how this makes it to the front page :)
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by jng 6y ago
Xilinx leads the pack (now part of AMD). There are boards based on their MPSoC family at very good prices (Ultra96 for around $250, only real thing that's missing is Ethernet but it has WiFi). Embedded ARM cores and ultrascale+ fabric.
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by jng 6y ago
Google recently opened up a full 130nm ASIC design platform, including core cells, tools, etc... Google it, can't remember the name right now. They've even committed to manufacturing silicon for free for a few select open source &
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by jng 6y ago
I saw them a year or two ago positioning themselves in contrast to Redshift and BigQuery. I though "these guys are building something for Microsoft to acquire" (my thought was, something with a more modern OLAP architecture than S
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by jng 6y ago
Thanks for the details, very useful. Please write that post, I'm sure it will make it to the front page here :)
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by jng 6y ago
Can someone summarize Snowflake's unique technical value? I'm quite familiar with both Redshift (I would summarize it as Postgres adapted to sharded, columnar OLAP functioning) and BigQuery (there is a famous paper explaining the
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by jng 6y ago
I like to think about it as this: numbers are a human invention, but quantity is a property of the universe. The laws of physics, including all types of conservation, take care of that. Quantity takes care of ensuring many derived propertie
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by jng 6y ago
Some kids do (I did).
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by jng 6y ago
It's both my personal and my work laptop. Over 20 years of freelancing, contracting, consulting, starting startups... Probably my most visible thing available now would be http://www.viemu.com , although these days I'm
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by jng 6y ago
A low-power 20kHz signal on a PCB track not designed to radiate is not going to be a problem at all - plus you can always switch to terminating with a resistor in the unlikely case it is a problem. Also the author mentions connecting direct
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by jng 6y ago
It would be nice if they included a TL;DR notice at the top saying: “1. If you are a user of let’s encrypt today, this announcement does not imply that you need to do anything at all, and, 2. The main thing is that new certificates are shor
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by jng 6y ago
I use TineMachine to three separate idéntica disks: one at home, another one of the office, and and a third one at my parents place 1000 km away. Pretty anythingproof. I also have three other disks with three identical copies of my old arch
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by jng 6y ago
indeed :)
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by jng 6y ago
Thank you, very useful information. Makes complete sense for a media type initially designed to power cameras and audio and video recorders.

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