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by lizknope 3y ago
The situation was far more complex. We sold semiconductor IP blocks. There might be a product that sold for $500K and they might sell 50 licenses a quarter for $25M. For our product our direct competitors sold it for around $4M But at the
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I've worked at a lot of large tech companies. At one the sales in our division fell and we were losing money so there were layoffs, more people left, and eventually they shut the division down. That wasn't fun but people understo
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by lizknope 3y ago
This Roku link appears to just be the trailer which is also in the Guardian article through Youtube https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/cb98cdb24594e3960bc9... The official web site for the movie only shows "i
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by lizknope 3y ago
I just checked Fedora and it is there.
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I only remember running it and rotating some 3D model of a helicopter or something within the browser.
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Asianometry made a couple of recent videos on rare earth elements. They aren't that rare but the concentration is so low and they are always mixed in with other elements so it takes a lot of processing. China‘s Iron Grip on the Rare E
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by lizknope 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava > HotJava (later called HotJava Browser to distinguish it from HotJava Views) was a modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems implemented in Java. Are you saying the
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by lizknope 3y ago
OpenZFS is free and open source but that license has been determined to NOT be GPL compatible by some lawyers. If your lawyer says it is fine then go ahead and make your own distribution where you include it as a separate module. Oracle,
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by lizknope 3y ago
I graduated in 1997 and at my first job we had an engineer that loved making Powerpoint presentations. I hated that stuff but he used every 3D option, different color palettes on every page, etc. We had someone else print up fake business
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by lizknope 3y ago
Part of the reason youtube ads are so annoying is that many of them are played at random times while you are watching a video. There is no smooth transition to the ad. When watching news or sports on television the announcers will say &qu
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by lizknope 3y ago
The Adobe Air program was basically just a front end to display and decrypt everything. I could never get it to work on Linux so I never actually even looked at it except the screenshots in the help document. All the files are named well l
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by lizknope 3y ago
I bought the DVDs. It used Adobe Air which I had never heard of and is discontinued. Each page of the magazine is in some encrypted format but I found software on the internet to decrypt it. You can use cp to get those files. Then you c
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by lizknope 3y ago
Thanks, this is really cool to zoom in and rotate about. I was doing something similar in the museum moving from side to side and squatting down and looking at the painting from different angles
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by lizknope 3y ago
I was never a fan of Van Gogh until I saw Starry Night in person at MOMA in NYC. The thing that jumps out at me is literally the paint on the painting. There is a lot of height to it. The paint is so thick in sections that it sticks out f
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by lizknope 3y ago
There are far more chips made other than just smartphone or laptop chips. In the last few years my coworkers, former coworkers, and myself, have worked on server chips for the cloud, GPUs, machine learning accelerators, 400+ gigabit networ
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by lizknope 3y ago
Yes, it's called a shuttle run but it is normally only done for an initial test chip or a prototype. This says that the 5nm reticle size is 26mm x 33mm https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3377/tsmc-announces-2x-ret
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I haven't heard what the mask costs are for 2nm or 3nm. For TSMC 5nm the masks are about $30 million. If you have a bug and can fix it with a metal only change then it is about $20 million. I can assure you thought that they will be
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by lizknope 3y ago
I also didn't like concerts for 20 years because they were way too loud. I would take cheap foam earplugs for mowing the lawn and all you could hear/feel was bass. Then I got some Etymotic high fidelity earplugs and concerts are e
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I've never worked in a bar or restaurant. I used to go and enjoy my food or drinks at my own pace and whenever the server would ask "Can I get you anything" I would respond "No" if I didn't need anything. A ne
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by lizknope 3y ago
> Two years ago, a messaging app startup called IRL reached a $1.2 billion valuation > Earlier this year, a former employee alleged that IRL—the name stands for “in real life”— had fired him after he voiced concerns that many users we
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by lizknope 3y ago
Most of the digital semiconductor design EDA / CAD tools from Cadence and Synopsys use Tcl as the built in scripting language. I have to work with thousands of lines of Tcl code whether I want to or not. I learned Tcl / Tk back i
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I've taped out 4 chips in 5nm and our managers and VP's have said about $30 million for a full set of masks (base layers plus metal layers) The $20 million is for metal layers only for a respin. We are moving to 3nm right now whic
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by lizknope 3y ago
I get paid to do this professionally so I don't follow the hobbyist side but I've heard of people using this for FPGAs. I have no idea how it compares to commercial tools. https://github.com/YosysHQ/oss-cad-s
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by lizknope 3y ago
I'm a 25 year professional in the industry so I've never really thought of the hobbyist side. I use software from commercial Cadence and Synopsys that has a list price of over $1 million for a single physical design tool license
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by lizknope 3y ago
I'm in digital physical design and part of that 99% of the army. The schedule is king. If we make a mistake it is another $30 million for mask costs and 4 months in the fab to get a new chip to test. Contrast with software where you
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If X works in something low level like device physics then there are a limited number of companies doing cutting edge fab stuff like that. Intel, TSMC, Samsung. The small number of companies limits your salary potential. It's the same
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What kind of job is X doing and at what company? Are they working at a fab? Working in the manufacturing portion of the fab? Doing process design work on a computer? There are so many different types of jobs within the semiconductor indu
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by lizknope 3y ago
I've been designing semiconductor chips for 25 years in the US. For the last 20 years all the companies I have worked at have been fabless. We send the mask data to TSMC or Samsung to manufacture. I sit in front of a computer at a de
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by lizknope 3y ago
I worked in a downtown area for 3 years and used to walk around there quite a bit. I think trucks are 10 times louder than cars. I walk by 20 cars idling at a stop light and 20 cars driving in the other direction. The noise doesn't b
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by lizknope 3y ago
I think most large organizations created their own default environment. When I started college in 1993 we had a mix of Sun, DEC, HP, IBM, and SGI workstations. They all had a basic environment with mwm and menus configured for popular pro

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