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by mattgrice 11y ago
What is the target market for a Russian 90nm 16Mbit SRAM? The only customers I can think of would be Russian defense contractors where domestic sourcing might be required. The fact that it's in a (gigantic by current standards) cerami
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by mattgrice 11y ago
Fun fact: the new Horizons's (redundant) processors are 12MHz MIPS R3000s. http://blog.imgtec.com/mips-processors/mips-goes-to-pluto I am really curious what it uses for storage. I am guessing something much more
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by mattgrice 11y ago
Phosphorus is the limiting nutrient, not nitrogen. But yes, it's nearly all from ag and wastewater.
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by mattgrice 11y ago
Seattle PD is under a DOJ consent decree because of a pattern of excessive force and discriminatory policing. She is perceived to be an outsider brought in to disrupt the good old boys' club. Her status as an outsider is very relevan
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by mattgrice 12y ago
there is very little marine growth at 1000 meters depth. A bigger concern would be marine snow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_snow
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by mattgrice 12y ago
I am curious what possible justification there could be for downvoting the above comment. Is the EE degree in question?
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by mattgrice 12y ago
I don't think so. Of the hard sciences, the only one I know where TeX is common is physics. It is also common in math and CS but those are not sciences.
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Apple to open Seattle office(blogs.seattletimes.com)
7 points by mattgrice 12y ago|0 comments
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by mattgrice 12y ago
Urban decay refers to buildings and infrastructure falling apart. That is not happening in downtown Seattle. It seems you are using the term to refer to scary-looking people.
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by mattgrice 12y ago
I don't really think they usurped Leica's market. Leica's market changed a while back. Sometime, a decade or more past, Leica became the equivalent of Louis Vuitton or Rolex. It's a luxury item. Like a LV bag, is stil
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by mattgrice 12y ago
I don't understand how they can have almost all custom hardware, saying only generators and batteries come from an outside supplier, and yet have only 18 employees, which are mostly engineers. Someone has to build that stuff. Maybe th
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by mattgrice 12y ago
Investing with a financial advisor you know and trust doesn't sound like a good idea to me. That's what Bernie Madoff's clients were doing. You want a financial advisor who is trustworthy, which is a very different thing an
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by mattgrice 12y ago
That is not the purpose of the check engine light (official name "Malfunction Indicator Light"). At least in the US the light only comes on when there is a problem that affects emissions, and it is usually nothing that would caus
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by mattgrice 12y ago
That's a translucent gown over a red shirt, not a gown covered in blood.
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by mattgrice 12y ago
Well, it only boils water. For that purpose some competitors would be: - Backcountry Boiler, which is also wood-fueled and 1/4 the weight. - Jetboil Sol, half the weight including fuel canister. canister good for 20+ boils - alcoho
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by mattgrice 12y ago
All the reviews I have seen seem to agree that it takes around 4 hours to for the BioLite fully charge an iPhone. For the same amount of weight you could carry 3 Anker 12,000 mAh batteries, which I believe would provide on the order of 15
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by mattgrice 12y ago
For a few days, you can just bring a battery. They are much cheaper and more convenient. It is an interesting novelty, but it is just so heavy, bulky, and slow that I am having trouble understanding who this would work for.
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by mattgrice 12y ago
It's 98% white, and nobody under 19 is permitted to live there without an exemption. I think it's fair to say that most people living there are actively opposed to change and diversity. HOAs are actually pretty popular in the so
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by mattgrice 12y ago
It seems like they have already received about $5M in funding: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/finsix-corporation The implications of the technology are a lot bigger than laptop supplies and I am sure they know that.
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by mattgrice 13y ago
Link-time optimization is not a very descriptive term. It's usually called whole-program or interprocedural optimization. Link-time optimization is just how it has been implemented. It uses a lot of memory because it requires keeping
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by mattgrice 13y ago
I have a theory about zero tolerance or other types of blanket policies such as mandatory minimum sentencing. They are a way for the management class to divest liability or responsibility for decisions. If there is no room for discretion,
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by mattgrice 13y ago
I don't fully understand how the decision was made which neighborhoods will be built out. It is obviously not based on demand because the coverage areas [1] include every single one of Seattle's poorest neighborhoods[2] and virtu
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by mattgrice 13y ago
That is debatable. It's kind of a stretch to call AT&T Bell Labs 'privately funded' as ATT was a government-sanctioned monopoly. Technically it was privately funded, but not through a working market system. Kind of lik
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by mattgrice 13y ago
It does not seem like that would be very practical. Very few economically important plants will thrive in anything less than full sunlight. This makes sense because most plants become economically important because they are productive (goo
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by mattgrice 13y ago
White objects are not perfectly reflective and whiteness is not so much a function of reflecting them well, but reflecting them relatively uniformly in the visual range. Not every white object reflects UV. Black plastic lasts longer becaus
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by mattgrice 13y ago
here you go: https://depts.washington.edu/opbblog/wordpress/wp-content/up...
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by mattgrice 13y ago
University of WA cost has not gone up a single penny since 1990. It used to be that the state paid 80% of that, now it is 30%. Which is why the cost the students see has increased so much -- decrease in state funding, and indirectly, peop
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by mattgrice 13y ago
Maybe Akihabara was once like this but it is not anymore. The shops there are clearly boutiques selling to hobbyists, filled with things like expensive vintage vacuum tubes for esoteric audio projects and not the sort of things you would w
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by mattgrice 14y ago
ACT of 30 is 95th percentile. If you don't know anybody who got below that, you're living in a bubble.
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by mattgrice 14y ago
It was actually a "near letter quality" mode -- two passes of 9 pins, slightly shifted. That is unless you had the fancy 24-pin Imagewriter LQ

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