mattthebaker

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by mattthebaker 9y ago
Worked in Japan for a year. The female janitors would clean the men's bathroom at any time, usually while many men were using urinals. At a Mountain hut on Mt Fuji, the men's urinal (more like trough) was next to a coed sink with
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by mattthebaker 9y ago
Recently picked up one of these as well. Regarding the fans, highly recommend using an overclocking tool to undervolt the CPU and iGPU -- reduced temp under load for me by nearly 15C, runs stable with cpu at -130mV. Stops the fans from tur
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by mattthebaker 9y ago
Prefer counting as well. At the end of the day weight loss is bound by thermodynamics. All diets are just hacks to help subconsciously tip the balance. May as well cut directly to the root and just count. Health is a different story and
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Not all motorcycles are that loud, especially the smaller ones more suitable for getting around IN the city. In proper urban areas, scooters are more convenient anyway -- smaller, more maneuverable, automatic transmissions, and more storage
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
So Walmart gets reduced to things you need right now, i.e. groceries and random low cost convenience items. Population has been shifting from rural to urban for decades, Walmart's advantage is in a shrinking market. Drone delivery is m
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Really Flash is more worse than memory, caches, standard cells, PLLs, etc -- it requires significant process additions to fabricate the floating gate, as well as modifications to support high voltages, circuits for high voltage (charge pump
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
That's ironic, EE usually has more math requirements than CS.
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
In logic, smaller is faster: less capacitance, shorter channels, and thinner oxides means faster switching. In memory, smaller means less space to store your bits. I remember a quote from somewhere that with TLC at 20nm, you could lose onl
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Yes, the process trade offs are not so good if you want embedded flash. You need a process that can withstand the high voltages for flash erase, which means thick oxides and slow transistors. At 320Mhz, you should have icache and paged cod
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Regarding point 1, this is a terrible design decision. Any low power or high performance uC that requires code in external SPI loads it into and executes from RAM. At 32Mhz it starts to make sense to have an ICACHE, with EMBEDDED Flash on
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Yeah, these are correct thoughts for a serial entrepreneur. With two, assumingly successful, exits he now likely has a net worth somewhere between 2-100M. He could live off his investments/net worth. If his next exit is not a very b
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
The potential of being a competitor in an as of yet unproven market wouldn't be a good reason to acquire them. If that market becomes very very big AND Nvidia wins it, Intel could buy them in cash if they wanted, they certainly have i
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
This is considering IoT from a semiconductor company's perspective; There will not be much revenue from the chips for this market. How much can they make per smart light bulb? You also have to note that Intel doesn't have semico
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
It was, and to appease investors that they are doing something about new markets after missing mobile. No one in their right mind would choose Intel as the platform for a wearable. The microcontroller companies: ST, NXP, Freescale, etc ha
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
If that market does play out and grow as much as predicted, Nvidia will be the company most likely to give Intel a run for their money.
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Intel has never been a company focused on chip volume, they chose to exit the DRAM business 20+ years ago. They focus on high end high margin products, which is now primarily servers with the contraction of the PC market. This is how they
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
"We" in the way used was intended to mean an American or Americans as opposed to the foreign entity. That it goes directly to the top is a separate issue, and suggestive of increased taxation, which Trump is generally against. O
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Hmm, yeah. I'm struggling to understand the difference between the WWC and the poor outside of identity. Is it ideological in the sense that the WWC are people who want to work but can't find work, and they perceive the poor as
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Because it is more efficient to do so. Either those crops require more labor, different climate, or are lower yielding, etc. than what we grow locally. If it paid more to grow those crops, we would grow them.
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
At the end of the day, it is about subsidizing an inefficient labor market. For the tariff to bring low value jobs back, it will have to be significant. Offshoring will still be more resource efficient, so you are better off paying back t
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Taxing for regulation differential would only make a small change. Labor and associated costs, health insurance, taxes, etc will still dominate. The views fail to recognize that US is not the only world market. More than half of Apple&#x2
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
It is a generalized statement. Very few SoCs have internal switch mode controllers. It is going to either be an LDO, or take a fixed operating voltage. Requirements for such will be specified in current, which is more useful than power. M
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Generally, don't touch anything with mediatek or allwinner if you want it to work at the end of the day. Their driver support is very bad. Funny personal story, I turned down a contract almost four years ago that would have involved
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Current is much more useful in engineering, because it is more constant for this type of device than power. Power varies with supply voltage while current normally does not. Other than doing temperature calculations, power is not a very us
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Reddit is owned by a mass media conglomerate. A significant portion of everything on the site is native advertising. Self promotion would interfere with what they are really pushing and undermine their influence. The smaller communities e
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Amazing how ignorant people are to what is actually in an inkjet cartridge. It is not the cost of the ink. The cartridges have precision MEMS components to dispense the micro scale drops of ink. As with anything mechanical, they have lim
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Or they just don't want to be distributing gigabytes of porn... most of which is probably under copyright. Making the data set available and whether you can tinker with or retrain it are very different things.
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Intel only recently introduced this feature, and it surely required a lot of R&D. At the time they were most likely the only one, and may still be.
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
Field firmware updates for hardware are to greatly reduce the risk a product needs to be recalled -- this is a worst case scenario with great cost for the manufacturer. To some extent it also reduces the pre-ship software verification costs
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by mattthebaker 10y ago
- j contributed something, anything to the company - j was never compensated - j was never forced to legally release rights to anything when he left - legally, if j contributed anything of significance, even ideas, cruise is about to learn

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