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by mdasen 3y ago
One difference I'd point to is that Intel was doing "fine" not committing to future lithography. I put that in quotes because clearly it wasn't a fine plan over the long run, but not spending money on the future is a fin
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USMCA (the NAFTA replacement; a free trade agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico) does have some restrictions on the automotive industry in Canada and Mexico, but Mexico has been an automotive powerhouse for years now. Mexico is alre
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I think the author was thinking of things we can sell in China that would take up cargo space on a plane so that freight planes carrying cargo from China didn't make the trip back empty - they'd have American goods to sell in Chin
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Others have pointed out things like memory bandwidth, but I think there might be another thing: would people want it? Let's say that the CPU + powerful iGPU cost 95% of what a discrete CPU and GPU cost - but now you can't buy them
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The issue here is that if 99% of people use BlueSky and 1% use non-BlueSky AtProto servers, that leaves BlueSky with all the power to turn off federation. If BlueSky starts to do shady things, other instances can refuse and talk to each oth
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This: it won't happen immediately and I'd go even further to say that it even if trust in images drops to zero, it's still going to generate a lot of hell. I've always been able to say all sorts of lies. People have know
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Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor(finance.yahoo.com)
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Yea, and if you're a company making more than $1M in revenue or have over 250 PCs, then you need a commercial license. Microsoft definitely seems to be pushing proprietary VSCode extensions where it's free to get users hooked on t
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The average latency for MoCA 2 devices is 3.5ms which is half what you say the "minimum latency" is. The latency on my WiFi averages 7ms. So it's likely going to be better than a WiFi connection. My MoCA devices don't us
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> this rubbed me the wrong way when they’re making money hand-over-fist on top of recent Prime increases. Are they? AWS is very profitable, but the e-commerce business isn't doing as well. In North America, their operating margin is
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I'm sure this is happening already. People aren't going to want to bring projects to Warner Bros Discovery given all the crap they're pulling. WBD will be the option of last resort when someone else won't take your proje
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To me, the weird thing is that the tax write-off doesn't even seem to make sense. Let's say you spend $80M making a film and you write it off for a $30M benefit. You're still in the hole $50M. Let's say that you sell the
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One of the big problems with heat pumps in New England is that our electricity costs 1.7x the US average ( https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... ). If you're in the South, a heat pump
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It seems unlikely that Power completely lacked atomics. This is a very vague recollection since it's been a long time, but I feel like there were some differences. I think PowerPC used a load-linked/store-conditional with a strong
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> No risk of faulty joins Wouldn't Snowflake IDs also solve that problem? A Snowflake ID will fit within a signed 64-bit int. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID The nice thing about a Snowflake ID is th
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I'm kinda getting to that point as well. The new UI is a big one for me. The issue is that it hides a lot of the buttons until you hover over a certain area. If I want to minimize the terminal, I have to move my pointer to the terminal
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by mdasen 3y ago
I want to start by saying that I'm not defending Spotify's position, but rather trying to explain it. The problem with a music-only Spotify subscription is that it's a pretty undifferentiated product with little control over
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I agree that people are really unlikely to be deported for this, but I'm not sure that countries would treat you favorably if you walked up to immigration and said "I'm here to work in your country on a tourist visa, but don&
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This is probably correct...for now. However, I think the next decade will see SPAs become simpler and we're already starting to see it. In some ways, I'd argue that Livewire is an example of that. I think Remix (JS) offers a full-
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The curse of having weak enemies is that you become complacent. You're right: AMD wasn't competitive for an incredibly long time and ARM wasn't really meaningful for a long time. That's the perfect situation for some MBA
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I think Apple's advantages are that it has a lot of cash and a very predictable business. I'm not arguing that Nvidia doesn't have a good business, but it seems to be a bit less predictable and a bit less regular than Apple&#
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It all depends on timing. TSMC is also working on backside power delivery. Intel's roadmap looks great. However, I'm skeptical of whether they're actually meeting that roadmap. Meteor Lake was launched last month using Intel
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I'm curious what aspect of the code generation you find clunky. When I used Dart, my issue with the code generation was that it didn't "just happen". With C#, anything that's being generated just happens without any
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I think Dart really suffered from missteps in the early days. Originally, Dart didn't seem like anything special and it kinda wasn't. It was a dynamic language where optional type hints were suggestions and it'd be run in a V
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> or have them generate in CI, which is unnecessarily slow and eats up CI minutes. Maybe I'm missing something since I'm not that familiar with Dart, but wouldn't Macros use the same amount of time to run and compile? Eith
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This is a genuine question, but would you really? The reason I ask is that 20 years ago the refrain was, "I don't want to pay for a collection of channels on cable. I want to be able to pay per channel." That way you could de
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Are you talking about their 1080p quality or their 4K quality? Netflix has done a lot of work on better compression via optimized shot-based encoding for 4K: https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-for... .
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Having read this and a bunch of the replies, maybe I can point to a bit of the reason we kinda disagree with our gut. Often times, we see vendors that seem wasteful, that are overcharging, have a product that's average at best, or tryi
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Wouldn't this be relatively easy to test with a benchmark? Apple's ARM processors are pretty fast, especially for single-core stuff. Most data-center processors are designed for lots of cores at the cost of single-core performance
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The issue is that it's hard to turn that into a business. In the US, clearly a company like Github/Microsoft can't do that. You suggest finding a country that might be more permissive. The issue there is that there are a lot

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