mmmBacon

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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   I think you are underestimating the challenges involved in moving to a new node and designing to a new node. Just last year, a lot of other companies were on the fence saying 7nm was not ready. TSMC doesn't just invest in 7nm with a b
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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   I bought my first automatic in 2011. Prior to that I drove all manual transmission cars from before I was able to legally drive in 1986 until 2011. In 2011, my truck configuration was only offered with automatic transmission. I really ha
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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   Ok you said they didn’t buy a fab and you weren’t correct Building and operating a fab for 7nm is a massive undertaking. I find your comment incredibly naive. It cost 10s of billions of dollars to develop just the 7nm process alone. Glob
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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   Apple owns a fab. https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/14/apple-buys-former...
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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   GP referred to the Norman (French) invasion of England.
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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   In CA about 25% goes to pensions, 35% to healthcare, and the rest is <45% give or take a few percent.
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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   I spend time designing networking equipment for one of the FAANG companies and we spend a lot of time on fiber cabling and general cabling. A limiting factor in deployment and therefore scalability is often the time it takes to wire everyt
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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   Pretty decent introduction if you have some physics background with some basic optical/E&M theory (PhD won’t help otherwise) is Silicon Photonics Design by Chrostowski.
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   by mmmBacon 8y ago

   Not sure if it’s related but Facebook is building fiber backhaul for Uganda. https://code.fb.com/connectivity/airtel-and-bcs-with-support...
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    by mmmBacon 8y ago

    Cool. Looks like the guy got his stuff into products. He got raped by the investors in my view. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4335468/Briti...
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    by mmmBacon 8y ago

    Yeah they’ve done a great job with the different colors. I hate it when I see those green clouds. I made some of my friends on Android message me via Signal (they refused to use WhatsApp) because I hated the green clouds so much.
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    by mmmBacon 8y ago

    Anyone know what type of breast cancer was treated? My mother recently passed away from Metastatic Inflammatory Breast Cancer and I wonder if this treatment could have helped her.
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    by mmmBacon 8y ago

    Your comment reminds me of the Penn and Teller video game: Desert Bus. Previous HN Discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6023484
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    by mmmBacon 8y ago

    There is no real debate between QSFP-DD and OSFP. OSFP will exist at Google but nearly everyone else is going to use QSFP-DD. The main reason is backwards compatibility for data center upgrades. The only reason to use OSFP might be becau
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    by mmmBacon 8y ago

    I agree that what they did with server utilization was impressive. However the blast radius was pretty huge if something went down. Also wouldn’t scale to images/video very well.
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    The TDF organizers have not awarded winners from the Armstrong area due to recognition that doping was widespread. That’s a documented fact and not speculation. Wiggins is hardly clear of serious accusations about doping. [0] https:&#x2F
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    People tend to forget that Facebook and Google are massive physical machines for computing and networking that require extensive physical infrastructure to operate. The reality is that a user subscription model would not generate enough re
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    How is 10Gb/s achieved and how reliable is that BW in the presence weather? What is the practical coverage area of the satellite and what would the typical user BW be on a clear day? How would the BW change on a rainy day?
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    For one, the human has a brain and human sensors are less easily fooled despite being able to "see" less. LIDAR technology combined with ML is so poor that it can easily be fooled by a stop sign with a sticker on it. Source:[ htt
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    Taiwan is most certainly relevant because it is free. I’ve spent a lot of time in Taiwan. The people I’ve encountered there don’t seem to have any desire to reunite with the mainland. Additionally Taiwan now has a functioning democracy
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    I still ride and but stopped riding street because it wasn’t fun being in traffic due to the reasons you mentioned. I still like the occasional back road ride but don’t own a street bike anymore. I ride exclusively off-road now. While I
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    I’m 100% American from the mid-Atlantic region. Rated my accent 53% American and 47% UK. I tried on my best south London accent, which is fairly cartoony, and got a 60% UK. Edit: just tried my best Southern accent (kinda Georgia) and rate
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    Actually they do have incentives to care about local and state laws because they need cooperation from local and state governments to enforce the law.
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    Sorry but almost all the blame is on the person who pulls the trigger. Swatting is possible because of police militarization. Frankly while the idiot who made the call certainly shares some responsibility, our police policies of shoot fir
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    I think that for things to truly change we need to do more than just vote. Most local elections in SV are a joke. We need some of the smart people that we all know to start running for public offices.
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    Optical physicist here. I spend >80% of my time writing software and agree that I was woefully unprepared for this by my education. When I was a student the prevailing attitude that skills like programming were "trivial" and
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    This is likely a spec relaxation of certain components that has limited to no impact on the accuracy of the assembly. This is really common in optics where early design decisions get made and carried forward due to schedule concerns becaus
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    I had friends in college in the 1990s who were in the NROTC program. At the time I recall it was a big deal and discussion on campus that the Navy was removing/canceling requirements for celestial navigation. I think the reason cite
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    A great addition to this would be radar to track vehicle speeds. In my neighborhood we have an issue with jerks doing 50mph down our street(speed limit is 25mph) to bypass a traffic light on an adjacent street. Kids are often out and we&#
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    by mmmBacon 9y ago

    Well it turns out that security is getting set up in other layers but these are for more specialized applications than general run of the mill internet usage. For example there is encryption available at the physical layer even at very hig