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by mmmBacon 3y ago
We remove our shoes inside. But a carpet cleaner told me that being barefoot inside is worse than wearing outside shoes due to the oils in your feet. I looked this up and it seems to bear some weight. So now we have to wear socks.
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
There is something called yielded cost. The actual same part that yields to a higher bin costs more due to lower yield. So it’s very unusual to sell it for less. You see the same thing in TV monitors. The best displays, representing the
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
As a kid I was totally obsessed with this plane. As cheesy as it sounds the movie The Right Stuff served as inspiration. I wanted to become someone to fly it. I must have built this model at different scales 15 different times and dev
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
HW engineer here. So it’s generally not true that you’re getting the same product at half the cost. Firstly, while all the HW may actually be the “same” it’s probably been binned for different specs. This means that the yield is lower for
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
I’m sure it’s true that wild elephants can be aggressive. I was surrounded by a herd of elephants in Pilansberg National Park in South Africa. We remained calm and they just walked around our vehicle. Was simultaneously terrifying and thri
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
I’m my view I think the early emergence of consciousness says that it’s more complicated not less. My reasoning is that it must mean the framework for consciousness is embedded in the basic building blocks of life. If that’s the case th
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by mmmBacon 4y ago
I think it’s more than just electricians that we need. We need additional training for electricians so they understand how some of the newer technologies work. I bought a high end LED light fixture that had a more modern dimmer that ensu
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by mmmBacon 4y ago
As a hiring manager I don’t hold it against someone for making a decision they think is right. I always see the candidate’s decision as also the right one for me. I do think it can reflect badly on someone if it’s handled poorly/un
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
I logged in for the first time in many months via my browser. I have messages but can’t check them without having to download messenger. This seems to me the height of brokenness.
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Ah thanks for the explanation. Yeah we build our own OS for that specific device. We don’t use Xilinx’s PetaLinux because it’s too limiting for the SW we want to run on top of it.
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
* If you want to make your Embedded Linux guy happy, stay far far away from anything Xilinx.* Do you mind elaborating? I just selected Zynq Ultrascale+ ZU5EG for a new project. We did run some tests on the EVK and it seems stable.
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
I have sleep apnea and honestly CPAP seems about as primitive as an iron lung. I opted for an oral appliance and hope it works.
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Actually you can do a lot of computation with filters but you’re completely incorrect about what a FPAA is. The FPAA is a matrix of switched capacitors. Such a matrix can be used to design an analog computer. There’s a pretty huge body of
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
None. This is an analog computer. There are devices such as the field programmable analog array (FPAA) however that may be suitable. https://www.anadigm.com/fpaa.asp
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
I skimmed the article looking for something about the spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium. I’d assume that the spectroscopy of such an atom is very different from normal helium but the article says nothing about how the spectroscopy is di
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
It looks like a great paper but sadly no open access.
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
128GT/s in PCIE G4 is only 125Gb/s. Marvell has serial interfaces that do this today for Ethernet. Since PCIE is a multilane technology these lanes are quite low speed by comparison. Many folks who have these interfaces don’t
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
The total number of humans who have ever lived is estimated to be north of 100B (this number blows me away). I’m guessing that a significant fraction of the 100B have been buried and it seems to be fine. https://www.prb.org&#x2F
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Marvell which might not have the resources to design a competitive interconnect solution themselves. I guess it depends on what you mean by interconnect. If you’re talking about >100GbE then the Marvell has a large market share in int
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Honestly why does a foldable display seem like a good idea? It’s not. It’s crap. If you have any understanding of hardware whatsoever you’ll be able to devine why a foldable screen is going to fail in about 5 seconds and therefore is a
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Mathematica is cool but I haven’t found much of a space for it in my career. As a physics student I think I used it a total of one time to help solve a difficult integration that I couldn’t find in Gradshteyn and Ryzhik. In my professiona
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Yep. The amount of power that can be pulled to a building is a difficult thing to change. So the biggest cloud companies try to maximize the amount of power used for compute. There is a metric for this called Power Usage Effectiveness (P
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Cargo ship fire caused by Electric Car Batteries(washingtonpost.com)
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
These technologies are key to certain high speed applications. As we move from monolithic devices to MCMs with lots of high-speed IO these technologies will be important.
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Where do you get that the profit margins are tiny? TSMC has a net profit margin of 38%; that’s higher than Google (27%).
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
I’d argue it’s sufficient I if the problem of moderating content was a non-issue. However the article points out the problematic nature of the way content moderation currently works. Given that content moderation is core to their busines
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
>>> Facebook says it spent more than $5 billion on safety measures in 2021 Considering the size of the platform ~$130B/year; $5B per year spent on platform safety, while substantial, seems low as a percentage of revenue.
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
If the metal isn’t there it won’t show up in device tree because it physically isn’t connected on the die. So device tree as you keep pointing out cannot tell you if it’s same die or not. Also the device can be there and not be in device
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Again yield; not sure how many people understand how big yield would be even Apple. At some yield you can’t support the demand. None of what was written above makes a lot of sense unless Apples just burning fab cycles. They might be but
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by mmmBacon 5y ago
Same processor really just a yield thing.

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