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721.
by nimish 8y ago
You would need more than that, since a significant cost is already built into the economies of scale of making non-leading-edge chips. Exponential growth is a crazy thing.
722.
by nimish 8y ago
A usb c controller is quite complicated. The protocol is not simple at all.
723.
by nimish 8y ago
Will most likely lead to Nintendo Switch style situations where the physical port is USB-C but in actuality it uses a proprietary charger. Now they can lock out third party docks/chargers. Not a great situation.
724.
by nimish 8y ago
A return to proprietary chargers :(
725.
by nimish 8y ago
I was hoping the author went full circle to reinventing floating point, but this is a great writeup of the process. Really good motivation.
726.
by nimish 8y ago
A filter would be just as good.
727.
by nimish 8y ago
3% in the UK on GBP is different from 3% in the US on USD. You can't really compare them.
728.
by nimish 8y ago
There are 7 billion people.$100 a test is a $700 billion market. Sounds pretty good to me.
729.
by nimish 8y ago
RDR2 sold ~800MM. 25% of that is 200MM, which is far more than it takes to set up a basic digital storefront. I doubt Valve bothers with a fraction of that for ongoing operations given how terrible the steam UX really is.
730.
by nimish 8y ago
Independent. Nobody would do Frontside illumination if it weren't a lot cheaper and easier because you very clearly lose out on light.
731.
by nimish 8y ago
Will apples kill oranges?
732.
by nimish 8y ago
Comparisons and constructing indexes, and hashing. All need the ALU. And of course we use them for bitmaps.
733.
by nimish 8y ago
There's no guarantee that it will specialize down to machine integers. I don't need arbitrary precision; I need fast, fixed precision. If the proposals guaranteed specialization I'd be much happier but I don't think they
734.
by nimish 8y ago
> The Economist makes more effort than most to offer non-partisan, fact-based and insightful analysis The Economist is basically the Gell-Mann effect in written form. They are also definitely partisan when it suits them (they were forme
735.
by nimish 8y ago
I'm going to plug Alan Macdonald's Linear and Geometric Algebra book as a great way to get an intuitive grip on the latter parts of this blog post
736.
by nimish 8y ago
Let's get actual integers into JS! c'mon, I can't actually represent 64 bit IDs properly! This affects a big analytics product you have probably used!
737.
by nimish 8y ago
You can totally sell medical equipment online. This sounds like you're getting taken for a ride by a scumbag of a medical equipment company. I don't know about your details but it might be possible to get the insurance company to
738.
by nimish 8y ago
Catch-22 gets more real every day
739.
by nimish 8y ago
Hm, I wonder what the algebra would look like if done with Cl(3)/G(3) operations. I think that would be a great exercise to understand geometric algebra and see if it's powerful enough (there's a lot of projecting vectors ont
740.
by nimish 8y ago
If Jack Williamson was correct then we probably shouldn't probe deeper, lest the Medusae find us... Would be interesting to see if it could bear life despite being frozen.
741.
by nimish 8y ago
Markets only work if they are competitive. Governments do not need to obey market rules, and shouldn't if it helps society. It's odd that you would be fine with a corporate monopoly exerting dominant power over its market (to extr
742.
by nimish 8y ago
It's a lot easier to toss some dirt over the land and water you polluted. With deregulatory fervor on the rise, it shouldn't be surprising that there's fewer identified sites.
743.
by nimish 8y ago
Since the issue with wireless charging is power efficiency, having good power engineers onboard will likely help. That said, they are almost certainly buying them for the PMICs inside hardware devices first, and for accessories like AirPowe
744.
by nimish 8y ago
Discrete difference equations show up everywhere, and are basically the same stuff. Knuth-Oren-Patashnik's Concrete Mathematics is great
745.
by nimish 8y ago
#6 is great, except if it causes performance issues: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283 Speed is the ultimate fancy enhancement ;)
746.
by nimish 8y ago
Yeah, irritatingly. Erlang had this nailed years before. It's a bit too weird syntactically, and doesn't have the full force of Google pushing it, so it gets ignored :(
747.
by nimish 8y ago
Intel is obviously going to use the x86 core they own so they don't have to pay license fees for embedded ARM cores
748.
by nimish 8y ago
YC is anything but an index fund in startups. They take a very active view on which startups to fund and which not to. They don't simply hand invest in all startups that fit externally set, (mostly) transparent criteria. They are activ
749.
by nimish 8y ago
The spread between them is very low, much lower than another kind of unsecured loan would be to young adults with no credit.
750.
by nimish 8y ago
Grover Norquist is on record saying that his anti-tax stance is to get rid of most if not all of government. Starving the beast is a major policy aim.

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