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by rajnathani 1y ago
> the wafers are ludicrously high revenue/margin products. Agree except this point, as at least for MCUs which are of US origin and yet cost ~$1 per chip which also includes reel packaging and distribution margins etc.
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Waiting for the silver anniversary for dark mode.
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by rajnathani 1y ago
This seems more relevant: A blue light indicator on cars which Mercedes has proposed for self-driving mode active: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/mercedes-adds-ne...
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by rajnathani 1y ago
41% [1] of S&P500 companies' (~Top 500 US stocks index which for example doesn't include TSMC, as it's only for US-listed companies) revenue comes from outside of the US. So really, people are buying into global companies
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by rajnathani 1y ago
The part about complex numbers needs some intuition to build. This comes up in linear algebra in very relevant ways too, for example in 3D computer graphics calculations. This is just my 2 cents, but I don’t have an intuition built for comp
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by rajnathani 1y ago
JYFI Cruise is “dead” after their SF accident 1-2 years ago. I believe GM has even written down their Cruise investment.
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Side: Namecheap’s CEO used to be pretty active on HN till recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=namecheapceo
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Previous discussion (104 points | 27 comments) from 79 days ago before the inauguration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295132
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Besides the sibling replies to your comment, GitHub’s Copilot free plan (not the specifically free for just OSS and students) was also launched relatively later: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/githu
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by rajnathani 1y ago
About GitHub Copilot in specific: One big negative was how when GPT-4 became available that Microsoft didn't upgrade paying Copilot users to it, they simply branded this "coming soon"/"beta" Copilot X for a whi
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by rajnathani 1y ago
This is needed, TIL but only till recently did Firefox remove their bookmarks limit, it was something like 6000 about 3 years ago. (For those curious about why one needs so many bookmarks, similar to maybe some other people, I use the bookm
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Also tl;dr about their method of analysis (as they cannot use text, as that could be GenAI text copy-pasted): > .. analyzed 22.1 million words from unscripted and spontaneous spoken language including conversational podcasts on science a
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by rajnathani 1y ago
> .. the various modifications all point in the direction of a buildup of mitochondrial electron surplus as the fundamental inducer of the need to sleep. > The hypothesis is that aerobic respiration itself comes with the tradeoff of a
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by rajnathani 1y ago
I was thinking more about in terms of GPS co-ordinates of Google Maps, etc.
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Related recent HN discussion: 58 days ago: "Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%" (103 points | 184 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44113256
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by rajnathani 1y ago
I wonder why he (Andrew Feldman) didn't retort to the SRAM vs HBM memory incorrect assumption made by the OP comment; maybe he was so busy that he couldn't even cite the sibling comment? That's a bigger wrong assumption than
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Nice action plan on combining Operator and Deep Research. One thing which stood out to me in a thought-provoking way, is that example of stickers [created first and then] being ordered (obviously: pending ordering confirmation from the user
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by rajnathani 1y ago
3 reasons that I can think of: (1) For mostly static screens that the GPU's frame buffer (and pipeline) could be empty and there would be nothing to process. (2) The font rendering algorithm will have to run every second. These are not
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Yes, exactly - This is what occurred (fire from an earthquake) during the tragic 1906 San Francisco earthquake (and fire): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing your experience. But maybe this is the case for carbon fiber based filaments only (i.e. this is likely <1% of carbon-fiber as the use-case of 3D printing carbon fiber based hybrid plastic filaments is
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Exactly what I was thinking when the OP comment brought up "regular launches containing replacement hardware", this is easily solvable by actually "treating servers as cattle and not pets" whereby one would simply over-p
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by rajnathani 1y ago
The commenter messed up on mentioning that a flash drive can be 1 pound, this would be more so the weight of a hard drive.
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by rajnathani 1y ago
TIL from the parent comment, even I am curious now about RO systems which do not have this problem.
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by rajnathani 1y ago
The adjective "foundational" for semiconductors can be ignored here, it is simply that TI will make more of their existing chips in the US with nothing being different in their current IC lineup of mostly MCUs, ADCs, etc simple IC
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Side: The space age progress of the 1950s and 1960s, is one of the most baffling levels of technological progress. Analog computing (as the sibling comment here by jschveibinz points out about OP article's tech) (and very primitive dig
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by rajnathani 1y ago
I'm not judging the guy, but usually [recent] Series C level companies [0] (i.e. fast-growing companies) have good leadership in place, I would think their leadership is still good. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/
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by rajnathani 1y ago
Side: Just like I mentioned in another HN comment [0] (and got 5-6 upvotes), I wish that HN titles could be expanded to have more necessary information when possible, which in this case is the name of the startup "AheadComputing",
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by rajnathani 1y ago
A side: Apple Notes needs to get the ability to export all notes at once, without having to export each note 1-by-1 as a PDF. We have so much important text information on the notes app on our phones (whether iPhone or Android), and the abi
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by rajnathani 1y ago
For those non mechanical engineers like me, such clock towers which were based on gravity (verge escapements (thanks TIL via ChatGPT)) require rewinding manually ever so often - thus this isn't a clock which continuously worked for 500
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by rajnathani 1y ago
But it is also against HN rules to keep sensationalistic titles, dang (moderator 1) routinely modifies titles wherever necessary.

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