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by scrlk 2y ago
Micro Men is worth a watch if you're interested in 80s British home computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
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by scrlk 2y ago
Intel 4 was their first EUV process, which entered HVM in September 2023.
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by scrlk 2y ago
2019, when TSMC N7+ entered high volume manufacturing.
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by scrlk 2y ago
> in the late 2010’s Intel got stuck trying to move to 10nm, thanks in part to their reluctance to embrace the vastly more expensive EUV lithography process TBH, it's easy to say this with the benefit of hindsight. Throughout most o
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by scrlk 2y ago
Was quite slow for me, but eventually loaded. Here's the Yubikey security advisory: https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2024-...
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Spyder 6.0 Released – The Scientific Python Development Environment(github.com)
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by scrlk 2y ago
Speaking as a Brit, it amazes me that Gov.uk somehow managed to avoid getting purged under various administrations from 2010-24. No doubt slowing things down and flying under the radar helped, otherwise it would have probably gotten the cho
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by scrlk 2y ago
The Anaconda Distribution has pretty good coverage of what scientific/technical Python users require. I'd wager that they rarely need to concern themselves about package management. I had a pretty rough time with Anaconda Team Edi
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by scrlk 2y ago
Not a CPU, but I remember Nvidia being the source of many jokes back in the day for their Fermi mock up using wood screws: https://bit-tech.net/news/tech/graphics/fermi-card-on-stage-...
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by scrlk 2y ago
Happily the RWT forum remains up and active. It's an absolute goldmine for deep discussions on processors.
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by scrlk 2y ago
I'm sad to hear that they're shutting down. I thought that Anandtech would be one of the holdouts for written tech journalism in a world that's become increasingly video first. What are people reading these days for hardware
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by scrlk 2y ago
I also recommend Matt Harrison's talks ("Idiomatic Pandas") and book ("Effective Pandas"). Once I adopted method chaining, a lot of the issues that I had with pandas in the past due to poor style (e.g. SettingWithCo
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by scrlk 2y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but this would likely fall under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#United_Stat...
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by scrlk 2y ago
See Roger Boisjoly, an engineer at Morton Thiokol who tried to blow the whistle on design flaws in the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters before the Challenger disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Boisj
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UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns(politico.eu)
529 points by scrlk 2y ago|296 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
Certain APAC markets get Toughbooks that are derivatives of their JDM Let's Note models: https://ap.connect.panasonic.com/sg/en/products/toughbook/to... Something that's a bit closer to a T14 i
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by scrlk 2y ago
There was a second submission of the paper, which attracted more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338877
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by scrlk 2y ago
Seems to be okay for me on FF 129.0.2 + uBlock Origin, running on Windows 11. Looking through the Reddit comments, users running older versions of FF may be affected? Seeing a few people commenting that they're seeing this YT issue wit
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by scrlk 2y ago
https://archive.ph/Dk9zx
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by scrlk 2y ago
Great quote at 45:26 regarding vertical vs. horizontal scaling: https://youtu.be/si9iqF5uTFk?t=2726 > "Now back in the early days of this country, when they moved heavy objects around, they didn't have any Cate
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by scrlk 2y ago
"Official" in the sense that the statement carries the complete backing of the institution and is a public declaration of its position. The fact that it was wound back by the head of the EU's executive branch - Breton's
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by scrlk 2y ago
The contents of the letter are within his brief, but the timing of it was done in such a way as to impact the EU's foreign policy, which lies outside of his remit.
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by scrlk 2y ago
That warning was not an official EU position: > "Thierry Breton, the French commissioner, had posted the warning letter on X, the platform owned by Musk, hours before the billionaire interviewed US presidential candidate Donald Trum
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by scrlk 2y ago
The initial version of SQL was called "Structured English Query Language". If the designers intended to create a query language that resembled an English sentence, it makes sense why they chose "SELECT FROM". "Selec
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Kangxi Chinese vases: Recovery from disaster(stories.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk)
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by scrlk 2y ago
Setting file associations is the worst UX regression in the W11 Settings app. For example, say I want to set Irfanview to be my default application to view images. I need to go through every file type that Irfanview can open, then select Ir
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by scrlk 2y ago
> I don't know what this quote means: >> 2,000 MW of extra capacity released from ECRS. ECRS = ERCOT Contingency Reserve Service. Contingency reserve services are used to maintain system reliability during unforeseen events. T
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by scrlk 2y ago
Here's a report from the National Audit Office, which appears to be Prof. Dieter Helm's original source: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hinkley-Po... Part 1.18 (page 22): &gt
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by scrlk 2y ago
Also adding that several top members of Mike Lynch's legal team were on the yacht, and one has been reported as missing.
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by scrlk 2y ago
I feel like the sentiment around Intel right now is similar to that of AMD in 2012-2015, when they were fighting to survive. E.g. having to sell and lease back their HQ: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/20

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