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by scrlk 4y ago
..and the feast and famine cycle of the semiconductor industry continues. I suspect in 10 years time a lot of these factories will either be mothballed, closed, or the original plans scaled back.
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by scrlk 4y ago
Unemployement rate is known to be a lagging indicator.
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by scrlk 4y ago
> Not only the bloat apps, but the spyware "Bixby" button you can't remap to anything else. bxActions allow you to remap the button if you have a S9 or S10. It's a game changer having a user re-mappable hardware butto
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by scrlk 4y ago
>"In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validit
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by scrlk 4y ago
> You can still compare density: how many transistors or gates in a given area. I would say that comparing density comes with its own caveats. E.g. SRAM is denser than logic, so a chip with a lot of cache could skew a density metric. I g
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by scrlk 4y ago
>Intel was once known for its memory. Then it became known for its CPUs As Andy Grove once succinctly put it: "Only the paranoid survive"
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by scrlk 4y ago
Do they care about hiding it? After all, they control or have influence over: all mass media, forms of instant & mass communication, and the state security apparatus. As long as the last group continues to provided for (food on the tabl
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by scrlk 4y ago
>Guess what, those who believe that bugs are the answer. Bugs eat plants. Bugs don't burp, but to grow insects at scale, the plants need to be processed and brought to them. Guess what that means? Burning fossil fuels in transportat
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by scrlk 4y ago
Don't forget CBDCs with smart contracts, plus your social credit score hanging over you like a sword. "You Will Eat The Bugs" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_8LTUmHWP0 edit: I should add that the video ab
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Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points(federalreserve.gov)
167 points by scrlk 4y ago|319 comments
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by scrlk 4y ago
As a counterpoint, I had to ditch my LaTeX CV when I realised that applicant tracking systems were struggling to properly parse the PDF. Switching back to a simple Word template (no use of tables; just heading styles and bullet points) and
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by scrlk 4y ago
I wish there was some way to force the "sold by Amazon" filter to be on all the time; I think that would resolve most of the issues I have with browsing on Amazon. There's still the inventory co-mingling issue that people hav
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by scrlk 4y ago
Not sure why the mpc-hc.org website hasn't been handed over to the new maintainer. That would resolve the discoverability issue with the clsid releases. In terms of improvements over v1.7.13 - off the top of my head - dark mode UI, you
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MPC-HC v1.9.22(github.com)
65 points by scrlk 4y ago|29 comments
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by scrlk 4y ago
clsid has continued to maintain MPC-HC after the original development team stopped due to a lack of interest back in 2017 (v1.7.13 being the last release). See: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=175209
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by scrlk 4y ago
One incident that really stands out for me was BitMEX conveniently having "server issues" at one point during the March 2020 crash. Their liquidation engine was hammering the price down - then they took an outage - when they were
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by scrlk 4y ago
The reason why I believe operational safety is a solved problem: the US Navy has run reactors on board ships and submarines since the 50s, with 0 reactor accidents. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover
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by scrlk 4y ago
>And a lot of tangentials remain open. Like where to get and reprocess fuel rods? What about operational safety? And most of all, where to dump the radiactive waste? All solved issues - nuclear energy is a matter of political will at thi
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by scrlk 4y ago
I found this article and associated video, along with the Wikipedia article to be useful for filling in the gaps from the article: https://broadwayextensionblog.blogspot.com/2017/03/stressing... https:/&#x2F
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Why rails buckle in Britain(networkrail.co.uk)
278 points by scrlk 4y ago|244 comments
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by scrlk 4y ago
A segment from the BBC documentary "The Secret Life of the National Grid" talking about Battersea Power Station: https://youtu.be/vtixR7w7S0E?t=601
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How are households’ inflation expectations formed? (2014) [pdf](bankofengland.co.uk)
1 points by scrlk 4y ago|0 comments
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Can banks individually create money out of nothing? (2014)(sciencedirect.com)
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by scrlk 4y ago
If you're curious about the history of HP in Boise: https://www.hpmuseum.net/divisions.php?did=9 Some cursory searches suggests that HP still does printer R&D there.
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A Look at Intel 4 Process Technology(fuse.wikichip.org)
9 points by scrlk 4y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 4y ago
>I guess that while the tech matures the fomo aspect never seems to go away regardless of time. As long as cryptocurrencies are far out on the risk curve, this will never disappear.
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by scrlk 4y ago
>I just can't see why anyone would place this much trust in a PoS coin with a central governance and with major stake by VC in SV. In a bullrun, no one cares about "decentralisation" or "fundamentals", they just
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by scrlk 4y ago
A completely new design, typically breaking away from the previous design (AMD's Zen microarchitecture being a more recent example).
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by scrlk 4y ago
Was NetBurst the last clean sheet Intel microarchitecture design?
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The Pylon Men (1966) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by scrlk 4y ago|0 comments

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