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by scrlk 2y ago
There's a good video from Asianometry ( Lessons from Intel's First Foundry ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9LWYmVQu0 If you're an Intel foundry customer, you don't want your design or IP leaking acr
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by scrlk 2y ago
> If America wanted EULV fabrication, it had to be organized and funded by the state. The DoE funded initial research in to EUV via the national labs and EUV LLC back in the 90s. The IP was licenced to ASML, whilst Canon and Nikon (the
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by scrlk 2y ago
If the distributor is dealing with new and refurb stock, I wouldn't be surprised if the refurb stock is being sourced from a more questionable supply chain. Just speculation on my part, but I'm going to guess that something like t
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by scrlk 2y ago
My bet would be on someone in a warehouse mislabelling a pallet or something. Actual malice is a possibility, but it does seem odd to blow up an entire distribution business for some 16 TB HDDs, when HDDs aren't supply constrained at t
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by scrlk 2y ago
From the original heise.de article ( https://www.heise.de/news/Betrug-mit-Seagate-Festplatten-Dut... ): > According to readers, various retailers supplied the hard drives, with Amazon, JB Computer, Mindfactory and Rei
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by scrlk 2y ago
There were plans for a Concorde "B" model that aimed to increase efficiency through wing and engine modifications, allowing the removal of the afterburners: http://www.concordesst.com/concordeb.html
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by scrlk 2y ago
They probably don't want to deal with the hassle of expanding their B2C support teams. Having varied AIB cards is a good thing for consumers. Traditionally AIB manufacturers competed on having better coolers and power delivery vs. the
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by scrlk 2y ago
RF is definitely interesting - it's the closest thing to black magic in electrical engineering (all went over my head during my degree...that's why I ended up in power systems :^) ).
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by scrlk 2y ago
Not a good day for those who decided to hold 3x Nvidia ETPs - down 40% earlier.
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by scrlk 2y ago
I’d like to add another entry to the Other cool stuff you might like in the summary: https://ibis-project.org/ It's a portable dataframe library that defaults to a DuckDB backend, but you can also use polars and pand
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by scrlk 2y ago
Losing the Signal: How BlackBerry’s bid to one-up the iPhone failed : https://archive.ph/IgW6s > In the summer of 2007, however, Lazaridis cracked open a phone that gave him pause. “They’ve put a Mac in this thing,” he
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by scrlk 2y ago
I'm not saying all EU regulations are terrible. The impact of their AI regulations have resulted in Europeans either receiving new models or features later than other regions, or not receiving them at all. There has to be a balance be
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by scrlk 2y ago
Good point. I note that they've announced "work starting on a brand new supercomputer", so this is potentially backtracking on a very poor decision made last August to cancel a new exascale supercomputer at the University of
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by scrlk 2y ago
> We can learn from the US’s and EU’s approach - delivering the dynamism, flexibility and long-term stability that we know businesses want. At least for AI regulation, the EU is the last place I'd want the UK to learn from.
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by scrlk 2y ago
Probably better value to buy a used or refurbished phone, rather than a new phone at the extreme end of the budget category.
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Young Persons Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi [pdf](cl.cam.ac.uk)
63 points by scrlk 2y ago|28 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
The L502X speakers were in a completely different class for the era, and still competitive today against current MBPs. IMO, ThinkPads from the same release year (T420 etc.) equipped with the NMB keyboard had a far better layout and feel.
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by scrlk 2y ago
To quote Jeremy Clarkson, who got cut off by a bus whilst driving his 600 on Top Gear : > You wouldn't do that to most 600 drivers, mate. You'd be in the boot without your head. https://youtu.be/5GFNxvauy28?t=1
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by scrlk 2y ago
List of Classified Document Leaks for War Thunder: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29240... Apparently the latest incident was a repost of a document that was first leaked on the forum bac
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Alignment faking in large language models(anthropic.com)
14 points by scrlk 2y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
> Murphy, who has served as chief executive officer of Marvell Technology since 2016, has been among the few names floated as potential replacements for the recently ousted Pat Gelsinger at Intel’s corner office. As an aside, it's f
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by scrlk 2y ago
Both authors of that paper were IBMers. What do they draw out to demo their discovery? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms) :^)
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by scrlk 2y ago
Certain AIM listed shares are/were quite popular as an inheritance tax mitigation (hold for 2 years and receive 100% inheritance tax relief).
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by scrlk 2y ago
The Real World Technologies forum is still an absolute gold mine for hardware discussion. As for articles, IMO, Chips and Cheese is the closest thing we have to Anandtech or RWT in their peak.
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by scrlk 2y ago
Hasn't changed, there was an article back in September saying that the relationship between AMD and laptop OEMs is rocky: > Multiple reports, citing sources at laptop OEMs, have covered what is said to be poor support, chip supply,
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by scrlk 2y ago
Yes, Intel 4 is in HVM and used for Meteor Lake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Lake#Process_technology
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by scrlk 2y ago
The addition of the post countdown has had a pretty noticeable effect on posts/day across multiple boards: https://4stats.io/ When an earlier version was trialled on /biz/ (mandatory email verification - htt
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by scrlk 2y ago
Then it was given away to GlobalFoundries, who ran out of cash trying to take IBM's 7nm process in to HVM and gave up on being a leading edge fab. IBM sued GF for this. IIRC, the GF 7nm process was rumoured to have the best specs vs. I
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by scrlk 2y ago
> The current waiting lists for new grid connections are on the order of a decade. There's a number of projects in the connection queue that are speculative - in many cases, people applying for a connection, then sitting on it to re
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A century of motorways(roads.org.uk)
2 points by scrlk 2y ago|0 comments

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