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by slivym 8y ago
Hey. We don't say low performance. We say efficient, or low cost.
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by slivym 8y ago
That is worth taking with a massive pinch of salt. A lot of the 'evidence' and points made in that post are like reading tea leaves. To give one example: > In March 2018, short interest spiked to a new all time high, to its cur
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by slivym 8y ago
Firstly, Edinburgh Castle was built in the 12th Century and change over the period of a thousand years. I suspect what is considered good architecture has changed over that time, and at no point influenced the design. Secondly, Edinburgh Ca
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by slivym 8y ago
I'd really like to see proper numbers on the fuel economy of these proposed solutions. Because whilst it's nice to throw your hands in the air and say 'Ah well it'll be like first class' - there are many problems wi
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by slivym 8y ago
Musk might have a point -but he's got his own blind spots. Sky scrapers create efficiencies by packing large numbers of people densely- they all have to go to one place, but in total they take up less real estate. Musk's contentio
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by slivym 8y ago
It still provides a performance benefit for peaky workloads. Want to speed up your local compile? This will probably be faster than the i7 - it'll take 15 seconds instead of 17 seconds. But what do people expect? Don't do hour lon
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by slivym 8y ago
Or alternatively, Pride comes before hundreds of millions of investment leading up to an eventual buy out from one of the many cash rich tech giants who are all afraid of being outmaneuvered by a nimble start up. Zoox doesn't need to c
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by slivym 8y ago
So is this just the gratuitous 'Musk has fucked up, better send out some PR pieces'? Because this article is basically just some guy off reddit. How would you feel walking into a showroom asking about how it fairs in crash tests a
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by slivym 8y ago
This is just bizarre - seems like corporate insanity to me. TO give some background to this, Intel's PSG is what Intel renamed Altera. Of course Altera was the FPGA company, and as part of their Stratix III/IV/V range they di
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by slivym 8y ago
As a Brit something that always struck me as strange was that Americans all seemed to own large, detatched houses. It just seemed odd to me, and whilst it's true that a lot of the US is less dense than the UK I find it fascinating that
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by slivym 8y ago
There's literally no chance of that happening in the US for fundamentally philosophical reasons. Politically the US has a very strong preference for pushing decisions down to the lowest level they can, whereas European countries and Ja
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by slivym 8y ago
As an engineer in a large company this seems very similar to management structure. Every 6-12 months there's a re-organisation to split the business into vertically aligned business units, and then to horizontally aligned capabilities.
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by slivym 8y ago
It could be that it simply never occured to him that he would get caught. When you work somewhere for years you don't think "This security cameras on the entrance could technically be used to track my activity". As the articl
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by slivym 8y ago
It's important to note that this grand unveiling of an (not very) ambitious multi-decade long scheme comes at a time where we've already established we're going to fail to meet targets for our previous decade long scheme to i
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by slivym 8y ago
It's where they keep their money. The can go to the UK and live like kings with access to the money they've stolen. They can't do that in other countries. https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/twt&#x2
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by slivym 8y ago
I really don't think that's the definition of a friend.
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by slivym 8y ago
No one going to point out that Diane Bryant mysteriously left Google recently? Long experience at Intel, expert in cloud, female face fits into the progressive culture they're trying to chase? Left Google at the perfect time? Seems lik
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by slivym 8y ago
I'm not a big fan of this. If he wants to help, he knows who to ask, I'm sure they'd take his calls. If he wants to act like a big man on twitter... well he's doing a good job- and that's not really very impressive.
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by slivym 8y ago
Education is a zero sum game for the applicants. But it's not a zero sum game in total. The university and society as a whole gain a greater benefit from the student with the higher potential getting the place. All other things being e
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by slivym 8y ago
At the same time it falls into the youtube problem though - advertisers are very uncomfortable with their brand appearing next to some incredibly objectionable content, which is very hard to police.
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by slivym 8y ago
Churches aren't supported by ad revenue.
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by slivym 8y ago
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. So whilst dead children might be off limits, /r/the_donald is still around despite the whole pizzagate shooting.
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by slivym 8y ago
With Tech the opening up actually comes partly as a response to universities. I worked quite closely with our HR team recruiting some grads and they had to explain "If you want to exclusively hire <insert very specific description&g
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by slivym 8y ago
Lot's of companies do that, but the UK is kind of a strange place to choose to do that. If you want cheap, go hire a team of 10,000 engineers in Penang (I'm looking at you Intel). If you want expensive, choose silicon valley. If
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by slivym 8y ago
You're absolutely right that it would be almost impossible to detect a malicious device in one of those components. But a few things come to mind: 1. If you're that paranoid, don't plug stuff in to your USB ports EVER. 2. If
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by slivym 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it were Nokia - just over 20B, desparately reliant on 5G. If they're using Intel silicon for their early 5G stuff and miss the boat they're screwed.
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by slivym 8y ago
They sell the full article which is why they aren't naming it in the public article. I suspect what they're saying is that the company has invested so heavily in getting to tapeout on Intel that it's too late to move their de
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by slivym 8y ago
Well as a first point, I think that there's a huge difference between 'This very difficult thing is probably so difficult that X' and 'I have physically seen this production line, and there's no way it's doing
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by slivym 8y ago
Finally, I've had to replace the keyboard on my current laptop twice and I've had it less than 18 months. It's just ridiculous, it's not designed for every day use.
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by slivym 8y ago
It makes sense, but I don't think it'll work when you consider the full picture. Youtube got in trouble with advertisers and the news media for making money and showing ads on unacceptable content. Their response was the ad-pocaly

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