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by starfallg 1y ago
Why is ASML's market cap so high? Only ASML has commercialized EUV at scale. In order to generate enough EUV consistently for use in lithography, the equipment fires lasers thousands of times a second on a drop of tin. It's really
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by starfallg 1y ago
SMIC is running into real problems without EUV. Just because they are able to produce something at 6/7nm, it doesn't mean that it is efficient or competitive. Right now, they do it because of strategic considerations.
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by starfallg 2y ago
> But assuming a Japanese child will have patience where an American will not is the same weird thought that leads to weird guys wanting Japanese wives for 'obedience.' You are making several jumps in logic to get from A ->
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by starfallg 2y ago
Pretty sure that's not how the maths worked out, but rather $2 is the amount that would cover the cost of running the service based on data of existing customer usage levels. This is a strategic play, not a revenue play.
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by starfallg 2y ago
That's not always the case depending on the different levers that are pulled designing these chips. Focusing on burst performance sometimes/often end up being less efficient as boosting to higher clocks require higher voltages. Pr
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by starfallg 2y ago
This is interesting. How much difference is it (in cost, quality) by using this approach compared to taking a image capture of the page and then sending it off to a multi modal LLM?
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by starfallg 2y ago
>It is absolutely everybody's job in the company to make sure it is profitable, unless you work for a non-profit. To generalise this, it's everyone's job to create value. This may or may not result in profit, but ultimatel
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by starfallg 2y ago
Yes, I understand your point, but it is also moot, because even with the first amendment in the US, Free Speech is not absolute. There are limits to freedom - i.e. the right for you to swing your fists ends at the tip of my nose.
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by starfallg 2y ago
Ok, that's more clear on what your point is. The US is not banning TikTok technically like the GFW, they are just de-platforming it so it is no longer commercially active. This is very different from the GFW, and many orders of magnitu
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by starfallg 2y ago
I don't follow your argument. In what way are you affected now and why? My understanding is that 1. You moved from China to the US yourself willing since some time ago and 2. There is no US equivalent of the GFW and this legislation do
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by starfallg 2y ago
Nothing you can't do before has been affected, given that you were never able to post anything on TikTok that would be seen in China. It is not accessible in China, as Bytedance only operates Douyin there. The two systems are completel
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by starfallg 3y ago
Ethernet switches keep track of which ports have which MAC addresses behind them. This is stored in the CAM table of a layer 2 switch. When duplicate entries occur, this result in MAC address flapping and switches have different ways of han
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by starfallg 3y ago
If the license is not tied to a physical object that you can safekeep, then it has none of the traditional benefits of ownership as you can only exercise your license through a stack that others make available. That's the real issue he
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by starfallg 3y ago
ReiserFS and BTRFS are the only 2 Linux filesystems that truly ate my data. Everything else I was able to substantially recover from.
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by starfallg 3y ago
I lost it when it brought in the BMW. Thanks for the laughs.
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by starfallg 3y ago
Japan has a fundamentally different take on housing due to several reasons. Essentially, the way society view housing is different - buildings are more akin to consumer goods like cars. Housing value is tied to the standards of the steuctur
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by starfallg 3y ago
Now that OpenAI is the leader in the field, it has a lot of monetisation avenues above and over the existing income streams of parterships, ChatGPT+ and API access.
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by starfallg 3y ago
The latest update is that investors have been reporting that Sam Altman was talking to them about funding a new venture separate from OpenAI, together with Greg Brockman. This seems to paint the picture that the board was reacting to this n
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by starfallg 3y ago
I don't think the article is valorising the detail view at all, only to highlight the lack of appreciation and neglect of the ability to move down the layers as opposed to moving up. Higher level abstractions tend to be not grounded. W
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by starfallg 3y ago
It really depends on which workloads. We have teams working only on FinOps to optimize our architecture to take advantage of various cloud pricing models. Enterprise spend on cloud is a massive topic right now and definitely in the spotli
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by starfallg 3y ago
Euro NCAP, for example, was a UK government initiative that was adopted continent-wide. Car makers used safety as marketing to prompt people to replace older cars with newer safer ones, and it worked in this context.
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by starfallg 3y ago
As you mentioned this, there is now a Firefox add-on that automatically creates the containers from the AWS SSO landing page as you click into your various accounts. It removes the need to create them manually with the Multi Account Contain
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by starfallg 3y ago
That's kinda expected as the project matures and more people know about it.
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by starfallg 3y ago
Would you rather do something yourself with an accessible user interface or API, or open a ticket to ask somebody to do it for you? Sometimes communicating with an intelligent agent is harder than doing things yourself with a good structure
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by starfallg 3y ago
This is just another website that monetizes freely available information.
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by starfallg 3y ago
Yes, tracking the state of connections (e.g. TCP) is needed enforce rules on OSI layers 4 - 7. That's kinda the typically scenario when we think of connection tracking and stateful enforcement of rules. I was just pointing out when NAT
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by starfallg 3y ago
Any NAT that is not statically mapping IP addresses or ports 1-to-1 will require connections to be tracked and hence makes it stateful on the side after the translation (usually outside). Hence you do need state syncing between firewalls in
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by starfallg 3y ago
There's way more to it than at first glance. It seems that the figures thrown about in term of sperm counts are not at all conclusive - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-sperm-counts-...
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by starfallg 3y ago
Those were financial operations. They were selling bonds outside China. The treatment of stakeholders have also been different inside and outside of China. The assumption based on the experience so far is that inevitably overseas investors,
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by starfallg 3y ago
There's a lot of corporate scams in China that gets swept under the rug. That's not a validation of China's model of growth, it just postpones the pain, like Japan's lost decade. And Japan was a lot more developed when i

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