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by ua709 6mo ago
There is no physics based reason why it couldn't work. If the industry really wanted to do it they could. But they don't. The primary reason is LPDDR just has too many pins. A DDR5 SODIMM has 262 pins and is an unwieldy beas
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by ua709 6mo ago
They should share the battery life numbers of default shipping configuration while running Linux with whatever settings they want. Then publish the configuration and settings. Same as every other manufacturer. i.e. https://www.
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by ua709 6mo ago
The expansion card system seems like something I would actually really like, especially as a hardware engineer. But the more I thought about it I couldn't really think of any compelling expansion cards that were worth the effort. So
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by ua709 6mo ago
I think a lot of the disconnect in the programming world is we treat all programming as equivalent and it's not. There really are many programming jobs that are rote and I have no problem believing that an LLM based tool can learn the
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by ua709 6mo ago
If AI just means automation, then sure. We absolutely need more automation and if LLMs are not the mechanism then something else better be. More automation is the life blood of our industry. But are LLMs a game changer or today's f
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by ua709 6mo ago
And I've even heard rumors of software engineers that don't even write apps or write code that runs on the internet at all. They say some of them don't even use javascript or python! The horror.
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by ua709 6mo ago
I don't usually like to appeal to authority but this time it's too "perfect". "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses". - Bjarne Stroustrup
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by ua709 6mo ago
Is it just me or is there a growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone…
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by ua709 6mo ago
> Not allowing downgrades is the biggest contributor to smartphones becoming e-waste. Citation needed. My guess is the biggest contributor to smartphones becoming e-waste is gravity.
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by ua709 6mo ago
Even if they did, would you recommend them allowing the downgrade without the passcode? Any action that requires a passcode doesn't help this user.
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by ua709 6mo ago
There’s also no indication that it’s not right around the corner. But it’s true, no one really knows where that threshold is. But it’s also the kind of thing that you really don’t want to know the “right” answer to, because by then it wil
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by ua709 6mo ago
I'm not sure I agree with you about the debt. If you don't manage the debt, eventually you'll loose investors, which means you'll loose the funds to do anything. Including fix the climate. We now spend more on intere
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by ua709 6mo ago
I'm not an expert but I can tell you why I think it's an issue. The national debt has to be continually refinanced as parts of it become due. That works when investors are willing to give you money. But if investors think you ar
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by ua709 6mo ago
What time was that and who do we get to blame for Log4j?
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by ua709 7mo ago
Those are the prices for just buying equipment, which at least retain some kind of value. 3 million+ American kids are enrolled in competitive soccer with annual clubs dues between $1K and $5K, and that money is just gone at the end of the
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by ua709 7mo ago
I don't understand the question. (maybe the question mark is a mistake?) Assuming it's a statement, my guess is the rapacious capitalists would disagree with that claim.
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by ua709 7mo ago
It's probably more correct to say that there are some people who project that 240GW of additional power will be required by data centers in the near future. Yes, that number is absurd, and data centers will certainly need to make do wi
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by ua709 7mo ago
I was going to cite that too but it's not exactly industry pushback, it's labor pushback. EV on the other hand does have some obvious industrial adversaries.
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by ua709 7mo ago
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
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by ua709 7mo ago
" Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." What's that guy thinking... Doofus.
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by ua709 7mo ago
> If someone knows of a general introduction to 3D CAD which focuses on vendor-neutral descriptions of terminology and concepts, I'd be very interested I'm not sure there is such a thing. Maybe a drafting book would be a vendo
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by ua709 7mo ago
With all due respect to Wikipedia https://arshon.com/blog/eda-vs-cad-decoding-the-basics-of-de... And if we're appealing to Wikipedia as an (inconsistent) authority, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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Software Engineering Has Been Commoditized and Automated. What's Next?(eetimes.com)
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by ua709 7mo ago
Snowden was a good one. A similar leak was a big deal when I was a kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON Established in the 60s so it was kept pretty secret for a long period of time. It's interesting to thin
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by ua709 7mo ago
> Sure-- she could meet with someone at a branch to help her. Their first available meeting was a month away. You have to expect business to optimize for their common case and just make sure there is a path for the exceptions. That&#x27
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by ua709 7mo ago
Labeling the phones essential infrastructure can pretty easily backfire if your goal is to be able to modify the phone as you like. For an example think about how mods are treated on cars. There can be very good reasons for those restricti
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by ua709 7mo ago
If this gets implemented I suspect those auditorium style lectures will get a lot more teacher interest.
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by ua709 7mo ago
I don’t find it baffling at all and both your experiences perfectly match mine. Asking AI to solve a problem for you is hugely non-linear. Sometimes I win the AI lottery and its output is a reasonable representation of what I want. But mo
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by ua709 7mo ago
I am familiar with this game. I play a variant of it on iOS everyday, sometimes multiple times a day, with my AirPods and iPhone. I'm not very good though. Somehow iOS always wins and finds a hostile volume to initiate playback wit
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by ua709 7mo ago
I'm guessing you mean politics, but surely this is topic, person, time, and space dependent. For example, I abhor talking about modern politics. If it’s election season and I’m being asked to cast a vote or take some other specific civ

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