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by variaga 1y ago
It gets done inside silicon chips because the (relative) costs of going off the chip and back on again are huge, and the parasitic inductance of the on/off chip path can make a an off-chip capacitor effectively useless.
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by variaga 1y ago
Not really - it incentivizes having the same total number of SW developers for many years, but they don't actually have to be the same people. If you work at $CORP for 1 year (or 1 minute), $CORP gets to deduct the 1/5th of what
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by variaga 1y ago
When debugging/fixing timing problems, or trying to implement a functional change using only metal layers - yes, it is absolutely still necessary to debug verilog at the gate level. Also, "just a tooling issue" is a pretty b
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by variaga 1y ago
I think it could. If wireless charging docks has been common at the time, the upgrade to "now your wireless charger can do data sync too" is a straightforward improvement. Unfortunately, at the time there was only one phone that
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by variaga 1y ago
Transferring files between a phone and a computer was a real use case, but since wireless usb was "exactly like regular usb but no wires" it wasn't any easier to set up file transfer than regular usb (harder, actually, since
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by variaga 1y ago
The product in the article I think it said came from 2006? Not based on the chips I worked on, anyway. Just like early wifi, there were several companies working on wireless usb chips at the time, and performance could vary a lot depending
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by variaga 1y ago
I worked on the design of wireless USB chips around 2008 - 2010. They worked - you really could get USB 2.0 full rate connections wirelessly and we had some neat demos. I would say the major problem it had with adoption was that wired US
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by variaga 1y ago
I'm aware that some private equity actually does plan to make money by applying good management to a fundamentally sound company which is currently struggling (or "cheap") because of fixable mismanagement. Warren Buffet got
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by variaga 1y ago
Also Sears
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by variaga 1y ago
The banks know this is likely to happen, but believe (usually correctly) that they can sell the debt to someone else before it becomes worthless. I.e. the deal for the bank is not "we're going to issue this loan and collect paymen
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by variaga 1y ago
Commonly, the bank that undewrites the loans will essentially do the same thing - they collect a commission but sell the underlying debt to someone else as (high-yield, because they are high-risk) bonds. If you've heard of "Junk B
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by variaga 1y ago
Private Equity playbook: 1) Buy a company from the stockholders by having the company take out loans (secured by future earnings) to pay for the stock. Do not pay for it with more than a token amount of your own money. 2) Slash company e
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by variaga 2y ago
That tracks. Frequently what people learn about estimating is to optimize out steps 1 and 2 and just make the estimate match the need-by date from the beginning.
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by variaga 2y ago
In my experience, a substantial portion of poor estimates comes from: 1. An initial estimate is made that is fairly accurate. 2. Someone in management says "that's too long, we've got to find a way to bring in that date&quot
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by variaga 2y ago
Don't say that he's hypocritical- say rather that he's apolitical. 'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down - that's not my department' says Werner Von Braun. Some have harsh words for this man
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by variaga 2y ago
In opposition to the Nazi tenets (and your characterization of it as being "black and white"), LOTR explicitly counsels mercy and not being too confident in your judgements. "What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature,
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by variaga 2y ago
>> To someone living in Ukraine, it probably feels like a much closer fit. > You may be right, but is it a better fit? Is there any hope left when you face overwhelming hordes of evil orcs that cannot be negotiated or reasoned with
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by variaga 2y ago
The Oregon dunes are a great place to visit (at least, I enjoyed them) - not like anything else you'll find in North America. And you can tell people you've been to the dunes that inspired "Dune" :) https://en
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by variaga 2y ago
I have a 1.5-year old VW id.4. I cosign all of this (except the one-pedal driving - I prefer to leave mine in separate accel+brake mode), particularly the home charging - if you can get a home charger installed, it is a real game-changer.
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by variaga 2y ago
Ukraine did not go to war, Russia went to war, and Ukraine had a "local" deal with Russia (in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nukes, Russia promised to honor their territorial integrity), Russia simply refused to honor th
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by variaga 2y ago
>Klingon-esque The "Og" in Ogg was a reference to "Orion ship G" in the game Netrek ( https://www.netrek.org/ ) so definitely not Klingon :) (Nettrek was a star trek themed online space combat game feat
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by variaga 2y ago
Unequal distribution, basically. While most planets will never be observed by a human, it turns out players congregate in certain parts of the galaxy, particularly near the galactic center. (The game starts you at a random location near t
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by variaga 2y ago
Speaking as a digital HW designer, Gray counters (where you only ever calculate 'x+1' are actually slightly more complicated than normal binary counters, and general Gray code addition (calculate 'x+y' for arbitrary x,
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by variaga 2y ago
>Almost all of these analyses of ternary hinge on the idea of efficiency of representation, being the (number of possible symbols) * (number of digits to represent). >But it seems way more useful to use the log of the number of possib
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by variaga 2y ago
I can think of two reasons why it wouldn't (benign) peak-to-average problem - I'll go ahead and just assume that defcon attendees use a lot more internet bandwidth than the average Vegas-goer, so during defcon the network is overw
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by variaga 2y ago
Interesting. A project I worked on (audio recognition for a voice-command system) we ended up going the other way and explicitly adding an encoding of "nothingness" (actually 2, one for "silence" and another for "wh
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by variaga 2y ago
That was a scene from the movie "Real Genius"
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by variaga 2y ago
>do chiplets have better power gating than monolithic? like a lot of stuff, the full answer is "it depends", but mostly - no. Chiplets and monolithic ICs get about the same power gating quality/efficiency (whatever your m
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by variaga 2y ago
It's true that die-to-die IO is lower power than package-to-package IO because of the lower capacitive load (which comes mostly because you don't need ESD protection inside the pkg) and shorter trace length, but it's still mu
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by variaga 2y ago
That's a known bug whenever the calculated result is > 4.0. Just scale down your inputs/outputs and it will work fine :) (for those who don't know, the original comment is a reference to the novel "The Long Dark Tea-

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