williadc

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by williadc 4y ago
In my last performance review, the primary feedback is that I'm too blunt in emails, so I've bookmarked this site. Thanks for creating this.
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by williadc 5y ago
I rented a basement apartment for my last two years of college. It was totally great because I got a cheap place to rest my head but was rarely home otherwise. I think the real advice here is to not become a hobbit.
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by williadc 5y ago
https://cs.opensource.google/
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by williadc 5y ago
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was the first thing I read which challenged my teenaged conservative viewpoint.
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by williadc 5y ago
Note: I support design silicon at Google, but made no contributions to this project. I'd love to see an open standard be widely adopted in this space. In my daily work, open standards (Si2.org formats and SDC in particular) drives mean
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by williadc 5y ago
By that logic, the members of the Fed should be on every tech company's payroll.
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by williadc 5y ago
> Is there somewhere that tracks the number of Pfizer/Moderna/Other vaccines administered in the US? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine... scroll down slightly to see t
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by williadc 5y ago
The transistor was invented in 1947/48, over 70 years ago. Source: https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/transist.htm
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by williadc 5y ago
To strengthen rather than diminish your argument, the I7 2700K is over 9.5 years old. Source: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/61275/i...
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by williadc 5y ago
Sub micron processes were just called 0.x um. Why not do that for nm? Another fine option would be to change the unit to Angstroms. That would likely be the last unit change though.
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by williadc 6y ago
Dan Kaufman leads it now, and has since I've been at Google. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-kaufman-18830a113
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by williadc 6y ago
Raku (formerly Perl6) is multi-paradigm.
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by williadc 6y ago
> Besides, Wordstar and Wordperfect files used to be ubiquitous. Good luck with those today. Here's a Hacker News story from 10 days ago about an update to Wordperfect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24959090
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by williadc 6y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/google-titan-m-security-chip-pix... Decent explanation here
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by williadc 6y ago
Wow, that's more than half a Mobileye or Altera!
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by williadc 6y ago
Sounds kinda like microcode
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by williadc 6y ago
x86 works in mobile form factors, as evidenced by the Silvermont-based SoCs that made it into a few phones, including a reasonably successful Zenphone. The problem I saw was that the design philosophy at Intel was not conducive to fast turn
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by williadc 6y ago
I was born and raised in Boise, but don't care if people want to smoke marijuana. My guess is that the majority of people in Idaho who object to legalizing it do so for religious reasons. Mormons are a large voting bloc in the state, a
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by williadc 6y ago
In case you are like me and only clicked the article to find out what the other 10 states were. Here's what Wikipedia says: > The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in 11 states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine,
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by williadc 6y ago
Your cat isn't diabetic, I guess.
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by williadc 6y ago
> would be interesting to see them make a mobile part designed for phones. I worked on a well-funded effort to build a top-of-the-line mobile AP (the Broxton half of these [two cancelled programs]). It was a shit show from start to finis
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by williadc 6y ago
Thanks for this. I worked on Tiger Lake and no one ever told us it was a real lake.
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by williadc 6y ago
> I'm of the opinion that humans should not be living in areas that burn regularly. Along similar lines of thinking, humans should not be living in areas that flood regularly, or that have earthquakes regularly, or that have hurrica
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by williadc 6y ago
TigerLake client uses Willow Cove cores. I would expect IceLake Xeon to use the Sunny Cove cores (same as IceLake client) and TigerLake Xeon to use Willow Cove, but I haven't seen evidence that is the case.
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by williadc 6y ago
The only 3 Lane i7 I know of is the Nehalem
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by williadc 6y ago
You may find this Twitter account of interest https://mobile.twitter.com/BrimleyLine
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by williadc 6y ago
Head's up to anyone considering these pants, as I did -- reading the reviews, it appears they changed the design of these pants recently, replacing some of the zippers with velcro, and using different material. It doesn't appear t
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by williadc 6y ago
Have you seen a 10nm product from Intel with your own eyes?
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by williadc 6y ago
> So that was before Bob Swan became the new CEO? Yes, BK was fired right around the time I gave my notice. > Why left? A lot of reasons that would sound like griping. I was recruited by Google for a similar job, but with a chance to
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by williadc 6y ago
From what I heard when I worked there, Lakefield was purpose-built for this new Microsoft platform, so it's possible that they would not have showed this to Apple until after some time. *Edit: I wanted to add that I left about 2 years

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