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by williadc 11y ago
My guess is that 10x indicates that they've saturated the bandwidth of the PCIe interface.
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by williadc 12y ago
If electricity were free, you'd have a great point. TCO is something that needs to be considered, and Intel's chips are very competitive.
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by williadc 12y ago
At that point, the power controller would be as complex as your application processor, and you'd be trying to figure out how to power gate some of its features.
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by williadc 12y ago
In the linked article, the author points to an explanation of loop invariants. Click the link "Last Week"
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by williadc 12y ago
I'd like to see the data behind this quote: "This new system of offender-funded law enforcement creates a vicious circle: The poorer the defendants are, the longer it will take them to pay off the fines, fees and charges; the more
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by williadc 12y ago
I worked on Broadwell and other 14nm projects and would be interested in chatting with you. My IDSID is dwilli2, please drop me a note.
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by williadc 12y ago
The Firefox interface is written in an XML-like language, so you can fix bugs there if you know HTML+CSS.
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by williadc 12y ago
I think the point that the OP is missing is that Silicon manufacturing is extremely complex, requiring 1000's of steps, tons of water and electricity, and extremely pure materials. That's not something you can fit in a lab, let a
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by williadc 12y ago
Noise rejection is another important advantage of CMOS. I don't know enough about these materials to know whether it applies here or not.
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by williadc 12y ago
One thing that seems to be glossed over in his argument is the impending move to 450mm wafer technology. That should allow Intel and others to continue shrinking at reasonable cost.
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by williadc 12y ago
> You now need clever circuit design and humans who can squeeze another 15-20% out of existing technologies. Unfortunately, all the humans who knew how to do custom VLSI design are dead, retired, or doing something else since custom VLSI
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by williadc 13y ago
Not true: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/26/chrome-an...
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by williadc 13y ago
Great tutorial. There's a mistake in "Getting things done" -> Moving within the Screen. It lists ^U and ^D as moving a full screen, which is not true. Those only move half a screen. You correct this a few line later...
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by williadc 13y ago
If there's lower resistance, you can use smaller, less leaky transistors, so it'd also help in that respect.
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by williadc 13y ago
Intel guarantees their consumer CPUs for 3 years. http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-020033.htm
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by williadc 13y ago
Both of the carriers he listed are pre-paid.
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by williadc 13y ago
I work at Intel, and am involved with the "Reliability Verification" team for some of our client products. We design our chips to last 7 years when run well over the specced frequency on "viruses" that are much harder o
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by williadc 13y ago
It is irritating to hear claims that something can be done which has never been done. As evidenced by every project I've ever worked on, people have a very poor idea of how much work it takes to accomplish a task. There are very like
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by williadc 13y ago
Why would I use this instead of subscribing to r/listentothis or one of the other subreddits for music discovery?
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by williadc 13y ago
tl;dr - the author wants someone to re-write Perl 5 and CPAN to add some features he likes and remove some features he doesn't like.
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by williadc 13y ago
Even still, they relied on nVidia to design their SoC. I don't see any rumblings of Microsoft starting up a silicon design shop.
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by williadc 14y ago
I lived in Aberdeen when they shut down the mill. I remember everyone saying how this was the end of the town. It's weird that the article didn't show a picture of downtown. It's just a bunch of run down buildings with boards over the win
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by williadc 14y ago
My sister is a paramedic with asthma that sent her to the hospital regularly for much of her childhood, but has diminished as she's gotten older.
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Why I Work -- Robert O'Callahan(robert.ocallahan.org)
2 points by williadc 14y ago|0 comments
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by williadc 14y ago
It means that a connection to the real world is not needed for mathematics to exist. Another way of saying "predicated in" would be to say "based in" or "required by."
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by williadc 14y ago
Having read just to that point in the book, it seems this information is a bit old. Modern x86 processors have microcode ROMs on die, so the performance penalty is near zero.
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by williadc 14y ago
Haswell will launch much sooner than you expect.
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by williadc 14y ago
I'm a product of the Boise school district, and I didn't realize how good I had it until I went to college out of state. I'm glad to see Idaho's still a leader at integrating technology into the classroom.
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by williadc 14y ago
Dunno what "better" means, but this also works: find -maxdepth 1 -type d
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by williadc 14y ago
You missed out because of a typo. Congrats.

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