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by xt00 8y ago
I tend to put on opposite ends of the spectrum being strategic and authentic. Authentic interactions with people at work generally are better for everybody if you are in an environment that is compatible with that. Many environments are not
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by xt00 8y ago
In my case an i5 with only 256GB SSD and 13" is not so great.. and I would prefer to replace my 15" MBP from 2012 with a 1TB SSD and 16GB ram and an i7 with also a 15" MBP with similar class stuff.. I guess maybe if I got use
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by xt00 8y ago
Also, apple is using the new file system that makes things like copying files more efficient (not sure how exactly), but sounds like the test is going to make the mac look awesome even though many people who pay extra for a 1 TB samsung EVO
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by xt00 8y ago
Independent of the like or dislike of the keyboard, it is interesting to highlight that Apple will employ the classic PID style of marketing speak.. (as in like PID controller). what I mean is, if they are selling a ton and its sustained be
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by xt00 8y ago
When the Intel based modems first launched a couple years ago there were tons of reports of worse performance. Unfortunately, I ended up getting one of those phones -- pretty confident it was worse than the qualcomm based versions. So, it d
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by xt00 8y ago
I’ve used AWS support many times and it’s actually really awesome. You can ask them basically anything and they have experts on everything. Really impressive. Yes you pay every month for it but it’s really good.
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by xt00 8y ago
Oh yea I was totally exaggerating since obviously the prices vary tremendously upon the what you are trying to do. I’ve previously worked for a semiconductor company, so there is sort of a “you can pay as much as you want” option always ava
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by xt00 8y ago
I think the primary focus / value here would be if they can somehow dramatically reduce the cost of making masks and IC's. Lets say these researchers make the actual process of converting C code to silicon super easy, then you go
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by xt00 8y ago
With OLED the black levels are affected by random pixel mura—which makes pixels that should be off show as slightly on. So you can cover that by biasing them up slightly so they are all slightly on and the blacks look more uniform—however t
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by xt00 8y ago
The robots often are sold as a lease or payment plan, so typically the big robot vendors try to win big accounts where they will outfit many things and essentially they pay a monthly fee that includes access to have the robot vendor come ou
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by xt00 8y ago
Yea I’m actually surprised that this is the attack vector. The iPhone being able to connect via usb while locked actually does not make much sense..
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by xt00 8y ago
I mean I’m pretty into space stuff and I read the article.. maybe it’s a bit niche for me.. :)
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by xt00 8y ago
Skype UI was changed dramatically for virtually no obvious reason and resulted in the usage of skype to be way more annoying for basically no good reason. They then rebranded Lync to be called Skype for Business which is a giant mess becaus
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by xt00 8y ago
Sounds like the touchscreen is getting noise coupled into it from the ground of the car being different from the touchscreen's power supply. Assuming that they have something like 12V avail to power that unit, then a buck that gives yo
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by xt00 8y ago
The ESP8266 is sort of a unicorn chip.. prior to that chip existing virtually everything in that space was $10 for getting wifi bolted onto a design unless you were a super high volume company who could get Broadcom's attention. In fac
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by xt00 8y ago
Yea, obvious slant that makes about zero sense.. embedded devices firmware devs are worth a ton if they can quickly figure out how to use low cost chips to get a lot done. Maybe in the authors case he is like: “Step1: buy 450MIPS processor
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by xt00 8y ago
Interesting about the scapegoating of automation.. arguing against it makes you sound like a Luddite, so not a bad approach. But yea an interesting thing I’ve noticed in China is that more and more factories are automating plastic molding —
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by xt00 8y ago
Great article. Interesting that simply pulling the contribution of the computer sector out of the numbers makes things look terrible for American manufacturing. Currently China is working hard on being more relevant in the semiconductor sec
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by xt00 8y ago
Faster and faster SSD's.. thats what I spend my money on.. :-) https://www.anandtech.com/tag/ssd I just hit refresh on that webpage all the time..
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by xt00 8y ago
Many countries that have essentially completely banned guns somehow have also managed to have low injury / death rates. Yes crimes still occur but are much less lethal with knives or other weapons compared to guns. So saying guns cause
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by xt00 8y ago
In the areas of the earth where the satellites are not approved for use, are they forced to turn off the transmitters on the satellite? Also I’m not clear how spacex network connects back to the ground. I would assume they would want to sim
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by xt00 9y ago
I hope they start with small array counts and build up from there.. you can imagine them having a "super bright super low power small display with 200x400 pixels" actually being useful in plenty of places.. then build up from ther
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by xt00 9y ago
Yea for the big TV's I think its basically like pick and place for the LED's.. the TV is essentially a giant PCB covered in around a million or so LED's.. which is pretty ridiculous that they tried that, but pretty awesome an
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by xt00 9y ago
interesting point but for a given luminance in nits the area doesn’t matter since it is cd / m^2 so assuming that there is a “cheap variety” of LED wafer material that outputs say 2000 nits for a low current, then a small area — say 20
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by xt00 9y ago
Of course, so let’s assume a 5” display, and assume that the fill factor per LED color is 25% (rather than expected 33%) then 25% of the area of a 5” display would be required to populate one color. So assuming a small dicing kerf let’s ass
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by xt00 9y ago
Seems like the initial deployment of the microLED's into a smartwatch makes some sense.. But unclear how this would make any sense for a large size phone display. The sheer quantity of LED's that must be placed properly on a glass
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by xt00 9y ago
That's a standard safety diamond, NFPA 704 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFPA_704 tells you what kind of hazardous materials are inside basically.
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by xt00 9y ago
Was definitely part of the modular series, a small dark blue book. It’s this one as the previous poster said. "Quantum Phenomena (Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Vol 8)". It’s referenced to by many other books from what I r
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by xt00 9y ago
oh interesting, was not aware of the term NC-FET -- so basically the ferroelectric material gives it the negative capacitance behavior... interesting.
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by xt00 9y ago
Also funny, I spent months trying to buy his book for one of my semiconductor device physics courses that was out of print, and finally bought it for like $180 on ebay.. it actually was worth it.. really well written book..

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