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by xt00 6y ago
It’s more like “limitless power from heat transferred into graphene from an external power source”. So it’s a special type of a thermo electric generator basically.
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by xt00 6y ago
Something tells me that being the head of a massive company gives you some latitude in being able to sit there in silence while people wait for you to talk. If Tim Cook asked you a question and you sat there thinking about it for 30 seconds
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by xt00 6y ago
Isn't there some model where the keys that you use to decrypt the database are acting something like one time codes, and you have to use particular credentials to access the key server? So the attacker would need to be able to stay in
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by xt00 6y ago
The volumes on options are not all that large typically. So many people will put a sell to open at a high price to see if somebody really wants the option.. sometimes people will bite and it causes a big jump in the option price.. once that
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by xt00 6y ago
Pretty interesting.. many class D audio amps drive at frequencies above 100-200khz, so either the odd or even harmonics of that frequency sounds like where you would get the actual audio content showing up in the audible band (not sure if i
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by xt00 6y ago
I assume this is in reference to other cars like Model S having a more solid price floor? any reference point on that from people? like bought it for say 80k, and 1 year later sold for X type stories?
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by xt00 6y ago
yea I trudged through season 2.. season 1 was great and had all sorts of good stuff going on with it... I kind of want to watch season 1 again to try to figure out what went wrong..
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by xt00 6y ago
Hmm -- I wonder the legality around banning of encrypted data storage on the cloud (not clear if amazon is actually banning it here, but sort of smells like it could happen).. if they ban it, the basic implication would be that your data is
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by xt00 6y ago
Putting up a basic barrier to entry to people with low net-worth people causes some people to say "if the market is sky-rocketing, why can't I get in on that".. but the problem is whether or not you can "afford" to
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by xt00 6y ago
Is there a name for the formula that blackberry and others follow? 1) successful consumer business 2) lose in the market so pivot to b2b 3) slow long decline 4) sell brand / assets to somebody else 5) new money results in a “hey we are
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by xt00 6y ago
I mean it’s hard to understand what’s going on here.. it’s probably a coincidence that China’s 13th 5 year plan included trying to dramatically grow their domestic semiconductor industry and now their 14th 5 year plan wants them to become a
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by xt00 6y ago
Apple seems to think along the lines like this: 1) people should create apps and games for our platform using our SDK / Xcode only, 2) we don’t support OpenGL in Xcode.. 3) the apps that are not made in our SDK are “not a good experien
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by xt00 6y ago
An undergrad degree in physics from my personal observation is typically quite math heavy and you learn mechanics, electrical theory, and many people in their 2nd year for their senior projects build fairly practical things. No idea what th
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by xt00 6y ago
His undergrad was physics, and many engineers I’ve worked with started in physics then spent 1.5-2 years doing a masters in mechanical or electrical or aerospace engineering. So does Elon have the equivalent of 1.5-2 years of work as say an
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by xt00 6y ago
One problem I see with microLED's taking off is that the primary parameter the microLED design helps with is power for a given brightness. If the uLED tech costs more than a normal smartphone display (seems to be likely to be true for
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by xt00 6y ago
miniLED means that they place small LED's that are basically equivalent to the present level of LED technology behind an LCD array. So instead of the normal LCD backlight design where you shoot LED light sideways from the LCD module ed
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by xt00 6y ago
Presently, to do the AR processing to extract features from a space uses either cameras or some kind of LIDAR or time of flight scheme to get a point cloud of locations of objects around you. The data from a single camera that is say ~1-2Mp
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by xt00 6y ago
Yea people said Apple would buy a display company, or many other companies, but they tend not to be interested in buying these manufacturing focused companies. It’s not high enough up on the value chain for them. Manufacturers also have exp
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by xt00 6y ago
Apple likely will have a big incentive to try to get the perf of their processors up to comparable levels with Intel as soon as possible. They will compare native ARM64 apps like Photoshop, chrome, etc to the same apps on Intel chips, but I
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by xt00 6y ago
hopefully apple doesn't just whitelist realty.com to forward to realtor.com.. They should actually send you to the qualified URL if you type in a .com or whatever.. like who these days types http:// or https://
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by xt00 6y ago
FYI: it takes 1.9ms for light to travel 570km. Given a situation where people are just streaming Netflix, then the latency should not be an issue, but if you are browsing a webpage that hits 50 domains downloading random javascript stuff, i
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by xt00 6y ago
One major annoyance of using TEG's (from my own experience) is that they need heat to flow through the TEG rather than "heat it up".. so if you don't have a way for the heat to flow through the TEG (such as a fan or he
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by xt00 6y ago
Yes, it would be very helpful to have the following numbers: 1) mortality rate 2) no symptom rate 3) negative outcome rate ->(some clear impact to patient who has survived, but has life impacting effects) So if you find for example that
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by xt00 6y ago
The concept of "if you want to touch this code base you have to understand the entire thing" is pretty tough on basically everybody but the people who either wrote most of the code or who live in that code base all the time. It wo
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by xt00 6y ago
So they have a team viewer competitor that tunnels all traffic over some known port to a third party server I guess?
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by xt00 6y ago
Vulkan was not well supported in android until around android 9. In android 10 I believe it can run skia using vulkan (somehow). And broadly vulkan is still in the adoption curve — so seems too early to say vulkan is failing —it’s still qui
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by xt00 6y ago
Sounds promising — would be great to know the history on why the other people who tried to make the one graphics api to rule them all failed? Seems like that could be helpful in the whole “learning from the past thing”.
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by xt00 6y ago
Another aspect of Intel not working that closely with Apple (it this ARM transition happens) is that Apple is often seen as knowing what they are talking about on deep technical issues (basically they have lots of really good engineers). So
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by xt00 6y ago
yea as some people have stated, if even 30% of the world gets infected and we have a 0.5% mortality rate, then that is 11.5 million people... not a trivial amount....
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by xt00 6y ago
It will be really interesting once large random samples of people are tested -- quite possibly we will find out that the virus was spreading super widely in certain areas for Jan / Feb / March before lockdowns started happening..

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