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by yannyu 2y ago
> Yes, but isn't a big driver of layer costs the cost of the machines to build those layers? Let's say the time spent in lithography step is linear the way you're describing. Even with that, the deposition step beforehand
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by yannyu 2y ago
The number of exposure steps would be unrelated to the (surface area) size of die/device that you're making. In fact, in semiconductor manufacturing you're typically trying to maximize the number of devices per wafer because
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by yannyu 2y ago
The cost driver for fabbing out wafers is the number of layers and the number of usable devices per wafer. Higher layer count increases cost and tends to decrease yield, and more robust designs with higher yields increase usable devices per
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by yannyu 2y ago
> I assume they don't pattern the unused area, so the process should be quicker? The primary driver of time and cost in the fabrication process is the number of layers for the wafers, not the surface area, since all wafers going thr
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by yannyu 2y ago
Utilitarian analysis inevitably is coopted by those in power to frame "good" as what the powerful want. For example, some say it's more important to keep people's stock-invested retirement accounts solvent by increasing
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Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama's 4M yen model kit(zimmerit.moe)
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by yannyu 2y ago
Sometimes you'll have commercial/digital reps that handle high volume, low revenue customers. The company may also have a self-service/credit card swipe product option, or a free tier, or a support-only option.
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by yannyu 2y ago
I get what you're getting at, but LLMs aren't thinking machines. They literally just rearrange and regurgitate text that they've been trained on or have contextualized. How would you propose building a general purpose LLM tha
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by yannyu 2y ago
Is it just me or was anybody else not sure what Obsidian was while reading this article? The article doesn't explain it at all, so I'm left wondering if I'm incredibly out of the loop or whether this is a very niche thing tha
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by yannyu 3y ago
This seems like an overly simplistic take and reads like someone who hasn't worked closely with board members or been on the board of a company with a lot of money behind it.
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by yannyu 3y ago
First you had logs. Everyone uses logs because it's easy. Logs are great, but suddenly you're spending a crapton of time or money maintaining terabytes or petabytes of storage and ingest of logs. And even worse, in some cases for
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by yannyu 3y ago
Then we might as well admit that "merit" is heavily influenced by starting conditions instead of pretending that everyone has "equal opportunity". How many times have I heard from people that the USA is about "equal
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by yannyu 3y ago
It's funny that this used to be a killer feature in Opera before they fell off. Between that and mouse gestures, they were really ahead of their time.
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by yannyu 3y ago
Let's not pretend that's driven by anything except protectionism of an existing industry. They simply don't want almond milk anywhere near cow milk in the grocery store.
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by yannyu 3y ago
You're not wrong, but is this the way we want art to be created? Should arts be primarily pursued by those who have the means to defer or lose income, or those who have the reputation and connections to nearly guarantee economic succes
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by yannyu 3y ago
The study may be good, but the headline and the obvious slant of the article are as unscientific as you can get. Pop science journalism is abysmal, and this is a good example of it.
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by yannyu 3y ago
A related short story by Ted Chiang speculating on a world without attractiveness: "Liking What You See: A Documentary" by Ted Chiang - https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-...
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by yannyu 3y ago
I studied electrical engineering, but power engineering isn't a course that I took. The most enlightening quote I've heard about this was a response to a question: "What happens when I turn on an electric device in my house?&
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by yannyu 3y ago
Is there any tech-oriented forum that isn't largely cynical and negative? Is there any social media that isn't largely cynical and negative? I also notice how my mindset changes when I don't visit, which really just makes me
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by yannyu 4y ago
Ted Chiang explores this idea in a short story called "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling" ( https://devonzuegel.com/post/the-truth-of-fact-the-truth-of-... ), which takes place in a world where commercial
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by yannyu 6y ago
This is an interesting hypothesis. The silver fox domestication experiment shows that selecting for behavioral traits can result in significant changes to physical traits as well: https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com&#x2F
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by yannyu 6y ago
The market is not fair. People have to eat, and will look for whatever job that can get that will help them eat and provide for their families.
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by yannyu 7y ago
As seen with the Daryl Morey, the Houston Rockets, and the NBA, the Chinese government will go after anyone they can when incidents like this come up. Morey's single tweet in support of HK resulted in China cutting off their relationsh
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by yannyu 7y ago
Correct. Elastic competes more with Splunk or Sumologic than it does with Algolia or open-source Lucene/Solr. It's nominally a traditional ecommerce/enterprise search engine as well, but it's not terribly good at it.
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by yannyu 7y ago
I like the idea of someone tearing down Gmail's confidential email feature, but this article isn't terribly thoughtful. It mostly just repeats the same 2 or 3 points over and over (confidential mode isn't, end-to-end encrypti
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by yannyu 7y ago
So your experience of "East Asian national parks" is just China?
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by yannyu 8y ago
>and support searches for unavailable (out-of-catalog) entities This is a subtle killer feature of Netflix's search, and something not often done by others. By including these unavailable entities, it allows Netflix's similarit
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by yannyu 8y ago
>By the way, I also find it really interesting that video games are software, a special kind of software that we assign a very particular type of value to that's not really monetary. Video games may be software, but they're con
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by yannyu 8y ago
Yes you're right, I misspoke, 3000 a day worldwide. Agreed that we're doing pretty well as far as deaths and injuries worldwide, but there's a lot of room to improve.
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by yannyu 8y ago
Or maybe we hold driverless cars up to an unfair standard. Today, 3000 people die in the US every single day because of car accidents. Many, many more are injured or disabled. Why would we expect driverless cars to reduce that to 0? Shouldn

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