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by zsmi 5y ago
Probably not too many. But I wonder, are there more Chinese factories or Tomahawk missiles? I'm not totally sure. China is a very large country.
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by zsmi 5y ago
Will this do? https://www.eetimes.com/biden-ups-ante-to-50-billion-for-chi...
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by zsmi 5y ago
Not proof a funder per se, but there was this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghan...
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by zsmi 5y ago
Regret is not an apology. It means Apple is stating they are disappointed by the confusion, and I am pretty sure that's true.
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by zsmi 5y ago
> That is a real interesting point, contracting out limits your ability to "work your way up," a big company. Those times are gone. People don't stay at a company for 30 years and get a pension anymore. https:/&#x2F
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by zsmi 5y ago
That's good news. I am glad Reuters was officially able to declare Sweden as the next Silicon Valley thus ending the tyranny of "X is the next Silicon Valley" articles and news segments. Congratulations Sweden, and really,
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by zsmi 5y ago
I used to suffer from the lack of "why" too until one day it dawned on me that there really isn't a why, or maybe, the why is always the same: for engineers doing classical physics solving problems by hand, it's convenie
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by zsmi 5y ago
Thanks for the comment. That is interesting. I'll be the first to admit I don't understand precisely what is going on or the challenges involved. Still, my understanding is that this scheduling is just for drivers. Overworking d
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by zsmi 5y ago
It depends what one means by "shift". For example my brother-in-law is a firefighter. He spends 3/4 days straight in the firehouse and then comes home for 3/4 days and works something like 12 hours straight when he is o
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by zsmi 5y ago
According to this BLS report [1] in 1989 the US had 739K "computer and data processing" jobs. By 1999 it was 1830K. Wikipedia say there were nearly 21M "software developers" by 2016 [2]. I'm pretty sure our indust
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by zsmi 5y ago
I'm a bit confused. If you had a job, why were you interviewing? Or did you resent giving them?
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by zsmi 5y ago
I can totally relate. I've been using ohm/square for decades. I know the math. I've measured it. It works. I know it's true. But my mind refuses to accept that ohms/square can possibly be a unit. Every single ti
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by zsmi 5y ago
More like their infrastructure is dependent on old versions of tools that they don't want to upgrade, can't build, and only work on x86. Hugely common.
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by zsmi 5y ago
He was also an amazing team builder and motivator. https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/how-steve-jobs-got-the-abs...
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by zsmi 5y ago
I would say this depends strongly on the field. In the field I'm most experienced in, electrical engineering, I tell people considering a Master's is that it's a possible short cut to the pay of someone with 3 years of exper
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by zsmi 5y ago
Is that possible? Every company I've every worked for offered money for education but usually it only covered slightly over 1/3 of the total expense when everything was said and done. (And this was early 2000s when University was
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by zsmi 5y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing. One interacts with so many more people online. So even if the same proportion of people are awful in both spaces, the odds of interacting with someone like that go up online.
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by zsmi 5y ago
As long as you're prepared for the political backlash when someone is unhappy with the selection. For example, if you're randomly selecting 100 people the odds of getting someone in the 1% are ~2/3. Making UBI payments to so
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by zsmi 5y ago
> Schools stopped teaching it Wow. Do kids not have hand written assignments anymore? I can't even imagine having to write out, say a 5 page essay, in block letters by hand.
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by zsmi 5y ago
This is not correct. For example, I designed my circuit so it meets EMC regulations and standards, like I should. I still have to file my paperwork with the FCC which definitely counts as a "regulatory burden".
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by zsmi 5y ago
You have to be a bit careful there. I'm 1500+ ELO, play blitz/raipd, and get 100% from time to time. It's usually because I played some book moves and then my opponent fell into an opening trap that I knew and they didn'
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by zsmi 5y ago
Maybe it's not an engine but a GM on a 'speedrun'. I am pretty sure I couldn't tell the difference. :)
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by zsmi 5y ago
I'm sure students in the valley have been routinely exposed to VLSI chip-making, and actually making ICs, since at least the early 90s. I know I was. The main problem is there are only so many universities with so many sections therefo
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by zsmi 5y ago
> Surely that would be anti competitive in the extreme? Now prove it. TSMC accepts paying customers. Intel is a paying customer too. Haven't we spent years bemoning how Intel is behind TSMC? It seems natural Intel would take advan
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by zsmi 5y ago
It's more than that though as it's important to remember why Moore made his law in the first place. The rough organizational structure of a VLSI team that makes CPUs is the following pipeline: architecture team -> team that des
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by zsmi 5y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tim-cook-return-office... "Most employees would be expected to come in on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, and it would be up to them whether they work from home on Wednesdays and
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by zsmi 5y ago
This is a really good point. Even within Apple I am sure there is huge variation in "quality-of-office". It's not like every Apple employee gets to work in the Starship, even in Cupertino. But for those that do, they probab
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by zsmi 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Tree "The "Tree" is representative of El Palo Alto, the tree that appears on both the official seal of the University and the municipal seal of Palo Alto, Stanford&
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by zsmi 5y ago
You're measuring the transaction time, and I agree that can be very fast. I've also experienced it myself. But if you measure from the time when the property goes on the market to when the seller has cash in hand, that can take a
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by zsmi 5y ago
> What ever happened to exploring computing through just building small, cool, things? It totally exists, but back in our day you built the one computer you had and that was that. Now everyone has lots of computers. So maybe you don&#x2

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