StringyBob

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by StringyBob 7mo ago
Vital bit of background context from the article: > Now in his 50s, Erp was 19 and still living in his hometown of Harare, Zimbabwe, when he got the call from a local shopkeeper telling him that a drunk driver had collided with his fath
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by StringyBob 2y ago
See also virtual 6502 and ARM1 e.g. http://www.visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html
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by StringyBob 2y ago
This spaghetti also reminding me of a scene from the three body problem (trying to avoid spoilers)
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by StringyBob 2y ago
Amazing, I had no idea how far things had diverged between logic and flash since the move to 3D. https://borecraft.com/files/Comparison_Current_NAND.pdf (from 2019) has some of the cross-sections I was looking for - an
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by StringyBob 2y ago
What does 'layer' mean in this context? I'm only familiar with planar style logic process nodes which have maybe up to 20 layers (and way more lithography steps to manufacture those layers), but I am completely ignorant of ho
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by StringyBob 2y ago
Intel had over 130,000 employees as of a couple of months ago. 15% layoffs is nearly 20,000 people.
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by StringyBob 2y ago
Intel had over 130,000 employees as of a couple of months ago. 15% layoffs is nearly 20,000 people.
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by StringyBob 2y ago
I don’t use GitHub in my day to day work, but since I don’t see any other answers: for me the main reason it to prove the tag hasn’t been changed under me feet. It’s too easy for a lightweight tag to be changed without you knowing, whereas
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by StringyBob 3y ago
Yes - extremely poorly thought out from Apple. Has caught out multiple people at my workplace. Feature is buried in the camera pipeline of MacOS, had assumed it was a bug in zoom that it could not be properly disabled - until same thing hap
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by StringyBob 3y ago
> For a highly developed English-speaking country it is very underrepresented in software tech. We’re here quietly - all working for American / multi-national companies. Just little of the Silicon Valley startup culture here in the
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by StringyBob 3y ago
Whatever happened to caveat emptor? From NYtimes 2015 [1] > Some consider the Autonomy acquisition to be the worst corporate deal ever. > Just how bad is confirmed by the latest revelations from a shareholders’ suit over the deal: Mr.
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by StringyBob 4y ago
24 in one month for July 2009!
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by StringyBob 4y ago
Always impressed by how fast a CT machine actually spins compared to that first version that took half an hour to rotate 180 degrees! You can see them with the cover off in many videos eg https://youtu.be/9jYu-VZ79Fs
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by StringyBob 4y ago
As he states near end of video, nothing else right now beats streaming for convenience. I’d prefer a system where my monthly subscription gets divided up only between artists I listen to, but it seems in reality that hasn’t happened as a lo
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by StringyBob 4y ago
Just wanted to say hello, as someone who used to regularly browse haddock.org for interesting links before hackernews existed!
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by StringyBob 4y ago
For at least one gen of MacBooks (maybe the ill-fated 2016 MacBook Pros?), this was actually a design fault. In the battle for thinness there was not enough separation between screen and keys when closed, leading to damage to screen coating
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by StringyBob 4y ago
There was a general rule banning drones from Sagamartha national park, but actually you just need a permit. However if you are going over Everest, you are crossing the border from Nepal to Tibet (China), so you would have more of a challeng
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by StringyBob 4y ago
What devices are there in the field are reliant on the Google IoT Core Service platform? Are there ‘smart’ devices that are just going to stop working unless people rewrite the firmware for a different system like AWS or Azure IoT?
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by StringyBob 4y ago
The quotes in that page have some of the most spectacularly misleading statistics I’ve seen for a while. Might as well point out that for telling the time looking at my watch is more energy efficient than looking at the clock in my car dash
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by StringyBob 4y ago
Am I reading this right? That section also says he made shape charges out of cucumber that could cut steel!
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by StringyBob 4y ago
It’s complicated is an understatement ;) I assume most people have no visibility of the effort of hundreds of engineers who work on behalf of the big smartphone companies tuning for what happens in the image pipeline between camera/r
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by StringyBob 4y ago
ps. By far the worst. Because it supports multiple syntax types I can never remember the ps command options. Even if you google for examples you get different syntax and end up with a mix of the same option letters doing different things in
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by StringyBob 4y ago
What works for me: Take a minimum of 2 weeks vacation in one block (3 or 4 is amazing if you can negotiate it - don’t be afraid to ask if you are at $bigcorp). If possible don’t use a computer in that period, don’t check work mail/sl
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by StringyBob 5y ago
I have no idea who or what to believe, but there is a quote from someone claiming to be a NGO documenting war crimes that has had their records wiped by this https://github.com/IdealismIncinerator/node-ipc/blob&#x2
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by StringyBob 5y ago
I’ve seen claims that if you factor in negative externalities, the true price is at least double, and maybe nearer $15/gallon
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by StringyBob 5y ago
I’d say ‘recommendation’ not ‘ad’ :) This was the related section https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g?t=4637s that lead me down the rabbit hole of watching the whole thing I have no connection other than stumbling across it after
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Having watched cryptocurrency from a distance via HN etc. for over a decade, I thought I had a general understanding, but this made me realize I wasn’t aware of what smart contracts really were (just looked up solidity today and details of
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Well, you can just grab the data very easily: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/download
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Not as much tech detail, but for an alternative source, here’s an intro by the team dashboard lead - https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/01/20/reporting-the-vital-sta... Also - I’ve been really impressed by the op
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Did someone say ‘3D XPoint‘? https://www.theregister.com/2015/07/28/intel_micron_3d_xpoin... Always thought 3DXpoint (later released as optane) seemed cool, but had an almost impossible hill to climb by being

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