StringyBob

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by StringyBob 5y ago
The lead architect of every main Apple CPU from A7 to the M1Max is still going through a court case, being sued because of a non-compete for trying to do a startup https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/09/apple_
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Initial thread when fire happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790063
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Hard to say how big a deal this is from the outside. Could be major. Anything that delays EUV production is a big deal to everyone doing leading edge chips - there is a massive backlog on demand for EUV capable manufacturing that will be a
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by StringyBob 5y ago
I expect Putin’s forces will now move in to secure the country, and will never leave
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Do wonder what Russia’s reaction will be. Not wanting to belittle the impact on people’s lives from geopolitical turmoil, but amongst other things Baikonur Cosmodrome is inside Kazakhstan - where a lot of the Russian space launches are from
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by StringyBob 5y ago
I wonder if the xcode binaries are compiled for Arm or x86_64 via Rosetta emulation - and how much difference that makes to performance and efficiency?
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by StringyBob 5y ago
According to their Twitter it’s still ongoing: https://twitter.com/droogie1xp/status/1471653205733871619
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Apart from the unlikely event of it being malicious I’d assume it is driver error as a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration Burden of proof and reasonable doubt come in to play - for suc
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Has anyone written the Web3.0 / Web4.0 TeX2NFT converter yet?
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by StringyBob 5y ago
As just discussed on the wonderful BBC radio show more or less - available as a podcast and also published online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b6j20n
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Spot on - the shuffle button was always overly prominent and a quite annoying default. If Spotify want to spin this into a bit of PR that they support artists so be it. Maybe in another decade I’ll finally get that ‘hide podcasts’ button I
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Perhaps only in that books are sometimes lost for years due to being put back in the wrong place! ‘Defragmenting’ the shelf space in a public library is a long and painful task, both for when there is a lack of room and for when things get
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by StringyBob 5y ago
As an example, my parents have been bombarded with calls from a scammer who it seems only has their phone number and email address, but that’s enough to give away their full names and the name of the ISP, so the scammer is using it to call
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by StringyBob 5y ago
So - if I followed that correctly the parts you can’t change are the front-camera assembly that includes faceID sensor, and the screen that includes the touch panel (that you use to enter passwords and PINs). I would assume Apple’s justific
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Not quite trying to match TSMCs leading edge - as a back of the envelope calculation based on dimensions given in nature paper, a GTX 3080 in this node would be getting on for the size of a billboard!
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by StringyBob 5y ago
In conjunction with Arm they previously built a cortex M0 based microcontroller (link to Nature paper in this article): https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/23/22590001/arm-plasticarm-c...
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by StringyBob 5y ago
I’m unhappy that Spotify distributes my subscription cash to artists I don’t listen too, I’m even less happy that a large proportion goes towards podcasters I don’t even want as part of the app, and am unable to even hide from the screen. H
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by StringyBob 5y ago
As someone who follows the semiconductor industry, I’m amazed I hadn’t heard more about what happened to HSMC. There’s little info around for what appears to have been a multibillion dollar scam
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Reminds me of this masterpiece of IoT reset dystopia from a GE smart bulb: https://youtu.be/1BB6wj6RyKo
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by StringyBob 5y ago
This is still noticeable in lower power devices. I have discovered that if I leave a usb cable plugged into a MacBook Air M1 usbc socket in standby, it draws about half a watt extra, even though the cable power draw is zero. This means the
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by StringyBob 5y ago
Chip manufacturing has many steps. For a new leading edge process it may take 3-6 months to get silicon back after submitting the design to a silicon foundry for manufacturing. For a small volume ‘shuttle’ run hopefully there won’t be delay
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by StringyBob 5y ago
There’s a pretty crazy amount of electronics in the dish. They are likely selling it at well below cost at present. Teardown showing PCB at: https://youtu.be/iOmdQnIlnRo?t=2152 And more detailed RF analysis at https:/
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by StringyBob 5y ago
The Times newspaper (UK) has also some pretty good investigative coverage with a well-produced podcast episode covering Covid origins - https://play.acast.com/s/storiesofourtimes/failuresofstate-t...
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Well that’s apt for Pandas: Eats, Shoots & Leaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves
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by StringyBob 6y ago
2020 was a long year - this was just 6 months ago: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Interestingly that happened with my 2016 MacBook Pro. When the screen needed to be replaced due to a panel cracked ribbon cable I noticed that the newer screens had a slightly deeper rubber gasket around the edge (reducing thinness by just
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Did they put readable files on their site too early? What are the odds someone just guessed an unlinked url?
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by StringyBob 6y ago
A lot of the usbc hubs only support 4k30, or have weird power delivery limitations/incompatibilities. I didn’t want to gamble $300+ on a hub that might not work. My solution was to use an LG thunderbolt monitor (which has a usb3 output
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Pocket earth with the contour maps has been my go to offline hiking map for the last 5 years - not many other openstreetmap systems have that countour data. I think it uses the https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ dataset,
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Cheap electronics, particularly with switch mode power supplies can be pretty bad for magnetostriction in transformers/inductors or piezoelectric effect in capacitors leading to these high pitched noises. When optimising for the cheape

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