colin_mccabe

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by colin_mccabe 1y ago
It’s hard to argue that Intel is critical to national security when we have TSMC making chips in the US now.
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by colin_mccabe 1y ago
Sorry, but I don’t find it a very insightful comment. (Removed comment about it being AI-generated since that might be unfair.)
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by colin_mccabe 1y ago
PE is not VC. VC is targeted at early-stage companies, which Intel is not.
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by colin_mccabe 1y ago
Intel is not funded by venture capital.
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
I was mainly thinking people could charge EVs at non-peak times. It's interesting to think about using the cars as batteries, but I don't know if they're set up for that.
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
In theory, electric vehicles could help stabilize the California grid, if we could charge them at times of peak solar production. There are definitely logistical challenges with doing this, though.
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
> > Here in CA we've already have the government ask electric car owners to alter charging behavior due to power grid problems. > This bit of propaganda has been surprisingly successful, especially since it doesn't really
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
Is this sarcasm, or do you really think Apple should get 30% of the revenue from all phone plans?
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
TL;DR: Dark Mode in medieval times
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
According to wikipedia [1] The newest large refinery built in the US was completed in 1976 in Garyville, Louisiana. Since then, while some existing refineries have expanded, new refinery construction has faced significant barriers in envir
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
Someone did that and called it MEGA
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
It seems questionable to evaluate what happens when you cook without any ventilation. You need ventilation to avoid smelling like food later on. Poor ventilation also has other bad consequences.
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
> ...avoiding the need to build the gas infrastructure results in significant savings and so does skipping all the chimneys, vents and fans needed to remove the smoke from the kitchens I agree that skipping the gas infrastructure will sa
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
My point was that commuting causes pollution, not that cities are always polluted.
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by colin_mccabe 4y ago
I do wish we spent more on bike paths and infrastructure. It's much cheaper than any of the other transit initiatives. However, it becomes very difficult to use them if you have to drop off kids in the morning. So it is never going to
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
The Linux kernel developers have pretty good tooling for refactoring. For example, they have Coccinelle and Sparse. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinelle_(software) 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
Hmm. If Apple names something "Butt-Head Astronomer" and Carl Sagan sues, saying that they used his name... what does that imply about Sagan? One for the history books.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
Thanks, Supernintendo Chalmers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av4lbel9aIo
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
Go treats strings as a sequence of unicode code points.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
I agree that many people move away from cities to "escape", but it's important to recognize that for many decades now, rural residents have received significantly more benefits from the government than they pay in taxes, whi
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
Yeah, it would be nice if their last train was later. To be fair, SF kind of shuts down around midnight anyway. If 24/7 bars and so on are important to you, there isn't any substitute for NYC.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
The South Bay also has VTA, the Altamont Corridor Express (ACE), and Amtrak. Caltrain is just the one that goes to the penninsula and to SF.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
If you compare the Bay Area to most of the US, it has significantly better public transportation. That was the point I was making in my comment.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
> What other mainstream language lacks function arguments? Assembly language doesn't have function arguments. You just decide what to put in each register when you begin the function. So you can remember that eax is the count, ebx
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
The Bay Area has weather. What it doesn't have is winter. There is plenty of live music in the Bay. Example: https://thefillmore.com/ Public Transport (or lack thereof): The Bay Area has none Wrong. The South Bay has
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
Given what we know about the latest flaws in CPUs, such as Spectre and Meltdown, maybe we need to rethink hardware testing using perspectives from the world of software instead.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
If compile time is the problem, Rust is not (yet?) the solution. I agree that Cargo is much better than the Go build system, though.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
Rust doesn't really have a "runtime" in the same sense that Go does. For example, Rust has no GC.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
Thanks for the comment... good to have some EEs drop in.
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by colin_mccabe 5y ago
I worked at Cloudera in the early 2010s, before they went IPO. It's a bit sad to see the way things played out. All I can say is, it was a fun ride while it lasted. Cloudera actually started in the cloud, but quickly moved to selling m

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