frankchn

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by frankchn 4mo ago
In this case, I think it is a jury's finding of fact re: the statute of limitations. Unless the appellate court finds that the trial court and jury is clearly erroneous, it will usually give significant deference to that finding.
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by frankchn 4mo ago
It will be fewer accessible services for everyone who refuses to use this, that's for sure. In general though, service providers are not going to accept "fewer services and infinite fraud" and thus they will look into impleme
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by frankchn 5mo ago
Gift cards generally cannot expire until 5 years after activation in the United States (CARD Act 2009), so I would have wanted a similar time period here at least.
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by frankchn 6mo ago
The direct consumption of oil and petroleum products from the conflict is trivial compared to marine traffic being restricted from passage through the Straits of Hormuz. ~20% of global crude production pass through the Straits.
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by frankchn 7mo ago
There is an upper limit on CPF contributions as well, currently set at S$8,000/month for ordinary wages and S$102,000/year total (ordinary wages + sales/performance bonuses, etc...). In comparison, the US social security inco
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by frankchn 8mo ago
If Intel's original 10nm process and Cannon Lake had launched within Intel's original timeframe of 2016/17, it would have been class leading. Instead, they couldn't get 10nm to work and launched one low-power SKU in 2018
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by frankchn 10mo ago
It can be an easy charge of “lying to the government on an official form” when they discover you have a user account somewhere that you didn’t disclose, even if they can’t get anything else to stick.
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by frankchn 10mo ago
> A lot of cars have that. My (gulp) BMW EV for instance. Newer BMW ICE cars too. Yeah, the recent BMWs (both EV and ICEVs) have Apple/Android CarKey UWB support, which is much more reliable and precise than Bluetooth.
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by frankchn 10mo ago
> However that type of test is generally bad because it more measures speed then skill. Isn't speed and fluency part of skill and mastery of the material? > Just think about it - when was the last time you had a final exam where
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by frankchn 10mo ago
TPUs use HBM, which are impacted.
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by frankchn 10mo ago
I do chores regularly, and I apply security patches regularly. Major operating system version upgrades can be more akin to upgrading all the furniture and electronics in my house at the same time.
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by frankchn 11mo ago
Amazon issued $1.25 billion in convertible debt in 1999: https://www.wired.com/1999/01/an-amazonian-debt/
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by frankchn 11mo ago
Customers are generally a lot more understanding if half the internet goes down at the same time as you.
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by frankchn 1y ago
They are doing some wild stuff in Asia like adding physical SIM card slots to eSIM only iPhones (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ja_x7JI0w ). I imagine having schematics like this would be at least marginally helpful i
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by frankchn 1y ago
YouTube seems to be pretty explicit that it is paying 55% of revenue from watching videos to creators: > If a partner turns on Watch Page Ads by reviewing and accepting the Watch Page Monetization Module, YouTube will pay them 55% of net
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by frankchn 1y ago
Why would it be bad for Apple? They get to keep the billions/year flowing in exchange for Google Search being the default on iOS devices. Google just can't pay to be the only search engine on iOS (but they have never done that afa
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by frankchn 1y ago
These configuration files exist ( https://llvm.org/docs/TableGen/ , https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Targ... ) but it is very complicated because
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by frankchn 2y ago
It is symmetrical.
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by frankchn 2y ago
Recent Canons support UVC as well (specifically the R1, R5 Mark II, R6 Mark II, R8, and R50).
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by frankchn 2y ago
It doesn't apply to Canon's recent cameras either. The R1, R5 Mark II, R6 Mark II, R8, and R50 have built-in UVC support now.
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by frankchn 2y ago
Right now, they are not even making their own games exclusive to Windows Store or the XBox App (see MSFS 2024, Age of Empires series, Forza, etc...).
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by frankchn 2y ago
I don't think these are 8K monitors. They support 8K input via 4x 12G SDI, but they contain 4K panels at 3840 x 2160.
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by frankchn 2y ago
If this is the model ( https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45711737/zeekr-cm1e-waymo... ) then 5 passenger seats, no steering wheel (in the photos at least).
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by frankchn 2y ago
Engineers named the Xbox One X "Scorpio", which is a much cooler name.
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by frankchn 2y ago
The other reason it is compared to the M2 is that there are no iPads with M3s in them, so it makes sense to compare to the processor used in the previous generation product.
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by frankchn 3y ago
The chips Nvidia requires are a lot bigger (>800 mm2 sometimes) and they are much more expensive to make on a cutting edge process with relatively low yields compared to the 100-150 mm2 chips Apple wants for its Axx iPhone chips.
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by frankchn 3y ago
The Microsoft/Activision-Blizzard acquisition had already closed in October.
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by frankchn 3y ago
In October, FedWire moved $4.275 trillion USD per day on average.
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by frankchn 3y ago
> Mindshare is valuable, was the point GP was making. If midsize customers ignore you because you're too expensive, and then implement something else before they get big enough to afford you, where do you get new customers? Forget g
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by frankchn 3y ago
Isn't that what the second line in the JavaScript snippet does: delete itself while the script is still in use (i.e. running?) In any case, I am not sure the Unix way is the best API design here. Sure, it does help in these scenarios,

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