j_walter

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by j_walter 1mo ago
In some cases yes, in others no. As much as I love my new electronics I still play my 14 year old Xbox One, read on my 2012 Kindle Paperwhite and use multiple 5+ year old laptops that function almost the same as they did (running Linux hel
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by j_walter 1mo ago
This is pretty good...simplifies the process and some of the items are out of order, but it describes the process pretty well. Keep in mind, even 20 year old chips have 6-700 steps in their process...it's a giant loop of Etch, Photo, I
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by j_walter 1mo ago
They made money through extreme manipulation of the Indian stock market...when working with a market that has 422X leverage through derivatives its much easier to make money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqosmgfGR0
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by j_walter 3mo ago
If his wife who is being charged in a crime asks her husband to destroy evidence, then yes that is a crime. Transporting may be what he was doing when he was caught, but they clearly had enough evidence to support that he was doing more th
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by j_walter 4mo ago
I loved L0phtCrack...
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by j_walter 4mo ago
Some people also thought Gamestop was a good deal at $400 after 50x-ing...but when you look at fundementals, earnings and actual projected growth and not just the hype, you see the stock for what it really is. At $20 it was a good deal bec
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by j_walter 6mo ago
So just get rid of TSA and have no security? They find hundreds of guns in carry on baggage every year, but that should be no big deal right? They didn't force this person through the scanner, they could have asked for a supervisor an
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by j_walter 10mo ago
> Commands now take about a day to arrive, with another day for confirmation. Compare that to the Moon (1.3 seconds), Mars (up to 4 minutes), and Pluto (nearly 7 hours). These numbers aren't right...Mars is 4 minutes MINIMUM, but c
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by j_walter 10mo ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Semiconductors/comments/18x5vr5/sem... This reddit post captures what I've seen at TSMC in Taiwan. $120K is normal pay at the director level...engineers make $2500-5000 a m
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by j_walter 10mo ago
TSMC has backup generators in their AZ fab. You actually have to have backup power or a few hundred millisecond blip could cause days or weeks of tool down time. You should see what happens when you lose the ability to keep a clean room a
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by j_walter 10mo ago
TW workers have a majority of their compensation in bonuses, so the OT portion is quite small and many do not even bother to ask for it. The overall compensation between a TW and US engineer at TSMC is also significant. Not to mention the
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by j_walter 11mo ago
Wildfires don't usually happen downtown...which is what this website seems to be tracking. At least from this 2023 article the number of fires related to the homeless camps is pretty consistent and only the % drops during the summer m
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by j_walter 11mo ago
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/03/15/data-shows-fires-at-ho... Portland has issues with homeless...no one can deny this fact. Things are a little better since hard drugs were recriminalized, but the ci
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by j_walter 1y ago
They were more of a bargain 3 months ago at $80B.
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by j_walter 1y ago
No one has doubted Intel's tech...its their manufacturing that is the problem. Anyone can make one successful chip from a wafer...making 80%+ yields is an entirely different problem to crack.
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by j_walter 1y ago
Everything for the past few generations of nodes have not been actual dimensions but more of an equivalency. TSMC nodes are no different.
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by j_walter 1y ago
Wouldn't be the first time they became obsolete either...and I think even with the US governments help they are too far down the drain to come back.
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by j_walter 1y ago
What part of any plan they have had tells you they are likely to stop losing money any time soon? They are basically selling for asset price right now...because the market doesn't believe they are worth more than their assets.
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by j_walter 1y ago
The iPhone 18 part is for clicks...it really has nothing to do with the iPhone 18 and everything to do with TSMC's N2 process.
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by j_walter 1y ago
This was not just from a thumb drive as that is very tightly controlled at TSMC (they did catch someone right away before it got leaked). The employees were caught printing info and removing it from the company (caught due to magnetic ink
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by j_walter 1y ago
You are forgetting AMD...they are up there as well (double digits %). Thats how the compete so effectively with Intel.
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by j_walter 1y ago
That will 100% never happen. Nvidia is big, but not even close to a majority of TSMC revenue or loading. Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, etc... In this case...TSMC is holding all the cards, not Nvidia
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by j_walter 1y ago
Probably losing appeal because, as another article pointed out, the 18A process has been found to be roughly equivalent to TSMC's N3 process, which was in HVM in 2023...not exactly what was promised the last few years (which was better
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by j_walter 1y ago
A majority of the chiplets are made by TSMC, but the main cores had still made by Intel. This has changed somewhat the last few years, but TSMC is still making a lot of chips for Intel. Supposedly the 18A node will be used for the latest
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by j_walter 1y ago
Review Peter Allor's comments...struggles on who pays and who should be the long term controller of this program was what led to the push right up to the last minute. As usual in government if you don't push hard enough nothing w
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by j_walter 1y ago
>>>and quietly rolled out a limited-access beta version last month during a period of uncertainty surrounding the United States' Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. You mean the 24 hour period where people frea
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by j_walter 1y ago
>>>and long-run is MUCH more important for governments than companies. Yes, but rarely for the people in charge of spending the money in the government or the people who were voted in to do so.
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by j_walter 1y ago
Cost of living in Corvallis <<< Cost of living in Seattle https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
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by j_walter 1y ago
Private sector can make it more efficient for some things...but what I'm referencing is the use of NGOs for public services and the most wasteful I've seen are in the "Large Blue Cities". CEOs of relatively small firms
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by j_walter 1y ago
Not sure about the USAID part, but ActBlue has been suspected of illegal fundrasing activities for a long time. Googling will find a lot of stories similar to the one above. "Mark Block, former chief of staff to Republican 2012 presid

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