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boojums

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    Comment #46891357

    If China has not fought a war in 50 years, how do they have experienced generals? There is no evidence Xi is an incompetent madman.

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    Comment #46493450

    Micron's FQ1 2026 report says they expect their 1-gamma process (uses EUV) to the be the majority of their bit output by the second half of the year. The same report says they've a…

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    Comment #46378857

    It's more likely his mother borrowed money from other people and he paid her debts.

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    Comment #44655323

    Not sure why this comment was dead when it contains an interesting perspective.

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    Comment #44215300

    I vouched for this comment because it sparked an interesting discussion chain on candidate vs. third party spending.

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    Comment #41449115

    "What if smart boards were actually good, could use the whole room, and track arbitrary physical objects?" combined with "What if you could create/edit a computer program like you …

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    Comment #41422681

    If my math is right, the Abrams has a tighter turning radius than a Miata due to how its steering works. The Miata is around 15ft while an Abrams turning would inscribe a circle wi…

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    Comment #41193469

    >Support for external QSPI PSRAM The post claims PSRAM is supported.

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    Comment #40965601

    Have you used the QP framework ( https://www.state-machine.com/ )? It supports UML hierarchal state machines with code generation. One embedded dev I know shipped a couple products…

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    Comment #40665986

    >TerraPower’s investors and development partners, including Bechtel, GE Hitachi, PacifiCorp, and Berkshire Hathaway. For people not familiar, PacifiCorp is majority owned by Berksh…

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    Comment #40463530

    A functional government has a monopoly on violence. Funding public sector R&D is tax money well spent, but it's still monopoly money.

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    Comment #39797512

    DRAM/NAND processes are optimized for different things than logic, so there isn't much cross application. My understanding is that it would be hard to make a general compute chip w…

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    Comment #39697895

    I vouched for this post because it talks about the Telegram issue and the more general idea of the role of citizen open source intellegence gathering which I think is an interestin…

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    Comment #39570451

    This was a really well done article.

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    Comment #38092212

    I like collecting examples that confirm/deny my biases. Would you mind sharing the demographic differences between the two schools?

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    Comment #37140975

    https://archive.is/qTw8d The article mentions numerous times that politicians are turning to defamation suits, but isn't it just rich people continuing to use the court process as …

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    Comment #36719310

    On two-lane roads, it is much safer for everyone involved for the pass to occur with high accelleration.

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    Comment #36427801

    Archive: https://archive.is/ejl2J

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    Comment #35896696

    If you don't mind sharing, how does Premium income compare to say Patreon?

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    Comment #35880375

    >reasonable baseline >significantly above average I don't mean this in a confrontational way, but I am curious how you establish what a reasonable baseline is.

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    Comment #35157259

    My understanding is that PID does not work as well for Mulitple Input Multiple Output systems compared with "modern control theory." See the "Analysis techniques - frequency domain…

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    Comment #35132090

    Would you mind explaining how the comment was "dangerously close" to a dog whistle?

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    Comment #35005064

    A translation of his autobiography into English recently came out. https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/the-autobiography...

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    Comment #34813482

    You could also check out Häagen-Dazs if it is available in your market.

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    Comment #34486419

    Do you have any more information on "lightweight effective documentation"? I never seen it work in practice. If there is a method thay has worked for you I would be keen to hear.