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This is blatant misinformation. "Penalties in this section do not apply to users of tiktok" https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/billpdf/SB0419.pdf

Woah. I can't believe this is still online!

How do we know this is a "shameful misrepresentation" until we see how it pans out?

The depositors did nothing here but put their own money in a bank account? What possible nefarious motive are you implying?

This is a superpower during refactoring.

Binning is definitely a possibility. Separately from binning, there are often just features that don't work right and get disabled with "chicken switches" or "feature enable bits."…

Counter-opinion: industry simply has no plausible alternative to Verilog/SystemVerilog and succeeds in producing chips only in spite of the language's glaring flaws. I worked for s…

Is AMZN stock really flat? Looks close to 4x its price from 5 years ago.

FWIW -- A later, vaguely related project was Jitawa[1]. Its Lisp dialect was not as fancy as VLISPs, but its verification was much more thorough (machine checked proofs down to the…

Uh. The US is suffering another 9/11 every few days. In huge parts of the country, life is nowhere near normal. That's what they beat, and God willing will beat again.

Maybe the magic is just the discipline to somehow keep tuning and optimizing everything across the chip. Year after year they release another power-sipping design with another 10-2…

Ugh. Truly an abomination.

It does seem like TSMC has strong leverage since it would take Apple a lot of time and work to move to a competitor. On the other hand, the incentives seem pretty well aligned. TSM…

If it can emulate x86, is there really a motivation for developers to switch to ARM? (I don't have an M1 and don't really know what it's like to compile stuff and deploy it to "the…

For other ARM manufacturers, I wonder how much of this is a software problem. I mean, what would the market be for a super-fast ARM laptop/desktop machine? It would run Windows RT,…

I'm a free software fan, but I don't see that open source matters here. How do you know the machine is running the program whose source code you're looking at, instead of some othe…

Yep, these new machines seem really good. I heard (discussions with folks online) that in other parts of the state they are still using the older machines, which the voter just has…

How do they get the ram into the SoC? Is it like a massive die?

I think "fast, cheap, good, pick 2" applies. Obviously the current bloated, ad-laden state of the web is pretty horrible and indefensible. But if we can keep making compute faster,…

It really is a beautiful program, in its own way.

The dimensions that you are scored on are fixed ahead of time and haven't changed in years. The individual goals are set in this year's review, evaluated in next year's review.

Sure -- once per year: - Write up self review. 1-2 pages to highlight what you worked on and accomplished, who you helped, why it matters. Score yourself on various dimensions of h…

I've been at $megacorp for a few years. We just completed yet another formal, annual review. It would be easy for me to look at the process and say it is needlessly structured, tim…

There's a pretty in-depth video analyzing the motivations and perceived strategic benefits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgEKDGNjqsk I'm not sure he's entirely right, but I…

It would probably start to depend on the person. If you live in New Zealand where covid has been eradicated, then why risk it. If you are a front-line medical worker in Georgia, yo…