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AC_8675309··on I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script
There are 3 versions of Lynch's Dune.

Spicediver's version is the best ... if you can find it. The steel box / director's cut is the 2nd best. Lastly is the theatrical version which is the worst for the average person but pretty good if you have read the book once or twice.

AC_8675309··on Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs
Similar article with some additional background.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/01/afc485d5a59b-japa...

AC_8675309··on How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer [video]
As Throwaway stated all fabs are offline. The office portions are online but moving data in and out of the fab is pure sneaker net.

You realize how much of a complete joke airport security is once you have gone through the security gauntlet to get into a fab.

Getting a laptop into the complex is a difficult. USB drives, cell phones, etc. are carefully controlled. Making a direct connection to a tool in the fab with anything is a major PITA.

AC_8675309··on Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?
You are taking a massive corporate risk by bringing in someone who doesn't know what they are doing.

I would be equally worried if I was the director of engineering and had to work with this person. Ditto if I was a lower level engineer.

If I had to guess the poster is actually talking about engineering and confusing it with technology ... which is a whole different problem.

AC_8675309··on Things are about to get worse for generative AI
So the models overfit the training data, essentially memorizing, instead of generalizing?
AC_8675309··on [dead]
A business in Argentina is successfully cloning horses and dogs
AC_8675309··on Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?
If I were a CEO and my CTO asked that question I would start looking for a new CTO.

Sorry, not a helpful answer...

AC_8675309··on Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
Great, but don't forget to open up the Nintendo eShop and the PlayStation store as well.
AC_8675309··on An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (2012)
It is a least squares fit of sine waves. (A^T)A = I because sines are orthogonal.

Use Euler's eqn to convert e^jw into sin + cos and just work through the algebra.

AC_8675309··on Solreader: E-Ink Smart Glasses for Reading
Is this going to give me motion sickness?

FPS games are so bad that I have never even considered VR.

AC_8675309··on Canon Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system (5nm)
Not trying to minimize Canon's work, but the original tech was American: Molecular Imprints.