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kartD··on Intel’s Plans for 3DXP DIMMs Emerge
Yup it works, thanks!
kartD··on Intel’s Plans for 3DXP DIMMs Emerge
Unfortunately it’s still timing out :(
kartD··on Philosophy of Software
Honestly it's in the eyes of the beholder; there is no meaning to any of it except that which we assign. What I believe strongly in may seem meaningless to you. I realize this is probably an annoying answer so here's a comic that capture's how I feel:

https://zenpencils.com/comic/148-stanley-kubrick-answers-a-q...

kartD··on Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
One solution would to be to buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Art-Electronics-Hands-Course...

And this https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/edu/harvard-lab-kit (BOM's with all the components needed by the book)

kartD··on Intel: Meltdown, Spectre silicon fixes coming 2018; 3D XPoint RAM, not so much
Highly doubt that any proper silicon fix is going to be out this year. Silicon validation is no joke, so I’d expect 3years before speculation issues are fixed properly. I think the new fixes will be in microcode instead
kartD··on Reverse engineering a drug infusion pump – and finding remote code execution
Great write up and very well done!
kartD··on Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’
OMG That movie just went on and on...

Also got to say Al Pacino is so insufferable. De Niro was excellent though. My favorite scene is the end in stand up guys (also Pacino is far more mellow and tolerable in that one)

kartD··on Tesla Semi
I prefer to put elon@tesla.com. Hopefully it'll incentivize them to stop this crap
kartD··on Justin Trudeau explains why Canada really ‘gets’ AI and smart cities
> H1-B is designed to just be a pool to temporarily fill labor shortages in the US. It's not intended to be the path for PR hence why it's admittedly arbitrary.

I think that is incorrect. It is expected for F-1 students to move to an H1-B (which allows intent to immigrate) and then move to PR (usually via an EB)

kartD··on Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
Not really, Apple is sourcing exclusively from Samsung based on rumors. It's the FaceID module production that's causing supply constraints.
kartD··on An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Nice, does this get rid of the shitty AI for the janitor? I can't tell you how annoying it is to watch them do everything except clean the damn puke and trash of the path.
kartD··on Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part
From the guidelines: Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

kartD··on Travis Kalanick Exercises Right to Appoint Two Uber Directors
Ursula Burns seems like a good choice, John Thain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thain) not so much...
kartD··on Jim Rogers: The worst crash of our lifetime is coming
Typical advice is if you're older, say within 10 years of retirement push towards treasury bonds, commodities etc. (ultra safe investments). If you're young, you can try to time it, but even if you screw-up just hold through the crash and it'll recover in a couple of years. Do some more research, you don't want to put stock in random internet comments... including mine!
kartD··on [dead]
Might be hug of death, but it's not working for me. I don't like being denied my TinTin fix...
kartD··on Apple suffers 'major iPhone X leak'
They haven't been able to compete since the A6... it's hard for them though because Apple makes the chip very large while Samsung and Qualcomm don't wish to take that risk
kartD··on Ask HN: Recommended (recent) videos for a Lunch and Learn
Little drunk so bear with me :)

Rich Hickey: Clojure concurrency[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDAfZK8m5_8&t=2024s]

Keynote - Rust: confident, productive systems programming by Aaron Turon [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6dNx9pY7p8]

RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKtQgFBRUvQ]

Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57UK46qfBLY]

What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-m2fasdDY]

Dynamic Code Optimization and the NVIDIA Denver Processor [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuXA0_9feM] * if you can get anything on Apple's Ax series that's even better

kartD··on AMD CPU Sales Overtake Intel for First Time at Germany's Largest E-Tailer
Great news (hope it continues), Intel has rested on it's laurels for the last 5 years. It's borderline absurd how difficult it is to get an Intel CPU these days, what with the random product segmentation and price gouging for features like more PCIe lanes and ECC RAM. Whichever brand you prefer it's important for AMD to succeed to keep everyone honest. I hope MAD improves on the GPU front so that Nvidia is kept honest as well.
kartD··on The Simpsons Fires Longtime Composer and ‘Secret Weapon’ Alf Clausen
I believe this is appropriate.

The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk]

kartD··on Half-Life writer posts Episode 3 plot?
Pastebin link https://pastebin.com/raw/q9DMFa7c

Edit: Story if true sounds good, but sadly I guess Half Life will end on a whimper rather than a bang... Sigh

kartD··on Suing California for Throwing Out 45k Ballots Over Handwriting 'Mismatches'
Question for someone who knows... Is the ACLU primarily an inbound or outbound organization?

I mean there must be multiple transgressions occurring all the time, so it must be very difficult to keep track of everything yourself, but at the same time being inbound will mean you only hear from the "loudest" voices. So how do they strike a balance?

kartD··on Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
I agree with you're point, but that quote may not be from Churchill

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001715.h...

kartD··on Take a look at Uber’s first pitch deck from 2008
At that point they intended to be a taxi company, they actually got their current idea from... Lyft. They first tried to ligate and stop them and when they failed, they pivoted and out executed them
kartD··on Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
Well to be clear it's everything UI wise since ios7.

Links: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-des...

https://youtu.be/RT46MpK39rQ?t=2104

TL;DR ver: -> Inconsistent UI within an app -> Gestures that are inconsistent across apps and within the same app -> No undo (I mean shake to undo doesn't count)

kartD··on Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
"But people within the industrial design team including Jonathan Ive, Apple’s chief designer, believed that a fully driverless car would allow the company to reimagine the automobile experience, according to the five people."

Ah Jony Ive, first he ruined iOS 7 and now this constant need to tinker with things that work fine. I love the hardware design but please leave the software and HID bit alone... of course YMMV

P.S. Anyone feel iOS usability has been going down with the move to a flat design?

kartD··on How Startups Should Travel
This is really good, I finally understood why people book first/business with points rather than paying
kartD··on The Misguided Attacks on ACLU
It might be just me, but after a point it looks like most movements become a mirror image of what they oppose, so anything in the middle ground like the ACLU gets flak from both sides...
kartD··on American Conservative: Don't Whitewash the Hiroshima Bombing
Hmm... from a cursory glance American conservative seems like a good website, any readers care to comment on the quality of the site?
kartD··on Ryzen CPU HyperThreads break if 100% busy and interrupted to top of Memory
Even with SMT disabled it causes the faults
kartD··on Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year
During the earnings call, Cook mentioned that Apple pay is coming to Denmark, Finland, Sweden and UAE this year so maybe next year for the Netherlands?
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