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KSS42··on A beginner's guide to split keyboards
I have multiple of the MSFT Sculpt keyboards. It's wireless. Comes with separate wireless number pad. Now produced by Incase. It has Windows key, but it's easy to remap.

Official name now : Incase Designed By Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Wireless TKL Keyboard

https://www.incase.com/products/sculpt-ergonomic-keyboard

(In Canada, only available at Bestbuy)

KSS42··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
The question is where are these chips packaged? Potentially the wafers are shipped to the east for packaging, assembly and test.
KSS42··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
GF is 14/12 nm. Not really cutting edge anymore
KSS42··on Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector
I did find a way to have two gfx chips on a single AGP card without glue logic. See my comment above in this thread.
KSS42··on Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector
Back then, I came up with a way to connect two graphics chips onto a single AGP slot without a bridge chip or glue logic. Since AGP is a superset of PCI, both gfx chips will get recognized and enumerated. Then you just have the driver only ever use AGP bus mastering on one chip and PCI bus mastering on the other chip. It is not symmetric in terms of transfer speeds and a bit janky, but it does work.

Can you guess which product used this implementation?

KSS42··on The worst programmer I know
That impact should show up in the plus/minus score?

https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm

For 2022/23 Green ranks 38. His defensive impact is very high but it is offset by his negative offensive impact.

KSS42··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
See:

Weekly Science news by Sabine Hossenfelder

Today we’ll talk about the new superconductor claim, bad news for new physics, a quantum radar, how to print origami, space-based solar power for a moon station, a dire prediction for the collapse of an ocean circulation, Europe’s first hyperloop test, why NASA shoots lasers at the rain forest, and of course, the telephone will ring.

https://youtu.be/RjzL9cS3VW8

KSS42··on Exway doesn't care about USB-C conformity
Apple helped define it!
KSS42··on AMD's AI chips could match Nvidia's offerings, software firm says
AMD is slowly but surely expanding support for Radeon cards. It's not as extensive as Nvidia, but it is improving. ROCm supports RDNA2 now and RDNA3 support is coming this fall.

https://community.amd.com/t5/rocm/new-rocm-5-6-release-bring...

KSS42··on Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake
The only way to tell is to do a blood test. It took me taking 10k IU a day to get to the mid point recommended range. On the plus side, daily 10K IU is covered by my drug plan. I get my levels tested every 3 months.
KSS42··on Apple’s plunge in PC shipments is steepest among major computer makers
It's a bit odd to me basing a purchasing decision on process nodes. I would consider overall product features rather the foundry or foundry node in of it self.

In fact, I'd rather being inclined towards n-1 node and not take the risk of being first for high volume manufacturing for a new node.

KSS42··on AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Architecture
Partially due to PCIe5 and DDR5.
KSS42··on Ancient DNA traces origin of Black Death
Likely smallpox.
KSS42··on Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication (2021)
AMD announced $8B buy back recently ... <sigh>
KSS42··on Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: An American Heart Association Advisory
Were there any changes to his carb intake? Did he also reduce use of simple carbs and processed foods?
KSS42··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
I heard that a loophole is to install Windows with a MSFT account, create a local account with admin access and then delete the MSFT account
KSS42··on I collect and read old computer manuals
I still have mine. The C64 given away long time ago.
KSS42··on How are Rome's monuments still standing?
Here’s some great videos on this question from YouTuber ToldinStone - Garret Ryan

Author of Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators and War Elephants

Why was Roman concrete forgotten during the Middle Ages?

https://youtu.be/dbvvlFHCNn4

See also his YouTube series: History of Rome in 15 Buildings

The Colosseum: https://youtu.be/m6iHR8zqbiM

KSS42··on Vintage Byte Magazine Library
I just threw out about a dozen BYTE issues from the late 90's that were sitting in a box for the last 2o years.
KSS42··on The price students pay for a prized IIT seat
When was that? 40? 50 yrs ago?

Did you really mean engineer or did you mean entry level technician?

When I graduated high school in the late 80's, you would at least need a community college degree to become even a technician or technologist.

KSS42··on Qurt: The ancient road snack of Central Asian nomads
There is a similar in purpose Punjabi food called pinni made from flour, sugar, ghee and nuts. They also provide a lot of energy and last a long time.

I have thought of those as lembas.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg atta (wheat flour)

• 500 gm chinni (white granulated sugar)

• 500 gm ghee (clarified butter) or olive oil

• 250 gm khoya (congealed sweet cream)

• Mewa (to taste): badam (almonds), piste (pistachios), kishmish (raisins)

http://www.indoamerican-news.com/mamas-punjabi-recipes-atte-...

KSS42··on We created a fake language to root out resume liars
Someone should develop this as a standard. There must some initiative that can be renamed to MOVA.
KSS42··on Reverse-engineering the standard-cell logic inside a vintage IBM chip
Ken, you have done an amazing job with this writeup. Very clear and understandable.

I recommend this article for anyone wants to understand how Integrated Circuits operate and are built.

BTW, I worked as the Cost Engineer for the IBM Token Ring cards and also the RS/6000 Memory upgrade boards as an intern in the early 90's.

KSS42··on NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
On twitter, Taylor Lorenz accused Marc Andreessen of using the "R-slur" in a Clubhouse discussion. In fact, some one else said the word in the context of some /r/wallstreetbets folks calling themselves "retards" in a self deprecating manner.

Taylor Lorenz's issue is that she is blocked by Marc Andreessen and several others on Clubhouse. So she is blocked from entering many key rooms (i.e. the one where Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were on)

KSS42··on Buster Keaton in The Railrodder (1965)
Another Canadian connection.

From the Archives: Buster Keaton’s Toronto connection

(includes Youtube link to his last film: a 30-minute documentary on construction safety)

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/28/from-the-archive...

KSS42··on A constructive look at the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge
Verilog has a conditional operator ?:

condition ? value_if_true : value_if_false

It is used quite extensively in ASIC design.

KSS42··on Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
M1 uses LPDDR4X at 4267MHz. It is not overclocked.
KSS42··on AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
It wasn't really meant for gaming. Just a opportunistic card in between Vega and RDNA.
KSS42··on AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
Do you mean RTL to gates formal verification?
KSS42··on TSMC’s Wafer Prices Revealed: 300mm Wafer at 5nm Is Nearly $17,000
14 metal layers.
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