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hardware2win··on Korea unveils plan to build $472B dollar mega chip cluster
>build 16 new fabs, creating more than 3 million jobs,

3 milion, wow, feels like a lot.

Also, if you had an opportunity to read Chip War, then is feels like a history is repeating itself - again gov-private funds want to meet eachother and disrupt semico industry

hardware2win··on EV drivers discover fundamental flaw in battery tech as -30F temps hit the US
Only 25% reduction?

Ive seen people complain in eastern eu about 50% drop

hardware2win··on X-59 supersonic X-plane gets rolled out by NASA and Lockheed Martin
We cannot pause the world and wait until we fix emissions
hardware2win··on AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
In my world architects design, engineers provide feedback and implement stuff

First time I hear about technicians writing code.

hardware2win··on Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions
Thats what ive been worried about

Im full remote since covid but I think it would be easier to advance when onsite

hardware2win··on The case of the vector with an impossibly large size
Stephen Toub

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-async-await-really...

hardware2win··on Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax
>The white French government is mad that their previous imperial subjects are now really defining what French will be into the future.

whats wrong?

hardware2win··on It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load
I dont think so, at least in C#
hardware2win··on OpenAI Is in Talks to Raise New Funding at Valuation of $100B or More
If this isnt going to end as a biggest investors trap, then ill be shocked
hardware2win··on US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal
>Medical expenses are not like buying a toaster that you can decide to put off or buy whenever you want or never if that’s what you prefer.

Some.

Not all medical cases need instant contact. Proof? Months or years long wait times.

Also for me 99% of the medical expenses are around 10-20% of what I pay every month. Meanwhile those medical expenses arent regular.

>Your “how I want to use it” is completely out of your control and based on when you fall sick, get injured, need advice, etc. Nonenof which are choices you make.

So how people do it with cars?

Cars break often, especially when poorer people must use used cars

They often rely on them to get to work, so they not always can delay fix endlessly

You just have backup of just in case money.

>. However, if you’re dying on the street because you aren’t paying for medical care society will step in. So there’s also a burden you’re imposing on society based on your choices that are not involved in most non medical situations.

Thats the reason.

hardware2win··on US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal
I do live in country with universal healthcare - Poland, and

On one hand when my mom had eye problem that required spending 2 weeks in hospital and surgery, she didnt have to pay for it except for some simple things that were cheap

On the other hand im paying not small amount from my every salary for health care and due to wait time or quality I still often go to private med (except for basic sickness where doc can give me a week or two "sick leave")

Also Ive been pissed off when I had serious surgery (at private med) and my insurance didnt cover it (but ok, thats insurance not univ. health care)

All of that makes me feeling like im paying a lot for mandatory health care and things like insurance

And at the end of the day I must go and pay for private health care. At least my mom didnt have to pay.

I feel like im getting scammed. I'd rather manage my own money and how I want use it

hardware2win··on Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap)
Only 90%?

Take for example elo ranking in video games

Top10% or top5% may sound good

But the gap between top10% and top1% (let alone top 0.1%) is so huge that you could say that those ppl barely understand this game

Same when top 1% is matched against 0.1%

hardware2win··on ASML and Samsung seal deal on 2nm chips
We arent.

There are materials which could make cpus eg 1000x faster, but their life span would be e.g year or two and cost would be 10000x

>Tons of non-moores law ideas are here:

What?

hardware2win··on Making OKRs more playful using hill charts
We take trainings under

Some technical skills increase or personal development objective

And that completion of training or certs is what is measured

hardware2win··on Making OKRs more playful using hill charts
When ive been introduced to okr Ive really liked this concept to the point that i started to use them in my private life

But on the other hand i dont fully like them in my work life

First my job forces OKRs amount and treats them equally

So OKR like completing half day training and sharing the learnings has the same value as multi month engineering effort.

hardware2win··on The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps
I bet many, many false alarms
hardware2win··on The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps
Yea, clearly faang level engineers lack of training.

Edit.

Idk why downvotes

Chrome and Windows code bases had 70% of cves due to mem issues and their engineers arent some unqualified and lacking of training opportunities ppl

hardware2win··on US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting
>and _all_ of them had all time loses over $500 and it had only been legalized a few months prior.

So what, whats wrong with 150usd/month on harmless fun (unlike smoking)?

Whats the diff if you spend it on netflix, video games, etc?

hardware2win··on Goodbye, clean code (2020)
Well, it kinda is? Teaching materials should show how to not refactor too.

Also have u seen refactors in clean code?

Guy refactors thread safe code by introducing static variables which make code not thread safe, but hey! At least it is a little bit shorter!

hardware2win··on Goodbye, clean code (2020)
The thing is, majority of ppl cannot evaluate this too and we end up with code with clean code ^tm traits that sucks
hardware2win··on AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
1mil comp? Haha, what?

Salaries at semico companies are not even close to this

Also why would you even need ppl this good? People who earn 1 mil offer way, way more than just tech skills

hardware2win··on Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?
Usually popularity doesnt increase quality, so promoting them here may be harmful for those small communities
hardware2win··on Rest in Peace, Optane
Hmm, ive seen report by fujitsu that it was fine if used with dram

>Intel Optane persistent memory is blurring the line between DRAM and persistent storage for in-memory computing. Unlike DRAM, Intel Optane persistent memory retains its data if power to the server is lost or the server reboots, but it still provides *near-DRAM performance*. In SAP HANA operation this results in tangible benefits

>Speeds up shutdowns, starts and restarts many times over – significantly reduce system downtime and lower operational costs

 Process more data in real-time with increased memory capacity

 Lower total cost of ownership by transforming the data storage hierarchy

 Improve business continuity with persistent memory and fast data loads at startup

https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/wp-perfor...

hardware2win··on Rest in Peace, Optane
What was interesting about Optane was that it was kinda an attempt to get rid of disk and ram distinction.

You had single device (optane stick) which served as both - ram and disk.

After decades of current approach we finally could physically get rid of disks - hdds, ssds or even nvme sticks.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/optane_intel_cancella...

>Optane presented a radical, transformative technology but because of this legacy view, this technical debt, few in the industry realized just how radical Optane was. And so it bombed.

hardware2win··on Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
Nowadays languages are huge enough to cover various paradigms and countless concepts

That should enough, right?

hardware2win··on Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
I didnt say that C# is perfect

But it feels like there is at least order or two of magnitude of difference. Especially if you start comparing std libs.

hardware2win··on Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
If lang design is so insanely hard, then how C# designers get so many things right?
hardware2win··on Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
Thats very bad take.

Concepts are above languages.

hardware2win··on Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
Ecosystem effect.
hardware2win··on 75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time They Reported Wrongdoing
>I would love to see a survey with one question asked at all tech companies with more then 100 employees. "Promotions are based on merit, answer from 0 to 10."

I work in company which had huge freezings and promotions almost fully paused during last 1.5 year. The only promoted ppl that I worked close enough to evaluate them were really, really good.

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