RISC hasn't been new for decades.
RISC V isn't new either. There are many players already.
Neither can be the foundation for a major new player unless the founders are idiots and I doubt they are.
So, whatever wrinkle will set them apart is something not disclosed in TFA or any other source I have found.
RISC killed it when a small team could crank out a more than competitive RISC processor on a gate array.
By the late 90's cpu chips had become much much larger in terms of gate count. This created enormous opportunities for microarchitecture optimisations but exploiting this opportunities required huge expensive teams and enough demand for the finished product to pay for it all. Only the PC market was big enough and that was owned by x86. Other architectures, RISC and CISC alike, starved. ARM survived by serving a market where big, power hungry, uncustomizable processors were not suitable.
It actually seems quite big for what we can put on a microchip these days. We can probably make one that needs to be measured in picometers, if not smaller.
Sure, but making a custom ASIC is seriously expensive. No one is going to do it unless there is a market for a ton of them, which there isn't. What this guy did was actually make one. Working hardware beats hardware that you can "probably" make but haven't and probably never will.
Can you cancel and get a refund on one, if you book like a month in advance?
Refund? Refundable tickets cost about double.
Cancel the second ticket within 24 hours of booking and even the most restrictive ticket is fully refundable.
The counter is for the airlines to only allow all tickets to cancelled or to reprice the remaining ticket when the companion is cancelled. I have no idea if any airlines do this or if they can. The free 24 hour cancel is US law.
I always disable swap, unless I am on some pathetically limited hardware. I have 64GB RAM in my desktop and 8GB in my laptop, and no need for any swap on either. Swap just means the system thrashes more before the OOM killer kicks in, plus I don't need a bunch of extra writes on my SSDs.
My desktop also has 64GB of RAM but it does swap occasionally.
My take-home pay was getting me to the top of the dreaded 'highest paid' spreadsheet
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Word to the wise: never be at the top of that spreadsheet. 8th or 9th is about where you want to max out.
How do you know this? Do you work in HR? Most of us don't have access to this information is spreadsheet or any other form. Most companies discourage employees from disclosing their wages to co-workers (a whole other discussion) so even informal sources are scant.
For most people, innovation means being first to capture the market. And that typically means adding more layers on top of existing layers of bloat.
I think you mean _from the consumer perspective_, rather that "most people". Most (really hardly any) developers, would not define innovation that. Consumers, however, don't see what goes into creating innovative products. What they do see is who delivers and when. Companies that deliver new capabilities sooner are seen as more innovative than those delay introduction to get clean up the cruft underneath.
Intel acquired Movidius, Mobileye, and a few other big budget acquisitions in the years since they acquired Altera.
I'm wondering if this is just a one-off, or if we'll see similar deals in the weeks to come.
Maybe. Maybe not. Altera is a particularly good example of an acquisition that many believe should not have have happened. Little synergy with other Intel efforts and being owned by a potential competitor to your customers is not good for business. For a while good access to Intel's fab was helpful but that's not a great thing any more. I don't know if other firms Borged by Intel are as obliviously better off alone. I wonder if AMD will follow suit and spin out Xilinx.
we're genetically closer to bananas than these things are to true dire wolves
"genetically closer to bananas" is a phrase from discussions about hypothetical life evolved on other planets. The idea is that humans are more closely related to all life on Earth, even bananas, then to any sentient or non-sentient life evolved on another world. It makes no sense to use this phrase about recently extinct Earth species like the Dire Wolf. Colossal Biosciences' creation may not be dire wolves but both real and phony wolves are canids. They are much more closely related to each other and even to us (all animals and mammals) they any are to bananas.
It's actually easier for rentals than for home-owners; California can simply require new rental licenses require access to an EV charger. Right now you can find tons of rentals in California that come with an EV (https://www.apartments.com/bay-area-ca/ev-charging/), requiring access would make it easier for those renting to own an EV.
Requiring new construction have EV charging does little since the bulk of the stock was constructed decades ago. When I was shopping for an apartment in Mountain View, CA (about as progressive as it gets), I only encountered one choice that had EV charging. Even then, it wasn't a charge point for each unit. It was a handful of charging locations shared among of all the units. There are a few new places that might have better access but they didn't make the cut due to noise, cost, or both.
Common Sense suggests that disciplined EV owners could find sufficient access to charge an EV in any home that has the capability of powering a clothes dryer.
Ok. My second floor apartment actually does have a dryer inside the unit, unlike the other poster who uses a laundry room. How do you propose I charge a car in a ground level spot that is not adjacent to the building I live in?
err... wtf is this metric?
It is a clue that you are not getting 128gb/s but something less because some of those transfers are protocol overhead rather than user data. How much less? That is not a fixed value or they would do the translation for you and advertise Gb/s.
Aren't "Yes" and "Sometimes" the same? And "No" and "Never" the same? What's the difference between "No, I don't use cash" and "I never use cash"? There are still a handful of places near me that use cash only or prefer cash. So I guess I'm in the "yes/sometimes" camp.
I interpret "sometimes" as "rarely". If you use cash routinely even for a minority of in person transactions then I think that qualifies as a "yes" rather than a "sometimes"
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.
