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spisHjerner t1_jegiivt wrote

Reply to Google announces a series of cost-cutting measures across the company as it slashes staff perks by McFatty7

Reminds me of the Mac Miller song "So It Goes" -

"You could have the world in the palm of your hands You still might drop it."

Google had every opportunity, some of the smartest people in the world, developing cutting-edge models, for at least 6 years. What really happened? Dude fumbled so hard. It's still shocking for me to see.

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andylikescandy t1_jeggkvx wrote

Reply to China’s chip industry will be ‘reborn’ under U.S. sanctions, Huawei says, confirming breakthrough by maki23

14nm is about 10 years behind current gen.

When the Soviet Union started producing their own silicon they were about 10 years behind as well, starting with technology acquired from the West , but that distance grew as western companies outpaced the Soviet ability to copy what the west had already done and acquire new technology in efforts to catch up.

Question is whether the Chinese can invent their own smaller nodes entirely domestically. Only then is there any hope at all that they'll ever be competitive.

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ValuableYesterday466 t1_jegfwit wrote

Reply to comment by Nanakatl in Hyundai, Kia Say They’ll Fix Millions of Easily Stolen Cars - Frustrated law enforcement and states attorneys general have asked the automakers to fix the cars that can be stolen with little more than a USB charger. by speckz

For models that have an engine immobilizer on higher trims and use that same engine on lower trims the immobilizer is likely included in every engine built but just not activated on the lower trims. A software update can activate it.

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Obsidiath t1_jegfvpc wrote

Reply to comment by crusoe in Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users by OutlandishnessOk2452

People tend to vastly overestimate the file size of simple text-based files. Sure, 5 million files take up a LOT of space if it's all uncompressed photo or video files.

Assuming uncompressed text, using (mostly) exclusively Latin characters, 500k is already ~ 100.000 words.

The Hobbit is less than 100.000 words. The complete Lord of the Rings series, The Hobbit Included, is around 560.000 words.

5 million files is nothing when you're storing plain old text files. Won't even be remotely close to 2TB, which is 2 million Megabytes, or between 3 to 4 million times the total word count of Lord of the Rings.

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oasis9dev t1_jegfrax wrote

Reply to comment by BandsOfCyttorak in NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws by homothebrave

you do realise it's not incorrect to use "a historian" if you pronounce the h, like pretty much everyone in my country does? it sounds weird if you force an on a consonant and also if you force a on a vowel. it depends how you pronounce the word.

see also: sauce. turns out americans tend not to understand where "give me the sauce" comes from. it comes from the fact that many people pronounce "sauce" as "source". there's no difference between the two. seeing memes about how sauce and horse can't rhyme makes no sense to me or anyone around me. nobody here says "soss", bc then you can't say "what's the sauce?"

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