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StringyBob
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Vital bit of background context from the article:

> Now in his 50s, Erp was 19 and still living in his hometown of Harare, Zimbabwe, when he got the call from a local shopkeeper telling him that a drunk driver had collided with his father, who was riding a motorbike. By the time he arrived on the scene, it was too late. He found his father’s body under a blanket. “I’m long past that”, he says in his thick Zimbabwean accent, swilling his tea. “But my feeling is that if I can save someone else that experience, then that’d be quite a good thing.”
StringyBob
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
See also virtual 6502 and ARM1 e.g. http://www.visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html
StringyBob
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This spaghetti also reminding me of a scene from the three body problem (trying to avoid spoilers)
StringyBob
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Amazing, I had no idea how far things had diverged between logic and flash since the move to 3D.

https://borecraft.com/files/Comparison_Current_NAND.pdf (from 2019) has some of the cross-sections I was looking for - and that only goes up to 96 layers!
StringyBob
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
What does 'layer' mean in this context? I'm only familiar with planar style logic process nodes which have maybe up to 20 layers (and way more lithography steps to manufacture those layers), but I am completely ignorant of how the term is used for a flash process node.

How many layers are needed for each physical cell? Is it 1,2, or a lot more? Is this effectively 321 physical TLC cells stacked vertically and some planar style logic at the bottom of the stack.

Also, where do multiple pieces of silicon factor into this - I assume we might be up to 16 silicon dies deep with through-silicon-vias, which would mean a cross section of a package could actually have 5000 layers - that sounds crazy!
StringyBob
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Intel had over 130,000 employees as of a couple of months ago.

15% layoffs is nearly 20,000 people.
StringyBob
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Intel had over 130,000 employees as of a couple of months ago.

15% layoffs is nearly 20,000 people.
StringyBob
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I don’t use GitHub in my day to day work, but since I don’t see any other answers: for me the main reason it to prove the tag hasn’t been changed under me feet. It’s too easy for a lightweight tag to be changed without you knowing, whereas an annotated tag has some permanence of a date, comment, sha, author etc.
StringyBob
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yes - extremely poorly thought out from Apple.

Has caught out multiple people at my workplace. Feature is buried in the camera pipeline of MacOS, had assumed it was a bug in zoom that it could not be properly disabled - until same thing happened in a msteams call too, so realized it wasn't the zoom feature recognition triggering!