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  1. Re:Those aren't "real" giga/tera on Home Improvement Chains Accused of False Advertising Over Lumber Dimensions (consumerist.com) · · Score: 2

    No practicing electrical engineer that I have ever met uses those mebi-/kibi- prefixes. 1 kB is 100 bytes or 1024 bytes depending on context, ot you just explictly write out what base you are using.

  2. "not a single power of 10 around"

    8 megabytes is evenly divisible into 15,625 sectors of 512 bytes each.

    2^3 * 10^6 = 2^3 * (2*5)^6 = 2^3 * 2^6 * 5^6 = 2^(3+6) * 5^6 = 2^9 * 5^6 = 512 * 15625

    The rest follows from there. There is nothing constraining the number of sectors to be any multiple of a power of two. Heck it has been twenty years since the number of sectors per track has been constant across the platter.

    "an unopened SD card"
    Solid-state memory is very much tied to physical array dimensions that are multiples of powers of two... though there may actually be more internal capacity that advertised. They arrays may lend themselves to 9*2^N, with the ninth block kept in reserve for recovery.

    The fact that solid-state drives are dimensioned so differently actually causes a problem for file systems.

  3. Re: Makes more sense there on South Korea Signs On To Build Full-Scale Hyperloop System (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Europe does less rail freight shipping than the US, but it also does less road freight shipping than the US.

  4. Re:"AI-powered" on Google Launches Its AI-Powered Jobs Search Engine (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you ignore the difference, there's no difference!

    Just having a negative filter makes it a million times better than any other job search I've used. (I live in a location where my field is dominated by $PREV_EMPLOYER who is currently riding their no re-hire policy hard, so filtering then out is a big timesaver.)

  5. Re:What technical revolutions started the world wa on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'm pretty sure Poland was not predominantly German."

    Danzig was majority German. Soldau was majority German. Upper Silesia was 40% German, and the plebicite of 1921 was 59.4% in favor of remaining in Germany. Pozna was 38% German until the Greater Poland Uprising*. Pomerelia had a significant German population until the Greater Poland Uprising*, but I can't find specific figures.

    *Of course, the Greater Poland Uprising was a response to the previous partition of Poland and the subsequent Germanization in many areas. History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme.

  6. Re:Manufacturing conclusions to complain about on 'Older Fathers Have Geekier Sons' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    'failure to understand the term "post-hoc"'

    The relevant usage, since it actually has a negative connotation, is "post hoc ergo propter hoc" meaning that which occurs later is assumed to occur as a result of i.e. a causal relationship. Since the article does not claim a causal relationship this use of post hoc is incorrect.

    There is also the usage in "post hoc analysis", where data is collected and then patterns are looked for. Since this is not an inherently negative term yet you supplying nothing to justify it as the negative accusation you are attempting to use it as, this use is also incorrect.

  7. It worked for Greg House. And he was also a tremendous asshole who appeared on television.

  8. Re:Management wasting another good engineer? on Chris Lattner, Poached From Apple To Become Tesla's Top Software Executive, Quits After 6 Months (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you're working on something of sufficient size *you have to be managing other workers*. It's impossible for one person to do that much on their own.

    If you are not managing anyone, that means what you are working on isn't that big.

  9. Why are people acting like Chris Lattner has never managed people before?

  10. Manufacturing conclusions to complain about on 'Older Fathers Have Geekier Sons' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the article does not actually settle on any causal relationship, just proposals, the only source of post-hoc bullshit is you.

  11. Re:Sintering, not 3-d printing on 3D Printed Airliner Parts Face Regulatory Headwinds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you so bent out of shape about which specific methods of additive manufacturing are permitted to be called "3D printing"?

  12. Re:FAA should talk to itself on 3D Printed Airliner Parts Face Regulatory Headwinds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    For rocket use it is currently not an unreasonable to specify inspections after less than a dozen cycles or even every cycle. For aircraft even the most basic inspection is only done every 100 hours.

    There is no reason to believe that "FAA's rocket division would just talk to the aircraft division" is not occurring. There just happens to be a question that had no need to be answered for rockets.

  13. Re:Ball bearing fidgeting peaked in 1954 with Quee on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all ball bearings, nowadays.

  14. "Hell, even just optimize the original Pentium core"

    Quark is in fact a P54C.

  15. If the old thing is x86 and the new thing is x86, the internals won't really matter.

  16. "If someone is happy to do night shift or graveyard shift"

    a) There aren't enough people who prefer a permanent night shift to staff a permanent night shift
    b) People on opposite shifts need to meet on occasion.
    c) People on shift work need to deal with the outside world not on shift work.
    d) Even if the night shift is preferred, there is always the initial change to the night shift when first taking the job.

  17. Synopsys will instantiate the button module twice, so if you press the wrong one the bomb blows up.

  18. Re:Right to bear arms on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The Constitution says NOTHING about restricting the right to murder. Why do you hate our freedoms?

  19. Re:What failure really means... on Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    Engineering is the study of making failure hurt the least. Not only is failure an option, it's the only option.

  20. Re:Of course, the lengthy and expensive cert proce on US Government Task Force Urges Cash Incentives For Ditching Insecure Medical Devices (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    What does the certification process for equipment have to due to size of the IT staff?

  21. Re:It's an accelerator chip on DARPA Funds Development of New Type of Processor (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an ASIC in the sense that a CPU is an ASIC.

  22. 'the Cloud is just "someone elses servers" and you have no idea how they manage them or back them up.'

    The Internet is is just "someone elses networks" and you have no idea how they manage them or back them up.

  23. Re:Important question: on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, Elon will also make tunnels for the ships.

  24. Re:Intel modems suck anyway on Apple's New iPhones May Miss Out On Higher-Speed Data Links (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there any service provider yet that can make use of the features that are only in Qualcomm modems? At the time the complaints about the Intel modems came out there were no such providers and the difference would only be shown in a test lab.

  25. Or the CW. They had a year when they didn't cancel anything.