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New comment by frankchn in "Oil is near a price that hurts the economy"

frankchn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:04:31 +0000

The direct consumption of oil and petroleum products from the conflict is trivial compared to marine traffic being restricted from passage through the Straits of Hormuz. ~20% of global crude production pass through the Straits.

New comment by frankchn in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

frankchn — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:17:31 +0000

There is an upper limit on CPF contributions as well, currently set at S$8,000/month for ordinary wages and S$102,000/year total (ordinary wages + sales/performance bonuses, etc...).

In comparison, the US social security income limits this year is US$184,500/year.

New comment by frankchn in "Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s"

frankchn — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:34:51 +0000

If Intel's original 10nm process and Cannon Lake had launched within Intel's original timeframe of 2016/17, it would have been class leading.

Instead, they couldn't get 10nm to work and launched one low-power SKU in 2018 that had almost half the die disabled, and stuck to 14nm from 2014-2021.

New comment by frankchn in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

frankchn — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:05:02 +0000

It can be an easy charge of “lying to the government on an official form” when they discover you have a user account somewhere that you didn’t disclose, even if they can’t get anything else to stick.

New comment by frankchn in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

frankchn — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:54:24 +0000

> A lot of cars have that. My (gulp) BMW EV for instance. Newer BMW ICE cars too.

Yeah, the recent BMWs (both EV and ICEVs) have Apple/Android CarKey UWB support, which is much more reliable and precise than Bluetooth.

New comment by frankchn in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

frankchn — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:53:05 +0000

> However that type of test is generally bad because it more measures speed then skill.

Isn't speed and fluency part of skill and mastery of the material?

> Just think about it - when was the last time you had a final exam where literally every person handed in the exam at the last moment. When i was in school, the vast majority of people handed in their exam before the time limit.

I think almost all of my high school exams and at least half of my college finals had >90% of students remaining in the exam hall when the proctor called time.

New comment by frankchn in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

frankchn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:52:14 +0000

TPUs use HBM, which are impacted.

New comment by frankchn in "Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on"

frankchn — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:04:59 +0000

I do chores regularly, and I apply security patches regularly.

Major operating system version upgrades can be more akin to upgrading all the furniture and electronics in my house at the same time.

New comment by frankchn in "J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange"

frankchn — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:12:14 +0000

Amazon issued $1.25 billion in convertible debt in 1999: https://www.wired.com/1999/01/an-amazonian-debt/

New comment by frankchn in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

frankchn — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:55:09 +0000

Customers are generally a lot more understanding if half the internet goes down at the same time as you.

New comment by frankchn in "FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics"

frankchn — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:12:26 +0000

They are doing some wild stuff in Asia like adding physical SIM card slots to eSIM only iPhones (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ja_x7JI0w). I imagine having schematics like this would be at least marginally helpful in developing those techniques.

New comment by frankchn in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

frankchn — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:28:42 +0000

YouTube seems to be pretty explicit that it is paying 55% of revenue from watching videos to creators:

> If a partner turns on Watch Page Ads by reviewing and accepting the Watch Page Monetization Module, YouTube will pay them 55% of net revenues from ads displayed or streamed on their public videos on their content Watch Page. This revenue share rate also applies when their public videos are streamed within the YouTube Video Player on other websites or applications.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902?hl=en#zippy=...

New comment by frankchn in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

frankchn — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:29:25 +0000

Why would it be bad for Apple? They get to keep the billions/year flowing in exchange for Google Search being the default on iOS devices. Google just can't pay to be the only search engine on iOS (but they have never done that afaik).

AAPL up 3%+ after hours.

New comment by frankchn in "Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU'"

frankchn — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:39:50 +0000

These configuration files exist (https://llvm.org/docs/TableGen/, https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Targ...) but it is very complicated because the processors themselves are very complicated.

New comment by frankchn in "Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas"

frankchn — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:29:32 +0000

It is symmetrical.

New comment by frankchn in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"

frankchn — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:48:59 +0000

Recent Canons support UVC as well (specifically the R1, R5 Mark II, R6 Mark II, R8, and R50).

New comment by frankchn in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"

frankchn — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:45:42 +0000

It doesn't apply to Canon's recent cameras either. The R1, R5 Mark II, R6 Mark II, R8, and R50 have built-in UVC support now.

New comment by frankchn in "Railroad Tycoon II"

frankchn — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:59:20 +0000

Right now, they are not even making their own games exclusive to Windows Store or the XBox App (see MSFS 2024, Age of Empires series, Forza, etc...).

New comment by frankchn in "Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025"

frankchn — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:51:23 +0000

I don't think these are 8K monitors. They support 8K input via 4x 12G SDI, but they contain 4K panels at 3840 x 2160.

New comment by frankchn in "6th-generation Waymo Driver"

frankchn — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 06:09:35 +0000

If this is the model (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45711737/zeekr-cm1e-waymo...) then 5 passenger seats, no steering wheel (in the photos at least).