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New comment by hooli42 in "US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief"

hooli42 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:10:44 +0000

> What will the US do if TSMC does not blink? Not buy TSMC made chips?

Yes.

> Obviously that is impossible

I assume you're willing to short Intel at this point?

New comment by hooli42 in "Cheap solar panels are changing the world"

hooli42 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:00:03 +0000

>I would counter that nuclear does not scale in that it can't get small

Nuclear can't get small because of social and political reasons, not technical or economics reasons.

If you could put a small nuclear reactor in your backyard and it was assured to be safe, would you?

New comment by hooli42 in "Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge"

hooli42 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:26:48 +0000

This is exactly the situation for desktop games right now, something Epic is profiting immensely from. It's an extremely annoying situation for users, having a dozen launcher/store apps around contributing to bloat.

New comment by hooli42 in "A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time"

hooli42 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:43:15 +0000

Sure, in the same way SIMD instructions get a linear speedup in theory.

If you Google the words "CRC32 is slow", you can see hundreds of people complaining about this.

New comment by hooli42 in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

hooli42 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:15:35 +0000

It's legal the same way Airbnb and Uber are legal.

New comment by hooli42 in "Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives"

hooli42 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:09:24 +0000

Sitting - worrisome.

Being used without too much writing -- just fine.

New comment by hooli42 in "Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives"

hooli42 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:07:38 +0000

If it does't have to be offline for long durations, software raid + adding a new drive every once in a while, and discarding failing drives is pretty foolproof.

AFAIK large data centers automate something like this.

New comment by hooli42 in "A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time"

hooli42 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:02:48 +0000

Hah, neat.

The 'weird' instructions can often be 3-4 orders of magnitude slower than arithmetic instructions, though I doubt that matters here.

New comment by hooli42 in "A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time"

hooli42 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:35:26 +0000

Hash functions can be as simple as a single modulo.