Posts by andy the pessimist 79 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2021
Commercial grade devices should operate between 0 and 70 for a long time. Multiple years.
When the junction temperature goes above 100 c the device moves through the lifetime bathtub. Performance to spec will be poor (fails). High temperature canork for a thousand hours (HTOL) the arrhenius equation will give an estimate of the lifetime.
Device functionality is not guaranteed above 70.
I just test the devices not qualify them.
I never worked with the PDP 11s, after a year working in Fab 2 where they made the 4116s as an engineering technician I moved on to maintaining the four Fairchild Sentry testers they used to test microprocessors and microprocessor peripheral chips.
The second digital tester I programmed was a fair child sentry 7. It was a simpler time. I moved on to mixed-signal/RF.
If the government has a department liaising between the councils erp department and knows sap,oracle etc.
That would prevent overly ambitious (ok crazy) plans. Keep oracle/sap salespeople honest.
They don't have to do the detail work but offer advice.
At one semiconductor company I worked for... a layout engineer got paid more than the ceo.
So no chips money for semiconductor fab plants in the usa. Nobody will build a new fab in the usa. [Will tsmc complete the new usa plants?]
Taiwan will have no usa fab competitors. They are putting prices up. Take the money.
They may not need to destroy the euv machines. Pump dopant through the di pipes. Replacing the pipes will be a nasty job.
Is there lsd in the washington water supply?
Thank you for a decent explanation of the deepseek improvements.
Using clever processor partitioning to improve performance by a ratio of 3-4 is good.
Can the rest of the improvements be replicated?
It keeps openai on their toes and prevent a monolithic ai process.
The conversational explanation makes it better.
The parent gives a child a mobile phone and does not check the child is ok,using it safely. Should they install mdm.
The government puts the responsibility to tiktok,meta etc.
Will nobody take responsibility/action.
Ooh I don't want to say no to my child it's the government's problem.
I told a customer I could read vcd/evidence files. The customer sends me a 750Mb vcd file
It killed the office email system. The office manager got the email queue deleted. I only had the email addresses in the queue.
I had to email each customer on the email list apologise and ask them to resend the email.
Most embarrassing.
Is this whole company to company slagging match as simple as. Wp are losing money (for that market). Let's get some money from wp engine. We can then blame wp engine for the job losses.
The 30k to leave seems very generous for the usa.
Couldn't they see what wp engine are doing better and mimic that.
What am I missing?
Generally you have a ROM, otp and patch points. Some problems can be fixed between rom and otp.
If there are issues your customer can fail all the devices and return them to you. That's what GPT used to do.
You could get sued or a full customer return.
Whoever is buying devices can make your life very difficult.
With software what is your alternative? How much will it cost? How long to get it and change stuff.
My GP sent to ely for a scan. I asked the provider to email the results to the gp and hospital. Oh no we can only send to gp. I ring the gp ,asking them to email to hospital, they don't know the hospital departments email address. They did manage to email it to me.
I ended printing it out and taking it to the appointment.
Nhs share email addresses between gps and hospitals and providers. It doesn't cost anything. Use bcc if necessary. If in doubt phone them.
One day I saw a tester do a bsod. Not good. Mentioned to it and asked for a USB disk.
I booted to Linux and backed up the whole disk.
The following day a dead hard disk.
Ate company replace the disk.
I mentioned I had a backup.
The operations test manager was very happy
To re-calibrate an ate takes 24 hours.
If a company does not represent intrusion incidents,signature,fixes. Fine them loads.
A forum of willing companies share (real time) we got this intrusion, defended by this. Used this to alleviate issues. Mutual support and defence.
Potentially a group request to supplier for p1 support.
I don't know if this could be made into a law.
Metal defense by companies ought to be better.
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