StringyBob

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.”

This spaghetti also reminding me of a scene from the three body problem (trying to avoid spoilers)

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!

Intel had over 130,000 employees as of a couple of months ago.

15% layoffs is nearly 20,000 people.

Intel had over 130,000 employees as of a couple of months ago.

15% layoffs is nearly 20,000 people.

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.

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!

> For a highly developed English-speaking country it is very underrepresented in software tech.

We’re here quietly - all working for American / multi-national companies. Just little of the Silicon Valley startup culture here in the UK.

24 in one month for July 2009!

As he states near end of video, nothing else right now beats streaming for convenience. I’d prefer a system where my monthly subscription gets divided up only between artists I listen to, but it seems in reality that hasn’t happened as a lot of the revenu goes to big record labels to persuade them to keep the big artists on spotify (and not even necessarily to those big artists!)