btbuilder's comments

On: We're excited about our new roundabout

[btbuilder]

There’s a link in the article but here it is with a time code for the start of the simulation.

https://youtu.be/07_m7HHiZRw?t=39

On: Apple mobile processors are now made in America by...

[btbuilder]

Do the chips get shipped to China for assembly?

[wmf → btbuilder]

There's a lot of chip packaging in Taiwan, Malaysia, and maybe Singapore so these A16s are probably racking up frequent flier miles. Probably not China though.

In the future they will probably be packaged in the US: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/apple-announces-expan...

[joshstrange → wmf]

Most likely frequent boating miles given their push to use water transport over air when possible for the environmental benefits.

[ClassyJacket → wmf]

I think they meant for assembly of the iPhones.

[cududa → btbuilder]

No. That was some misinformation. The chips are being fully packaged in the U.S.

[fngjdflmdflg → cududa]

I think "for assembly" here means iPhone assembly, ie. the final SoC will be sent to China to assemble the iPhone. I don't think GP is referring to packaging.

[VWWHFSfQ → btbuilder]

How would a microchip get shipped to China "for assembly"? Do you think this is a refrigerator? An air conditioner unit?

[dang → VWWHFSfQ]

Please follow the site guidelines when commenting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We've had to ask you this before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35998957), so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

[chipdude1973 → VWWHFSfQ]

Two points to counter the snark:

1. The output of a "chip manufacturing" process is a wafer. There is absolutely further assembly (bonding, packaging) done on this output.

2. The chips themselves are not for the end user's consumption. They are assembled into a product, a "consumer electronic".

[btbuilder → VWWHFSfQ]

Assembly of the phone or device using the processor.

[branko_d → btbuilder]

The dies themselves are "assembled" - cut from the wafer, bonded to the wires (or solder bumps) that carry signals to the rest of the system, and packaged for physical protection and thermal management.

In recent times, multi-chiplet architecture has added its own layer of complexity to that process.

See also: OSAT.

[VWWHFSfQ → btbuilder]

we're talking about the chip itself. Not the phone

On: Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

[btbuilder]

  input_string = "VMS"
  output_string = ''.join([chr(ord(char) + 1) for char in input_string])
  print(output_string)

On: EV Motors Without Rare Earth Permanent Magnets

[btbuilder]

Pump filling times should be compared with DC-fast charging times as L2 is normally what you do at home when you don’t care too much about how long it takes. F150 will DC fast charge 15% -> 80% in “around 32 minutes”. Level 2 takes 10 hours as you point out.

On: Java string interpolation feature has been cancell...

[btbuilder]

While it’s more how they are used, imo optional is abused to the point it adds complexity. You don’t avoid handling null, but now you have to deal with present or not. Therefore you’ve gone from 2 states to 3. Use of value or null is simpler to me and use of optional can be via Optional.of() rather than parameters and properties for the vast majority of cases.

On: GDPR: Is It Worth It?

[btbuilder]

I always choose the “essential cookies only” option. This is normally harder than accepting all cookies, but it is getting easier over time. I rarely see a site that has essential-only.

[rrr_oh_man → btbuilder]

> I rarely see a site that has essential-only.

You'd need no cookie banner, then. :-)

On: Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use cont...

[btbuilder]

When looking for a reverse proxy that is performant on Windows and Linux around 5 or 6 years ago the options were very limited. Traefik is what we ended up using.

I haven’t checked recently but at the time nginx on Windows used select() and envoy was either beta or needed a recent version of the Windows kernel that not all customers were running.

We still use it today.

On: Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is,...

[btbuilder]

Press F12 and dust off your Dabs Press BASIC WIMP programming for the Acorn…

A machine that you could code up a full GUI application with the BASIC interpreter in ROM, enabling children everywhere to which a C compiler was Unobtainium.

On: Why George Washington's Statue in London Doesn't T...

[btbuilder]

Six Frigates is an excellent book about the origins of the U.S. Navy. It also gives a little insight into how quickly Britain and the U.S. aligned themselves, helped in part by the French Revolution.

[FirmwareBurner → btbuilder]

Why did the French revolution unite the US and UK? I thought the US was really into revolutions and against monarchies like the UK.

[Ancapistani → FirmwareBurner]

The way I understand it, it's not quite so simple.

The US is really into individual liberty and self-governance. There was a sizable monarchist contingent here after the Revolutionary War, and they were involved in creating the structure and adoption of the US Constitution (and before that, the Articles of Confederation).

It wasn't at all a foregone conclusion that the US would end up as a republic.

On: He spent his life building a $1M stereo

[btbuilder]

Meridian Audio have been making active digital speakers for over 25 years.

SPDIF input to every speaker with custom DSP to do digital crossover tuned to the cabinet and particular cones.