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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • In the realm of advanced chip design, you need deterministic algorithms to validate chip design. Literally any amount of hallucination in that process is going to result in an unbelievable amount of wasted resources, because setting up a chip fab for a particular design is mind-rendingly complex. You have to worry about things like how to etch features in silicon that are smaller by an order of magnitude than the wavelength of the light that you’re using to etch the features. And that’s just one of the insanely difficult problems that make the process so difficult to make reliable. You know those stats you see about poor chip yields? That and problems like it are the source - and that’s without accounting for design errors, which, while generally far less common, are far from unheard of (coughINTELcough).








  • Can confirm. Decided to pop for a base MBA, but with 32g ram, about a year ago, and it’s fantastic. Unbelievable battery efficiency, completely silent (passively cooled), and still decently performant for when I want to compile something/do a cpu intensive thing. I’ve used MBPs as corp-issue dev machines for nearly a decade and a half now, so I’m quite comfortable in the ecosystem.

    I still have my old T14g2 running fedora, though (in addition to a plethora of non-mobile systems). Also snagged one of those silly-cheap Acer laptops with a fairly late model i3 in it, because it was $200 and had a SODIMM and m.2 slot, just as a spare/extra (it’s running kinoite)