ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That's fair, it would seem you stepped into a trap that I myself have stepped into many times which is to be clear in your own mind what you're saying without first considering the context of the reader. As was pointed out elsewhe
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Not really, consider this restatement for example: Houses are built with lumber, Carpenters nail up lumber with hammers, I live in a house with nailed framing. The individual who invented the hammer likely died in his home cave. The thing i
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
True, using "chip on board" (COB) assembly you don't even need a package. Alignment is challenging but certainly doable.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Cleanliness requirement is a function of feature size. For a process that has 5 µm features (that is roughly 250 times larger than current fabs) its pretty manageable. That is further improved if you use the 'cannister' technique
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This, but its really the logic function versus actual device fabrication. I would love to see a home device that would let you build you own transistors and perhaps a very small number of passives. Consider a system that had 6mm diameter &q
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Exactly correct. If you wanted "authentic" warping you could install a unity lens with warping around the edges on the face of the OLED. I built a simple hexagonal phosphor simulator module in HDL that one could use in an FPGA to
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
They did a lot of work to avoid it, there mirror film[1] apparently works well. [1] https://www.extremetech.com/aerospace/spacex-debuts-mirror-f...
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Wow. A lot of questions about AST here, like "Starlink was already catching a lot of bad press for 'night glare' and you guys are launching something that is literally two decimal orders of magnitude worse?" "243 la
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
To be fair, growing stuff in what constitutes "soil" in Las Vegas back yards is kind of hit or miss. As a kid, with my parents help, we eventually managed some decent gardens by building a raised bed and filling that with someth
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is a super fun gizmo, it's discord channel is, uh, not great. One cool thing is that you can talk to it serially. I pretty quickly had it organized with an IoT temperature sensor so that it could send commands to my ceiling fan gi
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Back in the day Las Vegas pool contractors (who installed backyard pools) included a clause that said "If we hit caliche (aka 'desert concrete') the deals off, we'll re-fill the hole and leave." And yet this stuff c
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Don't you want two? :-).
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Interesting variation on the technique. From https://www.fluidreality.com/
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See the seldon_mallow comment with the link to https://www.fluidreality.com/ , they do this with small devices that don't need stored air. The "breakthrough" here feels like the connection between the haptic a
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
And not a single link where to buy them :-). The only non-explosive demolition agent I've used is composed of 'oak seedlings'. Wherein you plant an oak tree and its roots go out and demolish sidewalks, foundations, etc all ar
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Fundamentally the 'three round' model was about the risks, first was execution risk (can the team actually build what they say they can?), the second was market risk (will the market see enough value in the product to pay enough f
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Interesting article, I wondered about this: It fetches function calls from DurableQs, consolidates them into FuncBuffers (ordered by importance, then execution deadline), Since that is a classic source of priority inversions (which is tha
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Good old ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) before DASD (Direct Access Storage Device) took over. (Aren't you glad IBM didn't win the "name the things" contest? :-)) I'm going to guess that by "domain depe
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Caught that did you? :-) The one interesting disruptive thing might be paved roads vs rail infrastructure. It is easier to have a steerable vehicle turn on different paths than doing railroad switches. So the underlying physical plant of bu
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Great post with good details. I wonder whether a "truck only" roadway might be a reasonable simplifier here (yes building a 1000 miles of road for trucks only is billions of $ but there are perhaps segments between say ports and w
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I like this, and kudos for going for assembly language. It is certainly true that reducing dependencies reduces the attack surface for something, that does not, in and of itself, make it "secure". But yes, in a probabilistic sort
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Contextual note on VLC (and Videolan) their stance on software patents is well known[1] and not something people who either want software patents or are attacked by software patents will take on. [1] https://www.videolan.org&#x2F
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Ooh thanks for that! Showing monochrome only. I wonder if three layers of glass would get you color? And fixed focus (not too surprising) but that answers two questions I had initially. As they claim this can also do display (presumably to
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't disagree. One way to know if it can live up to the hype is that it will be the lighthouse feature of the next iPhone which will both not have a notch for the front facing camera, it will do "touch anywhere" touch ID a
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is a fabulous app for just writing (I know really simple but that is good stuff). It makes me really wish there was a portrait keyboard case for the iPad. (nobody does those, not even reMarkable which makes me sad)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
First, holy crap! Second, #3 is always a red flag for me. It is sometimes code for "we can do this in the lab but we have no idea how one would manufacture it." A similar analogy is "we've got this great idea for a progr
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I was reading the paper and thought "Okay, these folks took the LK-99 lesson to heart about being overly enthusiastic in your experimental observations." :-) Given that the LK-99 theoretical underpinnings were pretty solid (if not
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Chip them? I mean it wouldn't be that hard. You could also use genome tracing (registered genome lines with the Fish and Game department) That test would take a bit longer but with spot enforcement you'd probably keep compliance a
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I'm surprised by stories like these that don't allow for the sale/ownership of sustainably farmed fish.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
From a comment I left on Mastodon: He gave a talk at the CHM (He was inducted as a fellow in 2004) I got to talk with him and was really struck by someone who had had such a huge impact was so approachable. When another person in the group

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