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by adrian_b 4mo ago
10 Gb/s Ethernet interfaces do not require 20 Gb/s USB ports for reaching maximum performance, they already reach that on 10 Gb/s USB ports, despite of what the writer of TFA believes. The main application of 20 Gb/s USB
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Unlike "5 Gb/s" USB, which in reality is 4 Gb/s USB, so a 5 Gb/s Ethernet interface cannot reach its maximum speed on a 5 Gb/s USB, the "10 Gb/s" USB is really 10 Gb/s, i.e. the difference b
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
You mean "interleave deallocation and business logic everywhere". For allocation there is no difference between automatic memory management with garbage collectors or reference counts and manual memory management, where the pr
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
In my opinion, the "manual" memory management, introduced by the IBM PL/I programming language by the end of 1964, and inherited by C and other languages, i.e. where the programmer is responsible for invoking "free"
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Indeed, the 3 beliefs attributed to Epicureans there, i.e.: a) one who denies the existence of prophecy and maintains that there is no knowledge communicated from God to the hearts of men; b) one who disputes the prophecy of Moses, our teac
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
The perspective changes a lot when comparing with the prices of one year ago, or even with the prices of 10 years ago. During the last 10 years the prices of computing equipment have been increasing slowly until this last year, when they ha
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
One can make separate detectors for electronic, muonic and tauonic neutrinos, because they take part in different reactions. Given a flux of neutrinos, e.g. coming from the Sun or from a nuclear reactor, one can use the different kinds of n
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
This is an interesting question, but it would be very difficult to verify. Only neutrinos with an extremely low kinetic energy would have velocities much lower than that of light, and the fraction of such neutrinos from the total flux of ne
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
An "open weights" model is one where you can download all the data and the code that you need to run inference with that model on your own hardware (typically from Huggingface.co). That data includes not only the "weights&quo
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
It's more like the Christians and the Jews were particularly hostile to Epicureans and Stoics, because those mocked the claims about the existence of an all-powerful God that requires prayers. The Epicureans and Stoics did not care muc
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
A 0.7 nm planar transistor made of silicon has no performance, because a device so small cannot function as a transistor. The intended meaning of "0.7 nm" is that if you compare the transistor density per area of a "0.7 nm&qu
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
As it can be seen from the photos, horizontally the features are much bigger than 5 nm. For silicon, the gate length of a FET has a lower limit somewhere between 10 nm and 15 nm. The current CMOS manufacturing processes have not reached the
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Any useful translation of an ancient text is accompanied by the text in the original language, so that the reader may assess how faithful is the translation. For anyone who wants to read ancient texts, there are bilingual editions, for exam
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
That is one of his least important contributions, though it was important, because at the time when it was written, even if better programming languages existed, most of the programs were written either in COBOL or in FORTRAN and using ad h
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Obviously that was an incorrect phrasing. The concentration of calcium ions in the extracellular water and in blood is always kept approximately constant. The bones are a reservoir of calcium in solid form, so whenever the concentration of
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
No, it was too much protein, not too little fat, because they had to eat a lot of meat from hunting to provide enough calories, as they did not carry with them enough food containing starch and/or fat that could provide calories from o
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
I did not take this in consideration, because for such code, with brackets and separators, I prefer to align the separators with the opening and closing brackets, like this: ( ... | ... | ... | ... ) or { ... ; ... ;
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Already in 1963, the language CPL introduced "unless ... do ...", besides the "if ... do ..." inherited from ALGOL 60. Perl has just followed the example of CPL and BCPL, decades later. Using "if" or "unle
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
For me, the alternative solution makes much more sense for a language with significant indentation, i.e. to use only tabs for indentation and to completely prohibit spaces before the first printable character of a line. I do not know why I
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
At least here they provide an alternative syntax that does not need significant indentation, so a program structure may be written on a single line.
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
That blood level matches what the parent article cites as typical for Africans who were still eating their traditional food, and which is higher than typical for the industrialized countries.
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Too much protein can definitely kill you, or at least make you ill, as discovered by the Europeans who explored the northern parts of America and who had initially tried to live from the meat of hunted animals, until they learned from the n
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
While there is no doubt that excess vitamin intakes are useless or even harmful, the problem is that for most vitamins there is a great uncertainty about which are the optimum daily doses, because the controlled experiments that would be ne
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
It is easy to melt the semiconductor in a semiconductor device long before the solder or package materials are melted. Above a certain temperature threshold, the electrical resistance of semiconductors drops exponentially with temperature,
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Like I have already said in another comment, semiconductors and metals behave differently when temperature increases. For metals the electrical resistance increases with temperature, causing a negative feedback that limits the increase of t
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
The melting of silicon was a common phenomenon already during the second breakdown of power transistors, e.g. in audio amplifiers or in TV sets, more than a half of century ago. In semiconductors there is a positive feedback between tempera
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
The smaller of the two models is open weights and available on Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
It is very likely that most billionaires are very bad. That does not mean that there are no good billionaires. There are even billionaires who have become billionaires by being bad, but who nonetheless have attempted after that to do only g
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
You use the word "logarithm" with the meaning "logarithmic function", i.e. a function whose argument is a ratio and whose result is a numeric value that gives the corresponding logarithm in a certain base. I use the word
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Because of this incomplete bijectivity, some applications, e.g. dictionaries, use a modified Hepburn system, which is bijective, e.g. by using "dzu" and "zu", instead of Hepburn "zu" (and "dji" and &q

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