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by adrian_b 6mo ago
While "orange" did not exist as a single word in most languages, already in Old English or even in Latin or Ancient Greek one could find mentions about things that were "red-yellow". Moreover, in ancient languages there
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
USA has banned the export of some EDA software from Cadence/Synopsys to China. Therefore the export-control laws of USA obviously make illegal the export of "thoughts". An even more clear example if that any US citizen who kn
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
When such users are expected, there exists only one solution. Do not mask the invalid operation exception, which was actually the original recommendation of the IEEE standard, which was that the default behavior should be to mask all except
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I also find this super-annoying. While recently there were many fake reviews, those were easy to skip and among the genuine reviews many were interesting, by clarifying whether a movie is worth viewing, depending on your interests, or somet
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Yet other money stolen from people around the world by US-based agents, after those due to the price increases in DRAM, SSDs, HDDs, fuel etc. For any of the products where Americans have caused artificial shortages by removing a part of the
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
You certainly do not need an advanced gel, but sugar solution is not the only alternative. You can make easily and cheaply at home a gel by boiling in water a mixture of corn starch with fructose. The best way is to do this for a few minute
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Eating the same amount of table sugar or of a commercial gel should have pretty much the same effect on performance. However, for many people eating so much of a very sweet food becomes very unpleasant. It is very easy and cheap to make at
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Unfortunately, there is no need to advertise separately in CPUID that a CPU is backdoor-capable, because other features implicitly specify whether the processor supports backdoors. Since Intel has added the System Management Mode in 80386SL
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
A full-featured USB-C connector has 24 pins, as shown in a diagram in the parent article. The "12-wire" count of the parent article refers only to the main wires, i.e. the 4 USB 2.0 wires + 4 differential pairs for USB 3 or 4. Sim
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Besides storage devices, i.e. external SSDs, which are very frequently used and they need a USB port as fast as possible, the other frequent application that needs the fastest USB ports is the use of USB Ethernet interfaces.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Any external NVMe SSD from the last 7-8 years easily saturates a 20 Gbps connection, because already from that time the NVMe SSDs were able to saturate a 32 Gb/s PCIe 3.0 4-lane connection. For at least 7-8 years I have been using USB
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Yes, many Americans and other Westerners believe that the so-called "socialist" economies, like those of the Soviet Union and of Eastern Europe were non-capitalist. This is only an illusion created by the fact that the communists
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Indeed, even if were possible for someone to create any program most of the time just by directing a team of AI agents, when something does not work one needs the ability to zoom in through the abstraction levels and understand exactly the
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
While USB Type C can be broken much more easily by brute force and it is more prone to accidental disconnects than Type A, the Type C connectors are guaranteed to survive much more cycles of plugging/unplugging than Type A connectors.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
When I was young, I never got gassy, regardless of what I was eating and how much I was eating. But at one time I was forced to take antibiotics orally for a rather long time. After that, eating anything like beans resulted in copious amoun
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
In Europe, during the Middle Ages, a couple of millets were still widespread as minor crops, but even then they were considered as food either for the poor who could not afford other more valuable grains or for poultry.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Such lying statistics are not at all unexpected, but it is very good to have actual evidence about this practice.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
That is technically correct, but "b" has never been an accepted abbreviation for baud (which was Bd) and the naming of the first versions of the PCIe, USB 3 and SATA speeds, which were done by Intel, were obviously in contradictio
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Older Thunderbolt devices were not compatible with USB, so plugging them into an USB Type C port would not work. Newer Thunderbolt/USB 4 devices do not have any technical reason for preventing them to work as USB 3.2 2x2, i.e. to work
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
There is no doubt that for many tasks the SotA models of OpenAI and Anthropic are better than the available open weights models. Nevertheless, I do not believe that either OpenAI or Anthropic or Google know any secret sauce for better train
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
A few computer manufacturers do the right thing and they mark the speed on the USB ports, removing ambiguities, for example ASUS does this on my NUCs and motherboards. Unfortunately, there are too many who do not do this, even among the big
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Benchmarks for LLMs without complete information about the tested models are hard to interpret. For the OpenAI and Anthropic models, it is clear that they have been run by their owners, but for the other models there are a great number of o
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Making a long distance complex network may be expensive, but to connect directly a few computers one can use 25 Gb/s Ethernet at a reasonable price. Last time when I checked, dual-port 25 Gb/s NICs were not much more expensive tha
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Unfortunately "USB 3.2" is just a version of the standard, which does not give any information about the performance of a USB port or device. USB 5 Gb/s = USB 3.2 gen 1, available on Type A or Type C connectors (or on devices
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
"Volume" means "scroll" in Latin. "Book" has been used to translate the Latin word "liber", which is the word used by the Ancient Romans for the parts of a bigger document, each of which would have be
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Indeed, this clock, which uses iodine absorption cells to provide the reference frequency, is one of the kinds of already existing portable optical atomic clocks to which I was referring. The best laboratory optical clocks, which use ion tr
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The microchip miniature atomic clocks are not optical atomic clocks, but old-school microwave atomic clocks. They are orders of magnitude less accurate than even portable optical atomic clocks and the difference is much greater in compariso
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Like others have said, any industry has the purpose of extracting money from the customers. The original poster has not expressed this correctly, but I assume that the intention was to say that the gambling industry is different from all ot
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
In a normal optical atomic clock, you use a laser whose frequency is determined mainly by the resonant cavity. The laser is made tunable with some additional device, e.g. a piezoelectric actuator, which can make small adjustments to the res
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
This is very interesting, because if this worked it would solve the greatest defect of the best atomic clocks. The best optical atomic clocks provide only a correct average frequency. That means that if you have such an optical atomic clock

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