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by baybal2 4y ago
Yes, much more than from 28 to 22 or 16. 40nm+ are planar transistors, and below are FinFETs
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by baybal2 4y ago
Russia is coincindentally heading right the way of Ottoman empire, seemingly step, by step. Decades of futile attempts to retake Balkans after Greek revolt lit the fire in Europe, and caused a chain reaction of support for Ottoman dismantle
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by baybal2 4y ago
They would never have it because nobody would work with them. It's an OSS projects with the most abrasive, and socially inept people around, seemingly gathered together on purpose. GNOME had few hundred active contributors on its peak,
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by baybal2 4y ago
An excellent article when it comes to throwing a dry fact into the face. An even greater commentary been provided by this tweet: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1539623100144295936 How did America pump out
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by baybal2 4y ago
Despite the trollish zeal of your argument, I believe this dangerous sentiment needs to be properly refuted. > The parliament is made of power hungry MPs and a commission full of elitist jackasses, with a million and one agendas An alter
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by baybal2 4y ago
DSL and 10BASE-T1L are not quote the same. 10BASE-T1L PHY fits on a single chip, without much of analog trickery, and the whole line encoding, signal processing is much simpler. 10BASE-T1L is what will go into 1 dollar devices, not a $100 m
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by baybal2 4y ago
It's absolutely mindboggling how Google had 2nd largest social network after Facebook for some years, and then just simply closed it because NIH.
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by baybal2 4y ago
The major benefit of making embedded devices with exactly same firmware from device to device is that you can pre-order memory chips already flashed. Network cards do run into extremely uncommon MAC collisions because they just generate a
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by baybal2 4y ago
In China, it's 6-8 per a large city, and up to 12 in a megacity.
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by baybal2 4y ago
There are very, very few good heat conductors which are dielectrics. Intrinsic semiconductors, and Beryllium Oxide. Neither are cheap enough for mass market products.
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by baybal2 4y ago
Why you need a tank in 21st century: 1. When enemy has tons of artillery, and any light armour is doomed in open field 2. The only military unit capable of offensive operation during nuclear warfare For as long as nuclear weapons are there,
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by baybal2 4y ago
I wanted to go into semi 2007-2009. Fortunately, I stumbled on two one very senior TSMC engineers who kind of became informal mentors to me, and they talked me off. And by the way were with Morris Chang at ITRI. Points they told: 1. A manda
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by baybal2 4y ago
Yes, because he isn't afraid. He attacked because of once in a lifetime perfect storm: USA maxing out its credit card, CoVID, China hunkering down, Molotov-Ribbentrop 2.0 with Germany, highest access to Western lobbyists it ever had, T
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by baybal2 4y ago
Lilium is a shady company First, it's people without even most basic aeronautic backround designing an aircraft. Second, the number of flaws with their scheme being pointed by experts is so huge they cannot possibly get certified witho
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by baybal2 4y ago
There are countries where a washing machine is a status symbol
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by baybal2 4y ago
Arduino is to commercial embedded development as what Javascript is to Java. I had the first Arduino model with a COM port bought to me by my late mother to spike my interest into computer stuff when I was in high school. I grew a bit over
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by baybal2 4y ago
You are bringing up a beautiful question. Were Luddites pro-elite, or anti-elite? Factory technology was definitely something both hated, and intentionally propagated. Violent conflicts were fought by different stacking frame manufacturers
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by baybal2 4y ago
There were many more books historically than most people uninterested in history suspect up do deep antiquity. Books were very precious. A 5th century monthly salary of a scribe was enough to buy a house. Yet, 99%+ of written data from Gree
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by baybal2 4y ago
> If it's a national priority, you can get some production going a lot faster than this. Defeating CoVID was too a national priority. Did they manage to build a single new mask manufacturing line? No, but they actually tried really
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by baybal2 4y ago
You have just asked why we can't "just move manufacturing out of China:" There are no individual chemical plants, there are huge chemical complexes owned by many companies with own well guarded know hows. There may be 2-4 sup
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by baybal2 4y ago
This will not do much with Taiwan being a single source for semiconductor manufacturing supplies. Much of critical blockers for chemicals, consumables, materials will still be in Taiwan just because the semi industry is that huge there. All
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by baybal2 4y ago
Excuse me, what is that "woke" thing everybody is talking about, and nobody seem to be able to tell what it is?
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by baybal2 4y ago
Is this out of the same ballpark as "thermal powerplants will boil the atmosphere." The entire humankind's power consumption is completely microscopic in comparison to any natural weather phenomena. We are 0.0000000000001% of
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by baybal2 4y ago
> When the German parliament approved a new measure this month slashing public transit fares nationwide for three months this summer, the move reflected the severity of the nation’s energy crisis. To reduce its heavy reliance on Russian
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by baybal2 4y ago
Canon is a long story, they been in, and out of the sensor game over the years They eventually made a CMOS sensor development from scratch
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by baybal2 4y ago
Very surprised to see them still kicking, and preparing a 5th generation sensor by themselves. https://m.dpreview.com/news/1885231343/sigma-releases-update... They are really dinosaurs of electronic imaging. Sans
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by baybal2 4y ago
> How is this any different from having a repeat of the python2->python3 fiasco Perl already had python2->python 3000 fiasco before python: PERL6
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by baybal2 4y ago
> It only existed to keep said engineers from going to a competitor. Who in this day, and hour tries to make an OS as a commercial product?
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by baybal2 4y ago
Nokia really had to open source 15 years earlier at least
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by baybal2 4y ago
The amount of natural gas consumed by the industry is already very low. Germany needs to stop exporting electricity. Most of export electricity comes from gas turbine topping plant which work during high EU electricity price times.

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