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by baybal2 5y ago
I would greatly doubt much hopes for this "relaunch" if they will continue their conformist tune. People need to get it crystal clear, the last of "independent" Russian media were only allowed to be because they were the
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by baybal2 5y ago
> It is almost impossible to avoid it. I am doing these Type-C hubs, and other small stuff peripherals for a living. My suggestion, don't look stuff retail, and don't look big brands, even Dell. Pretty much any "brand bus
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by baybal2 5y ago
I am making these Type-C hubs for a living, and indeed RTL8153 is the most trouble free, and cheap chip on the market. Though, I myself had misfortune buying broken RTL8153 based ethernet NICs. Mismatched coupling capacitors, PCB shorts, po
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by baybal2 5y ago
> 20% over h265 On what codec settings?. IMO h256 and AV1 are extremely close depending on individual, and still experimental, codec tweaks. MP3 coding was near garbage at 128kbps, but over the years the codec community managed to make
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by baybal2 5y ago
> So, what's the solution to this situation? I wrote this many times, the lowest blood price for subduing Russia is a NATO-wide airborne operation to behead Russian government, and a mother of all airlifts. You fight a mafia state t
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by baybal2 5y ago
If you are the only person in the country with a satellite phone, finding you will not require any decryption, but an antiradiation missile.
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Turkey defuses mine after Russia warns of strays from Ukraine ports(reuters.com)
4 points by baybal2 5y ago|0 comments
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by baybal2 5y ago
There are a lot of planned cities in India, and Pakistan. Few know, but Islamabad is also began its existence as a 100% planned city. Pakistan invited C. A. Doxiadis to do the planning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons
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by baybal2 5y ago
Settle down in the West. The torturous visa, and immigration regulations would've worth it 100 times now. Unlucky owner of a radioactive passport now.
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by baybal2 5y ago
The engineering company I work briefly passed over few proposals from South Asian companies deploying them. We worked on electric bikes, but decided to pass on a real road going scooter as we have near no vehicle experience besides individu
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by baybal2 5y ago
I know dozen of people in Espressif, including the boss. A lot of Western employees left the company, or relocated because it's harder, and harder for a Westerner to live there with each passing year, 100% true. Most of them delivered
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by baybal2 5y ago
Lock the ambassador in the WC cabin when he goes for a break. Quorum is established at the start of the SC meeting, after that, absention means abstention
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by baybal2 5y ago
GWB's great sin is he gave China, and Russia time. The 15 years USA spent running after imaginary boogeymen sowed the seeds of what we are dealing with today. There are many aspects to this folly, but most bad were: 1. Okaying what Rus
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by baybal2 5y ago
> There's a lot of Chinese stereotypes being trotted out here, but I'll address this one. As an ethnic Chinese who been in, and out of China every year since childhood, I'd yes, it's very superficial. I do not feel he
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, US produces something, but there are things US simply doesn't produce, and never produced. This is where the price doesn't matter. Non-fluoropolymer high temperature super low outgassing plastics, and plastic parts used in se
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by baybal2 5y ago
> has a huge semiconductor industry (45% of the market by revenue), What matters is not revenue, but physical manufacturing, and where it is. The global industry today is paralysed by lack of nothing more than few cent microcontrollers.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> A lot of the fab equipment, along with the technical secrets needed to produce such equipment, is locked down in the USA and western Europe. It may look so from the West. Big name equipment like steppers, and deposition tools come from
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by baybal2 5y ago
Please note, it's UAE, out of all gulf countries. Normally UAE is the most timid gulf country in front of Saudi influence. Kuwaitis, Bahrainis, and even Qataris are still holding the Saudi line now.
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by baybal2 5y ago
I will weight in as somebody who had aspirations for a career in semiconductors more than a decade ago. Taiwan, and Asian semi ecosystem at large is unique, and irreplaceable, and not only TSMC as such. The fall of Taiwan will be: 1. Loss
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Yet another piece that chooses the KPI by ignoring the existence of the individual. It’s essentially human resources management theory where units of human are fungible. Check the about page. > Farnam Street > Founded and led by
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by baybal2 5y ago
In fact, even $1 microcontrollers are considered very expensive by industry standards. Cheapest micros hovered around 10 cents mark before the semiconductor crisis. Some Padauk micros go for single cents.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Plastic lenses are actually more expensive to make than glass. You need extreme precision, more than with lapped glass lenses. A Taiwanese factory northwest of Dhaka https://www.youngoptics.com/ makes the lion share of mold
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by baybal2 5y ago
> It was not Biden's mistake that the war was started. Putin only used it as a pretext. It is a simple war of aggression that would have happened anyway. It was President Biden who said it openly "we know Russia will invade Ukr
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by baybal2 5y ago
NATO radars queueing Ukrainian air defence onto Russian planes without them having to turn on their radar. NATO provides eyes, and Ukrainian air defence provides the missile launch without revealing its position. By the time the Russian pil
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by baybal2 5y ago
I am a Russian citizen, and I grew up in a military town in Far East. A place where the draft is the harshest, and which is the base of Pacific Fleet. A sad town called Vladivostok. I still retain connections with my high school mates. A lo
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My city is being shelled, but my mum in Russia won’t believe me(bbc.com)
33 points by baybal2 5y ago|2 comments
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by baybal2 5y ago
GOOD RIDDANCE! Finally, Russia did what full force of 90% vote of German parliament cannot do: defeat the Russian gas/oil lobby in Germany. Germany is the country with most expensive electricity in Europe, and gas deals from this mafia
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by baybal2 5y ago
I suggest NATO launch war, retake Ukraine, and deprive Russia of 60% of its military for almost no cost. This will be followed by Putin having to spend the next 40% of its military on keeping order within Russia. If he will use nukes, he wi
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by baybal2 5y ago
They do, but NATO heads of state seem to forgot that Turkey exists, and is an extremely strong military power, which can put can on top of any Russian activity in their vicinity within days.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, NATO in Europe is US+UK+FR+TK, with some significant manpower commitment from Eastern European states, and that's all. It boggles my mind why Turkey keeps being ignored in this discourse. They have army big enough, modern, and pow

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