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by bgnn 7mo ago
Instead of this we have anti dual-use policies, especially in semiconductor. Any chip a fab produces need hefty paper work to prove it cannot be used for military. This is due to the military-industrial complex lobby. They don't want c
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by bgnn 7mo ago
14 kelvin is not easy to achieve at scale + after that, you need to keep it pure.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
This is an extremely pure form of He, not the stuff used by the divers. That's a completely different supply chain.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
> Alaska and Norway understood something critical when oil was discovered: if you don't assert collective ownership of the resource before private companies capture all the value, you never will. Alaska amended its constitution. Nor
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by bgnn 7mo ago
It's not only carbon. There are a multitude of gasses which cause greenhouse effect.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
Yeah of you are running Comsol you need real cores + high clock frequency + high memory bandwidth. Gaming CPUs and some EPYCs are the best
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by bgnn 7mo ago
In HPC, like physics simulation, they are preferred. There's almost no benefit of HT. What's also preferred is high cluck frequencies. These high core count CPUs nerd their clixk frequencies though.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
Good to see this is getting more common! Changing the time every year cause a lot of accidents involving wildlife. Wild animals learn human activity patterns and avoid the roads during our active hours. When we shift the time we start they
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by bgnn 7mo ago
You cannot pay with cash in a lot of places in my European country. The number of no cash places is increasing by day. You can use your debit card though.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
That's not the star of David.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
Ebikes cannot go faster than 25 kph in the Netherlands, where the author lives. Also they cannot provide power assist without pedalling.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
If you find this interesting, try Nedersaksissk (low-Saxon) Wikipedia: https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsassisk It's fun for modern Dutch/Frisian speakers, most likely the same for German speakers. I thi
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by bgnn 7mo ago
It survives in modern Dutch too: in bedstede, steevast etc. Steevast mostly means always, but sometimes means firmly similar to modern English steadfast.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
I don't know the German speakers, but knowing both Dutch and English this text is more readable to me than using only modern English knowledge.
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by bgnn 7mo ago
Isn't the solution to this to implement bus lanes + express busses on rush hour instead of removing half of the bus stops. Every bus stop is amazingly valuable as it's the gateway to the public transit system. This doesn't me
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by bgnn 7mo ago
This is true for everywhere tbh, and thr solution is to make the last mile walkable by people with disabilities. I see a lot of idolization of NW Europe from the US, but this is still a problem in Europe too. True, it's better than mos
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by bgnn 8mo ago
What is CFAA? I couldn't find anything about it in EU or Malta. Is it something in India or China? Or Japan? Hmm, maybe I'm missing another country.. Australia?
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by bgnn 8mo ago
This is just so sad. One would have hoped Ferrari aa a car brand care about their design language enough to not look like any other car in 2026. That iPad in the middle looks just a bit more refined than the middle console tablet glued to a
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by bgnn 8mo ago
The real reason is, Elon has SpaceX and xAI. He can create an illusion of synergy and orders of magnitude advancements to boost the market cap and pocket all the money. He realized long time ago you don't need to deliver to play the ma
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by bgnn 8mo ago
My city, Utrecht, in the Netherlands is quite close this. No cars in the city center, no diesel vans for delivery, only busses and taxis can drive in certain roads in the center, bikes have priority on most roads cars can drive outside the
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by bgnn 8mo ago
Some European cities have car-free city centers. I live in one, which serves as the shopping center of roughly 1 million people living in the suburbs. If you want to shop in the city you need to park in one of the big underground parking lo
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by bgnn 8mo ago
Let me start with saying I'm all for the European social model, which is sadly regressing. However, this model/system is often a hurdle for start-ups, or any small company for that matter. The rules are designed to regulate big co
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by bgnn 8mo ago
Except none of that data center grade chips can work in the space. No GPUs, no memory, no SSD. They are not radiation-hardened (rad-hard). Rad-hard chips generally cost an oder of magnitude or more compared to normal commercial chips, and t
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by bgnn 8mo ago
Fiber is much much less of a cost and technical challenge compared to transfering GWs of power. Unless the customer cannot handle up to 100ms latency, it's totally logical to place the data centers close to the power source, or vice ve
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by bgnn 9mo ago
> The Netherlands does not want entrepreneurs, they want everybody cozy at their jobs at some big company. Totally agreed. Those big companies in return get a lot of benefits from the government. Most investment in semiconductors for exa
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by bgnn 9mo ago
Individuals pay like 25-30 Euronth contribution, which is tax deductible. Employers can pay a lot, like 10% or more, which is often going to a social security fund.
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by bgnn 9mo ago
Yeah our case was strange because we develop chips and design software related to it. Belastingdienst categorized us wrongly as metalelektro, and we got this guys (Cometec) within two weeks of that. In the meantime we have applied this sect
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by bgnn 9mo ago
This here is the problem for most of EU countries. We Dutch are proud how easy it is to do business here. Maybe, compared to some other countries. But starting a BV here and 1 month later finding a representative of a trade union (metal sec
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by bgnn 9mo ago
In that case they would have just burnt cash for 5 years and didn't have anything to show for it.
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by bgnn 9mo ago
Semiconductors is extremely cyclical. One of the reasons TSMC survived the previous boost-boom cycles is their caution. If you overexpand, you risk going out of business in the next downturn. AFAIK only Apple has been commiting to wafers up

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