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by mmmBacon 2y ago
I went to see Dune 2 in the theater. Something called Cinema X I think that projected on the walls of the theater. For a panoramic landscape like in Dune 2 it was a visual experience you can’t get at home. There’s still a place for thea
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Yeah, no. Firstly nobody can use Intel’s fabs because they can’t really provide a PDK the way TSMC can. So Intel’s fabs are fundamentally not competitive as it stands because they are almost impossible for anyone but Intel to use. Who ca
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
I think Pat should moderate his comments. He failed and in spectacular fashion. Moreover he was extremely influential in the US government, the CHIPs act is really an Intel bailout. Intel should have been allowed to fail, its fabs spun
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
With the size of Harvard’s endowment, 11% of its operating income coming from federal sources, and its tax exempt status, it’s hard to understand why anyone has to pay tuition regardless of need.
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Dark Energy May Be an Illusion(popularmechanics.com)
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Agree that this isn’t my best comment but respectfully disagree that this is a personal attack. I’m giving honest feedback regarding cynical attitudes. There’s a big difference between healthy skepticism and cynicism. Judging by the resp
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
P4 has more or less gone nowhere. Tofino was a full generation behind and didn’t make sense. P4 was compelling because people thought they’d solve the Elephant flow problem with traffic engineering in P4 but the resources to actually do
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
#1 Listen #2 Listen More and be patient. #3 Resist the urge to fix things that aren't broken. It may not be the way you would do it but recognize this as an opportunity for you to learn. #4 If you do items 1, 2, and 3 you will see whe
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
If you and your company are responsible for attempting to take legitimate things down either purposely or though incompetence, you should at least be publicly identifiable and accountable.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
The lasers are not Gaussian but Lorenztian. This is a detail that’s not terribly important. The lasers generate frequencies in C-band at ~194THz. The O-band photon source is ~229THz. Classically these fields do not interact. For passive
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
The presence of a 1550nm 400Gb/s signal is really just a distraction here and doesn’t add to the experiment in a meaningful way. I don’t think anyone is surprised that you can separate channels by wavelength, even if those channels ar
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
The natural world wants to be in the lowest energy state possible. Biological systems are especially good at energy minimization. It’s not surprising that the natural inclination for humans is to be at rest.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
From Fermilab’s antimatter factory: Antimatter is the opposite of matter, with the same mass but opposite electric charge. It's considered the rarest, most expensive, and potentially most dangerous substance on Earth. One gram of anti
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
There’s a presumption that European healthcare systems are better. Can we define what better is? Is it actually true that European systems are better?
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/20... . Looks like the owner VF Corp is consolidating campuses and wanting Dickies to be collocated with Vans in Costa Mesa.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
To your country's credit Poland is punching above its weight relative to the rest of the deadbeats but I wasn't talking about tanks. However, you've sent 240 T-72 Soviet era tanks to Ukraine and ~12 Leopard tanks. I was talki
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Given European demographics and the changing political landscape, it's hard to imagine that the quality of life in Europe can remain as it was through the 1990-2010's. Additionally, many European cities are essentially museums, r
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Trudeau has been PM for the last 9 of those 8 years. Do you think his policies are at least partly responsible?
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
I have 15 year old vehicles. I listen to the radio in all the cars I drive as does my spouse. The receivers in our vehicles are too old to have Carplay and with the removal of the audio jack in phones there's no way to connect them t
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Sam may be talented in other areas but HW, chips, and infrastructure is obviously not his forte and he should probably delegate discussion on this topic to someone who knows what they are talking about.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
I don’t see the point of an exam where a 25% is a passing grade. Sounds like bad teaching to me. For most classes: say E&M or classical mechanics there are a finite number of problems that you can work out in a 3 hour exam. So you can
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
GenX here. 70% was minimum acceptable grade when I was in US public school and when I was in College. You could technically pass a class in public school with 60% (D-). However you needed a C GPA to graduate high school in my day. In co
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Speaking at an all-hands meeting for AWS, unit CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy I work with AWS and a lot of the people I interact with are remote. Some of them moved during the Pandem
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Yeah I don’t think UK lingo has conquered anything here in the US. I find most UK lingo rather dorky and quaint. To me it’s like talking to cousins you like from a quaint town that’s woefully behind the times. It’s not their fault though
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Actually you can’t be more wrong. * The right to associate is more than just a right to attend a meeting. Instead, it is "the right to express one's attitudes or philosophies by membership in a group or by affiliation with it or b
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
In my view this law violates the institutions freedom of association rights. In practicality as much as many of us decry legacy admits, the fact remains that these institutions were built financially by legacy families. So if you’re tale
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Seems like you are trying to discredit the source as a way to get people to question the facts. The facts are that this story has been widely reported. It’s well documented that the Iranian government persecutes and foments violence agai
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
When people say radiation free they are generally referring to ionizing radiation. This has been a well known convention for a century.

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