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by tliltocatl 4mo ago
One thing about gallium/galinstan - it would actually make a descent high vacuum seal as it has lowest vapor pressure of all elements - so it doesn't evaporate. The problem is that it sticks to just about everything that isn'
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by tliltocatl 4mo ago
Incandescent bulbs used dumet/platinite, which is an nickel-iron alloy like kovar except it's turned for a different CTE. This stuff isn't that expensive when mass produced - it's just those who can afford usually borosi
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by tliltocatl 4mo ago
If you want a gas discharge tube and not vacuum, you can even drop the coil on the inside: https://hackaday.io/project/194683-plasma-toroid-sky-guided-... But most hollow-state devices run on either DC or pulses, so co
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by tliltocatl 4mo ago
I really appreciate this comment. It is easy to dismiss something as AI slop when it looks and smells like AI slop, but pinpointing actual errors is much more valuable. As solomonb said in a sibling comment, "Imagine someone honestly i
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by tliltocatl 4mo ago
The problem with POSIX IPC is that passing file descriptors between processes (other than parent passing to child via fork) is hard. Yes, SCM_RIGHTS can do it, but it is quite error prone and rarely done.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
In addition to what you said: forking from a process running on multiple cores is slow once you have mark all pages as read-only and shoot this out to all cores. TLB synchronization is super expensive. Unix originally didn't support th
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Still haven't had one. It is impressive, it is sometimes useful, it will be insightful (once the smoke settles), it is nowhere close to become self-improving world-as-we-know-ending ultimate solution to every problem it is being sold a
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
A lot of gender disparity is cardiovascular disease being 50% more likely to be diagnosed in men than in women of same age, so not directly related to risky behavior.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
I wonder, what did they expect? The whole thing was basically about "fuck regulations", which one might or might not consider a worthy goal. But how could one expect the regulators to be complicit?
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Is there any reason you want wireless? Bluetooth audio is a disaster, AFAIK. You don't want to use it for music. Just go wired, the ether is too cramped already.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
But that's core product. That's how they make money. Whatever it's a good idea to make money that way is a different story.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Been there… Pendantic nitpick: it's more akin to introspection, reflection would be self-modifying code.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Xilinx has the best silicon. Everyone else is behind. Altera is basically dead thanks Intel. Lattice is nice for low power but performance-wise they are behind. Don't know much about Microchip, but from the little I've heard their
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
The software is useless without their chips and the chips cost a fortune. It's not "business model no longer supports giving away free stuff". It's just bean-counters cutting corners.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
> - AI upscaling of low res footage I'd say this is far more problematic than plain slop.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Without continuous feedback from real world, lower-probability token (and soon high-probability ones as well) will be complete garbage.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Looks like a typo (extra H at the end of URL).
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
I guess FPGA division (nee Xilinx, which was always a bit sketchy, even if they had best silicon) doesn't learn much from the GPU division.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Just write C then.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
> What could be more anthropomorphic than "social structures"? Group of humans doesn't behave like individual humans do. And we can't have same ethical expectations towards groups as we do towards individuals. As simp
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
That's the most annoying part of C. And yes, "I hate implicit" people, I can hear you, but this hampers refactoring A LOT. The number of times I've found myself in "need to move this piece into this function, but th
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Don't anthropomorphize the grass cutter. All social structures, be it for-profit corporation or something else, are ultimately like this. Use the good thing while it is still there, ditch it once they pivot to being assholes. No hard f
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
> full project code search grep > go to definition /definition Not even using vim, I'm more of a micro person.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Data retention is probably unusable for archival purposes.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Meh. The problem is that it might start receiving you local radio station and end up deterministic enough to screw you. So you need to shield the dirt properly.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
Х is ch in Bach rather than h, and apparently, anglophones can distinguish those. I can't.
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by tliltocatl 5mo ago
It absolutely doesn't as pronounced now, yet Thomas is Фома, Theodor is Феодор, etc. Just like Hertz is Герц, even through Г and H are as far from each other as one can get.
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by tliltocatl 6mo ago
Besides what retatop and crote said - USB4 uses either binary or PAM-3, 10GBASE-T uses PAM-16. Higher modulation means lower frequency bandwidth (so longer and/or crappier cable), but also more current-hungry line driver and more curre
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by tliltocatl 6mo ago
I'd rather prefer Ethernet over USB 2.0. Full duplex, galvanically isolated and cheap fiber converters, (relatively) lightweight host implementation possible, no "transaction translator" madness (at the cost of slightly more
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by tliltocatl 6mo ago
TRRS might work for power, but it sucks for signal integrity - ergo no high-speed for you. And 4 wires is nowhere enough. You need two for each differential pair. No, half-duplex is absolutely not okay, it's the worst design decision i

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