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by topspin 1y ago
Indeed. The market is exposing the truth here, whether that's the outcome some would prefer or not. These dense, wealthy, coastal regions are an endless fount of talk about how flyover suburbia is an unhealthy manifestation of isolat
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by topspin 1y ago
"Weeds" are likely to be the main reason the topography was preserved. Without the plant roots fixing the soil in place, these sites would have washed away. The surviving patches are small: 10's of meters on a side. The tit
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by topspin 1y ago
While you can still get high quality floppy disks, there is nothing wrong with them. You must handle them properly and keep them clean, but that's only a problem for children and idiots. When demand falls and they are no longer profi
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by topspin 1y ago
Been here many times: This time Claude fixed the problem, but: - It also re-ordered some declarations, even though I told it not to. AFAICT they aren't changed, just reordered, and it also added some doc comments. - It fi
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by topspin 1y ago
On recent Linux, try: findmnt --real It's part of linux-utils, so it is generally available wherever have a shell. The legacy tools you have in mind aren't ever going to be changed as you would wish, for reasons.
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by topspin 1y ago
My direct experience has been that even very small tech businesses contend with IP issues as well. And they don't have the means to either risk or deliberately instigate a fight.
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by topspin 1y ago
"shouldn't it be painfully obvious in companies' output?" No. The bottleneck isn't intellectual productivity. The bottleneck is a legion of other things; regulation, IP law, marketing, etc. The executive email wri
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by topspin 1y ago
> And they are incredibly robust See my other comment about non-datacenter applications. There is a serious opportunity here for fixing signal integrity problems with contemporary high bandwidth peripherals. Copper USB et al. are no go
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by topspin 1y ago
LDO is just integration. It certainly has value: integration almost always does. So it's clearly the obvious optimization of conventional serial optical communication. This new TSMC work with parallel incoherent optics is altogethe
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by topspin 1y ago
> must still be justified Trump Brain doesn't do that calculus. Trump Brain maintains lists of who is Good and who is Bad, and moves people among the lists at need. > Cutting off military aid before peace negotiations was clearl
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by topspin 1y ago
> I understand that CPO reliability concerns are specifically with the laser drivers. Yes. I've replaced my share of dead transceivers, and I suspect the laser drivers were the failure mode of most of them. That doesn't fill in
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by topspin 1y ago
> Aren't they also claiming this is more reliable? Indeed they do. I overlooked that. I know little about microLED arrays and their reliability, so I won't guess about how credible this is: LED reliability has a lot of factors
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by topspin 1y ago
> You might be right and they are talking about fibre bundles The caption of the image of the cable and connector reads: "CMOS ASIC with microLEDs sending data with blue light into a fiberbundle ." So yes, fibre bundles. >
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by topspin 1y ago
They story states there are 300 optical lines in the "fiberbundle." Let's assume this is arranged as 20x15 and the wavelength of the led is visible and bright enough to perceive. So if your unencoded, monochrome 20x15 movie
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by topspin 1y ago
> I would have expected ribbons. The cable is just 2D parallel optical bus. With a bundle like this, you can wrap it with a nice, thick PVC (or whatever) jacket and employ a small, square connector that matches the physical scheme of th
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by topspin 1y ago
In Trump Brain, everything is personal. Putin has, indeed, played Trump, and done that the only way possible; by treating Trump as a peer and showing him respect over many years. However, Putin has a war to prosecute, and his own survival
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by topspin 1y ago
This is the correct take. These logarithmic scales, in all their various forms, reduce the math involved to something tractable. The reduction is so great that there is no substitute. Griping about the numerous arbitrary reference values
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by topspin 1y ago
The US has large trade deficits because US leadership uses the lucrative US market as a diplomatic reward. By "leadership" I mean the governing interests of the US, not merely its political class. The history of this is long, goi
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by topspin 1y ago
> javadoc Indeed. Many languages have something similar to Javadoc, yet somehow I haven't encountered anything quite as good as Javadoc, and I can't explain why or exactly how it's better. I admit I haven't tried th
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by topspin 1y ago
This is a strange story. Writing something like this with no mention of the fact that China is already manufacturing cars sold in the US, such as the Buick Envision, is difficult for me to understand.
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by topspin 1y ago
About the only thing I imagine receives greater attention in terms of optimization than video codecs is cellular modems.
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by topspin 1y ago
Developers fight tooth and nail to get every bit of performance from video codecs because this goes directly to battery life and heat on a scale of billions of devices. You can't handwave a 5% performance drop as if this is some recip
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by topspin 1y ago
"Whether or not having a high BW scope would be helpful to detect signal integrity issue is not clear to me" Indeed. Even if you have an instrument, and the skill to operate it and produced a meaningful result that reveals some p
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by topspin 1y ago
The Thunderscope story had a comment about USB3 sampling as well. Here, you cite "check signal integrity," as a reason. I'm curious. Is USB3 signal integrity really an active area of research or troubleshooting? I would h
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by topspin 1y ago
Yep. Cracking is a subtle process. This new material and the new designs based on it will be either better or worse than the nickel alloys that have been used, but only time will tell. At least an opportunity exists for improvement now.
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by topspin 1y ago
It's difficult to predict. High performance heat exchangers are an obvious application, but the potential is great for many other things. "Nuclear plants?" Sure. One of the most challenging problems in a PWRs is heat exchan
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by topspin 1y ago
"The goal of the US nuclear unbrella..." So say you. This is a discussion about costs, as opposed "goals." Were I to stipulate the claim you make, then it's all be a terrible failure: at least three US allies have
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by topspin 1y ago
The "Eling Palace complex" photo is interesting. In the midst of all the "rooftop gardens, terraces, stairways, promenades and metal screens," someone nailed up about 4 meters of razor wire on the exterior wall. Not par
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by topspin 1y ago
I think the diversity of platforms is a small factor in the cost: nearly all of the equipment and people involved in the various delivery modes would still exist if there were no nukes at all, and possibly in far greater quantity. Further,
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by topspin 1y ago
$94.6B/y, as compared to the $824B 2024 DOD budget. 11.4% of DOD to sustain the most important weapon system in existence. I wouldn't use the word "cheap," but it doesn't look all that unreasonable, given what we&#

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