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Heavy diesel engines were dominated by the rest of the world in the 50s. Military aviation has no need for efficiency nor actual maintenance cost targets and thus, you have way mor…

China "cheated" with EVs. They never managed to make a combustion engine that could hold a candle against western ones in terms of efficiency and reliability. Electric motors are w…

In places where fish is eaten raw (or lightly pickled) you NEED to freeze it before preparing it. Anisakis is no joke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisakis

In Kagi you can search with a specific country selected or the default "international". I find it a superior alternative to Googles "wherever you are", but I do a lot of multilingu…

My point is that FPGAs have become very cheap, competing with microcontrollers. I would agree that high end audio manufacturers are about as rational as they costumers. If FPGAs ar…

Depends entirely how you define "growth". If you take AI, LLM as your baseline of growth, then yeah, sure. But what else is growing? FPGAs are getting cheaper with each gen, expand…

Lack of temperature control is a minus, as that means that there will be some blends that won't taste good, these days most fancy machines have a pid (and if yours doesn't you shou…

When Intel acquired Altera, they scrapped the old catalog of Altera FPGAs. A few corps I was working with, who had heavy lock in to Altera due to those FPGAs, got royally screwed (…

That's not true for everybody: people have very different mouth chemistry/ecosystem that depends on diet, genetics and god knows what. Some people can live with brushing teeth once…

For the unaware, Central Europe is a narrow band that comprises Czechs, Slovaks and Polish. Who can get very offended if you even dare to suggest that they belong to Eastern Europe…

And don't forget about the new Starlink flat antennas! The biggest surprise from the tearing videos for many EE I know was that the custom chips doing the DSP magic are made by ST,…

I'm not a climate change denier in any way but, did any of the predictions (the ones with dates and numbers) of Al Gore in "An inconvenient truth" become reality? There has been a …

I keep hearing from friends in Germany that the death numbers reported are completely bollocks. They say the people who die with pre-existing conditions aggravated with the coronav…

In case someone gets confused searching for it, normally the federal politecnic university at Lausanne is called by its French name, EPFL. ETH Zürich has better score in internatio…

Er... Was 2001 the last time you gamed on a computer? All those issues are solved in modern day pc gaming. Even GOG with its drm free games automatically updates and syncs your gam…

He. You are in for a disappointment if you think about moving to Madrid for the nice weather. Extremely dry, very hot summers, quite cold winters, Its more continental than Mediter…

The genres, though... And saying that the German grammar is simpler is quite a stretch. English barely conjugates verbs! Would trade putting genres into english if I could also get…

The part I like best about your utopia is the irony that it leaves all native english countries out by design. "Thanks for giving us this tongue that has allowed us to transcend as…

Man, I would vote for life whoever proposed to fix english spelling. The fact I can't use in conversation many words I have learned reading because I have no idea how are spelled i…

"can be spoken poorly and still be understood" That is only something that is easy for native speakers, though. The points a non-native speaker anchors in the speaking flow are com…

Those are compulsory... At least in Europe. Are there many cars in the US that don't have warning lights when braking? Jesus.

Ok,this blew my mind in thousands pieces. I'm going to try it right away.