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Thermal systems are slow. On the planetary scale of pump and dump heat the lag is something like 30 years. So the change you’re experiencing today is the effect of what was exhaust…

the designer has no awareness of supply chain. Well, you’re asking for a design that boils down to a single channel downconverting I/Q ADC for 21.4 MHz IF, how many such products d…

Would probably be better to demonstrate by exsmple how this approach is used to train on sensor data and then use it (as is hinted by the author) instead of acknowledging that the …

Do you guys think we're going to see a de-evolution of human beings due to technology? The gap between people who are willing to commit the hours to learn something and those who p…

I do wonder how they source their bulk literary data. Do they have a google books, an archive.org or an anna’s archive for chinese content? What’s the Asian equivalent to Elsevier?…

Well, some years ago helium was a preferred way for suicide. This reflected very bad on the producers of party balloon helium tanks, so they added an amount of oxygen and it was no…

Wait, capped at 24 kWh a day? Our household consumed 8 kWh per day over the past week (gas cooking, no airco). So with a home battery that sinks 10 kWh during those 3 hours you hav…

I, too, heard this but in a different context: pharma growing pure crystals for analysis by x-ray diffraction. There was a discussion a while back whether these lab-grown crystals …

of what the tobacco industry did They’re still very active, pushing new avenues that are (pinky swear) not detrimental for your health.

“How many Kloc did you submit today? I did 12.”

I expect it to be more like servers that cache frequent content, to reduce the round trip delay.

In 2024 Belgium closed its only semi fab, which had recently pivoted to GaN.

Isn’t it amazing that the argument “you can’t use this to find vulns” is now the new normal and we’re now discussing the guard rails?

Is this why the US has been cutting ties with Europe?

I’m an outlier due to medical issues following a burnout to the crisp. I occasionally zone out, most often when I’m reading. So reading has become a chore - I can’t switch on an au…

I love the result of reading, and the occasional jolt I get when reading, but not the activity of reading. I need to consume the text word for word, scanning with my eyes. The thin…

Maybe he overlooked a requirement because it’s so obvious: Be human readable

What happens if a drone (male) larva is reared in a queen cell with royal jelly?

This probably illustrates my disconnect from reality, but I’ve never understood why a company would care about share price once they’ve left the door. I get that the co still owns …