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When you use Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs) to connect the layers together, you would start to end up with scaling limits, similar to the problems of elevators in skyscrapers: the mor…

Presumably it's to ensure good contact with the next thermal management layer (heat spreader, heat-sink, etc.)

The UK Highway Code was revised a few years ago to explicitly allow and even recommend cycling two-abreast[1]. 1: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-cycli...

Yeah, the British space industry has struggled; principally with investment. Reaction Engines largely went under because they ran out of money and their investors declined to put m…

There's also Pulsar Fusion, a UK company currently building a Dual Direct Fusion Drive (DDFD). They claim: > Modelling shows that this technology can potentially propel a spacecraf…

I find it a bit bizarre that this JEP doesn't enable Compact Object Headers by default. Most users will not know to specifically enable it, so if they're that confident in its stab…

This is why I generally use Terraform for Kubernetes. It's not perfect, but it's miles better than the various different YAML-templating solutions (Kustomize, Helm) popular in the …

Yes, I meant in "parameter space" :-)

Isn't this essentially the same problem with Dark Matter though? They keep looking for it, not finding it and proclaiming "well, it must be somewhere else!". I always got the impre…

It always irks me that discussion of space debris invariably talks about their high velocity relative to the ground , which is completely meaningless. What really matters is their …

5 warm-up iterations of 10 seconds each.

Nitpick: the UK doesn't vote for a Prime Minister. Since the last election, there have been 3 Prime Ministers, so you could argue that 2 of them are "unelected".

Stated in the article. It's dried using a heat pump.

TL;DR a biogas digester tank was struck by lightning, igniting the biogas and causing an explosion.

ISO-8859-1 (aka. Latin-1) is a superset of ASCII, so all ASCII strings are also valid Latin-1 strings. The section you quoted actually suggests that implementations should support …

They honestly should be blacklisted after the Horizon scandal. Allowing them to get away with it sets a precedent that could encourage other companies to behave just as irresponsib…

This is a false-equivalence. "Milk" is not a trademarked brand name like "Coca Cola" or "ChatGPT", it's a category of food/drink. You can't trademark "milk" in the same way you can…

There's nothing sudden about it. Many regional (mostly city) accents have common mis-pronounciation. "th" being mis-pronounced as either "f" or "v" was extremely common in the area…

Towards the bottom of the JEP, they mention that the ultimate goal is 32 bit object headers, which would necessitate object monitors be tracked on-demand in a side table. That's wh…

It's for Intel's integrated graphics, which are most prevalent on laptops.

The improvement in throughput is tantalising. I'd love to see a comparison to the G1GC throughput. I wonder if it's getting close enough that ZGC might some day become a candidate …

> Now they hopefully can work around the kernel for file descriptors (network and disk) saving 30% CPU globally on all Java servers. Can you expand on this a little? Are you referr…

Lock contention IIRC

A bigger problem with blended wing designs is actually for the people on the peripheral. When the plane banks, passengers further from the axis of rotation will feel a more signifi…