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To be more specific: PCB manufacture anywhere other than China is, given the current economics, so dead. This includes the USA. The only viable alternative is SE asian countries (e…

"This approach is not going to revive electronics in Europe." Revive what exactly? There's ASML, IMEC and many others. Then a host of PCB fabs that are expensive but are present an…

Depends which model. Arduino Mega retails in Europe for around 50 euro.

Teensy is the best imo...would love to see that expand into more boards/specific use cases.

Ah yes unilad a great repository of rigorous scientific results haha. There's a lot of complexity in fungal physiology and research has barely scratched the surface.

Dunning-Kruger is basically a middling party put down at this stage. Similarly this article is not making a whole lot of sense other than as a mild and wildly applied dis?

What about the case where publicity is intentionally avoided so as not to have results drowned in a deluge of hyperbole and journalistic hubris?

Yes, that's vague. I specifically mean a creative monopoly. Compare the writing and dialogue of a Paul Thomas Anderson or Tarantino movie to Rockstar. Most of their games don't com…

I love GTA/Red Dead but Rockstar really is just another monopoly (in terms of creativity) at this stage. More mid sized studios, like Rockstar when it started/midway, would be bett…

Also I genuinely love your educational progression and kudos for it!

My argument: - U.K. universities have pivoted to being a finishing school (e.g. you cannot fail if you pay enough money) and Harry Potter experience for international students. -Th…

Congratulations on avoiding going to university. The point about the tourism/finishing school aspect of universities in Britain is widely held and has been reported on for years. I…

I don't need to divulge personal information to make a point. See comment below. I think it is pretty apparent to anyone with any interactions with universities in the U.K. and in …

Yeah it's just funny that its more akin to a sector in the tourism industry than academic or research. There are obviously pockets of world-class research and brilliant academics b…

I disagree. Oxbridge, LSE, Edinburgh, etc appear equally as susceptible. In fact in top London universities it seems to be worse - prestige attracts more international students. I …

The international student Harry Potter experience economy model is not actually working for British universities. If your idea of a university is: outputting high quality research …

Great point: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/30/toxin-le... This is, morbidly, from crematorium emissions. Now imagine if that was the output of every electronics …

Don't understand the implications of this: "And to take care of another utterly bizarre comment: Encylopedias are always, per defintion, also repositories of knowledge." We should …

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Omission by design or by accident/lack of resources can be found in most pages on wikipedia.

Device to device variability is not considered? This is a huge problem in analog computing