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simne

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    Comment #48295434

    That's simple - to make quick rotation, you must apply force (torque) and beat inertia - from mathematics could know, the farther from center of mass the more energy will spend to …

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    Comment #48009839

    Video have some inaccuracies. As example, said "to detect heartbeat from 100m, 10-20 T", but then talking about "from 100km". So, if carefully looking, SQUID could detect with 10-1…

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    Comment #47933543

    > aren't server CPUs only like 25% of the total market? Yes and no. If just formally calculate, yes, servers are small market volumes. But, they are much less constrained financial…

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    Comment #47933448

    For about price of land and connectivity - in large city land price begin on few millions dollars per square kilometer, and usage of cable channels could cost from 50$ per meter (e…

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    Comment #47933341

    You cannot place dc anywhere, in large cities space is extremely constrained, and land is extremely expensive. Also big problem - connectivity - you cannot place DC where it cannot…

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    Comment #47933060

    Also, internal CPU caches grow over time - in 286 and before, just was not any cache; in 386 first included page cache for mmu - stores tables with mostly used pages; in next gener…

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    Comment #47932969

    Because very large share of market now are datacenters. Difference from desktop is dramatic - for desktop really acceptable very simple chips with bad energy efficiency, but DCs al…

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    Comment #47562929

    Sure, we need better math, it is obvious. Unfortunately, nobody at big companies know , what exactly math will win, so competition not end. So, researchers will try one solution, t…

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    Comment #46557875

    You could transfer different bands via different coils on different frequencies, but unfortunately, capacity of information channel is limited by frequency. Because of this, radio …

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    Comment #46540438

    Amateurs in USSR 50 years ago made wireless and powerless headphones, which use wire lay on perimeter of room to transfer sound and power. In headphones there is tiny coil. It real…

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    Comment #46415218

    They treat you belong to community, and use your appearance in hidden ads as "just another consumer choose A.. products". Even if you will intentionally hide all logos of A.. from …

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    Comment #46376295

    Well people, knowledge become belief. - Position of Moon creating tides, which affect some places very strong, because line of shore constantly moving more then by cup meters, so s…

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    Comment #46218435

    I hear about one specific computer of 360 era, on which was dangerous to touch two keyboards simultaneously, because there was high voltage between. When one guy asked "why not?", …

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    Comment #46088387

    If possible for exact this plane, could make software update just as routine procedure. But as I hear, air transporters could buy planes in different configurations, so for example…

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    Comment #46087585

    > how do you avoid the voting circuit becoming a single point of failure They do not. Just make voting circuit much more reliable than computing blocks. As example, computing block…

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    Comment #45364419

    For about, what could be good machine for hacking, I have ideas. First, probably, 8-bitness is unavoidable, because all those current Raspberries, are relatively powerful computers…

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    Comment #45361368

    Large scale DBA and Ops. For them typical daily solving tasks like "what is more reliable - two RAID-0 in stripe or two stripes in one RAID-0" - mathematics thinking gives exact an…

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    Comment #45354159

    Well, I seen one suggestion for probable nearest future of AI, to stop on GPT-4 level, but distill and use optimizations like switch to FP8 for faster speed. So basically idea, mod…

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    Comment #45353897

    Ok, I have question - do you know, what is most valued feature of existing AI for business and would you estimate its value?

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    Comment #45353779

    Well, formally, you are right that Crimea is 90% Russian ethnically, but what about price? - In 1940s, USSR totally resettled all Crimean Tatars to Siberia, and only in 90s they go…

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    Comment #45352988

    Your opinion is really interest and important, but it lack evidence. What I mean, last years, I constantly gather information, on how countries grown their hackers community and pr…

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    Comment #45352376

    > If Windows didn't have to support a gigantic universe of old-yet-critical software Interest point, but not exact. MS have close to monopoly state and is very close to formal marg…

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    Comment #45351960

    They will not, because need to save at least weak competition, or anti-trust regulators will use very high taxes against Nvidia. This is reason, why Intel all previous decades save…

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    Comment #45264806

    War games, was one of the first Western movies appeared in USSR at time of "global discharge" (or better translation global easing), it was so fresh wind. I have seen movies with R…

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    Comment #45259300

    The main question, current smartphones are nearly 100% camera-phones, and people just used to camera-phone world and don't want anything else. But unfortunately, tiny camera is har…