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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by bob1029 »

Onavo wrote: post #241
srik wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Living in developing countries taught me to never plugin expensive computers without a surge protector UPS.

Do you still need a UPS if you have one of those household (Powerwall style) battery packs? Also Apple switched mode power supplies are pretty well built. But then again there's horror stories like https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/1maegvb/i_burned...

Yes. The power walls are like cheap UPS topology. You could still get whacked with a transient from the grid before the ATS decides to island the house.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by cyanydeez »

SlightlyLeftPad wrote: post #160
randerson wrote: post #150

I've developed a new fear of my 2025 desktop PC being damaged by a power surge or something, because it would cost at least $2K more to replace than I paid for it, assuming I can even find parts now. Compared to the rest of my adult life when I used to secretly pray for something to fail so I would have a reason to upgrade.

Silver lining: literally all Macs are a total steal right now.

The AMD395+ PCs have unified memory and since it's not tied to a garbage OS nor reasonably affected by future dram costs, it's a better choice for reasonable people, unless you're going for greater than 128GB

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by john_strinlai »

haunter wrote: post #244
realo wrote: post #239

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Hint : GE Force Now ssshhhhh... do not tell anyone I told you...

It's horrible. Bad quality, bad latency, can't mod the games etc. And worse you have to pay for it when you already have a more than capable computer.

i wouldnt go as far to say "its horrible".

i would never recommend it to someone who otherwise has a capable computer, of course, but it really isnt that bad. i gave it a pretty thorough test out of curiosity, and when they sponsored a few streamers i watch, it was totally fine. with the caveat that you have a decent internet connection and its probably not good for twitchy games like counter strike.

and, as far as i know, there is limited support for modding and some unsupported workarounds.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by frio »

boredatoms wrote: post #250
throwup238 wrote: post #175

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The big problem is purity. Fabs use grade 5 and 6 helium where contaminants are 1-10 parts per billion. The infrastructure to get it that pure becomes very specialized and any time the helium goes through a process it picks up so much contamination that recycling it would require the entire purifying and quality control infrastructure for pressure or temperature swing adsorption. Some fabs are starting to reuse heliu…

Do we have a process to make new helium from hydrogen?

Nuclear fusion?

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by erxam »

jmward01 wrote: post #234
SlightlyLeftPad wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Silver lining: literally all Macs are a total steal right now.

Anyone have a good take on how well Asahi linux keeps the power management working on mac hardware? The biggest killer feature for me of mac hardware is the battery/weight. I have found it hard to get a good laptop in the linux ecosystem mainly because of power consumption. If Asahi doesn't really impact the battery life then I would seriously consider going that route. Similar question about support for pytorch on l…

I think it's improved from when I last tried it, but it still isn't great. You can get like 60% of the battery life compared to macOS.

Someone with more recent knowledge correct me on this, but I believe idling is the biggest power drain in Asahi. You will want to shutdown and/or hibernate whenever possible.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by XorNot »

esafak wrote: post #216
cyberax wrote: post #183

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Everybody should be allowed to vote, except for people who don't want everyone to vote.

Even people who openly aim to violently overthrow the government and abolish elections?

If they're an electoral majority then you already have a problem.

But the point is they're less likely to get there if they're part of the power structure.

A presumed but frequently not mentioned component of democracy is the peaceful transition of power once a decision is made.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by fc417fc802 »

gjm11 wrote: post #233
estimator7292 wrote: post #143

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Would you like to offer a rebuttal more well reasoned and thought out than "nuh-uh"? You have the entire collected knowledge of mankind at your fingertips. You could do 30 seconds of research and find an answer better than "I don't think that sounds right".

What is asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence. (The form in which Christopher Hitchens actually stated "Hitchens' Razor" is more symmetrical but unfortunately wrong : "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence". Anything can be asserted without evidence! It's only when something actually has been , in a given context, that dismissing it is -- in the same context --…

While a reasonable principle I don't think it applies in context. People aren't expected to exhaustively source comments on HN. There's subjective etiquette to it.

In this case it would be reasonable to inquire about the basis of the original remark, or to reject based on personal knowledge, or to reject based on a concrete citation. But an arbitrary non-technical vibes based rejection doesn't fit with how things generally work here.

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Post by kelipso »

srik wrote: post #192
randerson wrote: post #150

I've developed a new fear of my 2025 desktop PC being damaged by a power surge or something, because it would cost at least $2K more to replace than I paid for it, assuming I can even find parts now. Compared to the rest of my adult life when I used to secretly pray for something to fail so I would have a reason to upgrade.

Living in developing countries taught me to never plugin expensive computers without a surge protector UPS.

Lightning can mess you up in every country lol. Had to replace a PSU because of that, thankfully it was just that and minor damage to GPU.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by [deleted] »

randerson wrote: post #150

I've developed a new fear of my 2025 desktop PC being damaged by a power surge or something, because it would cost at least $2K more to replace than I paid for it, assuming I can even find parts now. Compared to the rest of my adult life when I used to secretly pray for something to fail so I would have a reason to upgrade.

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