zaphod

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dream!⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There is still freedom of movement for workers between the EU and Switzerland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im curious what they will come up with⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point of satire if it can’t keep up with how bizarre reality has become?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not necessarily about transistors/mm^2, there is also power consumption and clock frequency. Back in the mid-2000’s clock frequencies stopped just under 4GHz and then went down for a few years before going back up to way past 4GHz in the last ten years or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  GlobalFoundries is still in Dresden, but the smallest process they have there is 12nm. They’re just not at the forefront anymore and focus on other market segments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  TSMC is building in Europe too, specifically in Dresden, Germany, but it’s afaik a 20nm fab mostly for automotive chips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m not entirely mistaken there is still some basis to the nanometre number, it just doesn’t refer to the actual smallest feature size or gate pitch anymore. Basically in the mid-2000 Dennard scaling stopped working and ever since the nanometre numbers are “made up”. Dennard scaling was how most progress was made by just shrinking transistors. But that doesn’t mean just because Dennard scaling doesn’t work anymore there is no progress, it’s just harder to achieve. So the semiconductor manufacturers just continued naming their fabrication methods as if Dennard scaling still worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is Now on the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For now it seems to be mostly very “fediverse”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe someone like should check if this is true. Anatoli Bugorski I am looking at you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Gen Z even allowed to drink yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every once in a while he blackmails the Tesla board into giving him a shit ton of money. Besides that he doesn’t have much, his wealth is in stocks, mostly Tesla, because his other companies aren’t publicly traded. What rich people do to actually get money is they get a loan backed by their stocks, and then never really paying it back. Tesla is extremely overvalued, but because of that he can just borrow as much money as he wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not gonna be part of your system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please properly compost me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time traveler⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t have mentioned him, you know that’s why they killed him, you caused this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E-Mail with own domain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of providers support custom domains, I’m currently using mailbox.org, used proton, zoho and google in the past. The process is usually just adding some dns records to link your domain to your mail provider and to verify that the domain belongs to you, every provider should have a list of instructions on how to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bo'le of wa'er⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You 'avin a giggle mate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are people living outside the USA?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you lose reliability. If you put the antenna in a pit it will be limited in its beamforming capability. This restricts the number of visible satellites, leading to situations where no satellites are visible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very hard to do. You need to be able to launch to the same orbits as the satellites and Starlink uses thousands of satellites, almost all of which will at some point fly over those countries. So they’d need to shoot them all down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Job postings don’t necessarily mean that they’re actually hiring. Sometimes job postings are used to appear healthy in public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two-shay⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you ever really know anyone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really static. It’s digital, the transmission scheme has structure. It’s only the transmitted data that is encrypted, but you’d have to first unpack the transmission to get to the data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hacker News is currently drowning in “I did something with AI” posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried using it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course you can elect kings. It’s called elective monarchy, there have been a few of those throughout history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I look at some generic instance’s unfiltered feed all I see is posts about USA/Trump. I can see how this might deter a lot of Europeans who are looking for alternatives to Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be most of the Lemmy instances, but it’s missing the 2k monthly active users on PieFed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that quality seems to keep getting better and better

  It doesn’t. It’s the same people who keep posting the same lame memes as always.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m presented the same shit over and over again.

  Do you sort by active? Use hot or scaled instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy: Beans ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine, without people like you and me it’d be very quiet around here. Just people screaming posting into the void.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have to be different, but if it isn’t why would Paramount be interested in making it? TNG and DS9 overlapped and were different, same with DS9 and VOY. But TNG and VOY were also very different. I suppose if someone would come up with a cool idea for a Una spin-off that is not just a direct continuation of SNW there might be a chance. Personally I’d be more interested in something set after TNG/Lower Decks to get away from the TOS era, and also stay away from the DIS 32nd century stuff.