Kazumara
@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 2 days ago:
You’re right that there are many drivers and people from manufacturers responsible for hardware families, but there still needs to be a maintainer for the subsystem as a whole.
That person reviews what the manufacturers and other contributors send in, to validate that things are still compatible where they touch in the kernel, and that the code is good enough. They then prep the commits of the subsystem for inclusion into the next kernel version and pass that to Linus, is my understanding.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 6 days ago:
I don’t have an answer but I have another example:
“A part of something” gets turned into “apart of something”, I assume this is also not caught by autocorrect because “apart from something” would actually exist.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 6 days ago:
I’m not suggesting she should kiss ass, far be it from me. But I still don’t see a good motive for this move. A civil suit is not going to get her anything, she’s just highlighting Trumps symbolic bullshit even more.
And then when the suit either goes against her or goes for her but results in laughibly low compensation because the measureable harm is not significant, then it will look like a confirmation of the power of the convict in chief.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 6 days ago:
Yeah the companies obsoleting stuff are never worried about cutting off customers anyway. Fuck em.
- Comment on Trump prepares to change US CHIPS Act conditions, sources say 1 week ago:
Oh yeah that sounds brilliant. Not like that market needs a stable regulatory environment for their massive investrment to come to fruition. I’m sure it will inspire a lot of confidence in investments in the US chip market when he alters the deal after billions of sunk cost.
- Comment on Arm's to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports 1 week ago:
Yeah they don’t, since they are fabless. Same as Nvidia or Apple. They all design chips.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 week ago:
So it just kills them for the model users that buy from Amazon and put it on their Amazon device without conversion in between. Even though they should be Amazons favourites.
lol, lmao even.
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 1 week ago:
The article opens with saying only 25% of the fuel’s energy gets used by the motor, 75% is in the heat of the exhaust. I’ll take that as a given. Let’s assume a small motor (in this inventions favour) with a nominal power of only 60 kW, running only at half tilt, 30 kW.
That gives us 90 kW in the exhaust heat by the numbers of the article. So the 56 W it captured in the simulation would be 0.046% of the total 120 kW power being converted by burning the fuel, raising the efficiency from 25% to 25.046%.
The headline is so massively overstated it’s basically just a lie. If the device was built, not just simulated, and you’d manage to substitute part of the alternator’s ouptut with the thermoelectic generator’s output, the effect on fuel economy would be below the measurable level.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
Oh, sorry. You’re right. I was wrong on that point. I didn’t realize it showed the sensitive label in parenthesis to others.
I would maintain the rest of the argument though, with the Mexican (and global) point of view being the more prominently displayed, there is no significant harm, and she doesn’t stand to gain anything from pursuing a civil case, nor politically.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
This is stupid. Google is doing it with their normal process, labeling the USA as a sensitive country in their system and changing the label only for the sensitive snowflakes. So there is no harm to Mexicans in Mexico.
What sort of damages would she assert anyway? That her country suffers in a significant way from a Google Maps label that can only be seen from the sensitive country? How so?
And if it’s a political move what is she hoping to achieve? Google will never cave to the USA before Mexico, they depend more on their US operations than their Mexican ones. So she can’t achieve anything politically. Does she want to draw even more attention to a losing fight? A losing fight over mere symbolism no less? Why?
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 1 week ago:
22 Ampere is pretty much half the power draw of the card, through one wire instead of three if the load was properly balanced between them.
Apparently the reference design only has one current shunt, so they can’t even measure the imbalance. Madness.
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 1 week ago:
You probably mean der8auer?
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 1 week ago:
I can really recommend both Der 8auers video and Buildzoids video on this. Der 8auer has good thermal imaging of imbalanced current between two 12V HPWR plugs, and Buildzoid has the explanation why the current can’t be balanced with the current setup on 5090s.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 1 week ago:
Alternatively WikiToko would be cute
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
Hey at least it doesn’t have 3566 tonnes displacement
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
I’m working on long range stuff so I’m not so familiar with PON specifically. Maybe I made some bad assumptions. Stable at -30 dBm receive sounds really impressive.
The one I was talking about is this, with 18.5 dB total budget, that is, min +4.5 dBm transmit, and min -14 dBm receive. This one is built with an APD.
In my kind of application, without splitter, this will get you about 30-40 km. We’ve got one of a slightly older type with 18 dB budget running between Fribourg and Bern for example.
I realize that PON stuff is quite different with the time slitting and I think wavelenght splitting too, at least in XGS-PON, but I was thinking the pure laser and diode physics would need to be the same.
For -25 dBm minimum the most similar of the ones we currently have would be this one which manages -26.9 dBm and is one of the ones with a SOA built in, or for the 10G stuff this one, which manages min -23 dBm but with only an APD and no SOA.
I’m thinking their 50G stuff must be closer to 100G than 10G transceiver design. So I wonder if they manage to make it without SOA.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if they use semiconductor optical amplifiers in the receivers, or if they can make do with avalanche photodiodes.
The 100G stuff I’m looking at has 18.5 dB budget with APDs, that seems rough considering you want a few kilometers of fiber, a few splices and a few connectors (probably LC/APC) as well.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure I have the same ISP as you, but so far I didn’t splurge to buy 10G or 25G gear.
If you don’t mind telling, what router and switches did you go for?
Or did you go the Michael Stapelberg route?
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that does seem a bit weird, my four year old RX 6800 has 16 GB VRAM already
- Comment on Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration 5 weeks ago:
That’s pretty dangerous. Four years of no projects being build could kill an industry and drive away the skilled people. By the time a sane government gets established again the companies may be gone and people would be otherwise engaged, so a quick bounce back wouldn’t really be possible either.
- Comment on Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives 1 month ago:
Ah man, that’s a shame. The P41 was one I remembered for being a surprisingly good value despite being a drive with good performance. I never had the chance of buying one, since I don’t have a free slot, and it wasn’t worth replacing my existing drive.
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 1 month ago:
Laws don’t magically stop working just because you’re out of jurisdiction.
Actually I would say that most do. Extraterritorial jurisdiction is the exception, not the rule. Many countries apply it for cases of Genocide and War Crimes for example. You are right though that the US does apply a lot of its laws on US persons or vessels in international waters.
- Comment on Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave. 1 month ago:
What’s an NO attack?
- Comment on DOOM® CAPTCHA 1 month ago:
I tried going straight, but after a while I noticed there’s actually an invisible pinky over there.
Also is the sound too high, or is it just me not rememberering right?
- Comment on DOOM® CAPTCHA 1 month ago:
RNG in doom, that’s illegal :D
- Comment on The writers have run out of ideas 1 month ago:
First of all thanks for the picture, it looks so good! Much better!
Secondly, aren’t the flames and smoke in slightly different positions? Perhaps there exist multiple pictures, or a video, from this angle?
- Comment on That's... normal 2 months ago:
Depends on who’s writing the laws. Sometimes crime is moral.
With the resurgence of chauvinist parties who ignore human rights this is important to keep in mind at the moment.
- Comment on Swiss Experiment Will Place Solar Panels Between Train Tracks 3 months ago:
We just discussed this a month ago in the Technology@lemmy.world community: discuss.tchncs.de/post/23083174
- Comment on Pants 3 months ago:
Depends on the day I’d say. Option 1 if they’re feeling row major, option 2 for column major days
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 3 months ago:
Besides “AI and facetuned images” from OP, another supernormal stimulus that comes to mind is fat anime tiddies.