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They bombed Gaza into rubble before sending ground troops in. Something that makes zero sense because it turns the urban environment into something even more advantageous for the defenders. Then they are surprised that Hamas and other resistance forces are taking advantage of the mountains of rubble filling streets to stage ambushes.

It would have been one thing if they sent ground troops in and called in airstrikes on fortified enemy positions whenever they met resistance but they turned the entire city into rubble beforehand. I almost feel bad for the IOF idiots I see in videos getting filled with lead as they try to climb through rubble. A lot of those locations don't look like it's possible to get infantry fighting vehicles or heavy weapons into because the streets are impassable for anyone but people on foot.

mosquitos are a food source for fish, birds, bats, and dragonflys while landlords are not

Uhhhhmm... I think the prefer to be called "tech bros" or "founders".

Can always take your uncle up on the offer as long as a position/internship is in the main part of Boeing rather than the "integrated military systems" division.

There is lots of work in the commerical side of Boeing rather than the military side. It's a good career. Boeing is kinda unique out of the big US defense contractors in that the commerical/civilian division is primary with the company having a smaller subsidiary that does military production. Most people at Boeing will never be involved with producing weapons and military hardware, the people who do end up in that part of the company are there because they choose to.

Honestly every established corporation in the US has military contracts, everyone thinks of the prime contractors but for every project there are thousands of downstream subcontractors. To put this in perspective, even Burger King and Subway are are military contractors.

It's cute that anyone believes "democracy" was ever the goal. Anyway, I'm gonna check on how my shares of Lockheed Martin Corp and RTX Corp are doing.

We probably still have at least two big performance leaps left before we have to either abandon silicon based transistors or the FET based logic gate. The next big thing Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and IBM are all working on is replacing the FinFET transistor we currently use for logic with Gate All Around Field Effect Transistors (GaaFET). Everyone will stay on gate all around for maybe 5 to 7 years and after we have squeezed out all possible performance optimizations, most roadmaps point to something like non-planar designs with multiple logic gates vertically stacked atop each other (CFET) being the next evolution. After that, maybe FET based logic gates on silicon will have finally hit their limit and a new material like germanium will be adopted... or we might just replace FETs all together with new forms of logic gates based on a novel mechanism.

but we're also nearly into the territory that the last mile of improvements require the entire computer (e.g. RAM/wifi/GPU/disk) must all be embedded into the final chip.

We already went there, all modern CPUs (Intel, AMD, ARM) are true SOCs (systems on a chip) where the components that used to be discreet (south bridge, north bridge, memory controller, clock generators, io/storage/network/usb controllers) are now integrated on the same silicon as the CPU cores themselves. The latest generation chips from both Intel and AMD are even leveraging 3D integration (vertically stacking modules on top of each other) to squeeze out that last bit of extra performance while maintaining the same physical footprint. It's at the point where they are 3D stacking up to a gigabyte of SRAM based L3 cache directly on top of CPU cores or putting up to 128GB of HBM ram directly on the CPU package to act as an L4 cache.

Some people assume only CPUs built for mobile devices (phones, laptops) are full SOCs but desktop/server CPUs that get socketed into a motherboard at this point are also true SOCs. Modern desktop and server motherboards tend to be nothing more than power delivery components and a physical jig that makes it easy to plug peripherals into the CPU SOC or connect multiple CPU SOCs together on one board. Other than increasing the bandwidth of interconnects, there is still very real performance that can be gained by lowering the latency between CPUs and plug in peripherals like memory DIMMs, discrete GPUs, network adapters, or other CPUs via replacing electrical traces with photonics. Intel's lab division has been working on maturing silicon photonics to the point it can be directly integrated into a CPU.

It's hands down gross negligence on the part of Panera. I'm surprised so many people are leaping to defend a corporation that did something harmful as a marketing gimmick and had it backfire by killing or causing kidney failure in customers. They are serving this from the soda fountain setup in fountain drink containers, which means there is no nutritional/supplement facts and FDA warning label provided on every container like with drink cans/bottles. Panera created this product without ever wondering why both Coca-Cola and Pepsi soda fountain energy beverages have their caffeine concentration formulated not as coffee/energy-drink strength but tea/soda strength to account for the standard serving size. It's the same reason soda fountain energy beverages always have the vitamin B concentration dramatically lower than that of canned energy drinks or energy shots because Coca-Cola and Pepsi are well aware someone drinking fountain drink servings of those vitamins can cause kidney damage.

Is this literally just a case of "people who drink coffee build up a tolerance to both the taste and caffeine, while anyone can just chug a literal gallon of sugar water with no caffeine tolerance at all"?

400 mg per liter isn't all that high, that's a little higher concentration than coffee but not by much.

Real issue is they are serving it in US fountain drink cups (ie 32oz, 44oz, 48oz) rather than coffee sized cups (ie 8oz, 12oz, 16oz) and have caffeine concentration that aren't incidental (nutritional facts territory, ie from kola nut or tea leave food ingredients) but have crossed into where the FDA requires it be treated as a pharmaceutical product (like energy drinks) with supplement facts.

For coffee and other caffeinated beverages of similar concentration the largest serving container is always 16oz (large coffee cup, Rockstar, Monster, Bang) while the regular sized is 8oz (coffee cup, regular redbull) and medium is 12oz (standard coffee mug, large redbull). The FDA actually has guidelines on these serving sizes. Panera shouldn't have been serving this as a fountain beverage, no one else does for a reason and that reason being common sense in the protecting your business from liability.

Damn, it's almost as if sports guys make enough money to transition into the bourgeoisie

The pay is upper middle class for most players but we only really hear about the handful of super stars that have fat contracts and tens of millions in sponsorship deals. Only a tiny percentage ever make enough to transition out of the working class.

The vast majority ending up with broken bodies and working at a used car dealership the rest of their lives. These men and women were born with bodies that are statistical flukes and not made for a long healthy life due to their exaggerated size. We then ask them to do extreme things with their bodies and push limits that human beings shouldn't be able to cross. This is why players unions that can secure lifetime medical benefits for former players are so critical in professional team sports.

Here are a few papers on the subject in chronological order:

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) sources for lithography based on synchrotron radiation (2001) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168900201008877

Steady-State Microbunching in a Storage Ring for Generating Coherent Radiation (2010) - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.154801

Demonstration of a ring-FEL as an EUV lithography tool (2020) - https://journals.iucr.org/s/issues/2020/04/00/ve5121/index.html

Experimental demonstration of the mechanism of steady-state microbunching (2021) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03203-0

A synchrotron-based kilowatt-level radiation source for EUV lithography (2022) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07323-z

All these MLM firms are also banned in most Muslim majority nations on religious grounds. They were immediately identified as textbook examples of usery.

Yeah. Moorethreads is the company iirc. To put things in perspective, Intel recently also got serious about competing with Nvidia and AMD on discrete GPUs. Intel already has decades of experience making integrated GPUs and has had multiple failed starts into the discrete GPU market but Moorethreads who started a couple years later than Intel's most recent push, is at about the same stage of development as them.

Like Intel, they are a lot closer to Nvidia/AMD on hardware (roughly 4 - 5 years) than benchmarks make it seem but are being held back by just how much work it takes to bring the software driver stack up to the same level as Nvidia/AMD. Both Intel and Moorethreads are around 10 to 15 years behind Nvidia/AMD on driver software but this is a little misleading because both companies have decided to mostly abandon older graphics/compute apis (DirectX 9/10/11, OpenGL) to focus all their software development work on DirectX12/Vulkan. DirectX12 and Vulkan both have extensions that can handle software written for the older APIs at a 10 - 20% performance hit, which is a fair trade since newer software is more often than not DX12/Vulkan native.

With newer APIs like DX12 and Vulkan, less optimization happens at the graphics API/driver level with instead developers being given low level access to make the optimizations themselves. So, if they can get enough of these new GPUs into the hands of end users, developers will be forced to optimize games and applications for them. This is why both Intel and Moorethreads are just going into full scale mass production and selling their cards almost at-cost.

Very few large corporations are majority employee owned, at least outside China. Only ones I can think of in the US are WinCo (grocery stores) and Valve Corp (steam, halflife, gabe). I guess there is also Bob's Redmill but they aren't that big. In China a sizeable chunk of the private sector is structured like that with Huawei probably being the most famous example. It's not a perfect structure and there are downsides but it's something.

I find it interesting that large corporations structured like that have a stability and long term outlook similar to well managed state owned enterprises. None of the mergers, reorganizations, and fire sales of assets you see so often with other large private sector enterprises. Then again, it's probably harder to get the board to approve mass layoffs or downsizing to juice next quarters profits when most of the board seats represent rank and file employees.

Yeah. It's actually Russia that is around 10 to 15 years from catching up. I've been following both the Russian and Chinese state firms in charge of developing semiconductor fab tooling. The main Chinese firm is about to make a full two or three generation leap past ASML (the top western firm) in the coming 3 or so years. The Russian state firm in charge of this type of tooling hasn't made anything since shortly before the USSR fell, back when Russia still maintained semiconductor lithography tech parity with the US and only right around the time the Ukraine war kicked off have they started back up their r&d.

The new EUV light source and lithography machines China has going into trial production are more advanced than anything ASML (where TSMC & western fabs get their EUV light source) has in the works. China decided to leapfrog the western firms by skipping the inefficient method of vaporizing tin microspheres with a laser to make pulses of EUV light (extremely inefficient, low quality light) and instead is going with particle accelerators to generate continuous EUV light that is higher quality (greater culmination, narrower frequency range) and higher output (10 to 100 times brighter for given power input) while using less valuable fab infrastructure space. Because a particle accelerator lacks all the moving parts and is mostly solid state, it has many times greater mean time between failure compared to the ASML machines that have duty cycles around only 90% operational uptime and 10% maintenance downtime. Rather than needing to build/buy a dozen or more EUV machines to equip a fab at scale (one ASML light source per lithography station) and have them still be a production bottleneck, you can install a single one of the Chinese particle accelerator light sources to provide EUV light to more than a dozen lithography stations placed around the circumference of its ring.

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another observation. the western lithography tooling firms seem to be at a tech development disadvantage because they make so much of their money from service contracts to maintain the machines they sell. I could never see ASML decide on their own to create the type of hardware Chinese state firms have in the works because the complexity and unreliably of their machines is a major source of revenue after they make the initial sale. Their board of directors and shareholders would never allow it. ASML would also never design a machine that can replace a dozen or more machines of the same cost even if it meant higher quality output for the end user. This is why I can't see them competing in the long run now that China has made development of advanced lithography tooling a national priority with full backing of the state.

He kept it up for over 40 years and is now 73. If I were him, I'd try to get caught right around now because it's now or never if he wants credit in the history books as a final fk you.

Minimum security federal prison for white collar crimes isn't any worse than the average nursing home in the US. Anyway, he's old enough that even if he is sent to prison (which will be federal), he will qualify for a compassionate release very shortly.

Intel can also let Israel fk off if they wanna play it like that. Israel does all this PR stuff hyping up the Intel lab and fab there as if it's where all the cutting edge stuff happens, this is a lie. That facility in Israel does what amounts to outsourced QA work with all of the real R&D happening at the Intel campus and fab in the Hillsboro suburb here in Portland Oregon. Intel has been steadily reducing their exposure in Israel for over a decade now.

No one puts a critical fab and r&d lab somewhere as filed with conflict as Israel, somewhere rockets or bombs are going off on the regular and even a single day halt in production means tens of billions of dollars in damage and consequences across the global economy. The Israelis never seem to realize this. They think they're important geniuses people want to work with rather than a group of poorly mannered weirdos everyone is barely tolerating only because they've been asked to. They don't realize that if they make ultimatums, a lot of people in the company will actually be revealed because they have been given a way to end the relationship without breaching any agreements.

Development of the most recent generation of Intel process was finished last month at the campus and fab in the Portland area with all the new tooling they developed shipped to the Intel fab in Ireland where mass production for this upcoming generation of leading edge chips will happen. This time around I don't think the Israeli campus was even involved with the QA work to a serious extent.

They are bazinga brained dip shits but we crossed the threshold from scifi to reality on this being doable (with money and disregard for law) over a decade ago. We've already had doctors and geneticists break the law by making edits to the genes of human children altering their brain architecture. Doing something this extreme would just require iteration and willingness to have many generations of fkd up test subjects born until the goal was achieved.

Most recent example was an IVF doctor in China who a group of US and UK scientists cooped to make gene edits to a group of children in China (is highly illegal regardless but didn't even inform their parents) to give them HIV immunity and alter their brain architecture. The IVF doctor got arrested and convicted after the group published their research paper, the western scientists who took part saw no legal consequences.

We can manipulate genomes along with having mapped in depth both human and other great ape genomes. It's why when we initially hit that tech level, laws were passed internationally and in nations with the required tech base to outlaw this type of genetics manipulation in specific. Gene editing to create food that are resistant to environmental collapse, pesticide resistant, or healthier is legal and so is editing genes of lab animals to make them express novel characteristics. But gene editing of human brain genetics into other animals is expressly illegal, as is editing any part of the human genome. The most allowed is creating chimeras where the human genes are present but not expressed.

USB/NFC hardware keys are pretty good though, they are just the current form of smartcard hardware keys that have been around since the late 1990s for high security environments. If you worked for certain federal agencies or private sector companies, you might have used them. They are old technology at this point that has more recently been introduced into the consumer space as platforms and companies face backlash for constantly having security breaches.