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How Small Is Small? From PC Mag https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/process-technology
To understand how tiny these transistor elements are, using state-of-the-art 5 nm feature sizes as an example, 16 thousand of them laid side-by-side are equal to the cross section of one human hair. See half-node and active area.

Semiconductor Feature Sizes
(approximate for all vendors)

Nanometers Micrometers Millimeters
Year (nm) (µm) (mm)

1957 120,000 120.0 0.12
1963 30,000 30.0 0.03
1971 10,000 10.0 0.01
1974 6,000 6.0
1976 3,000 3.0
1982 1,500 1.5 **
1985 1,300 1.3 **
1989 1,000 1.0 **
1993 600 0.6 **
1996 350 0.35 **
1998 250 0.25 **
1999 180 0.18 **
2001 130 0.13 **
2003 90 0.09 **
2005 65 0.065
2008 45 0.045
2010 32 0.032
2012 22 0.022
2014 14 0.014
2017 10 0.010
2018 7 0.007
2020 5 0.005
2022 3 0.003
2024 2 0.002 ***

What this means is:- very complex circuits can be laid out and placed inside a bypass capacitor on the 3.3 or 5 volt rail that pass their data through the encapsulant via IR and also receive instructions. They can be hidden on multilayer boards hidden by the + and G rails from x-rays. They can also access data busses by similar hidden means. With data bus access they can get/send clocked data on command.
Ever hear of the 'Russian Pebbles'. Dead drops that use a foot coil to send/receive data, and yes, they have wireless charging - a charger agent places his foot nearby the buried pebbles...
You can literally buy a rack count tray for Mac Minis on Amazon, so I’d assume AWS mounts them in racks. It’s not the cleanest model, but Mac mini’s are smaller than 1U (1.4” vs 1.75”). They are also much cleaner to rack than the old trash can Mac Pros.

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After living in Asia for the last several years where cities combine high density housing and good mass transit with door to door access to great shopping centers the US just looks comically dysfunctional to me.

Who wants to spend hours every day stuck in traffic and looking for parking and then pay outrageous rents for the privilege?
OK. I can see we're not going to be able to have a serious conversation about this.
Well... I didn't say "affordable." I spent as much on this monitor as I spent on a laptop in grad school ($700ish). Three factors for me here: I transitioned to working from home and the expense was tax-deductable; I'm not in grad school anymore; I'm very frugal, so when do make a rare purchase, I go for quality.
Somewhere someone had proposed a new rule that would require all parking structures to be built on level floors, with the idea of allowing a future conversion when the conditions are right. Slanted floors negate this option from the start.
They should have a popup saying "Try Firefox", then I'll believe it's based on a genuine concern for their users.
If you multiply it out, then it's just a regular number?

Your idea smells like wishful thinking.
Most cities and urban areas would be much better off with a preponderance of middle-density housing! But, as has been mentioned elsewhere, protectionism in zoning laws and rampant NIMBYism is a difficult wave to break.

Our love affair with middle-density housing is a bit of a cultural/historical oddity; there really aren't other places in Canada where this is wide-spread norm.
I’ll admit - I don’t watch much tv or movies anymore, but I can’t help but think the “problem” here is how many of these programs are the equivalent of “ouch my balls” from Idiocracy - that is to say, the dialog is just filler between explosions anyway (IE: it’s being watched for the over-the-top action, it isn’t like the dialog is Goethe.)
That study is about the benefit of wearing surgical masks "in a setting where masks were uncommon and not among recommended public health measures"--thus answering the question "do surgical masks protect the wearer."

Surgical masks are thought to have a relatively limited benefit for the wearer, so this isn't surprising. However, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02457-y demonstrates clearly that in a randomized controlled trial where surgical masks are distributed to a whole community, there was a statistically significant reduction in cases:

"The decrease was a modest 9%, but the researchers suggest that the true risk reduction is probably much greater, in part because they did no SARS-CoV-2 testing of people without symptoms or whose symptoms did not meet the World Health Organization’s definition of the disease."

There's certainly more to learn here, of course.
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>But I wonder if democracies have optimized as far as they can.

If you dig your powdered wig out of the closet and look back at the founding of the united States of America, their big idea is still pretty good. The article makes this point, obliquely:

>All we need is to build distributed systems that work. That means decentralized bulk activity, hierarchical regulation.

Having the Big Nationwide Things happen at the federal level, and the Not Quite As Big Local Things happen at the State level was a fine idea. You can't get Tennessee and North Carolina to agree on BBQ; do you really think they're going to have the same ideas on social issues, or how to handle them? It's all well and good to have nationwide building codes, but even that falls apart rather quickly. You don't build the same way in California as you would on the Gulf Coast.

Cramming everything into the federal purview wheelhouse is great if you're in NYC or LA, and you can't stand that some people in Nebraska or Alabama disagree with you.
In general there are good reasons not to do that. It's much easier to ship a tiny dependency-free JS library than it is to ship a browser.
An easy solution would be putting your phone in the bag and have someone else call it.

The post does mention something similar near the bottom where they suggest putting an AirTag in the bag and seeing if your phone can find it.
The book must have been the source of Bloomberg's horrible reporting with the "Big Hack".

> fast charger wall outlets, USB cables, etc.

This seems far more likely than supply chain attacks on enterprise hardware.
> I have no idea what this phenomenon is called.

It's called either pereidolia or apophenia
In practice you run all your process-isolated code in one process as a daemon instead of spawning it per call.

I think you're on the right track in boiling down the problem to "minimize the memory shared between languages and restrict the interface to well defined semantics around serialized data" - which in modern parlance is called a "remote procedure call" protocol (examples are gRPC and JSON RPC).

It's interesting to think about how one could do an RPC call without the "remote" part - keep it all in the same process. What you could do is have a program with an API like this :

int rpc_call (int fd);

where `fd` is the file descriptor (could even be an anonymous mmap) containing the serialized function call, and the caller gets the return value by reading the result back.

One tricky bit is thread safety, so you'd need a thread local file for the RPC i/o.
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On top of that, their open core model makes it hard to say how secure all that UI is and how pro-user they actually are. In that phone-home test they had some of the worst score n that regard, together with Edge.
> And yet some neighborhoods are more desirable than others. Is this not already obvious from the state of the market today? Developers go where the most money can be made—the neighborhoods which are already valuable.

This is just a non-sequitur. Of course some neighborhoods are more valuable than others. But if you have twelve similarly-valuable neighborhoods within reasonable distance of each other, and you only upzone some of them, those will increase in value at the expense of the others.

Also, developers frequently choose the least valuable neighborhoods, because development makes the neighborhood more valuable, so they go where they can buy low and sell high.

> Tax breaks, duh.

So now the middle class gets to pay taxes to subsidize housing they're not eligible to live in, while not being able to afford the housing they are eligible to live in.

> You combine them. You make luxury units possible with a mandate that a percentage of the building be affordable.

Which dramatically increases the cost of the program because the opportunity cost of having more high value housing is so much larger than the cost of building lower cost housing in lower cost areas.

You also end up with the bizarre result and perverse incentive that people not eligible for affordable housing have to live somewhere worse than people who are, so making more money makes your life worse.

This also increases housing costs for the middle class because you under-produce luxury housing so the people who would have bought the luxury housing are now bidding against the middle class for ordinary housing.
> Not sure how they, and not Amazon

Pure speculation, but Microsoft and Apple have long standing working relationship, in a way that Amazon just doesn't have.
I had no idea that they were common enough in Chicago to have a colloquial name! That's awesome.
> Rather, it has seemed to me that rural folks live closer to nature than urban folks, and have often had firsthand experience that mother nature tends to be nasty and brutish.

That's an interesting interpretation. To me, what's more nasty and brutish than a fellow man? I always thought the divide was explained by how in the country everyone knows everyone and have repeated interactions with the same people. It's prisoners dilemma, but the game doesn't end. Who needs rules when you can all punish somebody for an offense (like being gay)?
people that accept the default choices in life are always the ones swinging at people who don't and it remains true even when what was once is obscure all of a sudden has cultural/business momentum to escape that relative obscurity.
They just don't call them apartments, they call them condos. But they're essentially apartments for sale, and I see them all the time.
Do you have any current customer? Can you just unplug it without hurting anyone?

The price structure is strange. I think 50 VM in the free plan is too much, and $1200 in the next plan is too much. [This is extremely far from my knowledge area, so perhaps my opinion is very wrong.]

Also, from this post by patio11, https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... the sell price is the annual profit multiplied by a small number, like x1, x2, x3, ... It depends on a lot of things, and people have sold companies without profit, but don't be too optimistic.
AWS CDK v2 Released
Thanks, I should really look into this more closely.
I use two 27" 4k Monitors in landscape mode arranged vertically. That way I have one primary monitor just in front of me and some extra space when I need it.

Having the secondary screen above the primary means you won't have neck pain from looking to the one side all the time. In addition, it is quite relaxing to lean back and watch a presentation/video on the secondary screen.

The biggest downside is the position of a webcam. I placed it between the monitors with a 3D printed holder. However, that is certainly not an optimal solution.
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> It improves that process in a disintegrating third world country,

A disintegrating third world country will not be able to enforce anything. So, you've transferred your money and got a key to a non-existent place.

Good luck with your "improved process".
I tried a huge "wraparound" dell screen and after 3 months I never got used to turning my head: I kept centering a window that was roughly 4:3 aspect ratio, just enough to fit 80 columns of text and a sidebar in VSCode/Sublime, or a typical browser session.

The biggest problem I had was switching between laptop screen and giant monitor. It sucked, I would constantly have to fix the desktop whenever I went to a conference room and returned to my desk.

I think if you work in exactly one desk, and simply need auxilliary screens that you don't look at frequently, big monitor or multi-monitor helps, but I don't know what situation would call for that when you can just swipe to a new desktop.
Well, we were getting pretty nice results pre-XX century,
before any of the taxpayers' money got (forcibly) involved. Why not just continue relying on that proven model (i.e. the rich bored folks, the benefactors and the crazy hermits)? Esp. in math, where there's no need for any equipment or materials, it seemed to work well.
>Even Microsoft's own software ironically works MUCH better on macOS than Windows. Try Office on macOS and you'll be surprised how good it is compared to Windows

That has not been my experience (though I wish it were).

Excel on MacOS still feels clunky and has significant performance problems with big files - including crashes.
I was in a similar situation. They gave me a November date, but the 5th circuit stayed OSHA's ETS so they gave it up, at least temporarily. I absolutely want to get out of the suburbs and start homesteading.
I don't know why you are voted down. This is very much true for The Netherlands as well. Ever since the year 2000, possibly before, ICU beds have been scaled down.

Diederik Grommers, one member of the Dutch Outbreak Management Team (OMG) states: "it doesn't matter if you're vaccinated or not; 60% of the beds are occupied by vaccinated people; the problems we will encounter in the coming weeks are caused by the fact that we totally hollowed out our health care" [0].

The Netherlands has about 6 ICU beds per 100.000 citizens. Germany has almost 30 ICU beds per 100.000 citizens [1]. Now I know Germany did accept patients from The Netherlands on their ICUs and perhaps Germany is doing the same for other countries, so perhaps that is causing a capacity problem in Germany as well.

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFg78PgDgu0

[1]: https://cdn.nos.nl/image/2020/03/30/640384/3840x2160a.jpg
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> large multinationals like Amazon

I don't know about the internal workings of Amazon specifically, but many corporations are set up as hierarchical "business units" that each operate as separate companies within: selling their products and services within the company. There's still a market, not everything is determined centrally.

> On the contrary, it scaled pretty well in China and in Soviet Russia, leading to the two cases of the fastest economical growth on the planet. The problem is not scalability.

China grew much faster after it instituted market reforms. I'm not as familiar with Soviet Russia, but I'd be surprised if it grew faster than similar market-based countries during the same time period.
No, there's no evidence in science of reincarnation or an afterlife.
Thinking deeply about the system and finding the changes you can apply with minimal disruption and maximal impact is the opposite of what the GP is talking about.
He removed his fake so I got downvoted haha.
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I wouldn't say RISC-V isn't missing anything. The lack of add/subtract with carry is an issue for efficient runtime of many JITed languages like JavaScript.

That being said, I don't think it's the worse thing in the world like some do. The focus now should be on compiled code since JITs by definition can make runtime descions on if some future extension that fixes this deficiency exists or not. The J extension has stalled for the moment, but with these other extensions ratified there should be more bandwidth available hopefully.
Fear Fuels the Vaccine Wars
Some experts suggest Omicron variant may have evolved in an animal host
We are building a ton of apartment buildings, but most of it is replacing light commercial, industrial or virgin lots. Adding duplex, triplex, and quadplex housing allows further density in established residential neighborhoods where you have no political chance of putting a 6 story apartment building. Additionally, duplex units can be sold, making a greater number of residents into invested homeowners.
I had a weird experience recently. We tore out our deck during Covid lockdown and I had a rusty nail puncture my skin. The doctor who treated it pulled out a sheet that was essentially a decision tree that determined that after cleaning the wound I just needed to be sent home with a lollipop. (Recent tetanus shot was sufficient.)

The strange part was when the doctor showed me the tree and asked me if I agreed... My response was "You're the doctor, you tell me?!"
If i recall correctly the sifive unmatched is still pretty slow compared to ARM( https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=hifive-u... ).Now this board is not the one in question(P650) but we'll have to observe upcoming benchmarks [for which i recommend phoronix]

Obviously you can't even think about comparing it further with Intel & AMD, but when you look at the history of something like ARM(which i believe is 30-40 years old), riscv came a long way pretty fast, and the good thing it's a solid choice for the future due being open.
Smart Homes Alter Human Behavior
Operating systems are getting ever more user hostile, even though their main reason to exist is moving more and more in the direction of being there to run a single application: the browser, with ChromeOs being the current representative of that trend.

I'll shed a small tear for the people that are still forced to use Windows, but Google is at least as bad with this in pushing Chrome at the expense of other browsers.

And users are caught in the middle. OS vendors should STFU, stop pushing their services, ban telemetry and other invasive stuff and put the user centric. Fat chance of that happening any day soon though, after all, the only reason that users exist in the first place is to be ripped of or squeezed like so many lemons until the last penny has been forced out of their pockets.
The thing I don't get is why many SFH owners don't see the benefit of upzoning their lot: Overnight, their house is much more valuable because if they choose to, they can sell to a developer who can make MORE money by building more homes. And if they choose to keep their house as is, nobody is going to force them.

In the end, it boils down to cars, though. Many people see the free parking space in front of their house as an extension of their property, and more people on their street often means they have to compete for it. Make cars optional, and everything else falls into place.
I agree it looks great. But the density is around 8500/sq mile, which happens to be almost the same as Los Angeles. So, this type of development wouldn’t do that much for housing affordability in LA. I feel like people seriously underestimate how dense Californian cities already are.
And it's a standard service that any of their developers can access as needed without needing to either setup their own Macs as a service in a lab or distributing standardized Macs for testing/builds/etc.

For a small shop it probably makes more sense to just buy the Macs, especially if they do a lot of iOS/OSX development.
I have zero interest in sports of any kind, but this has made me wonder if there’s some way I can support this.
You can also just add the extensions by temporarily turning the "Developer mode" switch on and dragging the archive into the extensions pane.
"And that's when I was like, Okay, I'm done with this. Now I want to buy a safe bet. And the safe bet was Alibaba. It had fallen from $330 to $245, but I had wanted to find a company where the price-earnings ratio was low, and every single analyst had a buy rating with like a 40-50% upside on it. Looking at all of TipRanks, my understanding was that this was a very, very safe bet with a limited amount of risk."

A good way to judge the riskiness of a stock is to look at the current implied volatility. Currently the 1-month IV is 20 for SPY (an S&P 500 ETF) and 53 for BABA, according to https://marketchameleon.com/Overview/BABA/IV/ . Index implied vols are lower because indices are more diversified than individual stocks and therefore safer.
If that were true there’d be no need to outlaw it!