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"Fab" seems a bit of an overstatement. What he is describing is similar in capabilities to what any average university lab with a device fabrication facility is capable of.

Which, at least for the Oslo area, offers more reliable predictions than Apple's weather app (which is always weather.com, afaik) Having said that, and having the Norwegian Meteorological Institute down the road from where I live, their local predictions are often completely off on rain, to the point I always bring a raincoat when going out.

Can confirm, but not sure about better QA of the branded ones. Company issued macbook came with a "Satechi" hub, which died within 6 months, while two other noname AliExpress ones have worked with no issue for 2 years now

Examples lying around in my house:

Bathroom scale: lovely it powers up when you tap it, but eats up 2 button cells a year for a few dozen uses a year

Kitchen scales, bit more use, at least once a day but again 2 button cells a year

electronic caliper: Same, eats up 1 button cell a year, just sitting in my toolbox

Strangely enough none of our kids toys with batteries seem to suffer from this problem

How much extra cost does a hard on/off switch add to the bill of materials?

The “China Export” logo is a blatant but subtle imitation of the actual CE logo. Quite frankly insidious...

https://support.ce-check.eu/hc/en-us/articles/360008642600-H...

Search for : NDIR CO2 sensor module. The ones without auto-calibration go for under $20 in China.

Evidence to the contrary:

http://www.vdlbuscoach.com/News/News-Library/2018/Europa-s-g...

I use these on a regular basis, for urban environments, electric busses combined with overhead superchargers at the end-of-line terminals work really well.

I once had the pleasure to use a high speed travelator in Paris going at 8mph, I recall they used several acceleration stages in series before getting on the main section. Also reminded me of the ones portrayed in Asimov's novels. Too bad they shut them down almost a decade ago.

https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/05/21/paris-experim...

I just viewed the stl-files, It's about 300x300x170mm

They went on an founded a startup called Tribogenics, raised a total of about $20M over the years (among others from Nikon and Founders Fund), They worked on developing lower cost portable XRF scanners, but apparently went out of business earlier this year. From what I've heard the tech didn't work quite as well as they had hoped and their market fit wasn't that great.

Unfortunately for e-scooters and other novel vehicles, the government agency in the Netherlands that handles vehicle certification (RDW) is notoriously bureaucratic. By default any new type of vehicle is forbidden to use on public roads until they certified it. On several occasions, e-scooter owners had their vehicle impounded and in one case even scrapped. Which is a real shame, as the infrastructure is perfect.

The main issue with using a synchrotron or Free Electron Laser EUV source might not be so much about the technology, but more about the mindset of the clients (Samsung, TSMC, Global Foundries, Intel). Up until now lithography has been something they would buy as a "box" which would be shipped to their fab, "plugged in" and commissioned.

A Free Electron Laser EUV source would be a facility on it's own, similar in size to a small powerplant built adjacent to your fab, and multiplexed to a dozen or so EUV wafer scanners, that's quite a different endeavor.

I have both Raspberry Pi's and a few of the cheap "clones". So some takeaways:

The good: they're definitely cheaper, I paid about a third of the raspberry Pi 2 price for a comparable Orange Pi. Other models seem to have similar aggressive pricing.

The bad: Armbian distros are a mixed bag, I had the impression some of them were put together by developers who didn't even have the particular board on hand. I spent a good three hours just getting WiFi to work (not being familiar with linux didn't help either though) , while putting up with an invisible cursor editing config files. Setting up a raspberry pi zero W in comparison was 5 minutes. Also I found out later that the pin header was 180 degrees rotated compared to the Raspberry, which made it not compatible with standard hats.

In retrospect I did learn a lot, and the Orange Pi has been running without issue for 2 years now. But Raspberry's have my definite preference.

Apparently a movie has been in development hell for about 10 years now, can vaguely remember Colin Farrell being attached to it.

If you don't want your macbook to burn a hole in your lap, potentially. I'm sure most recent processors will be able to do playback, just not optimized, and at high cpu load.

Recently spent a few weeks in Nairobi, drivers accepting the ride and then spending 10+ minutes parked a few hundred meters down the road seem quite common. Could be misaligned incentives, the cancelation fee is typically half that of a ride within downtown Nairobi. Also my rating took a massive hit, dropped down from 4.8x to 4.6x! over nearly 40 rides. I did occasionally tip for great service, but also encountered some fairly obvious cases of account sharing by drivers, and downright dangerous driving.

That and dark silicon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_silicon

Running a modern CPU with an acceptable TDP, means only so much of the transistors can be utilized simultaneously .

True, and besides having lost money, their investors also continue to lose credibility, considering the poor if not complete lack of due diligence on their part, as long as this fiasco is in the spotlights.

And not to forget this tragic story, the suicide of one of Theranos's chief scientists: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/22/british-he...

When I tried KiCAD several years ago, I was drawn in by the extensive feature list only to find that it suffered from the same issues as Blender, another mayor open source project, it was mainly feature driven, and the UX was horrible. Enough at least for me as a hobbyist PCB layout software user to leave it be for a few years.

Is it? The"loud pipes save lives" argument seems to be mostly a myth (I can't find any credible research backing it at least).

looking at https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ and apparently still ±50% of currently active iPhones seem to be a 6(S)(+). Which is a LOT more than I expected. I don't see how Apple is going to ignore this one.

Google Glass's application and marketing was hijacked when Sergey Brinn was shown the prototypes and decided to go for the consumer market. It was originally intended as an enterprise product, with somewhat similar envisioned applications to what Microsoft's hololens is aimed at today.

Now that the hype over the original Glass release subsided, there are actually some promising developments for the enterprise market. Notably Augmedix, a company aimed at optimizing doctor-patient interaction uses it as a tool allowing for remote medical assistants (https://www.augmedix.com)

In a sense we did get it, the research into optical computing didn't lead to photonic cpu's, any advantages of optical computing are mute when each building block can't scale below a few square micrometers due to limits on the physics.

However, the research did find it's way into telecom, high speed multiplexing switches, with massive bandwidth in a compact formfactor would not have been economically viable without photonics.

For crossing tram tracks it's best to approach with an "angle of attack" greater than 30 deg. to avoid your wheels getting guided by the track slots.

Matterport's camera system, a low cost alternative for laser based systems , for 3d mapping interiors, was originally based on a kinect hack back in 2010. Not sure where they are getting their current sensors, but they're doing quite well, the underlying technology is definitly not dead.

https://matterport.com/pro2-3d-camera/

Depending on the layout complexity, mask write times for EUV masks can take many days with a single beam mask writing tool. Considering that even with EUV dozens of masks are needed for a mask set for a 7nm product, this would result in a few months of total processing time, of course multiple mask writers are typically used in manufacturing sets. The time issue can be mitigated but not at unlimited cost.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Aerial, actually installed it earlier today, had to reboot after, to get the downloads working

It's also worth noting that right now, student loan data in the Netherlands is not shared with this agency. Which kinda defeats the purpose of doing a credit check on anyone Living in the Netherlands, in their 20's and 30's.

Ok so: a third party (Equifax) has collected sensitive personal data on citizens without their consent and is asking a fee to prevent other third parties from accessing this information. isn't this technically blackmail?