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An article that makes such a bold, radical, and racially charged assertion hardly seems to be a good starting point for avoiding a flame-war, let alone starting a productive discussion.

dbcooperon 2018 Mac Mini Review

Windows 10 with MadVR for video rendering with GPU upscaling, and a 3D LUT for colour correction.

dbcooperon How to build a Moon base

There's no carbon on the moon.

dbcooperon Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

A 4chan poster told me that it was the Russian guy who turned down the Fields Medal (Grigori Perelman?). Take that with a grain of salt.

dbcooperon UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot

LOL @ Mark Suster still in denial mode in the Techcrunch comments.

dbcooperon UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot

https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2018/09/end-of-era-tho...

> One meeting in particular pushed me over the edge, and I told the CEO that I was extremely unhappy, and we should discuss a way to amicably separate. I knew the transducer and acoustics side better than anyone, and would give the company as much time as needed to transition and pass over my knowledge. It was a tense meeting, and I went home after, and there were then a series of ... interesting ... emails and phone calls with Perry, that ended with no conclusion. Ironically, among the demands from the company was a statement for the press about how I still believed in uBeam's goals and the technology, but I declined. I got a text the next morning to come to the downstairs company conference room, and to bring my laptop, lab-book, and any company property - it was clear what was about to happen.

>I arrived and the room had CFO Hushen and CEO Perry. It was tense, and Perry sat at the head of the table in her position that she used when about to be CEO-like and give a prepared speech - straight back, leaning slighty forward, hands together. She looked at me and said:

>"Today will be your last day with the company. But before we go on to that, it is important that you understand that you are a quitter. You have quit on me, you have quit on yourself, you have quit on the company, you have quit on your team, you have quit on.... wait what are you doing?"

>At this point the speech was so ridiculous I had picked up my phone to start taking notes because this was too good not to write down. I looked up and she seemed shocked and demanded "Are you texting someone? I'm talking." and I looked at her and said "Just taking some notes." Sadly, this seemed to throw her off, and I never did hear the rest of that prepared speech. She simply mumbled then moved to telling me that I would now give an exit interview, and was again perturbed when I declined. She insisted and the CFO, acting as HR, had to step in and say that wasn't necessary. I handed over my laptop and the few items I had, and made a clear instruction that the company was not to make any statements or quotes that were to be attributed to me - I heard from the team that about ten minutes later they were all told in a company meeting by the CEO that "I wanted them to know that I wished them all the best and success for the company, and still believed in the company mission" or something similar.

dbcooperon New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub

The $599 Slate model has an Intel Celeron SoC. :( You need to spend $799 for m3 SoC base model.

dbcooperon Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Evolutionary Scientists

They're never going to give it to John Goodenough. :(

dbcooperon Is the podcast bubble bursting?

Just as long as Cum Town keeps going.

dbcooperon Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

Can't wait for algorithm homogenised movies!

dbcooperon [dead]

I loathe seeing articles from The Economist appear on this site. A low quality, shallow, ideologically driven rag.

dbcooperon Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant

5 minutes residence time in the machine per burger, not one burger per 5 minutes output.

dbcooperon Samsung unveils 7nm technology with EUV

David Kanter's comments:

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=177667&curpost...

https://twitter.com/TheKanter/status/1009617987341434880?s=1...

Initial thoughts on Samsung’s EUV paper at #VLSI2018: SRAM yields are very low, 50% for 64x256Mb die on 1 wafer. Using EUV on metal layers without a pellicle is an odd choice. Significantly lower variability for EUV vs. LE^n as expected, unclear vs. SAQP.

>It's not an odd choice it's essential. EUV requires more sensitive resists or higher source powers period. You can't use a pellicle because then you drop your wafers per hour another 10-15% (cus pellicles like everything, absorb EUV) and suddenly EUV isn't so profitable.

Well it’s an odd choice if you want high yield! BEOL is fairly dense and no pellicle is like juggling knives.

>Oh I'm well aware of the danger. But it's ok EUV is HVM ready right? This is everyone desperate to recoup what is now probably trillion+ dollars of EUV RND. The throughput is just going to get worse at smaller feature sizes as shot noise dominates requiring higher doses.

EUV is definitely not HVM ready. Also, if it we have to wait too long, we will need DP EUV, which will be tremendously expensive.

dbcooperon Arm's Cortex-A76 CPU Unveiled: Taking Aim at the Top for 7nm

GPU details: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12834/arm-announces-the-mali-...

dbcooperon An Update on Fatalities Due to Venomous and Nonvenomous Animals in the US

Libgen link: http://libgen.io/scimag/?s=10.1016%2Fj.wem.2017.10.004&journ...

dbcooperon TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips

That's the distance between gate midpoints, not their characteristic dimension.