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fecal_henge··on Has the New Cocaine Arrived?
I heard it was a variety they have in southern Spain that is particularly morish.
fecal_henge··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
They missed the port.
fecal_henge··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
Nor funny.
fecal_henge··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
Here is a likely scenario for the baby food/ adult diapers combo: Someone who suffered so much damage during childbirth that they are still struggling with their bowels by the time their baby is on solids. Hilarious!

Edit: obligatory single down vote on author post to author content.

fecal_henge··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
See, a positive outcome from investing in inflated stock.
fecal_henge··on StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping
The ultimate customers would certainly pay more than the face price which is what the scalpers pay, yet the scalpers get all the tickets. This is abnormal market behaviour.
fecal_henge··on A font that humans can read but AI cannot
I cannot read that text.
fecal_henge··on 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
You Edison shill.
fecal_henge··on One KW wind turbine without civil engineering
I would guess 1x2 is that the wheel is 1m wide, 2m diameter. This would mean that there is a 1m^2 sized flap* that the wind pushes against.

*technical term

fecal_henge··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Perhaps because they are suggesting what they are doing is novel.
fecal_henge··on PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
Can I ask what the motive is to create agents to do this? Where is the profit?
fecal_henge··on Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
There is a lot of professional software that locks people in also.
fecal_henge··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
Eccentric, how dare you?
fecal_henge··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
Maybe for christmas you could get your mom a multi axis driving simulation rig.
fecal_henge··on Pick and Place: Carbon Nanotube Nanoassembly Process
Yes but you have to drive.
fecal_henge··on Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
Nothing like historical inaccuracy to stirrup some controversy.
fecal_henge··on Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
Yes but much further in the future when someone else digs them up.
fecal_henge··on Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
I would think so, or by taking cross sections. Its hard to believe they have some miraculous geometry that needs guarding anyway. Maybe they are trying to dissuade people who might try to 3d print an impeller.

3d models for industrial fan manufacturers (Sanyo,NMB) are widely available.

fecal_henge··on Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment
The paper might contain too much jargon for lawyers.
fecal_henge··on Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon
Is it possible to resolve features on advanced nodes with xray machines? Or the etch and photograph method?
fecal_henge··on Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon
How do you verify that the fab produces the design authentically? They could create a security vulnerability only they know how to exploit.
fecal_henge··on A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity
Maybe he used banana as the scintillator.
fecal_henge··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
This is a very strange part, what with the upstream regulator circuit.

My guess is that their efficiency stats dont include losses in the upstream regulator.

100 usd per unit doesnt seem that excessive.

fecal_henge··on CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering
They make sense when you consider that 'on detector' electronics has all sorts of constraints that FPGAs cant compete on: Power, Density, Radiation hardness, Material budget.
fecal_henge··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
-48 to 48 claims something like 97% (load dependent of course). It also needs to arbitrate between two input supplies for glitchless redundancy, plus have PM bus and other spec mandated stuff. There is no technical reason why you cant go -48 -> 12 as you state with good efficiceny, but we cant get hold of a part that ticks all the boxes.

Horrific performance by my definition would be 48v to say 1v. We only realistically use buck topologies for POL supplies. Such a ratio is really bad for current transients, not to mention issues like minimum on times for the controller.

fecal_henge··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
We go -48 -> 48 -> 12 -> 3v3,1v8 etc etc. If you went 48 straight to POL voltages then you would have horrific converter performance.
fecal_henge··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
I am STILL designing hardware for -48v telco standard. The first thing we do is convert -48 -> 48v. That's 4 square inches of PCB space we waste.
fecal_henge··on A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)
Is a 155 throws enough to evaluate bias? Seems more times than I'd like to roll some dice, but not enough to gain enough measurement confidence. By what criteria is the person assigning the traffic light ratings? What about face coplanarity? Get this enthusiast in a metrology lab.!
fecal_henge··on A Journey Through Infertility
For a multiple IVF treatment case (a fancy hospital might have 40% cycle to birth rate remember) it would not be unusual to have ~100 actual injections.
fecal_henge··on RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
I had no idea what RGB was on my spec selection. Thank God I picked a boring opaque box. Must be quite a party in there.
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