If your car is from the 90s then a book on car repair from the 90s will do.

You think the internet is going to really take off a couple years from now?

Generally couldn’t agree more, but

What the fuck does a piece of software need that exorbitant amount for anyway?

For a widely used chat app with calling and video calling, servers.

WTF are you talking about? I’m not condoning anything, just giving my estimate of the likely factual outcome. And no military man earned my freedom, such as I have any it was won by union organisers and socialist activists.

The obligatory response to this is “there’s no expectation of privacy in public places”,

That is a USA-specific legal standard which doesn’t apply in much of the world. While it has it’s upsides it also has downsides and it shouldn’t be seen as gospel, or the only way to do things.

Nah, you will just individually get sent to jail or shot by the police depending on the country, and that’ll be enough of a warning to everyone else.

If there’s not already enough data for someone to be convinced, more data isn’t going to help. All the information people need is readily out there. What we lack is solidarity, community and movement building, and some slop video isn’t going to help that.

We already have all this stuff, stop larping as a 1337 h4x0r and go fix some bugs in your preferred xmpp client or one of those Firefox forks

If not larp then why cringe shaped?

so if everyone in the world used kde, “only” the usa would be on x11

you’re right, they shouldn’t support imperial measurements

Well, now you know one who doesn’t and hasn’t for years

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I don’t think that’s relevant to their comment, this isn’t branching out of their field when they’re old and senile and success has gone to their heads. This is probably in the top 100 most famous paintings (or at least some from that series are) and extremely recognizable, just the fundamental basics of the field. Even when he started on his crazy vitamin C megadosing bullshit, Pauling almost certainly understood the electronic structure of atoms just fine.

Or for short, The Aristocrats

what a flex lmao

A single diode a micrometer away from anything else is not suddenly a transformer without which a 400 um² antenna stops working.

They’re fabricating micrometer components with a 90 nm process. That’s pretty well in the classical regime. If they’re seeing substantial tunneling at that scale it would be rather noteworthy to say the least.

i remember there was a diode and transistor that were literally completely seperated from the traces of the rest of the chip, and yet they were functional pieces and the chip wouldnt work if you removed them.

If that was true they would be getting the Nobel in physics for discovering some incredible new quantum phenomena, it would be front-page news everywhere. I highly doubt it’s true.

Frustratingly, that article you linked doesn’t actually link to the paper. But it is in Nature Communications. That’s a respectable journal but not that prestigious, and it publishes a lot of over hyped stuff. Not that any journal doesn’t. But if they had really found new physics with AI chip design that would go to Science, Nature, or maybe PRL.

Edit: ah, I found it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1

Chip design isn’t at all my specialty so take my opinion about this with a grain of salt. But I think it’s notable that

Prior works in nanophotonics have demonstrated the class of inverse methods for specific dielectric-based passive structures through gradient based optimizations such as adjoint method

So, there are already known algorithmic approaches to solving for these. I think it’s also notable that these are for signal transformation and antennae, relatively simple operations.

This seems like a vaguely useful result but I don’t expect it’ll be breaking any new ground any time soon.

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Yes, but there is a good reason for that.