Recent content by Steve Nord_

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    Question Effect of USB 3 cable length at high speed

    No, it's cable quality. C'mon, rig up a multidrop oscilloscope or at least a cable tester so you can get and keep going good. That said, 1.5 m is tops without going to F/O for top speed, and maaaaybe the mobo can drop some deep USB state qualia? Crack them code vibes if Gigabyte hasn't already...
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    Question I need help with keyboard's shortcut keys (G1-G5) ?

    Do they truly not present as regular keys you can assign in PowerShell or linux?
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    News Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emis...

    Like, the site but 2 miles deeper. Hopefully there'll be a report in J. Explained Like You're 4, or jointly with Oxford U. Press Won't Scale Don't Care to share the poop jokes.
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    News Snot-filtering tech could be the answer to a dust-free PC — Korean scientists turn to nature to improve air filtration

    I for one welcome the Uncle Fester Steel Lung case (and Cousin It SFF PC case.) Hyperbaric oxygen redshirts therapy tube loop n lock models slated for 2028.
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    News Intel axes thousands of technicians and engineers in sweeping U.S. layoffs — cutting 4,000 positions in the U.S., 2,392 in Oregon

    I wish I knew which 6 research engineering universities Intel most resembles in periodic brain drains. T.U. Geneva and Delft, Arizona State U., Oregon State U. ..., Saskatchewan U.? Maybe they'll always interview with pointy-haired-boss Zoom backgrounds, or unionize and crack out collateral...
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    News Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs...

    All right, so energy storage is needed when grid wind isn't helping and it's night. Also burning carbon kills people directly in exhaust plumes. It doesn't make sense that the facility (roof) photo shows neither daytime emissive coating nor solar rather than both. Also, going from living in the...
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    News Chinese researchers develop method to revive lithium batteries that significantly extends their lifespan

    Fudan at least has new rebuilds of Pet Sematery where instead of 'soured' pet souls they get revived batteries that do voltage brownout sidechannel attacks.
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    Question Varmilo Retro Keyboard Every Key Is Unresponsive

    Does indeed nothing work on it, from any lighting or indicators to a response to holding Fn and ESC for 3 s? Maybe you can give the model number so people with a similar build can help knock out what can go wrong with its power supply or assembly?
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    News American lab is developing a BAT laser that could enable 'beyond EUV' lithography, provide 10X power efficiency boost

    Thule available for color comments, requested rename to match regional current name of Qaanaaq (This a BAQ laser?) Open Access in Optic Sex Press so only a matter of a couple years until health uses are fielded for this 413 eV - photon (coherent though, so feels like 170 kV photons) light...
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    Question Strange problem with Brother MFC-J625DW printer/scanner ?

    Wow, that's so cool it's an accessible place! You'd think a spot on the positioner band would trip a limit switch one way or register up with being on the test scan strip the other, but neither is happening because...I mean, did you try to get test leads on the photointerrupter or leaf switch in...
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    News Human thought runs at just 10 bits per second, say Caltech scientists — that's why we are mostly single-taskers

    Check out Allen Brain Center and some threads of Woods Hole Research Inst. to see how much is visible for the looking. There are a few jarring bits like 'We can cure your mind, let us pick a sample out' in treatment.
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    News South Korea greenlights the world's largest semiconductor hub — half the size of Beverly Hills to house six fabs, three power plans, and fab suppliers

    Nuclear powered (thermal) AC/DC electricity, recrystallizing materials, and distilled water. Floating solar powered 3.00 V microgrid and NADPH. Wave/wind powered RO water, fountain defense, liquefied gasses, green chemistry and natural products. #SK_Gov_Designs
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    News Qualcomm CEO expected to save $1.4 billion in Arm royalties by purchasing Nuvia, assumed Snapdragon X chips would be a massive hit

    Meanwhile there are... 0 loud twisty suits about Risc V Bus or DDR5 interfaces or instruction set extensions, M core extensions for embedded, or compute-in-DDR5? Is it Mentor user forum stuff anymore?
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    News Qualcomm says its Oryon CPU cores have 1% or less of Arm's original technology — cores in Snapdragon X PC chips are almost entirely custom

    Like seriously, the compiler only happens to work using ARM64 ASM because of our patches, it's crazy in there. We're a rhythm game with AVX2 extensions.