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Comment Papers (Score 4, Informative) 28

They're calling it Focused Ultra Sound which means using an MRI to guide stimulation of millimeter-scale areas of the brain to disrupt electrical activity there.

So many ads and press releases on a web search but I did find this bibliography:

https://www.zotero.org/groups/...

It's weird how these hospitals don't link papers in the news releases as is common in the West.

Curiously there was an article yesterday about Ultrasound brain imaging so it might be possible to combine the two modalities. This seems like an "obvious to a practitioner" approach though noise cancelation will be needed.

https://alephneuro.com/blog/ul...

We might actually be capable of realizing that headband where you walk into Sick Bay and tell Dr. Crusher you have Holodeck addiction and she slaps it on your forehead for twenty minutes and tells you to lay down and then come back if it recurs.

Comment Re:Would a Spar be Repairable? (Score -1, Flamebait) 60

> Emirates operates these with over 500 passengers

Well they did until the value proposition of Dubai and Abu Dhabi suddenly came into question with three days' food and no way to restock and no sewer system, relying on petroleum-powered sewage trucks to keep people alive.

It sure seems 'convenient' that they suddenly have an insurable loss on very expensive and unprofitable airframes at just the right time.

Let's see what kind of cars the regulators purchase in a few months, or maybe it's just a coincidence.

Comment Meshcore (Score 1) 107

I'm familiar with the backup power design of some of the cell towers where I live.

Let's just say I'm also learning how to build solar Meshcore repeaters and placing them on appropriate hilltops where I can.

You can Royal Decree anything but don't bet your life on it.

Also nobody likes to mention that the big Spanish overvolt grid crash coincided with the arrival of a very large CME. We mustn't rile the natives.

Comment Kumar Galhotra, chief operating officer (Score 1) 94

Who made the call to fire these guys?

Were they Americans who did the firing? Were they Americans who got fired?

It's important to understand the sociology potentially putting huge American enterprises risk

And why would we believe the claim that a 1-year reliability rating had anything to do with this?

Anybody who vaguely understands automotive manufacturing knows that cars that were sold over one year ago were designed several years ago and tooling takes months to years for a new model.

This article seems designed to obfuscate rather than clarify.

This makes me feel like buying a BYD would be less risky.

Comment Re: What's the motivation? (Score 1) 179

Time to build has two issues. If quality of work is the focus, then spending time to make SURE things like concrete aren't deficient in some way. Going with cheap materials might cause problems later. Being extra careful with quality is just a good idea. And then, you have the lazy contractor issue, where some politicians don't impose strict guidelines and rules. If the contractor claims it will be done in 2 years for XXXXX amount of money, then government should say, "if it takes 10 years, you won't get additional money just because you were goofing off. The only reason for timeline extensions should be if there are good excuses for the delays in completing the project, such as, "we had a huge storm that flooded the site, and it took six months or longer to get things cleaned up so work can continue"

If contractors couldn't get additional money because they take longer than their estimates, they might actually complete projects faster than 25 years.

Comment Re:Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 1) 110

The guys who built those giant ovens could have told themselves that somebody was going to be baking a whole lot of bread ... very inefficiency.

Somebody wired up all those ICBM missile silos too. The ones who do think all of the above is just fine. There will always be someone.

Comment Ryzen/AMD 16/8GB (Score 5, Interesting) 92

Skipping the paywalled article I found these specs and was underwhelmed.

Sure it looks fine for playing mid games but my guess was something unique, unified RAM or a clever bus or something. It seems like a decently tuned Ryzen build. I do like the lower TDP on the CPU which should be doing less work.

A nice form factor for those who don't build their own.

Hopefully this is their entre into the PC world and v2 will have more innovations.

What's most cool is the generation of teenagers who will have default Arch/KDE instead of default Windows.

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