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Comment Re:Bleach (Score 1) 217

It seems like the modern Trump Party is all about being anti-mainstream. So if the mainstream says something they reflexively insist on refuting it. Thus, goofball medicine gets accepted as fact by these people, causing them to ignore whatever the mainstream says even if it's safe and effective. There's no use of brainpower here except to lash out.

They don't use their brain to lash out either - they invite ridicule and when the sting of it fades they recycle all of the carefully crafted insults from the smarties. It's like everyone has cleverly decided that manipulating others to think for them is the true way.

Submission + - SPAM: What We're Expecting From Google's Custom 'Whitechapel' SoC In the Pixel 6

An anonymous reader writes: It sounds like this custom Google SoC-powered Pixel is really going to happen. Echoing reports from about a year ago, 9to5Google is reporting that the Pixel 6 is expected to ship with Google's custom "Whitechapel" SoC instead of a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. The report says "Google refers to this chip as 'GS101,' with 'GS' potentially being short for 'Google Silicon.'" It also notes that chip will be shared across the two Google phones that are currently in development, the Pixel 6 and something like a "Pixel 5a 5G." 9to5 says it has viewed documentation that points to Samsung's SLSI division (Team Exynos) being involved, which lines up with the earlier report from Axios saying the chip is "designed in cooperation with Samsung" and should be built on Samsung's 5nm foundry lines. 9to5Google says the chip "will have some commonalities with Samsung Exynos, including software components."

XDA Developers says it can corroborate the report, saying, "According to our source, it seems the SoC will feature a 3 cluster setup with a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit). Google also refers to its next Pixel devices as 'dauntless-equipped phones,' which we believe refers to them having an integrated Titan M security chip (code-named 'Citadel')." A "3 cluster setup" would be something like how the Snapdragon 888 works, which has three CPU core sizes: a single large ARM X1 core for big single-threaded workloads, three medium Cortex A78 cores for multicore work, and four Cortex A55 cores for background work. The Pixel 6 should be out sometime in Q4 2021, and Pixel phones always heavily, heavily leak before they launch. So I'm sure we'll see more of this thing soon.

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Comment Re:This does not scale well (Score 2) 264

A long, long time ago when I was learning EE from an even older textbook I recall something about capacitance.

There were no large volume capacitors at the time the author was at university. The book discussed the oddity of the farad unit. Theoretically one could have made a one farad capacitor with the best materials but would encompass most of the Empire State Building in volume. That always stuck with me. Today you can buy a one farad 12v capacitor off amazon about the size of a water bottle, but have width to height ratios remarkably similar to the Empire State Building.

The point to remember is that limitations imposed by theoretical physicists are tentative at best. Remember, physics without empirical evidence isn't science and isn't necessarily reflective of reality.

so the wings need to be designed with alternating layers of insulator/conductor material (fiberglass/tinfoil/epoxy?) so that they can help store energy but also coated with a fuzzy electrostatic accumulator for regenerative air braking. solved.

Comment so what? (Score 1) 116

PC's BIOS contains code that allow security mechanisms to be bypassed, code injected, formatted, and even become hijacked with alternative OS'es. I'm glad they are discovering this for us but it's not that scary - to me the news is that this is undocumented.. assuming they googled the results.

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