I've also hit two stationary vehicles, once cause I was on my phone and in my defence, the second one was black and illegally parked at night. Although being on my phone probably contributed to that one too
A lot of whether people look or not depends on local cycle culture, and you also have to bear in mind in touristy cities like mine, a lot of people are not local and are oblivious.
I just do not see the advantage for most casual riders over here. Good separation from normal traffic, usually not that high speeds (do not want to arrive sweaty at work). Decent snow free cycle paths.
Or naybe, people who buy relative expensive new stuff will also pay more for adators from regular PCI-e to M2 format then people who need something for old hardware?
@kerbalspacecat hope that "bit cost reduction" is passed onto consumers instead of the 850 Pro sitting pretty at $450 while they reap increasing profits
> 3D NAND with 48 layers is closer to the 2D NAND price-per-bit curve than 3D NAND with 32 layers. We expect that 3D NAND will reach price parity with 2D NAND at 64-layer chips. Going to 64L, 96L or even 128L 3D NAND would be possible in a few years
@kerbalspacecat how long until the chips are visibly thick in the width dimension (along the "Z" axis if you're looking at the board sitting flat on a table)?
I wish I knew what "hard" means when they say certain IC fab things will be "hard".. are they discovering entire new fields of science and immediately applying them to practice? are they just developing new fab machines based on known principles but making them "better"? are they using entire new chemical elements?
@allquicatic Yield mostly. They go into some detail in the article though not too deep
> For 1y nm 2D planar NAND such as 16 nm or 15 nm MLC/TLC NAND devices, for example, the process integration on the memory cell array and peripheral region comprises well/active/isolation (SA-STI, self-aligned STI) formation; cell FG/CG and peripheral gate formation; and contact and interconnection (metals and vias) formation. Of course, patterning approaches such as DPT (double patterning technology) or QPT (quadruple patterning technology) and an air-gap process for active, wordline and bitline patterns on memory cell array region should also be included for manufacturing 2D planar NAND p…
> Compared with the 2nd generation 32L V-NAND, the 3rd generation 48L V-NAND cell structure, of course, has a higher number of cell gates, which means the requirements and controllability for process integration are more challenging.
The issue is specific to certain Haswell-based system configurations.
Haswell introduced new, extremely low-power states called C6 and C7. The processor virtually shuts down in these power states, placing loads as low as 0.05V on the +12V rails. Since it's usually only high-power devices such as...
Can anyone recommend a cheap and easy way to snoop and drop DHCP packets with a router or some kind of device? Basically I have a network cable coming from a switch where there's a DHCP server on the network and I don't want those DHCP packets coming down over the wire. Routers and switch on both ends don't support DHCP snooping and I don't want to buy a new switch/router just for this, rather buy a small device and plug the cable into that and then to its destination.
@qroberts you'll need a system with a stateful firewall; basically any Linux box should be able to do this... depending on how hacky / reliable / performant you want it to be, you could go with a Raspberry Pi, or a compute stick, or an old laptop, there are loads of options
Dammit missed the edit window by 5 seconds. I actually missed a T
E-UMTS-TRA-ARFCN
From one of my Facebook posts: UARFCN is an acronym that stands for UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number, where UTRA stands for UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access where UMTS stands for Universal Mobile Telephony System. UMTSTRAARFCN.
Good to see the progress with simplyfying acronyms, we've now moved on to EARFCN.
@allquicatic \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\o
Oh you mean I should expand the A?
Technically if we were to use 3G in space or on a plane, it wouldn't be UMTS anymore
@kerbalspacecat no, I mean you should acronym Acronymception to just A
@kerbalspacecat imho they should drop all the pretense and just say "PHOTONS" for the current state of the art; then, if they find something better that still uses photons, call it "PHOTONS 2", etc.
just "P", "P2", "P3", etc. for shorthand being displayed next to your signal strength bars on the status bar
Given mass-energy equivalence, photons do have mass, and also, I don't see why Earth wouldn't apply 1G of acceleration/force to a photon like it does for baryonic matter
I believe it depends hugely on the distance traveled, because even the Sun wouldn't bend light if it's just traveling between planets in our solar system
you'd have to pass a beam of light past the sun for a significant fraction of a lightyear for us to be able to even measure the curvature
@kerbalspacecat I don't think mass-energy equivalence means that anything that has energy also "has" mass; IIRC it's a fundamental transformation to cease becoming energy and start becoming a tiny speck of mass
otherwise we could build bridges by shining a light at the side of a hill for a really long time
There are two important concepts here that explain the influence of gravity on light (photons).
The theory of Special Relativity, proved in 1905 (or rather the 2nd paper of that year on the subject) gives an equation for the relativistic energy of a particle;
$$E^2 = (m_0 c^2)^2 + p^2 c^2$$
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Anyway, the mass of a photon would be so miniscule I don't think Windows calculator could actually calculate it
@allquicatic Indeed, since wavelength is inversely proportional to frequency, as frequency increases the energy of a photon increases, and therefore so does its mass
@kerbalspacecat If we had a ridiculously enormous source of energy, like the Sun, and were harvesting it with a Dyson Sphere, couldn't we have energy-to-mass reactors that would create chemical elements of our choosing, then we could just resort to perfectly ordinary fabrication / 3d printing / subtractive manufacturing methods to make objects?
@kerbalspacecat I knew that higher frequency photons are more "energetic" but I didn't understand that that energy could be viewed as a momentum and also as a "relativistic mass"
where relativistic mass is a completely different thing or concept than classical mass, where the mass of a photon is always 0
@allquicatic Ah, see there's the thing. I presume you knew why it's impossible to accelerate anything with mass to the speed of light - as its speed (kinetic energy) increases, so does its mass, requiring more and more to accelerate it as it gets faster. AIUI the energy put into it, effectively becomes the relativistic mass of the object.
@allquicatic Well there is that, though some would argue gravitation as a force doesn't work quite the same as other forces that act on mass. Also we still don't really understand how gravitation works at all.
One interpretation is that gravity is acceleration. Another is that gravity is the physical bending of spacetime so that the light isn't being "affected" by any force but rather is travelling in a straight line through a locally curved space-time
@allquicatic Well, no, because photons aren't the only source of kinetic energy. In fact they're just about the worst source possible
These days group regulated power supply design is considered obsolete and is ideally avoided -- primarily due to the poor regulation under crossload. For example, Shilka pulls no punches here, and while the Wolf is more subdued in this review it's hardly complimentary. Others around the place are...
@allquicatic Hey I didn't say I knew anything about crossloading PSUs or the actual question, just that Haswell's C7 states are a red herring and totally irrelevant.
My Lenovo laptop got here faster than I thought it would, and I have to get Linux ready to teach a class starting Monday. Default choice right now is Ubuntu 16.04, but I was wanting to go with Debian or Fedora so I can better learn how my OS actually works as opposed to pushing GUI buttons.
Any suggestions? Anyone know how to make sure I can keep using my Windows license in a VM?
@kerbalspacecat: can you explain what is wrong here? I said nothing about the S3 state. In the C7 state, the machine is running and idle, just not doing anything. The system is not asleep.
@allquicatic: Can you relay this to @kerbalspacecat? I'm ignored and would like to discuss this in detail.
Should I try to create a boot thumbdrive from Windows before I do the reformat to MBR? (I've started checking out the directions here: forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/…)
@allquicatic Hey I didn't say I knew anything about crossloading PSUs or the actual question, just that Haswell's C7 states are a red herring and totally irrelevant.
it seems like he doesn't actually know something that would directly suggest your answer is incorrect
@bwDraco, I suspect you're right about the source. That's pretty lame when somebody admits they don't know anything about it. But the bounty should balance things out. :-)
> Wow, we didn't see that coming! It looks like someone over at Phison forgot to run the run the power optimization script and integrate it into the firmware.
Out of curiosity, does the standard as written contain any loopholes that would allow an advertiser to "beat" A/85 and make their commercials sound significantly louder?
The standard document is here (PDF), if you're technically inclined.
The downvote was because this answer is not only very wrong, but also very misguided. This issue is NOT specific to Haswell - that C6/C7 "problem" has nothing to do with group-regulated PSUs (other than being an example of very minor crossload). C6/C7 problems were down to issues with underloaded 12v2 rails. Group reg PSUs don't have 12V2 rails. Group-reg PSUs do NOT regulate all rails together - only 12v/5v. ATX12V allows ±10% on 12V under load. All ATX2.31 compliant PSUs must handle Haswell-like crossloads >5A on 3.3/5v&<=0.1A on 12v. Haswell C7 was never a real issue in practice. — Potato Cat9 mins ago
There are two important concepts here that explain the influence of gravity on light (photons).
The theory of Special Relativity, proved in 1905 (or rather the 2nd paper of that year on the subject) gives an equation for the relativistic energy of a particle;
$$E^2 = (m_0 c^2)^2 + p^2 c^2$$
w...
