Avid Amoeba
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Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•Huawei readies new AI chip for mass shipment as China seeks Nvidia alternatives3·2 months agoOh nice, I think I recall reading about it. I hope it works. Apart from making China less dependent foreign semiconductors, it should drive down prices across the board.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•Huawei readies new AI chip for mass shipment as China seeks Nvidia alternatives3·2 months agoSo these are at the level of 2022’s NVIDIA, but consumer more power due to the higher manufacturing node. That’s pretty good. The article says yields are low which is not great but that’s a relatively independent development from the chip design itself. Any rumors on whether anyone in China’s closing in on an EUV machine?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOPto Mechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•Cherry: "... workforce reduction and relocation of switch production to China"1·2 months agoInteresting. I’m looking at the force curve, it looks similar to Ergo Clear. Am I reading that right?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOPto Mechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•Cherry: "... workforce reduction and relocation of switch production to China"1·2 months agoOmron makes keyboard switches?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOPto Mechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•Cherry: "... workforce reduction and relocation of switch production to China"5·3 months agoI think there’s more than that in mismanagement on the side of the German state, but these are definitely key elements.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Mechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•Possible to remove MX Blue switches (desolder) and use them for a hotswap keyboard?2·3 months agoYeah with the right tools and experience it’s possible. I always struggle with desoldering through-hole components without overheating.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Mechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•Possible to remove MX Blue switches (desolder) and use them for a hotswap keyboard?6·3 months agoUnlikely. If you’re a skilled solderer (?) you might be able to pull it off. Otherwise you’re running into:
- Deforming the switches from overheating during desoldering
- Having uneven coating of solder on the legs of the desoldered switches which could compromise the insertion and/or contact with the sockets of the modular board
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•What lies behind Nvidia’s commitment to ‘unswervingly serving the Chinese market’2·3 months agoI wonder if some of these execs see the potential long term decline and self-isolation of the US and consider having to move out of the US altogether in order to be able to maximize international profits as those are probably expected to grow. With that said, the equation is different for say Nvidia and Meta. While Nvidia could move to a China-friendly destination, even to China itself, and become a blessed corporation able to sell around the world, the same won’t be possible for Meta. Meta’s product depends on the local population. They can’t operate out of Singapore and sell a good around the world and into the US. And both the European and Chinese markets have much stronger regulation on Meta’s operation than the US. So if they move out of the US, there’s no upside as EU and China won’t let Meta go wild with people’s data. I guess that points to a distinction between firms for which the large userbase is the product and firms which make a traditional product, be it software, service, or hardware.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor1·3 months agoThanks for the info!
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor121·3 months agoThe reactor is reportedly designed to sustainably generate 2 megawatts of thermal power.
Anyone know how the power density compares to a conventional uranium PWR? In other words, are these machines substantially smaller or larger than a PWR for the same output?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing3·3 months agoIf it got great WiFi reception, that would be a killer.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•China's BYD is bigger than Ford, GM, and VW combined. And now Tesla is in trouble.13·4 months agoElon Musk’s automaker has been backsliding in China for the past five consecutive months on a year-on-year basis, according to data from the country’s Passenger Car Association. Tesla’s shipments plunged 49% in February from a year earlier to just 30,688 vehicles, the lowest monthly figure since way back in July 2022, when it shipped just 28,217 EVs — and that was in the middle of Covid.
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Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Open Source@lemmy.ml•An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices2·4 months agoYeah, I’m in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) in Canada. There’s 40+ nodes on the map that I’ve discovered by sitting on my balcony and 70+ nodes altogether:
I expected way fewer than that!
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Open Source@lemmy.ml•An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices2·4 months agoYup. There are people occasionally writing in LongFast.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Open Source@lemmy.ml•An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices1·4 months agoI know, I kid, but yes, I just got it because it’s cheap enough to try. In reality the only use case I envision right now is have a couple of units in the drawer for emergency scenarios.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Open Source@lemmy.ml•An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices7·4 months agoStop attacking me. 😂
But yeah, no use case other than - checking if it works. I’ll probably setup a standalone node on my balcony and leave it be to strengthen the network.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.ml•Sabine Hossenfelder: China Will Soon Lead World in Science and Tech16·4 months agoShe goes out to talk about topics she’s not well versed in without doing enough research and says outright wrong stuff. In general, scientists who specialize in a field are often no better than a layman in the fields they have no background in. She’s not the only one who does this. Some scientists merely share uninformed opinions. Others do it for money. They build a persona that is imbued with trust by their existing expertise then they use this trust to keep pumping out other material for profit. That’s Sabine. Also Jordan Peterson. No they’re not the same but the scheme is. Laymen don’t know any better and absorb the material, correct or incorrect, since they don’t have the background to recognize when it’s bullshit.
Would this work with a public dynamic DNS?