Nothing like a Rod From God

In the case of Alberta, 35% of our seats in the last federal election would have been Liberal or NDP under proportional representation. That's also including the fact that rural (conservative) ridings tend to have about half the people in them as urban ridings, so the rural votes effectively count for twice as much as the urban ones.

It's so frustrating living here.

It's been 30 years, Chiquita should treat itself.

Syria and Gaza. Plus, it runs up along the Congo for quite a ways. That's a route with some chest hair!

Not so good at ears, though.

Digg was a news and comment aggregation site before Reddit existed. It was pretty fantastic for its time. Reddit is like Digg on steroids.

Since when have religion and morality had anything to do with one another?

I've had trouble getting Jellyfish to stream anything. The error message it gives you in the client GUI make it sound like the problem is client-side, but it always ends up being permissions on the server (for me, anyway).

I ended up having to move my media drive into /mnt/ (rather than /mnt//) and allow Jellyfin to access that folder - the Jellyfin service needs permissions.

The Jellyfin log files will show you that is having trouble accessing the files of this is the issue.

VERB the NOUN

The silicon foundries in Taiwan are some of the most advanced in the world right now - they can make manufacture integrated circuits down to a 3nm process node. They're absolutely cutting-edge.

Basically, every phone or consumer electronics processor, memory same solid state storage chip, plus a ton of custom circuits are made there right now. This includes multi-GHz radios (WiFi, radar, sensing technologies, global navigation systems) and a ton of new MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) sensors for gyroscopes, accelerometers, compasses, barometric pressure, gas sensors...

The foundries in Taiwan are absolutely critical to worldwide supply chains and defense. There are rumors that the Taiwan foundries are wired with explosives as a deterrent to Chinese invasion - China wants the foundries but Taiwan will try to deny them if they invade.

Nicely done, lol

This has been the case for at least a couple of decades.

All those devices don't necessarily need the 3nm node - but all the engineering effort to make, say, a new mobile phone processor - will go towards a specific process node. Each process node your target for a new chip needs a set of masks for the photolithography process.

The smaller the process node, the more these masks end up costing (newer process nodes are approaching $50M per set). These masks are also custom made for the foundry you're using them in (due to manufacturing variations), so if you want multiple foundries for security of supply, spend a few more tens of millions for each additional foundry.

The advantage of a small process node, though, is that the cost of the individual chips start to approach "free" once you've paid for that first one. :)

You can't just make a new processor and run it on multiple process nodes without doing a whole lot of work, even besides mask sets. Any custom logic in the CPU core will have to be designed to work with that process node's timing and power parameters. The timing closure on any process node is painstakingly detailed work - especially because you'd need a new mask set, or at least part of one.

Then you have to consider peripherals - when you build a processor, you're going to need RAM. If you want to use the newest DDR5 on your processor, you need a DDR5 controller in your CPU to be able to talk to the memory. That DDR5 controller (provided and guaranteed by a third party, unless you want to try your hand at rolling your own) is only going to exist for one or two process nodes - again, because it's a lot of work and expense to get up and running in the first place, so the vendor that provides that controller is only going to invest in the process nodes that make sense for it.

You'll need these controllers for all your communication interfaces - USB, eMMC, PCIe, SPI, GPIO... And they all have to exist for the node you've chosen. Then you need to verify in simulation that your logic can interface to their logic at the speeds you want to run. It gets complicated really quickly.

Source: I'm a chip designer.

Edits: Fixing my terrible grammar.

Altered Carbon (by Richard Kadrey?).
A billionaire, in a fresh new body but missing a couple of days worth of memories, hires a special ops/detective to solve his own murder.

It's a great book, but unfortunately the series isn't as consistently good as that first one.

The Netflix series was good but, as always, the book was better. :) The TV series deviated from some of the important plot points in the book but the gist was there.

I think the third book is really good but 2 and 4 were kind of meh.

I'm kind of intrigued by this one... What's it called??

Thanks for that. It's nice to see an assembled option. The lalboard looked a bit intimidating. I've been starting to develop daily wrist pain after working for a few hours and I'm looking for a decent option that lets me keep going without ending up crippled.

I enjoy a little cardboardeau on occasion.

The New Testament absolutely says that it's ok to keep slaves and provides guidelines for how matters should treat their slaves and how slave should behave. This is mostly within the context of Roman society at the time.

Is that really any different from the way it is now?

Dude really only has one trick, huh?