I worked with networked attached storage systems at pib scale several years ago and we referred to things in gib/tib because it was significant when referring to the size of systems and we needed to be precise.

That being said, I think the difference between mib and mb is niche for most people

Speaking of significant Pib vs PiB is 8x. I assume you meant the latter.

If you have history turned off and you’re not signed in, the number of videos they show on the home screen is already zero

LLMs have definitely helped me reduce my social anxiety when writing, especially in a technical work setting. I don’t use it like the respondent in the article though, I would feel really embarassed to not edit an llm’s output to be in my own voice. But I feel it helps provide me with some structure in whatever I’m trying to write when I don’t have the mental energy or wherewithal to provide it myself.

I agree. I’ve used LLMs to aid in writing out copy and other things, but as a learning tool and not as a way to remove myself from the process. I especially don’t like where businesses are taking this. At least with the old chat bots and such you knew you were in an equivalent of a phone tree. Now it’s hard to tell what’s human and what isn’t, and therefore difficult to know how to interact.

I was able to get a new install of Rocket League working recently using Heroic Launcher! https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

Something to consider is that BTI kills many species of Diptera, not just mosquitoes.

There is at least Laricobius nigrinus for HWA, which has been identified as a method of biocontrol.

Would it be better to make patents have shorter lifespans before entering the public domain from companies of a certain size? Maybe that would level out the playing field and allow small players to be more competitive against behemoth corporations and patent trolls.

Heavily penalize patent trolling with patents that never should have been granted, prevent mafia-esque lawsuits from districts like east Texas, and drastically reduce the cost for someone to defend themselves through some form of pre-trial mediation where independent experts review the validity of a claim.

Are there any companies arbitraging this % difference by collating lots of different businesses transactions into larger sums to then move into a particular currency for business owners who transact in non local currencies?

I’m pretty sure Wise does something like this. Protip, you can get a Wise business account and collect stripe payments in a local currency, then bulk fx it to your local currency.

Why Stripe isn’t partnering with them, I don’t know. My bank partners with Wise to get the best exchange rate possible (Bunq) when I’m out of the EU. It’s fantastic.

The "3nm process" has no bearing on the actual size of the gate's or anything like that and is purely a marketing term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process gives a reasonable summary in its introduction.

My remembrance of the specific quantum effects that you're thinking of are from quantum tunneling[1] of electrons. The problem occurs when the gate size gets small enough that electrons can pass through without the transistor being switched on, which starts to happen around 3nm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling

Interesting that in the WP article it says the gap between the name and the feature size is already ~ 1 order of magnitude:

> a 3 nm node is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 48 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 24 nanometers

The name used to correspond to the minimum gate length down to ~14nm. But the smallest feature size in 3nm (i.e. minimum gate length) is certainly much smaller than 24nm.

OK, so in "3nm", what is the minimum gate length? And, how many silicon atoms is that?

I couldn't find the information readily available online so I'm not sure I can answer that (all of this stuff is under NDA). But even then, I could only tell you the "drawn" dimension, which is what gets shown on the screen. There are a lot of digital and physical processing steps that change the actual dimensions. Once something is manufactured inevitably one of the IC teardown companies will do a cross section and publish all of this information.

Dumb question: how come that isn’t fraud?

Because anybody buying at an industrial level is wise to it being untrue at a gate length level. Plus it's easily available to consumers that the gate length isn't that size. Plus it's bullshit that at some level everybody buys, even Intel and TSMC in some roundabout way, at the highest levels for sure, though not at the ground level. At the ground level even eg 180 nanometer has virtues that 28 nanometer lacks, it's totally different things, different texture different everything, the graybeards know. They know. Then there's different radiation resistance but that's too obvious.

So if everybody believes in the nanometers, nobody cares.

Until you hit a wall.

I wonder if it would be a possibility to relay electricity across the US with large battery stations from big solar farms, or if the loss in transit + the expense of the batteries would make something like that intractable.

So Cal has Sunrise Power Link which is high voltage transmission lines specifically designed to bring in power from the solar and wind farms in the desert. The proliferation of solar farms in the desert is a clear indicator of how that has gone.

Growing up in San Diego I hilariously remember environmentalists protesting the Sunrise Power Link. The reason given by my high school classmates who were involved in the protesting was that it threatened some desert tortoise's habitat or something like that. There were also some NIMBY types protesting the transmission lines.

From the gas and oil companies' perspective, with enemies like these, who needs friends?