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Comment · 1 year ago
The number of responses here lends statistical support to the first basic law.
Comment · 1 year ago
No. Sorry, that is not a helpful comparison.
Comment · 1 year ago
>Ultra-high precision analyses of volcanic rocks show Earth’s core is leaking into rocks above

That summarizes the article. There is no mention of "tapping into" it.

Comment · 1 year ago
> I don't think this is the right replacement for GPS. Perhaps someone here can correct me if I am wrong?

Though I do not agree with your reasons, I do think this Xona is not the right replacement for GPS.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> The idea that coffee can have any taste other burnt rubber was interesting.

That summarizes the article.

This is not a recommendation, but you can buy caffeine pills.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?

Airlines and commercial aviation operators schedule their own flights. That is a dynamic schedulle. So, perhaps there is no "comprehensive data set".

However, FlightAware makes publicly available scheduled and completed flight data over many routes in the USA. You can search by route and get a list of flights.

Flight information includes filed departure time, route of flight, and speed. For completed flights actual time, altitude, and route is shown. For example, a search on the route Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin lists 45 flights.

I hope that helps.

Comment · 1 year ago
If planning/designing a timing system like this using existing antenna, why wouldn't you choose to use cellular base stations? The cellular network reaches most places with overlapping coverage and carries network time. The lowest cellular frequencies are adjacent the upper broadcast TV channels. Aren't modern cellular receivers what we call software defined radios? They can choose which channels to receive.
Comment · 1 year ago
The research looks detailed and interesting. However, I don't follow this summary article.

Digital circuits dissipate most of the energy charging and discharging capacitance. It must necessarily dissipate that as heat (except for a minor amount of electro-magnetic radiation). The interconnect resistance hardly matters. Of course RC relay can be a factor for some circuits. We can hope this reasearch leads to improvement there.

Power supply bus resistance can lead to voltage drops, but this research apparently studies layers much too thin for that application.

Did I missing something?

Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you.
Comment · 1 year ago
The article was interesting.

Can someone explain:

Why is it called "linear" Elamite?

Is there unicode for linear Elamite yet?

Comment · 3 years ago
We don't see this replacing the memory-processor bus. That gives some indication of how ideal it is. I should add in my opinion memory interfaces are not ideal. Everything is a trade off.
Comment · 3 years ago

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