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New comment by darquomiahw in "America’s semiconductor boom [video]"

darquomiahw — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:32:57 +0000

What's TSMC's headcount down in AZ? I ask because Intel has laid off or retired around 40k employees in the past two years and they still need to cut a little more to please the new boss.

New comment by darquomiahw in "Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism"

darquomiahw — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:45:17 +0000

>What would you restrict, if you wanted to prevent any other actor from building drones? Batteries? Rotors? 3D printers? $17 Raspberry Pis?

Explosives and fuzing mechanisms, which are already regulated in many countries.

New comment by darquomiahw in "Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated CSAM"

darquomiahw — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:03:46 +0000

AI-generated "CSAM" is the perfect form of kompromat. Any computer with a GPU can generate images that an American judge can find unpalatable. Once tarred by the sex offender brush and cooled by 20+ years in prison for possession, any individual will be effectively destroyed. Of course, no real children are being abused, which makes it all the more ludicrous.

New comment by darquomiahw in "US satellite jammer is set for delivery as flaws are fixed"

darquomiahw — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:19:31 +0000

I'd imagine a parabolic dish that points at the satellite, driven by something powerful like a klystron. With a highly directional antenna and high power one should be able to saturate the satellite receiver.

New comment by darquomiahw in "Catching Lightning in a Bottle"

darquomiahw — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 20:54:29 +0000

This type of process has already been developed industrially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland%E2%80%93Eyde_process

The trouble is that it is inefficient and will ultimately release some NOx compounds into the atmosphere since the conversion rate is not 100% to HNO3. I'm surprised there is not a single mention of this process in their paper.