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  • Oh yeah that sounds brilliant. Not like that market needs a stable regulatory environment for their massive investrment to come to fruition. I'm sure it will inspire a lot of confidence in investments in the US chip market when he alters the deal after billions of sunk cost.

  • The article opens with saying only 25% of the fuel's energy gets used by the motor, 75% is in the heat of the exhaust. I'll take that as a given. Let's assume a small motor (in this inventions favour) with a nominal power of only 60 kW, running only at half tilt, 30 kW.

    That gives us 90 kW in the exhaust heat by the numbers of the article. So the 56 W it captured in the simulation would be 0.046% of the total 120 kW power being converted by burning the fuel, raising the efficiency from 25% to 25.046%.

    The headline is so massively overstated it's basically just a lie. If the device was built, not just simulated, and you'd manage to substitute part of the alternator's ouput with the thermoelectic generator's output, the effect on fuel economy would be below the measurable level.

  • Oh, sorry. You're right. I was wrong on that point. I didn't realize it showed the sensitive label in parenthesis to others.

    I would maintain the rest of the argument though, with the Mexican (and global) point of view being the more prominently displayed, there is no significant harm, and she doesn't stand to gain anything from pursuing a civil case, nor politically.

  • This is stupid. Google is doing it with their normal process, labeling the USA as a sensitive country in their system and changing the label only for the sensitive snowflakes. So there is no harm to Mexicans in Mexico. (this was wrong, it's show globally in parenthesis, see below)

    What sort of damages would she assert anyway? That her country suffers in a significant way from a Google Maps label that can only be seen from the sensitive country? How so?

    And if it's a political move what is she hoping to achieve? Google will never cave to the USA before Mexico, they depend more on their US operations than their Mexican ones. So she can't achieve anything politically. Does she want to draw even more attention to a losing fight? A losing fight over mere symbolism no less? Why?

  • 22 Ampere is pretty much half the power draw of the card, through one wire instead of three if the load was properly balanced between them.

    Apparently the reference design only has one current shunt, so they can't even measure the imbalance. Madness.

  • I can really recommend both der8auers video and Buildzoids video on this. Der8auer has good thermal imaging of imbalanced current between the wires between two 12V HPWR plugs, and Buildzoid has the explanation why the current can't be balanced with the current setup on 5090s.

  • I remember reading articles at the time of the last patents running out. Some were so misguided it was hilarious.

    They called it the death of MP3! As if patents were good or necessary, instead of restrictive and troublesome for interoperability.

  • I'm just working off context here, can't really defend the Swedes. It seems a little unusual to me too.

    But I can't complain too much, because there are plenty of weirdoes in my country who use single dots for time, which I find even worse. Especially because the dot is also often a decimal separator. So depending on context 9.25 can be 09:25 or 9 hours and 15 minutes.

  • Don't know about Mexico, but i've never had a rotten egg in a fresh carton in Switzerland.

    I start doing the swim test when my eggs are 2 weeks over the indicated minimum shelf life, and they are usually only standing up, not swimming yet.

  • They could improve this so much by saying something like "the last 2 minutes and 24 seconds of unsaved progress will be lost" instead. Just need to keep a time counter from last save, that's not too much overhead.