I'm just glad someone is putting hybrid packaging information in the public domain. The generalized background information is really helpful for engineers new to this very small area. This wiring is not as complex as the old military hybrids for sure. It may be six layers but there is only one monolithic.
Readit Newsmike50 commented on A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package righto.com/2025/08/intel-... · Posted by u/robin_reala
mike50 commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
There is this new fancy thing called "Internet" that makes libraries obsolete.
Internets have free internet and computers. And not all media is on bittorrent yet.
mike50 commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
Part of this is simply a function of the average age. There's a much bigger squeeze of life events when everyone dies at 60 instead of 90. We become older, meaning our life events are stretched out further, we leave school later, begin work later, buy a house later, have kids later, retire later, die later. Secondly, within the population the share of old is becoming bigger, meaning the average buyer is older, and also the average age of first buyers is older.
If you look through the statistics we are actually richer in terms of housing than ever before. There's two stats: home size, and persons-per-house. In the past half century or so, home size doubled while persons-per-house dropped by 25%. So we live in bigger homes and share them with fewer people, housing-per-person has been increasing decade after decade to the point it's almost 3x what it was since the war.
This ignores many things. Legal requirements have pushed up home and lot sizes. In the suburbs of NYC a drive will take you from 1910 era suburbs with 800 square foot homes where 80% of the lot is building or useful infrastructure that are now illegal to build, to just built 4000 square foot mansions on lots large enough for apartment buildings with a mandated 20-30% lot coverage maximum. You are also ignoring the fact that even with modern power appliances and automation it takes a lot of time money and people to maintain those new lager homes.
mike50 commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
The UK unemployment rate is 5%. That's around ~2 million people who are already here but can't find work.
Do you really mean to tell me that none of those people can work as cleaners?
Of course they CAN but no one with better prospects and good command of English even if you pay a great salary.
mike50 commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
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mike50 commented on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March axios.com/2025/04/04/fore... · Posted by u/timvdalen
Lol there is no due process at the border for a simple imprisonment, it is 'administrative' and I have been held up to a day or so without any sort of hearing. I pulled my FBI record from the last time they tossed me in immigration holding cell, there is no record of it. They don't allow you to have a phone, they do not let you have an attorney, and they do not document they've imprisoned you. They lock you away and that is that, it is your word against theirs and your word from behind a jail cell. You will never prevail in such a situation, and if you complain outside of some place like HN the vast majority of people will angrily ask what you did wrong and that there 'must be more to the story' so you rarely even bring it up.
I do not think most people can conceive just how common and deranged the situation is, and that not only that the documentation is so poor and that most of the people this happens to will not speak up, either because no one will believe them or because they are not a citizen and are afraid it will result in reprisal.
The FBI does not perform immigration enforcement at entry points.
mike50 commented on If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/hggh
That's why pretty much every office space/building over here has cable trunking/channels on the walls instead of fixed wiring, eg:
https://www.elba.si/izdelki/parapetni-kanali/
https://www.obo.si/izdelki/izdelkiinstalacije-v-zgradbah/bis...
Need one more outlet? Remove the plastic cover, insert cable, insert outlet, cut the plastic cover to make space for outlet, and you're done.
In the us wiremold is the equivalent product.
mike50 commented on Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable liu.se/en/news-item/nasta... · Posted by u/geox
I don't understand why there's no startups making open source modular electronics.
A collection of maybe 50 well chosen modules could handle at least part of pretty much everything, while allowing for upgrades as tech improves.
A microwave and a dishwasher and a dryer could all use the same controller and the same display module. A desk lamp and a flashlight could use the same LED and driver.
The current modular systems are educational or hobbyist oriented, or they try to do stuff that crosses high bandwidth links and needs lots of pins, but there's not reason we can't have standard LED drivers and other simple stuff like that.
The whole range of modules would probably be pretty cheap, it's just a matter of convincing everyone to use them, which I guess is why nobody does it.
Dryers and microwave ovens do not require electronics. LED lamps with a wall wart that unplugs already exist.