Sure, by the time China clones this generation of tin droplet ASML EUV machines at production scale, the market will have shifted to free-electron lasers.
Readit NewsmmmBacon commented on How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/artninja1988
Slang? Possibly, but you can go anywhere in the UK and ask "What's on the telly tonight?" and people know what you're asking. I'd claim that it's informal rather than regional slang. There's even an L.A. company using it as their name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telly_(company)
(I was addressing the parent's claim of 'But English also has no word for "television"')
Yep you provide a great example of a word used as regional slang for the word television.
The word telly is not in common usage in the United States. It’s understood here to be UK slang for TV.
Your example is largely irrelevant; I wouldn’t call a spyware TV founded by Russian born dude a cultural touchstone.
Regardless of origin the word television is an English word now. The ability to adopt loan words from other languages is one of the many reasons English usage is so widespread.
Does no-one else use the english word "telly" for a television?
Isn’t “telly” English slang for television? It’s a regional slang that’s not universally used.
The GRE vocabulary is actually based on French, Latin and Greek, not English. Much less rare and unusual once you realise that.
This is 100% incorrect as you’ve written it. The GRE is based on English vocabulary. It’s true that many words have Greek, Latin, or French roots but they are most certainly not Latin, Greek, or French.
mmmBacon commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
I’m old enough to remember being able to scrounge around the house for pennies and heading down to Gracie’s corner store so I could buy some Swedish fish. They were 1 cent each. Gracie counted them out and put them in a small paper bag for you.
A major score was finding a dime or quarter on the street. When the Whatchamacallit first came out they were 25 cents!
mmmBacon commented on Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault bbc.com/news/articles/c5y... · Posted by u/onemoresoop
Maybe the jury needed 7 hours to determine if the bread was stale enough to cause bodily harm. Perhaps the crime here is the waste of a perfectly good sandwich.
mmmBacon commented on Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip phys.org/news/2025-10-pow... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
In astronomy, laser frequency combs are horribly expensive (~$0.5M), but fantastic for calibrating high precision spectrographs. It would be interesting to see if this method could be tuned for that application (namely, shifting to the visible), such to enable cheaper spectrographs.
Visible will always be expensive because it’s very niche and low volume. So the techniques here are only practical economically for the large volumes of light sources required for communications. This won’t extend to the visible unless there’s a similarly large market.
The cheapest way I’d think to generate a visible frequency comb would be to frequency double the IR comb laser using a nonlinear crystal like BBO.
Also here the accuracy is relative and not absolute which is fine for communications. The absolute accuracy of the comb may not good enough for spectroscopy in the visible.
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mmmBacon commented on Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time cnn.com/2025/10/21/climat... · Posted by u/breve
Siberia is also known to have just extremely brutal mosquito seasons. Turns out even -40C isn't enough to do away with the little persistent blood suckers.
Not surprising at all to me after several summer trips to interior Alaska. The mosquitoes are so thick that you inhale them sometimes; which is so disgusting. I slathered myself in Deet (the only thing that works) and was mostly ok. Even then they find every square mm that you missed. I sat down for 30 minutes on a bench leaning forward talking to some people. My shirt pulled up about 1/2” (12mm). Later I counted 137 bites (some had merged due to swelling) across that strip of exposed flesh!
mmmBacon commented on US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low henleyglobal.com/newsroom... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Most Western countries (except the US, as noted) now have legit visa free access to China. No e-visa, no ESTA, no advance notice, no nothing, just rock up and get stamped in.
https://www.visaforchina.cn/DEL3_EN/tongzhigonggao/327343163...
And to be clear, this is not the previous restricted "X hours transit, don't leave the city" thing, but a full blown 30 day entry permit valid for the entire country (minus Tibet), any port of entry, any port of departure.
Yes, this is a massive departure from their previous policy, but yes, it's real. Having also gone through the regular China visa process multiple times in the past, I could hardly believe it myself when I used it earlier this year.
Concur your response; you can get a 48hr transit visa on demand in China. The requirement is that you leave via the same port of entry.