NASA is comparing to Spitzer and conveniently forgetting Herschel.

I hope he doesn’t keep the moustache. I can’t stand moustaches (unless they are accompanied by a beard). So old fashioned.

It’s a look alike.

Hey, look! It’s Elric!

That’s not Laurel Goodwin in that header pic. It’s someone playing her. See 3:20 in the video. Who ever it is (plus the costuming) is a very convincing look alike!

It was on silicon dioxide. Soitec, who is the world’s biggest supplier of SOI wafers emerged out of that project. We were working with the French lab LETI who manufactured the wafers using implantation followed by laser annealing. Soitec spun out of LETI, and later developed their Smart Cut technology that became the…

A broken clock is right twice a day (unless the hands have fallen off).

Yay! An oligarch who sues bloggers he doesn’t like, and fires safety whistle-blower employees, is going to save us from censorship! /s

Burlingame is the next city to me, so I should pay this place a visit. Maybe I’ll arrange a trip with all my ex-colleagues who are now working for Meta on VR. Not sure they’d all fit in the store though!

I worked on a 0.7um technology development program that was a big deal at the time. Although that did have the added factor that it was an early silicon on insulator technology.

Here’s an brief article on this in the electronics press: https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/tsmc-looks-to-2nm-in-2024/

You know writers don’t understand the semiconductor market when every TSMC story takes on an Apple spin. Taiwan builds 92% of the world’s advanced semiconductors, and nearly all of that is TMSC.

It makes sense to me, but feels unnecessary. Buzz Lightyear, the T-O-Y who thinks he is a Space Ranger, and then has to come to terms with a far more mundane existence, was interesting. After all isn’t that the condition for most human beings, who as children believe they will become a person of amazing consequence,…

We Brits have a lot of catching up to do one the bad other-side-of-the-(Amy)-Pond accents. It would take a century of bad American accents just to balance out Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

It never ceases to amaze me how the desire to get clicks on social media drives shitty people to do shitty things!

Surely the penalties should (hopefully will) be more than him losing flying license. Isn’t there some kind of reckless endangerment case to be made here?

Nepotism is endemic in America and contributes to the low socio-economic mobility here (the US has less mobility and equality of opportunity today than the European Union or other OECD countries. See: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/13/american-dream-broken-upward-mobility-us). This shows up from…

The V-Minion cruises way past those speeds and accel and is a bed slinger with a cantilevered x. I’m going up to 800mm/s and 25k accel on mine for speed prints.

Those speeds are easily reached with high quality parts and good design, combined with input shaping.