Taking immunosuppressants because you think they’ll make you live longer is absolutely fucking wild.

it doesn’t work as well for French because there are multiple accents for a given letter (è, é, ê, ë…)

Estonia is upwards

Yep, 'twas a joke.

That’s the case for most things of any colour.

Look, I know conserving every bit we can would be better, but a single beverage doesn’t use thaaaat much water.

I actually liked a lot of the food I had when I lived in the UK. Not necessarily all the cuisine as such (although plenty of it is fine), but I found in general that supermarkets had really good quality produce and ingredients for very decent prices, and I love cheddar and various other British staples. An English breakfast is great too, and I know this picture isn’t representative.

But Australia and NZ have really perfected pies and sausage rolls, and they’re far more of an everyday thing. You can get pretty decent ones basically anywhere. I moved to the UK after a couple years in France, where the food was of course great, but I was really looking forward to being able to finally get a good sausage roll. So you can imagine my disappointment when I couldn’t.

A single diode a micrometer away from anything else is not suddenly a transformer without which a 400 um² antenna stops working.

They’re fabricating micrometer components with a 90 nm process. That’s pretty well in the classical regime. If they’re seeing substantial tunneling at that scale it would be rather noteworthy to say the least.

i remember there was a diode and transistor that were literally completely seperated from the traces of the rest of the chip, and yet they were functional pieces and the chip wouldnt work if you removed them.

If that was true they would be getting the Nobel in physics for discovering some incredible new quantum phenomena, it would be front-page news everywhere. I highly doubt it’s true.

Frustratingly, that article you linked doesn’t actually link to the paper. But it is in Nature Communications. That’s a respectable journal but not that prestigious, and it publishes a lot of over hyped stuff. Not that any journal doesn’t. But if they had really found new physics with AI chip design that would go to Science, Nature, or maybe PRL.

Edit: ah, I found it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1

Chip design isn’t at all my specialty so take my opinion about this with a grain of salt. But I think it’s notable that

Prior works in nanophotonics have demonstrated the class of inverse methods for specific dielectric-based passive structures through gradient based optimizations such as adjoint method

So, there are already known algorithmic approaches to solving for these. I think it’s also notable that these are for signal transformation and antennae, relatively simple operations.

This seems like a vaguely useful result but I don’t expect it’ll be breaking any new ground any time soon.

they have no idea, haha, they got very offended over there when I told them I was disappointed to find they were so shit compared to NZ ones

Their sausage rolls pale compared to their oceanic descendants too.

Well said.

No no I think this would be good. It would hasten their downfall for sure.

the eu doesn’t run eurovision lol, they suck but that one’s not on them

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In many Indian recipes you toast and finely powder them as part of a spice mix, obviously those are left in, and it’s also a slightly different variety of bay tree. But in European cooking I’ve also only ever seen them taken out after simmering. Although I’m often too lazy and just take them out on my plate.

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wym bumblebees can’t fly I’ve seen them myself

The EU is not “turning a blind eye”, it is actively engineering this and much worse, and has been for a long time, e.g.

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11995-a_libyan_militia_and_the_eu_-_a_love_story