Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1.  @velisvideos6208 "Hi, honey, how was your day?" "We discovered something important today". Having a serious clue that anything after would be incomprehensible, "That's nice". A conversation I've actually held with my wife of over 41 years, now sorely missed. Explaining shit to senior executives, that was what I practiced with her. She was no dullard, but not being a specialist in the field, I had an up in preparing technical stuff with her in advance. Humorously, she advanced slightly faster than most executives in technological comprehension.
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  2. Well, that $25k thing was a lot steep for post-war Japan. Seriously, it was. Japan was in ruins still into the 1950's and early '60's. But, they caught up, first with the joke of Made in Japan being of laughable quality to swiftly turning into industrial leaders. Call it bullshit flies in the face of global industry, where Six Sigma is a mantra and originated with Toyota. Introduced by Motorola, Toyota improved it to what it is today. Misapplied, well, the results are equally legendary and at the root of supply chain disruptions during the pandemic.
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  3. Thank you for making me feel young. I was born in '61. Did the electron tube, transistor, IC, VLSI conversions quite well enough. At least capacitors and resistors didn't change their behavior... ; Odd though, no selenium was mentioned in the documentary.
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  4.  @tomschmidt381 heh, just yesterday I ran into a video on ancient Cold War telephones used for Civil Defense siren activation and the host mentioned cold cathode thyratrons, albeit not by name. Recognized the technology instantly, we had a class on the damned things back in 1979. A buddy and I had a contest on who could get the thing to glow brighter...
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  5. And in microwave windows, so it can be used in windows for the process that makes these diamonds or high power radar applications.
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  6.  @samheasmanwhite  from my recollection, it comes down to gas flow being uniform and keeping the plasma uniform, any turbulence and one starts getting defects.
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  7. I remember the old big drum units. One leader sounded like a washing machine loading up, the other major vendor sounded like the 1960's bat mobile starting up, both performed equally well. Of course, I'm a bit younger, so my first minicomputer I got to work with was an old PDP-11/03. Got out of school and worked around a PDP-11/70 in Pershings... Obviously, all back when alarm clocks were either wind up or plug in.
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  8. There is, just not for jewelry. Industry is gobbling most of the supply manufactured up as fast as it's made. And the earliest gemstone diamond manufacturers literally got death threats from De Beers.
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  9. My response would be a deadpan, "well at least that bug's dead". A bug with seniority becomes a feature.
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  10. Don't get me started on water, it's just weird anyway. Go any distance away from STP, find yet another phase for the stuff. As in there's evidence to support the existence of ice inside the earth's mantle. It'd drive me to drink, but I already beat them to the punch. ;)
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  11. Well, the microwave plasma was used in physics labs for decades too. Hell, the fusor uses that tech to initially ionize deuterium.
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  12. I can think of a few ways to inject an electron in, but they'd all introduce lattice defects, which would be double plus ungood. :/ What energy level is the outer shell electrons at? Maybe resonate them a bit in the presence of an electron donor?
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  13. For thinner slices, google "diamond optical window". This process actually uses such windows to transmit the microwaves into the growth chamber. I'm still waiting for one other application, a heat sink interface compound, you know, like heat sink grease or strips that are near the same thermal efficiency as the diamonds for heat sinks. Once the right compound is found and affordable, I suspect we'll start seeing diamond CPU's and GPU's hit the market.
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  14. And more useful, as one can grow them to shape and thickness desired. Optical diamond windows are now commonly available and used for high power microwave device windows and more.
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  15. Meat sucked out of them like an Alaskian king crab leg... The writer obviously never saw this Philly boy eat. ;) Used to get king crab on Wednesdays at Camp As Sayliyah. The staff never saw a man break open crabs with his bare hands like that before or since. As for Japanese industry, I watched it go from "Made in Japan" being a massive joke on zero quality to today's might of quality and quantity. Who knows? Maybe China will catch on to the quality control thing... Assuming they don't invade anyone that Trump disapproves of... Well, at least until his know nothings fail out entirely - again.
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  16. Well, the first Winchesters were stepper motor based actuators, later models introduced the voice coil actuator for the workstation and small server market, servers getting the Caddy treatment of bleeding edge. Can't recall offhand now if the 3030 was MFM or RLL, but I'm thinking MFM formatting as default. Which actuator depended upon the product line it went into. Lost my old 10 meg IBM HD, an old Winchester drive, lost it when someone literally emptied my house while I was deployed. Came back and even the water heater was stolen. Back to that HD, it filled an entire 5.25 full size floppy bay. Alas, can't recall its model number. A whopping 10 whole megs though was insane for a workstation! This one has a great video on stepper motor vs voice coil in the smaller drives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs372pk2cGI One nice thing with voice coil was, the heads would typically be configured to return to the parking zone if power was disconnected or failed.
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  17.  @user-lo4me9oe9z have a care, that sounds dangerously like the "commie talk" that corporatists hate. Then, they might send in a Six Sigma team to eliminate operations, to enhance the corporate value. Yeah, I've actually witnessed a services company do precisely that, thereby eliminating the only product that the company had, but proclaiming how it enhanced the value of the company - which swiftly merged into a larger rival.
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  18. Nor is forgotten that recycled steel was dropped on Pearl Harbor. One watches even one's closest allies.
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  19.  @neveralonewithchrist6016  the magic trick with thin films is uniform thickness. That was absent until fairly recently.
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  20. VI was just vi, vim was later as VI improved. From SunOS came slowlaris... Yeah, I had a pizza box Sun station back in the day. Back when we had to wind up our computers in the morning... Then, they invented steam...
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  21. @dwarvenaled from what I recall from some papers on the subject, they would conduct heat better than most heat sink compounds one would use to interface with the component one is trying to remove the heat away from. They're really looking good for CPU and GPU substrate design, figure out the doping and conductors a bit more and diamond chips will be the way things will be going. I did get a chuckle over the "it's robots" for how the diamond grows, because it's not too far off from the truth chemically. Look up carbon hooks for why, the atoms themselves do the assembly at those temperatures and pressures.
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  22.  @Aaron-zu3xn  and the hydrogen makes steel brittle over time and pressure...
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  23. Didn't hear of the N-FET. Yeah, that paves the way, assuming the defect rate can be lowered enough to make the things affordable. Looks like Moore's Law is back in business!
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  24.  @grkuntzmd hopefully, after a few seconds, he let him up for air. ;)
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