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Doesn’t matter if someone will accept it and work in the office. That’s what the value the job is worth to both the employer and the employee.
I don't think there are any multi-trillion dollar deposits of any "minerals" there. If there were, Ukraine wouldn't be so poor. Even pre-war it was the poorest country in Europe per capita. One can argue that it was mostly due to their insane levels of corruption, but then again, if there were any multi-trillion dollar deposits of anything there, Western investors (including Hunter Biden, no doubt) would be all over them, and the country would be much richer than it was.

I think the whole "minerals" thing is a play. Trump gives Zelensky the "deal" he cannot accept even theoretically. Zelensky predictably plays the tough guy by telling him to pound sand. Trump throws Zelensky under the bus and negotiates repayment of loans with his (now scared) successor.

With respect to Taiwan, it is not really possible to "win" in any real sense against China in Taiwan. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a dimwit who can't even do cursory research on industrial capacities of the potential belligerents, not in terms of dollars, but in terms of units/tons/etc. That is where the comparison is very strongly not in our favor. Especially when it comes to shipbuilding.

Best case if things kick off (which I hope to god they do not) - only Taiwan gets destroyed, a-la Ukraine. Worst case - both US and China really go at it directly, full bore, and then we will lose due primarily to our weak industrial base, and far more extended logistics. Moreover, a lot of other countries will totally provide "lethal aid" and intelligence to China, if it needs it, in hopes of taking the hegemon down a few pegs. Nothing personal - just business, such alliances happen in every major war. The extreme case one of the sides feels they're gonna lose and presses the red button, in which case everyone dies in a fire.

All of these options are objectively extremely shitty and incompatible with prosperity, and in the extreme case, with survival. All of them mean millions of body bags for the parties involved, far more body bags than either country has ever seen.

Both Biden and Trump administrations understood this, hence the strong-arming the re-industrialization, especially in higher end fields, which started under Biden. The era where you could just get your stuff made elsewhere for pennies and then charge $$$ for it is coming to an end.
Slowdown in the West. This started before covid but was not visible because Asia is still growing.
I mean, I think you can at least understand why directly interfering with the domestic politics of a representative democracy might be challenging.

And the Europeans are helping. Trump is not getting the straight forward quick foreign policy wins that he was chasing. Europe is going to keep sticking their "European peacekeeper" (however you want to characterize it) proposal into the Ukraine mix, and Putin is going to have a hard time swallowing that deal.

When the EU tariffs come, you can bet that EU is going to try to make it sting as much as possible.

But ultimately it's up to Americans to make the best of these opportunities.
That's not a significant issue. O&M costs are a given and not wildly out of step with traditional generation. If you want to talk about cost effectivness the thing that matters is either a)transmission capacity and interconnects for distributed generation b)storage for centralized generation. As long as you're ok investing in 1 of the 2, distributed generation is great.
Does not exclude my point of view. If things go sour they most likely be on the first plane to the US.
Repo should be public now, thanks.
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> Deciding not to do those things for economic comfort is its own vote of support.

Not in a surveillance state. It's easy for a company/government to identify unrest and deal with the perpetrators, before anything breaks out. These institutions have the power to ruin your life for showing any signs of protest.
Not being snarky here, but what is the benefit of a chip fab in Arizona, thousands of miles from the assembly lines where the chips will be used?

I get why it would be important for niche (e.g. defense) applications, but is TSMC scale really needed?
> whether Apple has caught up to Qualcomm

My very recent Qualcomm-equipped phone sucks in every stadium, train station, shopping center, and high-rise I’ve entered in the last year.

I’m not sure if that’s Tmo or the modem but Qualcomm is not a panacea for crowded 5G in my experience.
Where does all that come from? Democratic revolutions have happened all over the world.

> 250 years ago George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War

Could you provide some support for this claim?
LCOE omits delivery issues. Energy isn't just about the cost to produce an electron. It's the cost of getting that electron to people when they need it. For things like wind or solar to ever become a major player you need to deal with intermittency and dispatchability.

In other words you need to deal with times when the wind isn't blowing, or when people need more (or less) power than you're producing. The way you'd do this is through excessive production during good times, and then storing the surplus in batteries, artificial hydroelectric, or other such means - and then delivering from those sources as necessary. But doing this sends the real cost per unit much higher. The storage process also entails some (to a significant amount - depending on the type of storage) energy loss as well, so you end up needing to produce more than 1 unit of electricity to get 1 unit.

FWIW I'm a huge advocate for solar, so this isn't some random smear on renewables - it's something that needs to be accounted for and which LCOE fails to do.
For 200 years China did nothing with Taiwan. The Ming dynasty called it a ball of mud in the water not worth the effort of the Chinese people. The Qing dynasty did not allow anyone to travel to Taiwan because it was too unsafe to travel. The few people in Taiwan were constantly fighting with the local population. They failed to rule or control Taiwan. For 7 years prior to Japan invading they decided to call it a province. Despite having no control over it. Japan even said they were not convinced Taiwan belonged to China because there was next to nothing there, they put up no fight, and fled before Japan arrived. The PRC also called Taiwan an independent nation and advocated for Taiwan independence until the 1940s when the ROC took control of the island as the request of the allied forces who requested ROC administer Taiwan until they decided what to do with the island, because no one was convinced it ever belonged to China to begin with.
Their leadership and training is not pushed to the lower levels like in the US military NCO corps. Russian warfare is extremely.
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My understanding is that there are currently only three important chip makers, including Intel with all of their issues.

The world is largely dependent on TSMC, not only for the latest GPUs but also for embedded chips that we keep putting into everything from cars to toasters.

For me the questions isn't whether the US would help Taiwan because we're dependent on them. I wonder whether we actually have the backbone to step in militarily at all, and whether out military is as combat ready as we like to think they are.
Linux makes you use the terminal and read manuals and edit configs to accomplish the most basic tasks. At least neither Windows nor macOS need that. Linux is fine for servers, but I can't fathom using that on my actual computer.
I heard someone refer to Trump's cabinet as a Suicide Squad, a deliberate collection of the worst people.
A multipolar world order is a pretty good counter-take (parallel take?)! Most of the time I have my eye on Asia and it seems like a stretch for Korea, Japan, Philippines etc. to fall under the sway of a China in severe demographic decline - but much of SE Asia is definitely in play. And every region will play out differently
I wish for snow leopard strategy to be applied to modern scaled operating systems. Let's all agree to spend a year fixing and optimizing rather than making existing functionality worse or launching half baked ideas.
> What I don't get is, in what universe is any US president going to engage militarily against China across the ocean

The whole premise of TSMC is that losing TSMC would cause such a global economic collapse that defending Taiwan is the only option to prevent this from happening. All high-performance computing is dependent on TSMC right now.
There is no reason you can't attach an Allocator to the type (or struct, in Zig).

A fairly common pattern in the Zig stdlib and my own code is to pass the allocator to the `init` function of a struct.

If what you mean is that allocation should be internal to the type, I don't agree with that. I much prefer having explicit control over allocation and deallocation.

The stdlib GPA for example is pretty slow, so I often prefer to use an alternative allocator such as an arena backed by a page allocator. For a CLI program that runs and then exits, this is perfect.
There is no budget for this kind of stupidity, if a start up employs to many people like this they won’t succeed.
What about “Pop! OS” ?
The Chess Circuit
You stated:

> Maybe TSMC has big influence over Taiwan's government or just outright owns key politicians under the table.

I’m pointing out this is just plain Wrong. TSMC was created by the government and invested in by the people.
Don't be obtuse. There are degrees of mental instability and no, some random person having a touch of it in very specific ways isn't the same as someone deciding to try killing the Queen of England because a chatbot said so. Most people wouldn't be quite that deluded in that context.

I'd love to see evidence of mental instability in "everyone" and its presence in many people is in any case no justification for what are in effect controls on freedom of speech and expression, just couched in a new boogeyman.
> you're the fool for buying their hardware if you disagree

Boycotts only work at scale, plus there is little competition for Apple tablets.

Google Pixel Tablet is far behind Apple iPad on OS usability, basic capability like a wired hardware keyboard, and mobile app quality. Qualcomm's Oryon/SDXE platform remains far from their Linux aspirations, even with help from Linaro. Windows is increasingly focused on being a cloud client.
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Why are you confident the Supreme Court will not declare the Impoundment Control Act an unconstitutional restriction of executive power? Or declare the only recourse is impeachment? Who do you expect would enforce the ruling you predicted?
Well in the movies they were successful…
As are the wind turbines with there non-recyclable blades and bird kills.
During California working hours it might actually be a bit low honestly as you would see several revisions uploaded for code review per commit and there are on average 200-250 commits submitted daily to the primary fuchsia repo.
This assumes USA was taken advantage of by globalization, which is not actually the case - USA benefitted disproportionally from it. USA's GDP growth is substantially based on the consumers (~70% compared to ~50% in the EU and other comparable countries), and that wouldn't have been possible if they could only consume what was produced in the USA.

But there were losers, mainly in manufacturing, and USA didn't assist them in the right way, allowed unprecedented levels of political corruption, allowed unhealthy levels of wealth inequality, allowed housing crisis, allowed obesity and health crisis etc...

Most of the USA's wounds are self-inflicted, but any good demagogue would not pass the opportunity to blame somebody else for it.
The benefit of AI generated music is that you can make it for yourself. The goal shouldn't be to get other people to listen to it. It's very personal and that should be the end goal.
One thing the 'reactionaries' (anti-revolutionaries) do is spread propaganda of powerlessness. I'm not saying you are doing it intentionally, but they do it for a reason.
spin = audience_size * ((renown + defamation) / skeleton_mass

https://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/10/dark-science-02/
All I said is that in the general case you’re not going to be able to rely on capabilities to do things like prevent phoning home or otherwise doing things you semantically define as harmful. This isn’t a UX issue - this is a technical issue. Capabilities, outside from very rare circumstances, can’t enforce it no matter how you structure this. The only rare circumstances is if you can restrict access to servers that aren’t owned by the same people as wrote the component. As soon as you give access that allows access, they can implement it in ways that capabilities can’t prevent.
> Pollution is great to tax, because we want to produce less of it.

Seems like wealth taxes would be a great target too then.
This is exactly the kind of thing the CFPB or FTC should go after.
The U.S. absolutely defends Taiwan because losing it isn’t an option!

Taiwan currently produces over 85% of the world’s advanced semiconductors. Letting China take Taiwan would hand the CCP control over the global tech supply chain, crippling the U.S. economy and military. That’s a non starter.

No nation with anything to lose will be using nukes..EVER. The game has been understood for 75 years: mutual destruction means no winners. The U.S. has more nukes, better missiles, and full second-strike capability. China knows this, so nukes aren’t on the table.

The U.S. doesn’t need to invade just stop China’s invasion. Amphibious assaults are the hardest military operation, and China has zero real world experience in them or in fighting hot wars at all. We only need to sink their fleet or disrupt shipping to and from their ports. They know the risk, which is why they haven’t tried.

Now 5 years form now if we are much less dependent on them for semi-conductors that is a different story, but the realities of today. For now? Yeah, we throw down.

Also there is the scenario where China co-opts or influences Taiwans elections such that leadership moves back to a pro China stance. Not impossible, that would really put the US in a bind and I am not sure what would happen then but military engagements would seem much less likely.
For Foxconn see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconn_Valley_Science_and_T...

But it's very worth pointing this out. The Taiwanese announcement is just an announcement. When a chip, any chip, rolls off the line (from this investment) let me know.

The reality is that in 4 years Trump will be gone. Building a plant will take longer than that. This is nothing more than good PR.
Hi! Looks really good, but could you explain a bit more what exactly you're doing here?
Because they’re not being reasonable. You’re assuming that they’re reasonable people and they’re not. Reasonable companies, of which there are many, are running successful remote teams and not demanding RTO. You’re not hearing about them because they’re doing the reasonable thing for their employees.
Everyone with 100 points of id can open a bank account. If you have very bad credit, or even officially bankrupt, you can get a debit that does not let you spend more than you have, well mostly. But, that still leaves the newspaper commenters who have a friend of a friend who does not have 100 points of id or loses their card and bank details weekly.
Me too buddy, super powerful, syntax is a little weird but once you get used to it..

gen servers, everywhere.
Any sources for all this?

Wanting to end a war that's been at a stalemate for 3 years doesn't mean sympathy or treason. It can also simply be a pragmatic decision.

The "getting stuffed" thing would be big words from a nearly bankrupt company, don't you think? Intel's investors will take whatever deal that gives them the biggest return on their dollar.
Factors for what? Deciding whether it's in life support? Deciding if it's okay for you to depend on it?
To add onto this, Rust actually does have UB, it’s just impossible to reach without unsafe. One “sharper” edge has is that it’s UB is much easier to trigger in unsafe than one might expect, so writing unsafe Rust actually requires more skill than C++, which is why you should be very very careful when reaching for it.
I have a windows for work, Mac as a laptop and Linux on my workstation desktop. Windows is by far the worst, I don’t think Linux is vastly superior to Mac, they both have some things they do better than the other. My main issue is arm vs x86.
Batteries aren't produced at remotely enough scale to be viable for grid storage. To put this in perspective, the world uses 60 TWh of electricity per day. By comparison global lithium ion battery production was 1.1 TWh [1]. Remember, production capacity is distinct from the actual production figures. It's typical for actual production figures to be ~50% of production capacity.

Intermittent sources don't just experience daily fluctuation, but also seasonal fluctuation. Even just 3 days of storage amounts to an impossible amount of batteries to provision, even assuming growing battery production capacity. Not to mention, even modest amounts of battery grid storage would severely hamper EV adoption, which would increase emissions.

There's a reason why most plans for a primarily wind and solar grid assume that there will be some technological breakthrough that solves storage: hydrogen, compressed air, alternative battery chemistries, etc. are really common to see in plans for a primarily renewable grid.

1. https://interactanalysis.com/insight/global-li-ion-battery-s...
Insanely sophisticated electronic warfare that can disrupt / defeat / destroy.

A few nice miniguns with radars sensitive enough to pick up birds that fire flak.

Auto cannons.

Missiles.

... Lasers.
TBF a ton of windows users aren't primarily from the platform, and have either a second machine or more experience on other OSes.

The dev community might be an outlier, but people choosing a windows machine to get WSL on a mainstream and well-supported hardware is not uncommon.

Same for those with a macos work laptop but a windows gaming machine, or artists using a mac for personal stuff and windows for 3D/2D creation.

Having Windows designers making platform transitions easier kinda makes sense, though I agree it shouldn't penalize existing users as much as it does now.
In the US's two most recent wars, the people with small arms outlasted the US military. It happened in 3 of the 5 U.S. wars since WWII, and in the other two there was nobody with small arms.
Based on my experiences in eWaste:

Tech thats not getting properly recycled is LCD Monitors, was CRT's but they became profitable to mine for copper and gold.

People are too sensitive to scratches on their screen and just throw it out. Once a monitor hits an eWaste bin that only gets worse.

But the much larger problem with eWaste is packaging. Theres more packaging, with different grades of plastic, than there is shit inside of it that can be repaired or recycled.

Phones are collected and recycled. Batteries are collected, sorted and recycled. Ancient Desktop computers are often marked as scrap, "recycled" to a developing country where they are suddenly reborn as... desktop computers and live a third or fourth life. Otherwise desktops are fairly recoverable, they go straight to "ex government" style stores, ebay, what have you.

Laptops are pretty bad too, because of the integrated screen.

Hard drives, some people like to destroy instead of wipe for security reasons. But the metals are fairly recoverable.

Networking gear tends to live on in someones home or study lab, or it goes to developing nations.

I actually find that appliances were quite unlikely to even hit an ewaste bin, likely going to landfill instead.
No idea about Australia, but in Estonia (and I suppose most of the Europe?) children can get a debit card without much hassle. Maybe we could give them dedicated BIN numbers so that you could check for age this way, but I think it’s not worth the hassle.