This makes sense. Give the companies like Apple and nvidia time to set up some local factories. How long could it take to acquire land, set up a chip foundry, and train up staff? 90 days?

To be pedantic, there is no 6e. Just 6A. I am looking at a spool labelled 6e as I type this, but that’s just a manufacturer thing, not an actual spec.

$AAPL stonk go up.

That’s the car I was thinking of specifically. Wasn’t a good time overall for Mercedes though, to be fair.

When my employer reimburses me fully, I will pay for two connections. But they don’t, even though they (could) save a ton of money by closing the office.

Less inequality and better education are really the only solution.

People reach for extremism when they feel let down by the existing system.

They’ve been building them in USA for a long time. Things may have changed, but when they first started building overseas instead of Europe, the reports were that you could totally tell. Creaks, groans, and rattles. Personally, with my tiny sample sizes, this holds true.

The average buyer doesn’t really care as long as their leased Mercedes makes them look like they are successful.

It has gotten so much better over the years. Which is more testament to how unutterably awful it was at release than how good it is now.

Several years ago I inadvertently (because I didn’t realize who they were) got in a twitter argument with someone who I seem to recall as the creator of electron about how it was fucking embarrassing how bad electron apps are. At the time I kinda felt bad because he seemed like a decent guy and I let loose but I wonder what the carbon footprint of his little side project is…

I think what started the rant was that back at that time, if you scrolled one page back in a chat, it would display a graphic representing a chat while it loaded the chat. And the fucking software was sitting there using a GB of ram and couldn’t keep 5 min of conversation cached. Just inexcusably bad.

I don’t know who at Microsoft had such a hard-on for electron back then, but it seems to have spread and it’s still nowhere close to the good old windows GUI for resource usage.

Thankfully it has gotten better. Slightly. Still pegs my CPU but I think that’s because I have a shit CPU with integrated gfx

It uses a fucking inordinate amount of resources to accomplish its task, mostly.

What sort of isp supplied residential equipment doesn’t block inbound connections? Pedantically, you’re correct.

You have a firewall. It’s in your router, and it is what makes it so that you have to VPN into the server. Otherwise the server would be accessible. NAT is, effectively, a firewall.

Should you add another layer, perhaps an IPS or deny-listing? Maybe it’s a good idea.

Not just salary - H1B are also good at following orders, because if they lose their job, they will get deported.

Humans build with wood - furniture, houses.

Big, old trees have “no value” in capitalism, because they can’t be processed in industrial mills into furniture or house material.

Solution is to cut them down, turn them into paper, and use the land to grow new trees (“See how environmentally friendly we are?”) which can be used for industrial purposes.

It happens wherever there’s old trees and no protection and it makes me so sad. They’ll never grow back. There’s too much pollution, even if we gave them the time.