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Well, you didn't think they're UFOs because they're not "unidentified" to aliens 🤷

This is just the AI bias showing through: It's all that training.

ON ROCK AND ROLL!

Co-fecal humanism

It was a real dick move.

Well, good/useful AI integration. An AI that makes games infinitely replayable by changing the story, levels, and characters so they're 100% unique every time? That could be awesome. Oh man I bet that sort of thing would be amazing if done right in a roguelike game!

AI that tries to figure out how to sell you more loot boxes? No thanks!

I wonder what the yield is on these wafers? 🤔

No, it's not wages that would increase prices huge amounts. They'd increase the price of goods slightly (depending on the good) but for the most part the biggest cost factor that increases when you decide to make something in the US is regulations.

Ya know, rules that prevent companies from dumping their toxic waste wherever TF they want. It's not just the regulations that apply to a specific company's business but all the regulations in their supply chain.

Consider a PCB manufacturer: They need epoxies, fiberglass, copper, gold, tin, and silver to make PCBs along with a shitton of associated chemicals. All of those things ultimately come from heavily regulated industries (because we don't want smelter waste full of things like lead, mercury, cobalt, and worse things winding up in our food and water). All that regulation costs money to deal with. Not just in actually complying with the regulations but also hiring people knowledgeable enough to make sure they're complying (and doing so in the least expensive way possible).

In countries like China regulations are basically non-existent because even if they have them officials can easily and cheaply be bribed to get around them (e.g. poisoned baby formula). Furthermore, the people are vastly more ignorant of health and pollution than your average idiot in the US. If some dude sees a company dumping tires on the side of the road they're likely to call the cops because that's obviously illegal. I'm China that doesn't happen because the people will be unlikely to understand the (environmental/downstream) consequences of that or will suspect the cops (and local officials) are in on it and reporting the illegal dumping could get them disappeared.

The most toxic industries are all overseas and we really do rely on them to keep supply chains going. Bringing them back onshore would drastically increase the cost of a shitton of goods just because there's no cheap way to dispose of byproducts here and there's way more requirements around handling such things.

To be fair, an iPhone could be manufactured entirely in the US it would just cost 4x as much. Maybe 10x, actually.

CPU manufacturing would be the hardest to bring online. The second most difficult one would be screens (though we may not have tariffs with South Korea 🤷).

In the US there's already plenty of PCB manufacturing, CNC machining (case), ultra hard glass (screen) manufacturing, and it's relatively easy to ramp up capacitor and resistor manufacturing. Things like USB C connectors would need some company to step up though.

That's old school. You gotta get into the modern equivalents: Airplane tracking and semi-autonomous robotics.

When Dad doesn't joke about it.

For Microsoft, the key threat is that the Steam Deck isn't even a Windows OS device by default, let alone having Microsoft's Xbox services and Game Pass on it. Valve has used the platform, very successfully, to evolve Steam from being simply a digital store that runs (usually) on Windows, into being a very capable gaming OS in its own right.

That, perhaps more than anything else happening in the industry in recent years, is a threat to Microsoft's plans for the Xbox platform and gaming more broadly – and if the success of the Steam Deck is a key component of that threat, then creating an Xbox device to compete directly in that space seems like the logical response.

And there's the real reason why Microsoft cares. The success of the Steam Deck is a threat to Windows because it runs Linux. Also, the more games that run on the Steam Deck means the more games run on Linux.

Microsoft normally solves problems like this by abusing their monopoly and crushing their competition. In this case though, Microsoft is the underdog since Steam is the one with a much larger gaming monopoly. They're going to have to spend billions and billions if they want to stand a chance against the Steam Deck.

The other enormous problem they face is that Windows is very, very far behind when it comes to technology compared to Linux. Devices made for Linux vastly outperform the best hardware that runs Windows. Even if that hardware was made to run Windows!

Windows is decades behind Linux from a technological development standpoint. For example, Windows is still running the same filesystem from over 30 years ago!

What this means is that for any given portable hardware Linux is going to vastly outperform Windows in basically every benchmark from battery life to frame rate. That doesn't even include the fact that in Windows you're forced to install many background apps (and kernel level rootkit anti-cheat) that takes up memory and slows everything down just to get basic security and play games.

In hindsight, it was a mistake to let the mule drink.

Oh don't think for a second he plans to actually go after the real cartels. He just wants an excuse to kill random Mexicans.

After his orders to kill people we'll have news reports from actual Mexicans saying the people he order killed weren't drug dealers. And they'll be right.

I don't know if Republicans will accept this. As much as they fear betraying Trump, taking away their power in Congress is exactly the type of move that could get Trump impeached (a third time).

Here's how that's going to go:

• He'll send in the military and they'll successfully kill some "drug dealers".
• Mexico will be (rightly) pissed AF.
• Mexico will retaliate by just ending all exports to the US of some essential goods (e.g. tomatoes, car parts).
• The price of those goods will skyrocket. Business will close. White people who voted for Trump will bitch that, "he's hurting the wrong people" again (leopards eating faces).
• Mexico will refuse to take "back" their immigrants because of Trump's bullshit.
• Trump will "suddenly" need to jail a lot more "illegals" that he's rounded up.
• They'll start making up stories about how all the millions of people in the concentration camps are nasty criminals and murderers... As an excuse for the poor treatment and blatant raping and murdering going on.
• Right wing media will tow the party line. Anyone defending the "criminals" (which will include families with children) is a traitor to the country.

History will repeat itself.

without type safety your code is no longer predictable or maintainable

This sounds like someone who's never worked on a large Python project with multiple developers. I've been doing this for almost two decades and we never encounter bugs because of mismatched types.

For reference, the most common bugs we encounter are related to exception handling. Either the code captured the exception and didn't do the right thing (whatever that is) in specific situations or it didn't capture the exception in the right place so it bubbles up waaaaay too high up the chain and we end up with super annoying troubleshooting where it's difficult to reproduce or difficult to track down.

Also, testing is completely orthogonal to types.

It'd be ineffective and in fact, decrease the likelihood of obtaining that default assumption of innocence that cuteness provides. It'd be like tying a pink ribbon to the tail of a tiger. The ribbon itself would be cute but the tiger would still be viewed as a dangerous predator.

Might help with getting out of manual labor though 🤔 🤣

Yeah that's annoying but it's a short-term problem. Python just recently cleaned up some long-standing issues that broke backwards compatibility in packaging (for certain things). Most public modules that broke made trivial changes to fix the problems (once they learned about them) and life went on.

However, for some fucking reason a whole bunch of dependencies related to AI are dragging their feet and taking forever to fix their shit. Insisting that everyone "just use Python 3.10" and it drives me nuts too.

This problem started to become a real thing almost two years ago (so they had plenty of warning and time to fix things) and yet here we are with still a handful of core dependencies that won't install for things like Stable Diffusion, Flux, and various LLM stuff because they're dragging their feet.

I blame corporate culture: Enterprises hate upgrading their shit and they're as slow as glaciers sometimes. There's probably tooling at Nvidia, for example, that needs a ton of work for Torch to work with new versions of Python and since all their documentation already was written for running on Python 3.10 (and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) they've created a lot of work for themselves.

Any day now they'll finally finish fixing all these little dependencies and then we'll have another two years of ease before the problem rises again with Python 3.14 and it's massive GIL-free improvements that require big changes in code to actually take advantage of them.