That depends.
My CEO turns every initialism into an acronym.
Did you know you can pronounce PCMCIA? Hearing that *will* give you a stroke.

It *is* strange.
What does "settings" even imply in this context?
Why the weird part about them accidentally testing with x86 binaries? (assumed, since the "fix" was to use Arm native)
How on FSM's green earth do these people consider themselves qualified to evaluate what is "possible" for some set of "settings" on a new piece of silicon?

This article was a pile of shit. Even if it ends up being completely accurate- the article is still a flaming pile of shit.

The most popular route in Japan is Tokyo to Osaka, which is two hours on the high speed train. The new maglev will cut that down to 45 minutes.

I note that even in the US, those routes are covered by flights. With a train you could even take your car, like the Channel Tunnel does.

Ya, it's really fucking bad.
It screams like the kind of tortured logic someone who has been personally offended would employ.
I think this person is pissed off at QC, and they decided to lash out in an article, stretching what they really had to look as bad as possible.

I think the part that irked me, is that they even mentioned the part where they were testing x86 binaries at "SUB 50%".
Well no shit. That's a your bad. Maybe you should leave that out, because now it looks like perhaps you are trying to taint perception.

I know you were. That's why I said that they have working rockets, and nuclear warheads are far simpler devices.
Russia has demonstrated current development of advanced technology (including tactically deployed hypersonics), as well as a very cool Gen4 fighter jet.
This means it's unlikely that the technology to keep the warheads working (which really comes down to one thing- replacing them once they're past their expiration date) has been lost by them. It's further unlikely that they have let their nuclear deterrent turn into a bunch of fizzle/dirty bombs (though that's still plenty terrifying)

Russia has a lot of problems related to its cronyism. Keeping its weaponry functional hasn't been one of them. Production capability is obviously greatly limited (evidenced by the fact that they don't have hundreds of Su57s) but the ones they have are stellar.

Fallacious use of the term "ad hominem" means you've lost at fucking life.

Let's go over it.
The term "ad hominem", broadly meaning, "insult", does not in any way take from or add to an argument. It's merely syntactical sugar.
Trying to imply that it does, is fallacious reasoning, and means you're stupid.

Now, an ad hominem argument is a fallacious argument that uses the personal attack as a point in the argument.
Example: You're wrong, because you're a fucking moron.
Though I'm educated enough not to use that as an argument, I do suspect it's true regardless.

Nice try, dumbshit.

Shouldn't wide open areas make it even more suitable for trains? High speed rail is ideal for long distance cross-country. It is faster than flying for anything under about a 5 hour flight, sometimes more if the airport has traffic issues etc.

I think the bigger issue is that so much of the US is built around cars. But rail can help there too. In Japan they often build a new railway line in conjunction with new towns along it. They are ideal for commuters and people who want access to big cities without living in them. They are designed around the railway and public transport, and are relatively affordable.

Interesting, thanks. In Japan they had some legal issues with the new maglev line. First there was a big fight over the route it would take, because several smaller towns wanted stops that would massively boost their economies. Even without a stop, the route dictated where the construction would be, sure to be a benefit to local businesses.

They also had some issues with potential noise, which is partly why most of it is in tunnels.

Not all of it is resolved, but construction has already started anyway.

Seems like some of the NIMBY issues could be resolved with some incentives. Place solar along the line, maybe vertically oriented to help block noise, and give people living nearby some credits from the energy produced.

For the underground, China built over 10,000km of metro lines using tunnel boring machines. They built them faster than anyone else too, having perfected some new techniques to make it cheaper and quicker. It's possible, but for some reason not in the US or UK... Musk tried, but the Boring Company ended up just using conventional methods.

There is certainly an element of that in the UK, but even after they resolved it there were further issues.

For example, to protect the highly overrated "green belt", much of the High Speed 2 line was going to be underground. The tunnels needed air vents to the surface, but some local politicians insisted that they be disguised as barns using local materials like stone. The buildings themselves cost about 3 million, seemingly not huge in the scheme of things, but it also delayed the project and was one of a thousand cuts that ultimately doomed it.

That claim contradicts your earlier one.

Thunderf00t is a jackass, and I haven't seen the specific claims made in his video, but The Boring Company is actually a joke.

The tunnel is completely normal, nothing special about it at all. No magic low cost boring machine or special construction techniques. The Chinese dig them much, much faster for their metro systems.

The idea of using cars instead of trains is also dumb. Worse capacity, a lot more staff because Full Self Driving doesn't work even in a carefully controlled environment with one single file lane of traffic. As a novelty ride it's pretty mediocre.

Plausible deniability? You could claim you use it for the tasks they list, not a home defence system.

What's the legality of owning a flamethrower, and of using it on a suspected intruder? They seem to be readily available in the US, but would there be any issue with burning someone instead of shooting them?

That's true, current UK political leadership is some of the worst we have ever seen.

But still, infrastructure projects should be able to succeed due to skilled civil servants running them. I think a major issue there is that we do so few big infrastructure projects that the civil service lacks of the skills and experience.

Maybe you missed it but I was talking about TikTok, which despite ByteDance's protests I'm sure you will agree is just a branch of the CCP.

Your claim that "foreign bashing" is the cause doesn't make sense. If it was, why have sales falling 19% after years of growth? You said it's being going on for years, i.e. the time when sales were growing.

And by the way, Chinese phones are popular in Europe. Huawei, Xiaomi, Honor... Which should tell you something about this "foreign bashing" you are projecting. How many European phones does the US buy?