The front end is filled with sensors and cameras. The rear end is filled with sensors an cameras and fragile motors. Some of it is mandated by regulation, the rest is endless featurization. All of it is so close to one-year-only components it doesn't matter, so every impact is a $10,000 repair that can only be done at a dealership, because the technicians qualified and equipped to deal with this stuff are rare, employed almost exclusively by dealerships, and priced accordingly, and the components have to come from Japan or Europe or wherever and there are no qualified aftermarket parts for most of it.

Even with the right parts, the best technician and the correct diagnostic equipment, the repairs frequently don't take, so a cycle of rework begins, usually ending in a sale on the used market. The insurance company gets billed for some of it and the dealer has to eat some of it, and all these costs get amortized into the rates and prices of everything car.

Most of them are running Blink by way of Chromium. It's not the problem you imagine.

TikTok — for obvious reasons — is not as responsive to pressure from establishment thought police. That's it. That's what this is about.

The Powers That Be live in constant anxiety over everything that's said on social media. Nothing consumes more of their attention than what is being said about them and their policies on Facebook, TikTok, X, etc. While they can, and have, backdoor all the US based platforms and disappear wrong-thinkers, they can't fire off an e-mail from a quasi-government democracy saving pressure group address to some TikTok apparatchik and get the result they expect. So, in their minds, TikTok is evil and something must be done.

You say that now. Wait till a door pops out, slices a vert stab off and puts 300 people into a smoking hole. We haven't had a major air disaster like that in the US in a long time, and when we did we weren't anywhere near the mass of dysfunctional children we are today. You are failing to appreciate the degree of collective cognitive meltdown that will erupt when this eventually happens.

Even plausibly answerable questions are subsumed by endless gaslighting today. How can you expect answers to subtle questions such as these?

Soon, a couple hundred people are going to get killed in one of these cost optimized aircraft. At that point I'm thinking we should just stop this nonsense: the US is no longer competent to build or operate airliners. Mr. and Mrs. hoi polloi can just zoom or drive, and leave flying to people that can afford to do it properly. Then maybe stop the driving part too.

Are you claiming we actually stop something at the border?

Lies.

Sadly, 28nm is sufficient for munitions, even if it is an 14 year old node at TSMC.

I watched this crash on YouTube last night without knowing who the pilot was. It did have a parachute. The parachute did deploy. It deployed shortly after impact. The plane was too low for a parachute to have done any good in any case. The fact that it deployed after impact is weird: unlikely that the pilot did that, because he'd likely not be alive, or at least conscious, at that point.

Looks like pilot inexperience. Banking too hard at low altitude and low speed. Inner wing stalls and in you go. Similar stalls are the cause of many light aircraft crashes.

Where do you have in mind? A lot of the places on might consider are either a.) involved in the Russia/Ukraine war, b.) already being exploited (by China, ironically,) or too small or otherwise unworkable. It's not as if the planet has an endless supply of exploitable workforces just sitting around, waiting for the US to evacuate more of its industrial base to.

China is well past 90 nm. Huawei has a 7 nm mobile processor (Kirin 9000S.) Alibaba has a server class RV64 (RISC-V) CPU coming out this year.

Looks to me like the Chinese have decided they've achieved sufficient capability to start cutting over to domestic supply.

That set of conditions is common to pretty much all attacks that exploit speculation. So that argument won't save Apple here.

Then again, Apple and its customers never hesitate to embrace a double standard, so maybe it's all good.

Imagine offering these propaganda figures as part of your argument.

The so-called "ELK" stack. Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. Logstash eats log events, Elasticsearch stores them in indexes and Kibana provides the user frontend. It does what it says on the tin, but it is — as you should anticipate — a DIY solution you pay for in labor and time. Splunk is well refined and, while not zero maintenance, is far less demanding.

Incentivized by year after year of no-show check's they're all getting mailed for their "injuries." And no, what the "experts" say that support this mean less than nothing: they all have cards in this game as well.

At this point my cynicism is such that the most plausible explanation is that this a disability benefits scam. Perhaps something actually happened to one or more people because Cuba, and the rest are me-too bandwagonners, effectively creating an early retirement for themselves complete with hazard benefits.