By all means, don't do business w/ countries you have a problem with. Interestingly, nobody has the cojones to sanction/boycott China, which is far more venal than either Russia or Uganda. But there's also the policy of forced boycotts: like if an American disagrees w/ you, and wants to trade w/ a Russian citizen or company, he can't, w/o inviting punitive government action against him. It's not just US dealing w/ countries it may not like: it's individual citizens dealing w/ individual citizens of those countries, and making it difficult for them just b'cos of inter-government hostilities

Russia may have nukes, but this 3 year war has shown them up as a paper tiger. Despite being several times the size of Ukraine (population wise), they've lost a million soldiers there. If Beijing wanted, they could just send the PLA to occupy Siberia, and Putin couldn't do a thing about it. As far as nukes go, it wouldn't hurt Russia to send nukes at New York or San Francisco. But if they sent it at Kyiv, the fallout would be felt in Moscow, just like it did during Chernobyl. Fact remains: Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger, that has to get military hardware from the likes of Iran

Precisely! While a lot of Russians may be opposed to this war themselves, they've got to wonder whether their property will be subject to seizure whenever Western entities - be it governments, companies, NGOs,... - have a beef w/ them. Right now, it's Ukraine, but what if the West doesn't like Russian policies against LGBTQ+ or any other pet cause of the West?

That's why, in the long term, once the war ends and everything dies down, chances are that Russia will be lost to Western business forever. They'll either go completely domestic, or they may open up to Asian countries, be it China, India, ASEAN or other entities not aligned w/ the EU or the US. Heck, if I were Russian and my car stopped working just b'cos someone in Brussels or Stuttgart decided that they had issues w/ my country or its government, then I'd blacklist not just that company, but that country/region altogether. So well done, Porsche, you've just ensured that after things return to normal, not just you, but no European carmaker will be able to sell in Russia, even if the Kremlin were to hypothetically embrace a complete free market

That's good to hear. I was curious about the status of Wayland on the BSDs. As it is, the 3 major BSD distros - FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD have all said that they'll be switching from x11 to XLibre

...of sodium or chlorine are being used here to produce the needed nuclear reactions for that energy? Or is it just being used as some sort of coolant?

Fully agree! Also, countries printing money and making their currencies worthless is one of the things that contributed first to the birth, and then the growth, of crypto

Also, while I don't support the Russian war in Ukraine, trying to sanction countries and get them off international exchanges has contributed to this. Who does the sanctioning? We don't like what Russia is doing in Ukraine, but also, Leftist governments in the West disapprove of Uganda's anti-LGBTQ policies. So they then get to sanction Uganda? What we are observing is a neo-colonial trend by Western countries to force others to toe their line. Unlike during the colonial past where countries were occupied by European powers and then exploited, this time, nobody's occupying them per se, but their governments are being bribed to follow policies that may not be in the interests of their people. Such as Ghana or Sri Lanka being bribed into turning off coal powered plants in order to get their NetZero goals and heavy amounts of funding, even though it turned off power to large segments of their populations

So I'm all for countries sanctions-busting, be it using crypto, or other means. If the West has such a problem w/ Russia, greenlight Ukraine to bomb Moscow: that alone should bring Russia to its knees

Precisely. Also, related to your observation, process shrinks have slowed down as we approach atomic-scale shrinks. There will come a time sooner rather than later when we can't shrink any more, and w/ that, all those cost reductions that companies factor into their execution plans will no longer be valid: it'll be a constant no matter what

So the fabs may be completely depreciated, be it year 1 or year 5, but as long as there is demand for their chips, they'll keep producing, rather than getting converted for die shrinks, that are not gonna happen. At which point, there will be a minimum fab throughput that will have to happen to keep it running, and that can be managed by changing the product mix of what is made, be it CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, memory, SSDs and other logic controllers

In other words, don't expect cost reductions to continue forever. We're already at the point where they'll level off

I'll find out in mid January, lol - it's en route on the Ever Acme, with a transfer at Rotterdam. ;) But given our high local prices, it's the same cost to me of like 60kg of local filament, so so long as the odds of it being good are better than 1 in 8, I come out ahead, and I like those odds ;)

That said, I have no reason to think that it won't be. Yasin isn't a well known brand, but a lot of other brands (for example Hatchbox) often use white-label Yasin as their own. And everything I've seen about their op looks quite professional.

Precisely! Let Valve port their games to ARM - be it Windows on ARM, macOS on ARM, Linux on ARM, BSD on ARM,.... If they're gonna depend on emulation, no reason we shouldn't just stay w/ Wintel

One would be if one is accidentally locked outside and doesn't have the remote. If one has the phone, that could save the day

No, they were ruled, which is different. First by various Turkic dynasties from 1000-1700, and after that, by the Brits. Before that, they rarely had an empire, b'cos there was no single Indian kingdom, but a whole host of them. On the occasions that they did go abroad and settle, such as the East Indies, those places had a reasonably good pre-islamic civilization

I took some online courses over the last 2 years, which included lessons in which the instructor gave instructions aided by a PowerPoint slide. I found that the best way of absorbing the lessons was taking screengrabs as soon as a slide was complete, filing it as a PDF (unless the images were adequate) and rewatching the entire session after collecting all the slides and this time, paying closer attention. That turned out to work best for me

I would reserve paper for actually working out problems, where the answers aren't just copied/memorized from some texts, but have to be worked out. Such as a math problem, or calculating subnet masks in IPv4

Regardless, she had no business smashing what was his property. If I walk down the street and don't like someone's phone, or camera, or whatever other gizmo he's playing w/, it doesn't give me the license to take it from him, much less destroy it

That cunt needs to be arrested at the very least

...for whom that was a major source of revenue

That's a great reason. Anyone worrying about support of legacy hardware should first make time() a 64-bit signed integer, so that there is no Y2038 issue

It's not. For a Tech site to not support IPv6 shows them up as neanderthals