Would you please fuck off permanently, you boring excuse for hot grits?

Yes, that's a problem, but you're acting like it's a new problem, and it's not. Also, if you get a rootable device, you can do that on Android. I'd like it to be generally possible for everyone of course, but at least it's possible.

That's nonsense. Of course they would rather be the one selling than the one buying.

You can buy from the least worst though, instead of the most worst. Since the wealthy buy legislation, where you spend money is your most important vote under capitalism.

If you knowingly purchase illicit goods that's a crime.

They are both criminals in the eyes of the law.

The idea is not to count on a wire.

What if there is a clog (e.g. from a failed hose liner) or a crimped hose and brake pressure doesn't release when it is supposed to? It used to be the job of the man in the caboose to know that. Now it's FRED's. It's also his job to detect over pressure or failing pressure that will stop the train at a potentially inconvenient time if not addressed.

It would be nice to have both a wire and a wireless connection, but one of the ideas was clearly to avoid needing another connection between cars.

Last year China put out more fabricated research papers than the test of the world combined.

SAP was the poster child before Oracle.

I'd like to also nominate Accenture.

Sure, if you pay more so you get that data.

I watched "I'm Glad I'm Dead" a little while back and it was very much made up of the kind of things he would have said. It only implemented his rant mode and therefore wasn't really very funny, but it was spot on for what it was.

Yes, due to Nancy Pelosi's single-handed actions.

Wait, what?

They're a superpower, and oppressive.

They're scary for the same reason as the USA or Russia.

If it was that easy, they would have copied it already.

People saying the same things isn't what makes things the same or not.

The West let China get ahead in battery tech, we funded it in fact by getting basically all of our batteries from them.

That's not happening with litho tech.

That is an offtopic response, because the discussion is not about whether anyone will buy Chinese GPUs. It's about whether Chinese GPUs can be competitive for scientific computing. Whether they will ever will be or not, they are not now, which we know because they are still hungry for our hardware. And we can reasonably believe that to be true and not merely propaganda both because of sales, and effort spent redirecting purchases through other nations.

In the really real world, efficiency matters. If you need more nodes then both your up front and ongoing costs are higher as your system takes up more space and uses more power. Even if China can design a GPU as well as Nvidia (let's go ahead and assume that they can; I think they probably can soon, if not already) that won't make their performance per watt as good unless they have it fabbed by someone with superior process technology.