This is yet another predictable side effect of people misunderstanding the stimulus and response reflex of capitalism: Apply dollars, make things happen more.

I have played a handful of FTP games and put a not insignificant amount of time into them... but never any money. If I don't get to own the thing, defined by being able to use it (not even "as I see fit", just at all — but on my schedule) then I won't pay more for the thing than it's worth to me right now, like going to see a movie. If I don't get the server, or if there's DRM which requires activation, that severely reduces what I'll pay.

LLMs invent invalid moves. It is somewhat miraculous that they can sometimes generate valid ones, but the real miracle is that people think there is intelligence there. It's a miracle for the people selling "AI" anyway.

It's very common for mechanics to be required to provide their own tools.

It's California law that you cannot require an employee to provide their own tools, unless you are paying them at least twice the minimum wage. This is true in general, not just for auto shops. I worked in an RV shop. I had to provide my tools. I got in a wage dispute over it. I received a settlement.

Only the low-end guys in the shop don't typically have to provide tools.

American consumers will be buying a lot of TSMC silicon.

You win, congratulations. Samsung is indeed losing foundry customers.

You're reading specs off white papers without seeing the bigger picture. Yields on Samsung's GAAFet nodes have been catastrophically bad. Customers are abandoning them. They aren't even going to produce a halo SoC for Galaxy phones anymore (all their top end phones will be using chips from TSMC).

https://www.sammobile.com/news...

Do your homework before casting stones.

They aren't keeping up with TSMC, period. Even their cutting-edge nodes like 3GAP (or whatever the fuck they call it now) aren't hitting acceptable yields or attracting foundry customers. They are in trouble.

It depends, which "4nm" node are we talking about here? TSMC N4P or Samsung 4LPP? N4P is still in use and in fairly high demand. 4LPP not so much (ditto for 4LPE).

The problem is that Samsung's technology isn't advancing.

No, Samsung has problems...

"No. That is a rare skillset."

It's less rare now than ever before, and becoming less rare thanks to howtos and cheap equipment.

Not everyone agrees with your assessment:

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05...

Asylum programs were abused in the extreme. People were showing up at the border making asylum claims and then skipping their hearings. That process broke down even further when the courts were so overwhelmed that hearing dates were pushed back to 2026 or later for people entering in 2022-2023.

If you skipped your asylum hearing, you're an illegal immigrant. If you entered the country with a bogus asylum claim, you're an illegal immigrant. If you used the CBP 1 app to enter, you now probably need to leave since those entries are no longer valid (and arguably weren't valid in the first place).

People here legally can command higher wages and demand safe work environments. Can't have that!

Woops looks like the title got cut short, should be "says".

"the" in the body should be "then".