is same generation silicon built at the same foundries? yes.

Nobody wants to sell to consumers anymore. Memory manufactures want orders that go out beyond 5 quarters and pay near retail price for wholesale memory.

Or, having electricity is harmful to human health. Better to stumble around in the dark and gather every scrap of wood to burn for cook fires.

so what is preventing modern, even poor, civilizations from banning heavy metals? I mean other than capitalism constantly flooding their markets with this stuff.

Gold rush is over. It's more of a Plutonium rush and when someone achieves critical mass we'll the permanent impact AI has on our society.

These bubbles are a bit of a game of musical chairs. And if you also get to control when the music stops you have a pretty significant advantage.

The Rest is History [podcast] has a nice 47 minute podcast episode on a very strict and useful definition of fascism. (tl;dl - Mussolini fit the definition best, if you're not Mussolini or from his time period you start to stray from what fascism means).

And there are many definitions of fascism that are frequently debated. I tend to favor what is historically accurate and communicates effectively, which means we're kind of stuck leaving fascism in the 20th century and have to come up with new ways to describe the bad actors in our modern times.

You can dig into your vocabulary to find other words that are more suitable: oligarch coming to mind for me. Perhaps there are other suggestions.

Yeah. I hung a lot of wallpaper when I was a teen because that's what my parents did for their house. I eventually got pretty good at it.
I'm decent at painting now too. but it's a lot more prep work. And when I'm doing wall treatments after hanging drywall, I prefer something like orange peel as the paint looks a lot better on it than smooth wall unless your house is perfectly straight.

My wife is not into doing wallpaper at all though, but I keep asking her. (I'm perpetually unfashionable) And of course she only likes the look of smoothwall, so lots of filling and sanding and it's always going to be a compromise with our older home.

Does anyone still use wallpaper in their homes anymore? I think it fell out of fashion like 30 years ago.

And I'm making an app that alerts you when other people who have been alerted that other people have been alerted that someone is wearing smart glasses

No those a true patriots. And if you disagree we will send ICE over to your house to check your papers.

The good guys need these tools to stop the bad guys. But we never counted on the "good" guys being incompetent.

Don't worry folks, we'll solve the problems by adding even more surveillance to the state.

My trillion dollar employer would run an old version of gitlab internally and we could point a few of the AI tools at it if you setup the access tokens for it.

With AI we could have a release every 11 minutes if we wanted to!

Good luck peeling apart a project that is a mix of public domain and copyrighted code, it's so fraught with peril that I would not recommend doing it. That's why these old projects that are based on some public domain code with a license and changes on top were such a nightmare for anyone looking to bring fixes back over to the original public domain version. Kind of the same scenario when you're dealing with AI generated code, that is often contributed in multiple sessions that are interspersed with manual changes. Additionally, no one is under any obligation to document what is AI-generated and what was human made. And the courts still assume code is covered by copyright unless you can prove other wise.