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Comment Just like Trump promised! (Score 0) 23

All the jobs are coming back to the USA! Threats to foreign sovereign states, along with tariffs that change on a whim are bringing high tech jobs and spending back home.

All those EU citizens, German chartered corporations, and office/infrastructure will make an economic contribution to, well I guess not the American economy after all. Chalk up another win for the big fat corrupt orange bully.

Comment Risc-V will upset everything (Score 1) 91

x86 and ARM will both face fierce pressure from Risc-V. It will start dominating at the low end and displace existing architectures like Atmel, PIC and even the very old 8051. That's because both the low end CPU design and tool chain are free. The Raspberry Pi RP2040 has extra Risc-V cores because why not? They aren't being used right now, but they will be accessible at some point. Very simple Risc-V chips can be had for $0.10 (US) right now in small quantities.

At higher end performance there are lots of players who can enter the marketplace because of the open nature of Risc-V. Some of them are IP vendors who would like to sell specific capabilities like super-scalar and vector extensions. For high performance/throughput it could be advantageous to integrate interconnect silicon right on the CPU chip. Risc-V will eventually come to the supercomputer space.

And don't forget about China, who has strong economic and political reasons to be free from foreign control of such critical technology. Even if they can't keep up with TMSC they have a vast domestic market and could compete in the international market by being cost effective, even if they aren't the fastest.

Weirdly enough Microsoft is in a similar position. They might like to have the option of competing with the Apple M CPU series with a chip of their own.

Comment Re: Hallucinations? (Score 1) 47

In this context "hallucination" is a valid term to use. AI/LLM is being promoted and used as a replacement for thinking, so using human-centric terminology is appropriate. The disclaimers that it's just assisting and augmenting human intelligence are patently false, and primarily exist to sooth users and give cover to investors who plan on making vast profits by replacing much of the work force. (There are some exceptions, for example the Google research team what won the Nobel Prize for Alpha-Fold, but those examples are one in a billion compared all to the other real world use cases.)

A equally appropriate term would be "lying" or "incompetent", but that would upset investors, egomaniac tech-bro founders and users who want to avoid thinking or learning and just reap rewards with no effort.

Comment Assume they're lying (Score 1) 141

It a business, so the most likely case is they are lying on purpose. They made a conscious decision to screw the customer base because they though they would come out ahead even if they get sued. Assuming that corruption for profit is the normal behavior for business means you'll be right over 90% of the time.

Comment Re:Hmmm - I have questions (Score 1) 63

Your are 100% wrong. When it comes down to meltdown level event it's always the government that is responsible to pick up the pieces and pay the cost. Except for things like slip and fall or industrial workplace accidents nuclear facilities are uninsurable. So claiming that the "business is responsible" is a completely false statement.

As far as I know no commercial nuclear power station in the US has ever caused a utility to go bankrupt. There is always a bailout and the people in charge never are held personally responsible. As in the vast majority of large scale business fuckups, the execs at top get golden parachutes and live in luxurious retirement. Can you say Boeing? It's so common there is a name for it: moral hazard.

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