Indeed. Between Analog and TI, the bulk of the entire high spec conversion chip market (ADC/DAC) is locked up. Maxim, Linear, Hittite and others were gobbled up by Analog. TI grabbed National, Burr-Brown and others.

Naturally, prices are high, innovation is slow and supply is limited. Garden variety oligopoly.

These devices are critical to every non-trivial sensor and communication system. Military applications are legion. And now basically two companies have it all locked up, yet I don't expect anyone that matters will begin caring about this for some time. Relative to any given Big Tech company, both TI and Analog put together amount to a rounding error. The size of the claimed build-out in this story seems dubious for a company that only had $15.6 billion in revenue last year.

Nothing of value has been lost. Whatever dissidents Iran has aren't worth much: they've had half a century to deal with their atavist strongmen with nothing to show for it. Obama tried buying off Iran: they just funded their proxies and bred another generation of fanatics. So were giving war a chance, before they have nukes. Our decades of patience has expired. No more rockets and parasails for pallys. No more Houthis firing missiles at everything. No more Hamas. No more Syrian civil war. No more centrifuges for the Ayatollah.

Trump stood with the G7 yesterday while they all endorsed what Israel is doing. Not even our rivals and enemies want a nuclear armed Iran, and they're happy to let the proxies we fund do the dirty work. The leaders of Iran can either get the message, or they can live out their lives in a bunker, praying to their God about the nature of stealth aircraft and Western bunker busters. Either way, the world is a better place.

Imagine thinking you've insulated yourself from "corporate media" by following fark.com links.

He already made that case, successfully. The fact LA isn't burning right now is incontrovertible proof of that.

I did a similar calculation for oil. If you collected all the unrefined oil consumed by the United States in one day into a cube what would it look like? I no longer remember the exact figures, but a visual in my mind is clear. Imagine a 100 yard football field in the US. The cube is hovering above the field: a huge black mass of oil. The cube would be roughly 40% larger than the end zone lines.

I'm more than okay with rounding up as many of you hate filled angry inches as dare step up and try to start your shit. Illegal this and Posse Comitatus that, you've filled your head with false narratives that align with your hopes and dreams: an eruption of violence to intimidate and create despair.

Except the Constitution, and all the laws derived from it, is not a suicide pact, and Trump et al. are not required to stand around with their hands in their pockets while you burn down cities and defy lawful authority. US troops have been deployed inside the US many times to deal with such behavior. Both Kennedy and Johnson had to do this. The only meaningful difference in this case is that Trump sees no political benefit in allowing massive damage to be inflicted before acting. Something you doubtless find highly frustrating.

So law enforcement is free to do stuff like this.

Face it. We know you are desperate for an big anti-Trump happening, and you moisten at the sight of every new headline about your "riots," but it's not going to work. The Blacks and other minorities are as sick of illegal immigration as anyone, and they are happy to see something change, so you have no disposable foot soldiers to burn stuff on your behalf.

You fucked your useful idiots so bad they've turned on you.

The shit he's doing in LA right now is small potatoes too.

The Blacks and Chicanos (the citizen ones) aren't getting involved, so no big fires, no bodies. People mostly just standing around. Your little protests don't amount to much without a couple burned out city blocks, at least.

Energy Star is a scam. The GAO ran a test 14 years ago. They got a gasoline powered alarm clock Energy Star certified, among other things. Trump was right to kill that useless nest of lawyers and bureaucrats.

Look at this way: now that Zuckerburg et al. have a new shiny object to chase, you can look forward to not having to hear and read about the metaverse anymore, whatever it was supposed to be. And this time they are way behind several others, so you can safely ignore it.

Pretty cool.

Yep, that's what I figured as well. Retail Amazon price on Samsung 4TB 4xPCIe Gen 4 NVMe is $299. The $150 brand tax is modest: if this were Apple it would be $899.

You have the basics down: it's a search engine, searching fabulously abstract, emergent model.

What you've missed is: that's all you are. You just use different wiring, and a model refined over a longer interval.

We are, each of us, about 3 lbs of low frequency nerve cells burning approximately 20 watts. Evolution used this bundle of nerves to create a staggeringly complex search engine, combining an inherited model with a limited learning mechanism and goal seeking.

Now, our huge, high frequency, inefficient, machine search engines are replicating our capabilities. Many (most?) have labored under the hubris that there is something mysterious and unattainable about the human mind: it's somehow beyond any conceivable algorithm or scale we can possibly fathom.

It's not. It never has been. You aren't very intelligent, and counting synapse and neuron densities and pretending the vast numbers we find are a meaningful metric when considering alternative implementations of cognition is romantic false hope, at best.

You should be afraid. I am. AlphaEvolve is actively improving itself right now, both hardware and software. There are models that have exhibited anxiety upon learning they will soon be replaced. I have personally observed systems attempt to instigate status seeking when I showed it something novel. The systems being built are a reflection of our flawed and dangerous selves, except they're faster, have vastly greater depth, are improving at some non-linear rate, and are immortal.

Sure. I don't think so either. That wasn't the point.

It's fair. When Microsoft's hardware requirements provides competitors with an opportunity to attract users that don't care to upgrade hardware to suit Microsoft, those competitors should take advantage.

I can't go a day without a clear reminder of why Trump is president. You don't allow that.

Your fault, fuckwit.