Wow, wasnt aware of that!

VS For Mac was nothing more than a rebrand of Xamarin MonoDevelop, a third party IDE - it never had anything in common with actual VS.

Over the years I have used as my main development machine:

* 2011 17" Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM
* 2016 iMac with 8 cores and 32GB RAM (with 2 additional 4K screens)
* M3 Max 14" Macbook Pro with 36GB RAM (and an additional 4K screen)
* M4 Max 16" Macbook Pro with 48GB RAM (and an Apple Studio screen)

I havent really ever run into a resource issue - I had to retire the iMac just last month because the screen was ghosting, but it was still perfectly usable for development purposes right up to that point (ie I never get frustrated with it in terms of performance). The M4 Max MBP tho is worlds ahead of it in performance, so I dont regret upgrading - I just didn't upgrade for performance reasons).

Credulous boomers that think it's 1950 and the people inside their teeve^H^H^H^H^Hcomputer are benign white folk like them.

I have used Jetbrains Rider now for the past 7 years and I can definitely recommend it (and I pay for it as well). I switched because I moved to Mac for .Net development, and really hated Microsofts .Net story for VSCode - and since switching to Rider, I haven't found myself wanting Visual Studio at all.

Slashdot has progressively got shitter over the past decade, and its noticable that that also correlates to a decline in the number of comments being left on stories.... The community has shrunk.

Slashdot used to allow me to give them money to avoid ads, but they took that away - so I have no moral or ethical issue with blocking ads on this site. Especially as they also used to provide an option to hide ads for long term users - which they started to ignore for specific ads, and then got rid of entirely.

But thats the entire point - at that point you arent scratching your own itch, you are voluntarily scratching someone elses.

If people stuck to scratching their own itches, we would either have fewer large projects or more involvement from users who are scratching their own itches.

But in the meantime, many OSS projects exist on the following flow:

1. Scratch your own itch, and make the solution public because it might help out others
2. Someone else finds your scratching to be valuable to them, so uses your solution
3. You like being involved with something someone else finds valuable, so you start scratching more of other peoples itches to increase your solutions value
4. Growth
5. You complain that other people are having their itches scratched without helping out

All of that is voluntary, and you put yourself in that situation - but you end up blaming others because thats easier than accepting that you made your own situation.

The current eruption of export bans on "AI" hardware started in Trump's first term, in 2019, with Huawei and Huawei affiliate companies. But yes, your TDS point is valid: Biden et al. built upon Trump's piecemeal export bans with comprehensive, all-of-China, bans, in 2022. This has nothing to do with Biden vs Trump, etc. It's a continuation of ITAR thinking going back 50 years.

Apples to oranges. Artists are intelligent, genial, interesting people. Coders are mediocre lowlifes with questionable skills.

Are you saying all copyright laws are stupid? Because thats what the Internet Archive unilaterally decided in these cases.

Its not just the usual issue about length of copyright term, because the IA were sharing (and initially they had no way to enforce the sharing, so really it was just distributing) scans of books that were both old and brand new.

So if you are saying all copyright laws are stupid, what else do you think shouldn't be a law? All property law full stop? Lets eliminate ownership entirely?

Why are you so interested in my dust and stuff, hunh? Are you fetishists? Do you get a hard-on when looking at garbage bags? Are you aroused by the thoughts of dirt, loose hairs and crumbs? Can't get it up with your favourite mentally impaired intersex prostitute of questionable age without thinking other people's dirty floors? I'm not judging you, I'm merely curious. Do you fantasize about being a mite?

Doesn't the onion problem exist for any theory tho?

I mean, at the end of the day, something has to underpin the thing that underpins the thing that underpins the thing that our universe runs on? Whether it be a simulator, or another form of energy or whatever, there are rules which are goverened and set by something, which indicates that that level of reality also sits atop something else...

This really is one of those mysteries which will never be resolved, and we can only go so far with theorising.

GlobalFoundries' FAB1 is strictly silicon-based CMOS stuff: small audio amps, LED drivers, smartcard chips and other low power RF devices. No SiC or GaN production. So FAB1 can't help with the Nexperia embargo at all. GlobalFoundries does make such devices, but those foundries are in the US.

While I wonder if that's actually true, it wouldn't help. Nexperia, the supplier at the heart of this debacle, makes power and analog stuff: GaN FETs, bipolar, power diodes, etc. These aren't ECU MCUs. They're big power devices, using specialized materials: silicon carbide and gallium nitride, for example. You can't make these in just any old 90nm processor fab.

It's great to see all this. Consequences of the the romper room mentality of EU technocrats and citizens dwelling under the umbrella of security provided by others for generations, inventing fake problems for themselves. Pretending to be—and being politely treated as—peers, the whole time. That's over now, and it's glorious. Time to set aside the holier-than-thou vanities and be real: you can no longer rely on the rest of the planet doing all your dirty work.

The US won't even permit companies in foreign countries from selling related tech willy nilly. Wtf make you think a domestic company with breakthrough lithography technology will just sell out to foreign randos however they please.

Try making some sense when you post stuff.