Yes, and then the nice midsized companies will be bought out by bigger American ones.

After the last one they never really lowered prices back, we were still buying near crypto era priced GPUs before the AI boom.

Source on TSMC hiring ex-Apple employees lol

Apple uses TSMC’s services because there’s a huge difference between what Apple does (chip design) vs what TSMC does (chip manufacturing).

It wouldn’t be “years of failure and low output”. It would be years of nothing to build the infrastructure and then flip a switch.

No, the failure and low output come AFTER the switch is flipped, unless you get a TON of industry know-how from TSMC. First you have nothing, then you have low yields until you figure out the processes.

After the last crypto bust, prices stayed up though. They’re still way higher than before the last crypto boom.

And nVidia, AMD, Intel all know better now than to overproduce consumer GPUs.

Nvidia already made tons of profit off it. They’re the ones selling shovels.

Vibe coders will ask the AI to write everything in Rust, memory usage will be reasonably low

The people writing everything in Electron are gonna have a fun time with their users though.

They were one of the first non-tesla manufacturers to have a passable EV though? It’s called the Mach E. Now they’re going after the market that actually has decent sales in the US, with more cheap crap EVs to follow the pickup truck.

In the US, they don’t do the cryptographic signatures, they do the image. There are document signing services where you just type your name and it creates a “handwritten” signature from that name and that’s legally binding apparently.

I found it very funny when I had to sign a contract with an American company that way. Not sure it would’ve been legally binding in my jurisdiction, but the contracts was more or less “don’t tell anyone about exact details of the sizable bonus you’re about to receive, or we’ll revoke it, also you’ll have to stick around for half a year to receive the other half”, when the company got sold to private equity and the original owners decided to give us all something to remember them by.

We do digital signatures slightly better here

Same for Estonian, which is why we need umlauts for letters that don’t exist in many other languages’ versions of the latin alphabet. But since we’re special snowflakes, we also have õ, which is such an uncommon letter in the world that we have a border sign on our biggest island to signify where the language border exists: On the mainland and most places we use õ, but people on Saaremaa people will use ö instead because they’re behind the times.

We also have ž and š but they’re a bit less special, many european languages use them. Because how would you even know how to pronounce gelatine without writing it as želatiin?

German: Dogs are male, cats are female, kids are middlesex. Your refrigerator is male.

Not a bad idea… except they already IPOd and you inject AI into everything to wow angel investors, retail investors are less susceptible to this particular type of bullshit and index funds (reddit on russell 1000) are immune altogether. I suppose there are still wall street wealth manager types who might fall for it while playing with someone else’s money

Creators already get paid very well for posting on YouTube.

Not since Pewds made some nazi jokes 9 years ago. Think they’re only now getting back to where they were before that.

There are also a ton more people doing a lot of niches, so now you get fewer views.

A good rule of thumb for me is, if I see adverts on YouTube and on TV for the same company or product, then they are charging too much…

That I can agree on, but then again, how would they even sell their product if there’s no advertisement? The companies that don’t charge too much and then stuff some of it into advertisement, tend to go under.

But if a creator has ads on premium that costs x amount each month.

Creator doesn’t really know if you have premium or not and many users (me) will also have adblock so they don’t get a cent from these views. That’s why many will show you ad-free videos on Patreon or Nebula. No sponsor segments if they know you’re a paying customer.

I’ll literally watch Map Men sponsor segments on purpose (along with a few others)

I remember hearing about it when it happened and found it hilarious. Wagner mercs realizing that papa Putin doesn’t care if they die (there was some audio clip circulating). Wagner mercenaries have been known to be pretty nasty (not unique to them of course, Americans have Blackwater and its successors).

In my country these fancier playgrounds are like a few per city, whereas the soviet ones were (are) much more common, so a side effect is that you could’ve gone to that top photo without crossing any streets, versus your parents would take you to the bottom one (either walk you there or go by car)

Not Dutch but Estonian here. I grew up playing outside, but I’m from a quiet street in a small town. In the cities, one of the actually positive influences of the soviet empire is that they built playgrounds between large apartment complexes so as far as I know, kids played outside unattended there too, but it would’ve likely been slightly older kids, not like a 5 year old being let out with his 8 year old friend (yes, talking about myself here).

Not sure how it is these days though. I see fewer kids running around on the street than when I was a kid. Suspect it has little to do with traffic or crime and more with the availability of entertainment via TV or phones. 25 years ago over here we had like 3 TV channels, for anything else you would’ve had to pay Viasat or someone - which a lot of families couldn’t afford. Of course there are also just fewer kids in my hometown (at least on my street) and I have no comparison data for the bigger cities at the time of my childhood.

Yes. It’s because a corporation, particularly a distant foreign one, is anonymous so you don’t think about it as much whereas if some local guy leaked her nudes, it would most likely reach her friends and family. At least that’s what I think is the reason.

What are all the conceivable ways to you? Anyway, the Renault 5 is almost as much as the bigger id.3 neo here and we don’t have anyone selling the Alpine version as it’s more expensive than the 5 and thus too expensive for such a tiny car.

And all of these cost at least 4x as much as a similarly sized but lower power BYD does in China. That’s how much cheaper the Chinese can build their cars. When they sell the same batteries to Renault or VW, the batteries alone likely cost about as much as BYD’s entire car. And we can’t really produce these batteries at such scale here in Europe because of pollution regulation. China processes most of the world’s lithium and cobalt. Only hope we have is coming up with a magic battery chemistry that doesn’t come with a ton of environmental issues, but unfortunately Donut Labs is more than likely a scam.

Interesting, I tried the etron 55 and it even had air springs, but it still just didn’t feel right to me. Didn’t absorb bumps well enough, but also didn’t have the kind of road feel you’d want for sporty driving. In comparison, my current 2007 A6 Allroad manages both better despite 400k km on the clock, possibly because it weighs significantly less. The interior it had also soured me on any and all new Audi products, though I guess the new Porsches aren’t any better when it comes to that. Fuck forcing a touchscreen for everything.

I’ll also admit I haven’t driven the Taycan or etron GT, but was more making an assumption based on the fact that in other shared platform cars I’ve driven, the Porsche equivalent was much nicer than the Audi one. Specifically, I owned a first gen Cayenne and it was so much better than its sibling, the Q7 that it’s not even funny. It was both more comfortable AND had better driving dynamics, you could just tell that a lot more thought went into engineering the Cayenne, whereas the Q7 feels like a big clumsy A6, even has the A6 C6’s interior. Similarly the old Panamera feels much nicer inside than anything Audi made at the time. I guess this trend has reversed then.

Idk, honestly I just feel like anything made in at least the last 6 or 7 years that has the four rings, is a downgrade from Audi’s past quality. I’ve been looking at BMW myself, mostly the G30/31 5 series in 540d guise since it’s an excellent engine and they’ve depreciated enough for me that I could get one this year, or wait a few more years and get the i4 since I don’t need a wagon these days, no longer need to take a stroller everywhere… And BMW was nice enough to still offer rotary dials for infotainment control in those vehicles, but now they pull this bullshit and I feel like continuing to drive old cars remains the right choice even if I don’t like the pollution or fuel economy. I don’t know how long I’ll stay loyal to my Audi, but at least I own the piece of shit, there’s no connectivity unless I buy a CarPlay module from mr12volt and even then it’s my phone that gives it the smarts, not the car itself.