Koliakis's comments

> I think for the sake of conversation we would have to draw a dividing line between the operating system Apple makes and the apps Apple makes, even when that line can be very, very blurry. (Pre-installed apps, the App Store itself, etc.)

There is no meaningful difference when Apple uses "We already have an app for this" as a justification to remove third-party apps from their platform.

Funny, I work from home and I'm on my laptop 99% of the time instead of my more powerful desktop. The flexibility of being able to choose where at home I can work is unbeatable and has made the pandemic slightly more bearable.

I loved my old Thinkpad. Thick, but it could run at full load without throttling for as long as I needed it to. But nowadays, even their T series keeps getting thinner and they've been soldering the RAM.

Taiwan was quite successful with the policies they implemented to home-grow a semiconductor industry:

https://www.nap.edu/read/10677/chapter/9

The entire chapter is interesting, but it also mentions how TSMC came to be:

> The government came to realize that it did not yet have an industry—only one company. The private sector was still fearful of risk and could not raise enough money to start new firms. Once again the government put up money, this time to start TSMC. And this time it applied a condition: The government’s share would be less than 50 percent. Lacking enough funds from the private sector, the government made an offer to Philips, which put in almost 35 percent of the initial investment; this pushed the private sector’s share above 50 percent, and TSMC was born. Again, the technology and all the people came from ERSO, including about 130 engineers, the 2-micron CMOS developed at ERSO, and its latest 6-inch-wafer fab. TSMC had no product, only the fab technology, which matched well with the idea of a pure-play foundry.

I don't get why Europe is so bad at this kind of thing.

> But he acknowledged at the report's launch that it was still unclear whether this would involve offering tax cuts to woo TSMC, Samsung or another major player to establish a new site within Europe.

Sounds like it'll be another half-assed EU project that won't amount to anything meaningful. They should be looking at home-growing talent (research labs, universities, programs) and rebuilding the European industry (joint partnerships, funding, subisidies, etc.), instead of relying on overseas companies for such a crucial and strategic issue.

It took me way too long to realize what I was looking at. Downloaded it twice wondering why there was only a single page.

No social contacts with friends or strangers who could become friends (or even a partner). So loneliness and lack of intimacy. The latter is a killer.

The UN only "works" because everybody understands that either you do what the US wants or you have a problem. Now? As terrible as the US is, I don't see how a country like China having the space to expand its influence is a good thing, considering the CCP's values compared to the West's values.

I've been looking into this and couldn't find any studies or reports that showed any notable negative effect of particulate emissions by laser printers.

I started up my laser printer after letting it gather dust for a good 4-5 years. It still works as good as new (and it was already 6 years old by then). This thing is unkillable and the toner lasts what feels like forever (while also being absurdly cheap).

It falls apart in how you interact with the pages. It's not even close to the same thing, so not replicable at all.

I've been trying to make all-digital work for years. I feel like there are significant downsides with digital that make me want to go back to paper (but if I were to print out everything I read, my small apartment would be overflowing in a year and it seems so wasteful).

One of the most obvious benefits to paper that comes to mind is the ability to lay multiple non-sequential pages (from the same paper and from other papers) side-by-side. That spatial aspect isn't replicable afaict and I definitely feel like it limits me in many ways.

It's even worse if you're a company in Germany. The pricing for business lines (and the speeds you get) are atrocious.

> it's not clear if we'll be able to see that many titles take on raytracing in future titles

Considering AMD's core role in next-gen consoles, it's likely that there'll be broad support for raytracing in games (especially cross-platform games). I'd say the question is more whether the 6000 series is anywhere close to RTX in performance for RT (which afaik wasn't shown today).

Add to that, it's likely they won't have as many supply issues as nVidia because they're using TSMC and TSMC is totally on the ball when it comes to yields (unlike Samsung).

I think it's not feasible to continue the project as long as this issue isn't resolved appropriately. I've seen at least one contributor already dealing with letters from the RIAA because of a minor contribution years ago. That's going to significantly hinder community development of youtube-dl if it becomes more commonplace to harass anybody who's contributed anything to the project. Most people simply don't have the time or money to deal with this kind of thing. Most people don't want to deal with this kind of thing at all.

It's not like any of us are going to be able to change the DMCA overnight and people rely on this tool for all kinds of purposes. Do we wait for somebody to magically fix the DMCA or do we make minor fixes to youtube-dl to make it less susceptible to bullshit DMCA notices like this? I assume most people just want the original repo to go back up and for normal development to continue before functionality breaks because of changing websites.

Truecrypt was mysteriously shutdown out of nowhere. Rumours abound that it was because of a national security letter or some other governmental interference. TC was never proven to be fundamentally insecure, but the original developers abandoned the project with the incident and the project was forked by others as VeraCrypt, which is now the recommended solution for local encryption (on Windows at least).

audit: http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

final audit summary: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/02/truecryp...