I honestly don't see the problem.

The US has about 300 million consumers. Sure, they spend tons of money on imports, but the market is so diluted that it probably shouldn't account for more than 5-10% of sales for most companies.

Additionally, there just aren't enough workers in the US to bother trying to setup shop there.

Just ship the product, charge the American consumer the tax and move on.

Why does anyone care about the tariffs except the consumers?

1) TSMC has no competition
2) The only people effected are the Americans. TSMC will just continue operations as normal. Companies using their service will just have to pay more
3) US companies can freely charge more to customers, normalize the inflated prices, optimize their supply chain and leave the prices high for Americans

Is Trump trying to make Taiwan decide that China taking over doesn't seem so bad compared to the US who now simply wants to steal Taiwan's security and IP.

I may be telling my father that I may be forced to forfeit my US citizenship out of fear of persecution. He's getting older and I hoped to keep it at least until he passed away. I have to forfeit it eventually due to my pension but imagine traveling to the US and being stopped and persecuted because I like everyone regardless of geography. The only people I like less are people who bully me and try to force me to like someone else less

I'm seriously confused at how AI can do the jobs of historians.

AI clearly lacks the comprehensive of a prompt I'm giving it today. I don't trust it to be able to interpret and put in context events that occurred well in the past.

Consider that dubbing can use the actual actor's voice?

Why in the world would studios use the voice of the old voice actor for dubbing when they can just use the real actors?

Of course for animation, why waste money on voice actors at all?

I overall agree with you - price disruption in tunneling would have so many benefits.

But at this point, I'm thinking Elon's businesses such as SpaceX is a mix of two factors: Elon not being full crazy yet, and other people successfully managing Elon's excesses.

Also, overall, techbros are like moths to the flame when it comes to reinventing mass transit poorly.

The introductory tutorial involves cartoon caricatures of Donald Trump and Elon Musk meta-explaining the features of the AI animation program.

*It does not get better from there.*

The entire project feels like they distilled a Family Guy Knock Off TV Series Production Executive Who Isn't Even Allowed In The Writer's Room into an AI.

It's just... *that fucking bad*.

Verdict: Absolute dogshit. Not even in a "so bad you'll be ironically entertained" way. Just in a "this is abhorrent and everything it produces is soulless and unfunny".

Yes, I know Lenovo makes the ThinkPad. It's almost as good as the old IBM models, and it still carries the prestige even if it isn't. But really can't anyone else sell a laptop with any kind of trackpoint type device any more? I had one from HP for the first few years of my current job then they "upgraded" me to a new one that doesn't have it. Dell makes a few but they don't meet my needs.

We used to believe that the Infinite Wisdom of the Free Market would give us the best products in all industries. At some point we instead allowed the market to tell us what we really needed, regardless of our preferences. Give us back more options and I'll bring money; touchpads suck and touch screens suck even worse.

Google says about 1/6th of European buildings use heat pumps for heating. A heat pump is just an A/C unit operating backwards. A reversible heat pump does both With Europe's warmer climate, as well as advances in heat pump technology, it seems like heat pumps would be viable in most of Europe. Heat pumps are more efficient and can use greener sources of energy. As well as reduce dependence on non-EU fossil fuel sources. All of that is a win. It seems like the added desire, if not need, for A/C could be used to encourage more people to switch to reversible heat pumps that can be used for both heating and cooling.

If an artist uses a song writer, has plastic surgery, uses musical instruments... They should all have to disclose this.

Velvet Sundown is no different than when a studio assembles a group of four boys, pays songwriters, dance choreographers, makeup artists, musicians, etc...

An artist sat down, used AI as an instrument and made music.

I get much better results than you. As a substitute university computer science lecturer, I also get much better results from my students than other lecturers. I'll share my secret.

Expect your subordinates to misinterpret you unless you provide enough details to that it's impossible to provide any result except what you were expecting.

I receive exceptionally good results most every time. It takes extra work to get started, but as with anything you get out what you put in.

I wonder why Slashdot isn't publicizing that. She showed up at the airport, followed directions, boarded the plane, and flew... High up in the air. So high they had to use a plane with a pressurized cabin.

The flight was extra impressive because she's a girl. And it's always more impressive so we can say that "to all the little girls of the world, when you grow up, you can accomplish great things and let the world ignore everything else except that you're a girl. So, it's best to only do easy things like flying on a BO rocket rather than studying hard and working hard because the press doesn't reward hard work. They hype that you're impressive for being a girl".

Is it because she straight and white? Would Slashdot publicize her accomplishment if she was a different skin color or maybe a new and unexplainable sexual orientation?

Wait!!!

Great idea for Bezos. Space hookup trips. There are lots of things that are illegal on earth. He can facilitate those things by bringing rich people to space.

I was thinking precisely this.
Rewriting code in a new language might give better static code analysis, but, it doesn't make it safe.
I have a lot of application code I can translate to Rust, but unless I completely rearchitect all of it, it would be terrible Rust code.

I did however just revisit Rust. I wrote a simple CNC milling code generator. I explicitly told it how I want it structured. Copilot handled it nicely. I could maybe see myself vibe coding a useful tool with it. But I HATE abbreviations like pub, fn, and mut. And f64 feels like single letter naming. The language might be structurally elegant, but it's awkward and tacky... Like as if you're hoping to take with "James Robert Paddington II" and the phone gets answer by "Jim Bob Jr." Or "J.R. Jr.. Junior Junior... Get it?".

So Rust is kind of a language Jeff Foxworthy could make a standup routine out of.

Wouldn't China footing the bill for R&D and proving the tech viable potentially be a major benefit to everyone else?

Companies like Huawei can quickly, reliably and affordably deploy renewables across any country who wants to benefit from China's taking the lead. You should see their data center tech. Trade restrictions forced Huawei to innovate amazingly for power and cooling. They're like, if we need 10 Chinese GPUs to math one NVidia GPU, we'll have to invent data center tech to support it. The have end to end tech solutions from diverting divers to solar and battery and waste heat recycling and carbon capture.

The UK could never do this. The british government sabotages every major project as soon as they find how to line their wallets from it.

Do you believe that anyone exists who is a better fit for the job?

They would
1) Need to control inflation so people can shop
2) Cause inflation so mortgages become more affordable over time which results in equity and retirement funds
3) Strengthen investor faith in American credit so investors will continue to buy bonds and feed the economy. This is done by increasing the interest rate.
4) Lower the interest rate to reduce burdens on the people
5) Strengthen the dollar so the US can avoid issuing too many treasury bonds during trade deficits
6) Weaken the dollar so American inflation remains low while exporting exports remain affordable enough to attract customers.
7) Able to work with the major branches of the US government where generally everyone is hostile because he has to screw voters of both parties daily to keep the economy afloat.
8) Able to work with reserve representatives in 200 countries to maintain the balance of the economies. This includes Russia and even Iran.

But, would I be correct that you know someone ... Maybe even yourself who would be a better fit for the job?