They are far from the only people stacking dies, but more importantly, producing less heat is not a cooling improvement. It's a reduction in cooling demand. Cooling is specifically handling heat once produced.

Many people seem to feel the same way, but I still don't understand why. The only part of it that really irritates me is how few programs allow you to pin the size of the subwindow to the main window so that they remain related, but I suppose that could be enough.

What's funny about it is that it actually came from providing a superior alternative to other desktop operating systems, most of which did the same thing originally. e.g. on the early MacOS, you had only fullscreen applications with subwindows, and only Desk Accessories could float over them. On AmigaOS, each application had its own "screen" which could be raised or lowered, and you could pull them up or down the screen, so you could show the top of one screen over the bottom of another. Each AmigaOS screen could have its own palette, which was special; MacOS couldn't do that. Windows' MDI couldn't do it either, but you could at least treat those applications the same way you would treat any other window. But once we got 24 bit color, all that stuff was outdated, and everybody else was letting you just mix windows freely.

Was it "PutoIsACulo"?

All I could think of is that Tesla stuff is known to burst into flames, and Samsung stuff is too... ;)

"What originally turned me off from Windows, and I don't know that it is still like this, is that a "child" window could only appear within its "parent" window, rather than anywhere on the screen."

That has never been a requirement for Windows programs. It's called MDI and some applications use it and some don't. Some applications open multiple MDI windows, usually one per document, while others don't use it at all.

"Trade barriers have forced China to advance beyond the US."

They are ahead in battery and train tech. We abdicated both. They are behind even Intel in fab tech.

That's precisely the encouraging part. If only the first hit is free there's the hope that simply not paying will make them go away and stop hitting you.

Not only has it been a police state all along ("Do as you're told and you won't get hurt" is a message for prisoners and hostages, not free citizens) but fascism is always unevenly distributed.

I recently got a MiniPC with a 8C16T Zen3 processor (5825U) and pretty low-end graphics (8 cores, max 2 GHz) and it came with Windows 11 and the fucking mouse pointer lagged, and not just a little but a whole lot. Slapped Devuan onto it (aside from resizing the Windows partition just in case I decided to care about it, mostly by hitting enter in the installer, after choosing to use the contiguous free space) and everything works great. All hardware was identified, all firmware was loaded automatically, everything works flawlessly.

P.S. Making Windows work without an account is still pretty easy, although it's a "secret" how to do it. (You can just google it ofc, but it's not available as an option until after you do the thing.) TL;DR: Hit Shift-F10 and then type OOBE\BYPASSNRO and it will reboot and then you can bypass that. I see there's also reports that "start ms-cxh:localonly" will work, but I did not try that.

Productivity is worse than worthless if it results in more work having to be done later because the work is garbage, and that's what using AI without knowing enough to evaluate its output causes. So yes, there are more important skills, and they include actually knowing things. If you blindly trust AI the highest level you can achieve is "fuckup".

So you answered your own question, knowing how to think is more important. But then you failed to think before writing the rest of the comment, which shows us you don't know how to think. So, who did you get the idea that AI needs to be used to augment human thinking rather than replacing it, and why don't you pay more attention to what they said?

I guess he's responsible for getting me laid, then, through inverting jello shots and prying them out of their little condiment cups with my tongue at parties. Thanks, Tom!

It's always great news that some 'feature' isn't going to be free; because that means it isn't being fast tracked toward obnoxious mandatory default.

They are still multiple generations behind, as they have been.

They were already mockeries, invented to fool fools.

No, and most of us don't believe they're doing it now, either.

We're here in the same world we've been in, where they are multiple generations behind.

Yes, they are working on process technology, where they are again at least two generations behind. And this is a place they can't catch up to just by copying, because they don't have the equipment to copy, unlike CPU and GPU cores.

You're having your own personal jerkfest over some lukewarm accomplishments from China which if they are even real were developed by copying others' work as usual, and which are unverified by any reputable parties.

Also, who's "we"? Intel is flailing yes, for example they announced they are not going to be doing foundry services on 18A which can only mean that it's difficult to make working chips in it and/or yields are poor, though those things are related. And now we're supposed to believe they will do it with 14A when they said they would do it with 18A, and oh yeah, their prior processes too. But Intel is not the only competitor to China, and ASML is multinational and their core technology was developed from largely US-based research. Indeed, the entire world is motivated to compete with China on this, and is doing so.

I'd be a bit curious what the distribution of 'middle and top level' titles looks like. It's not like venture capital is 100% a confidence game; but there definitely seems to be an element of prestige involved(both in terms of obtaining capital to VC with and in terms of being a name that gets shouted from the press releases if it is involved in a funding round). That seems like the sort of environment where there would be an incentive for basically everyone who puts their name directly only a deal to be classified as at least midlevel to senior; because titles are cheap and having your funding round handled by "junior loser for rookie numbers" just doesn't look as good.

You probably can't get away with an employee directory that is nothing but 'senior master of the universe'; but to the degree that prestige matters there would be an incentive to have a sharp jump between the people who don't put their names directly on deals who can be classified as various flavors of analyst and the people who do, where you might as well just have them jump immediately to being classified as midlevel with a specific area focus or senior.

You know that someone has a couple of screws loose when they are treating "sufficiently wealthy that working hard is optional" as some kind of disaster.

Isn't that the whole point of being wealthy? Sure, if your hobby is making line go up you do you; but for most people money is a means to an end, not an end in itself, so if you've already got the money why would you keep grinding away when you could be pursuing your ends instead?