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Comment another way around internet blockage (Score 1) 123

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Comment Re:Technology often doesn't decrease work loads. (Score 1) 42

If AI makes a developer say, 2x more productive, you're now getting two times the work for the same developer salary. We all know backlogs are measured in years. We have endless work to do.

Also all your competitors are using AI as well and have the same operating margins, more or less. If they use AI and cut staff but you use AI and keep staffing consistent at the same margins, you crush them in terms of speed of development, bug fixes, feature implementation, etc.

If I can get 2x the value for a dev then this is the best bargain in software developers in history.

Comment Limitations (Score 1) 52

I know China doesnt have any EUV lithography equipment, but if they can manufacture 5nm, which SMIC already produces domestically, at scale with good yields they can to a large degree overcome the sanctions in scale. They will just throw unbelievable amounts of money into it and boil oceans to generate the power to operate them. They also have complete control in where and how these chips will be consolidated and operated to extract the most value.

I think the question is just long term. Unless they can at some point acquire EUV machines from ASML the road to scaling past 5nm is going to be soewhere from extremely difficult to impossible. They are at a technological dead end while the west races ahead with smaller and smaller node sizes. The lead that the western world has is only going to increase without access to EUV lithography domestically.

Comment Re:$3 billion error in judgement (Score 2) 15

People who think they can invest in a company, have them make even a mediocre product, use the big names and cache and connections for contracts and then IPO and get out with a big profit before it falls apart. Half smoke and mirrors and half probably a product that ends up at best comparable to whatever else existed already.

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