Wow. Hey, I know! Someone go find the Doomsday clock people. With those and maybe the end-of-antibiotics folks we can round the whole establishment anxiety parade in a weekend.

It was always a Potemkin village.

Credulous boomers that think it's 1950 and the people inside their teeve^H^H^H^H^Hcomputer are benign white folk like them.

AI has problems for sure. Not a month goes by without news of yet another idiot lawyer getting sanctioned because of the hallucinations were presented as fact. However......have you tried coding with AI? I have. I'm 5x more productive than before, and I can solve problems now that I wouldn't have touched before. I still test my code. I still review it. But man, this thing is a game changer. I can see why people are paying big money for it. It absolutely is delivering.

To give you a recent example - I know nothing about terraform, but I had to implement a proof of concept in AWS and was mandated to use terraform. Previously, I would have spent some time understanding terraform concepts and then worked out some basic examples before attempting the task at hand. None of that was needed. I was coding from day 1. Yes, the AI can go wrong, but I find its never a syntactical error. When errors do occur, its usually a misunderstanding of the requirement I gave it, and because I know what I had in mind, I can always rephrase to get the right results. I have not so far encountered a situation in the coding realm where hallucinations caused me problems.

The other day, I asking the AI to do some task it noticed that I was using java 17 and offered me the upgrade to 21. I thought it was a trivial upgrade, but the implementation, when I said "yes", was breathtaking. It asked for me to sign into git, then created a branch, generated test cases for my code, after applying its changes, it ran the test cases, committed its changes, asked me for approval to merge to main and then did it.

Magnificient!

Yes, lesser number of programmers will be needed. What makes me most happy though is that this levels the playing field. No longer do I have to deal with those difficult prima donnas who are only tolerated because they are good developers, even though they mess with the team and make everyone elses life miserable. I can't wait for those people to get fired because there is no more excuse for them to be kept on.

The current eruption of export bans on "AI" hardware started in Trump's first term, in 2019, with Huawei and Huawei affiliate companies. But yes, your TDS point is valid: Biden et al. built upon Trump's piecemeal export bans with comprehensive, all-of-China, bans, in 2022. This has nothing to do with Biden vs Trump, etc. It's a continuation of ITAR thinking going back 50 years.

GlobalFoundries' FAB1 is strictly silicon-based CMOS stuff: small audio amps, LED drivers, smartcard chips and other low power RF devices. No SiC or GaN production. So FAB1 can't help with the Nexperia embargo at all. GlobalFoundries does make such devices, but those foundries are in the US.

While I wonder if that's actually true, it wouldn't help. Nexperia, the supplier at the heart of this debacle, makes power and analog stuff: GaN FETs, bipolar, power diodes, etc. These aren't ECU MCUs. They're big power devices, using specialized materials: silicon carbide and gallium nitride, for example. You can't make these in just any old 90nm processor fab.

It's great to see all this. Consequences of the the romper room mentality of EU technocrats and citizens dwelling under the umbrella of security provided by others for generations, inventing fake problems for themselves. Pretending to be—and being politely treated as—peers, the whole time. That's over now, and it's glorious. Time to set aside the holier-than-thou vanities and be real: you can no longer rely on the rest of the planet doing all your dirty work.

The US won't even permit companies in foreign countries from selling related tech willy nilly. Wtf make you think a domestic company with breakthrough lithography technology will just sell out to foreign randos however they please.

Try making some sense when you post stuff.

Least surprising thing ever. There aren't many old school free thinking hackers around here any longer. Mostly you have Madrassa educated commies that glommed onto the tech world when the money got good. There is zero daylight between them and the CCCP on most issues.

Still waiting for that, huh?

Defunding police is a about enabling anarchy. The rest is the shit they feed you—and you willingly lap up—to rationalize this.

I'm not "confused" about any of this. Don't confuse fictional confusion for you're own double standards and cognitive dissonance.

So defunding police is bad when iphone safety is jeopardized.

mmmkay.

From a BBC story about the "two men in their thirties"

Big surprised face, again---> :|

Nothing naïve or foolish here at all. This is well informed intention. The intention leads to GULAGs for the likes of you, and your wrong-thinking ways. That's what rsilvergun and all its ilk dream of and strive for, as we see in the UK.

Dubious spying claims? Say it isn't so!

One wonders about how many thousands of stories there have been right here on slashdot about this or that bit of software, hardware or service supposedly wrecking democracy with its home phoning and data collection. But let the cost be less cut rate grey market hardware for the buying, and all such concerns become "dubious!"

If not for double standards, we'd have no standards at'll.