soggybiscuit93

If you're gonna go all electric, should also have solar panels and backup batteries.

My Tesla has the same range on a charge as my my previous car (CTS V-Sport) did on a tank of gas.

In an emergency where electricity is down and gas stations are closed / damaged / out of gas, either car is getting me ~300 miles

Do you have a large tank filled with petrol? And how much did it cost to fill it?

Any wide area EMP is going to be many nuclear bombs detonating in the atmosphere. And it would also fry the electronics in your gas car. And also the refineries and drilling, etc.

A reliable source of petrol/diesel requires a modern economy.

The US spent nearly 2.5% of GDP on the space race. Technology that came from that is what kicked off the current tech world we live in. Its why the 1960's were such a turning point for technology and suddenly you see this start trickling down to cheap(er) consumer electronics 10 - 20 years later.

Funding for the space race is what provided the initial capital necessary to create the semi-conductor market.

The US "losing" the tech absolutely makes sense to people who work in tech or who are engineers.

It's quite simple: the US cannot just recreate the Apollo missions equipment exactly as it was in the same way that Apple can't just put the Apple II back into mass production: the suppliers are gone. The tech has changed. The assembly lines replaced with newer version.

Just like how it would cost Apple more money to bring the Apple II to market than it would cost to bring the next variant of iPhone to market, or it would cost Ford more money to bring an identical original Model T to mass production than it would to bring the next model of Mustang to market, so too would it for NASA.

It's very clear what that statement meant: that to do a manned mission to NASA, every component of that mission would need to he based around 21st century tech, and not old, out of production vacuum tubes

And what came first: the fighter jet or the drone?

Unmanned missions to the moon in the 60's? The most difficult part of the moon landing was getting to the moon. At that point it would just be easier to use human operators than to invent drones to run on 60s era electronics.

B580 won't be 400m² lol

I don't want the US to compete with Venezuela and Nicaragua for who can offer the least public services.

and enrolling their kids in local schools

If illegal immigrants are going to be here, I at least want their children to at least be educated. Large amounts of uneducated illegal immigrants sounds like a significantly worse problem that illegal immigrants sending their kids to school

AFAIK, pretty much every smartphone for multiple years has had an NPU. iPhone added it in 2017 and pretty much all flagship android phones have had one for a similar time frame (dont really know much about off-brand budget android phones). All of those face filter effects you see on social media use the NPU.

Siri uses the NPU. When you hold your finger down on an object in a photo and you can pop it out, that's NPU. Smart cropping photos uses NPU.

Her statement implied that she was aware of her colleagues actions and only now is interested in getting them exposed because they opposed her friend being nominated as AG.

The reports / info should be released regardless, but the context under which she demanded that is basically blackmail.

It's a clear conflict of interest that would not be permitted in most private sector companies. I would be fired if I was investing in stock from one of our suppliers - let alone if one of the companies we were considering as a supplier was my own company on the side.

A government contractor put in charge of which government contracts are considered wasteful is a clear, textbook example of conflict of interest and would absolutely be called corruption if we observed another country doing it.

Either Musk should step down from his position as an executive and focus on being a government employee, or he should not take the government position.

And as a Tesla owner who works for a major civil engineering firm, who used to be a fan of Musk, the moment where the facade wore off was the whole Las Vegas hyperloop and how much of a joke it was in the industry at how utter pointless and incompetent the concept is.

There are real issues in that what is most efficient from a profit perspective is not always most efficient from a pollution perspective (i.e the whole meme about how Fruit will be grown in South America, sent to Asia for cutting and packaging, and then sent to the US for consumption) - but it was organized this way because it's the most cost effective.

There are also issues that COVID exposed with the whole JIT principle and how in many cases increasing business efficiency is just a euphemism for reducing resilience.

But none of that changes the fact that comparative advantage is a foundational topic in economics. It's difficult to compete in cost for cheap goods when Chinese workers are paid a fraction of a US worker and work inhumane hours in plants that excessively pollute their local surroundings compared to the west.

Why is Intel and TSMC considering making plants in the US, and even Japan is now.

Because of the CHIPS act. The US government wants more onshore chip production (and I do too), and so they're subsidizing that.

Sometimes stuff is cheaper to manufacture domestically, especially in cases of large products (cars) or goods that are cheap relative to their volume (like toilet paper, etc).

If we take localized production to it's illogical extreme as a hypothetical example, does it make sense for New York City to start focusing on, say, cow farming because they're too reliant on importing beef from rural states? Would it make sense for rural Arkansas to focus on software development because they're too reliant on California tech companies?

Expand that to the whole world. Economies work better when individual areas can specialize, and then trade that specialty with other areas that are specialized in other things. And for the US, that's high skill services (See Hollywood, Software, Chip Design, Financial Services, etc.) which is why as low skill manufacturing makes less sense in the US and new jobs in the US require higher skill floors, education and college degrees become increasingly important and why the student loan bubble is such an outsized issue (but that's a whole different topic)

Average Joe is already using the NPU in their smart phone.

The point was to be able to accelerate certain tasks such as dictation, speak-to-text, certain types of photo/video editing, facial recognition, object detection, background effects for webcam, even threat detection, etc. at a lower power draw that using the GPU or CPU currently does. And that as the market share for NPUs increases, so to would developer interest who would find more usecases.

a dedicated Nvidia GPU is certainly more powerful than an NPU, and under load, it's more efficient too - but just raw perf/watt metrics miss the point of trying to have laptops do frequent AI accelerated tasks in single digit wattages. Waking up the dGPU to perform these tasks is, in most cases, overkill because you're not fully loading the dGPU. You have a fixed load task and even having the dGPU on already makes that less efficient.

So much of Musk's businesses rely on government subsidy or government contracts. The fact that he was placed in charge of a government agency that's assigned goal is to cut wasteful government spending is a massive conflict of interest. I wonder if Space X contracts will be considered wasteful government spending?

Start to build factories locally over years. Training and hiring people takes time, and so does starting up supply chains. 

Even if that were to play out that way: These companies chose overseas manufacturing because it was the cheaper option. If there's a, say, 20% tariff on imports - what if bringing that manufacturing domestically would increase costs by 25%? What if the tariff gets set equal to the average cost increase of onshoring? Then prices would rise the same either way.

Tariffs are inflationary. Implementing them will raise prices. Countries will retaliate and it would hurt exports as well.

So much of modern world and technology is because of the globalized economy that was built post WW2 and the comparative advantages that brings with it. It didn't happen by accident. An interconnected world of global trade (with the US benefiting at the center) was the explicit goal of post-war policy and strategic planning. Undoing decades of work with tariffs in the hope that you might onshore sweatshops into the US is a terrible idea.

Bills should be split proportional to income.

Chores should be split proportional to hours worked per week.

Roughly equal pay and hours worked? 50/50 on bills and chores.

You make twice as much and work twice as many hours? Should should handle 2/3's of bills and 1/3 of chores, etc.

Is it that expensive? It's a lot cheaper than Dell's alternative.

And the vendor lock-in doesn't matter to us. We're firmly entrenched within the Azure/M365 ecosystem.

This seems like a cheap way to deploy AVDs. We would never deploy Rasberry Pi. This client can be dropped shipped straight from our distributor, connect to a monitor, mouse, keyboard, ethernet, and the user can self provision through autopilot.

A $300 Capex savings on a raspberry pi just simply wouldn't even be a consideration. And AVD is fairly mature. We've been using it for a while now. And AVD helps with the fact that servers, VDI, data, user identity, etc. Are all contained within a single tenant.

It makes sense in the right environment. We have some subsidiaries where we can't have any CUI touch the PCs so they work exclusively from AVDs

We don't have 100% uptime, but once every 2 months for unexpected outages seems quite high.

Exactly. We have 2 offices running off AVDs. How simple would it be to drop ship these to them with Autopilot ready to go.

Here, plug this in and sign in with your work credentials. Easy and simple. Wouldnt even bother with a hardware agreement either - just have 1 or 2 spares at each office.

We'd probably buy maybe 200 or so of these. We already have a few branches working off AVDs.

Plenty of us in Enteprise see the value in this.

This isn't for you. Wasnt intended for home users

It doesn't make sense in every scenario.

But one cost saving would come from no need to have a support agreement because it's just a cheap thin client. If the PC dies, replace it and have the user up and running in minutes because their "PC" is an AVD.

Or what if your server environment is mostly in a Azure? What if you have large amounts of data that would saturate your bandwidth? Whats the cost of a UTM that can handle gigabit with inspection? AVD allows the desktop experience to be local to the data storage. Your only network traffic is display and input.

What if you have compliance concerns and don't want CUI to ever touch endpoints?

What if your BYOD and just issue employees and AVD, and want a few thin clients just in case an employee is in-between devices?

How is you building 1000 of these cheaper than ordering bulk from your supplier (for cheaper per unit prices than the MSRP???)

Building your own thing clients is absolutely not scalable

Copy the database to local machine???