Looks similar to what other governments under threat have done to survive external or internal threats.

Oh nice, I think I recall reading about it. I hope it works. Apart from making China less dependent foreign semiconductors, it should drive down prices across the board.

So these are at the level of 2022’s NVIDIA, but consume more power due to the higher manufacturing node. That’s pretty good. The article says yields are low which is not great but that’s a relatively independent development from the chip design itself. Any rumors on whether anyone in China’s closing in on an EUV machine?

Thunderbird. The “Mozilla problem” is greatly exaggerated and even if so, there are forks.

Good. Stimulate demand by increasing wages if they have to.

Thanks for the info!

Unlearning Economics is this you?

The reactor is reportedly designed to sustainably generate 2 megawatts of thermal power.

Anyone know how the power density compares to a conventional uranium PWR? In other words, are these machines substantially smaller or larger than a PWR for the same output?

Title gore is unhelpful IMO. I think a better approach would be to say this and explain it in a comment or after a quote in the body.

The leaked documents reveal that Israel’s takedown requests have overwhelmingly targeted users from Arab and Muslim-majority nations, with the top 12 countries affected being: Egypt (21.1%), Jordan (16.6%), Palestine (15.6%), Algeria (8.2%), Yemen (7.5%), Tunisia (3.3%), Morocco (2.9%), Saudi Arabia (2.7%), Lebanon (2.6%), Iraq (2.6%), Syria (2%), Turkey (1.5%).

Interesting. I’d have expected this to include more Western countries. Or do they expect we’ll notice and complain?

Goddamn oof.

Wait, I thought you’re French, dad sniffing the Fox from France?

Goddamn!

Elon Musk’s automaker has been backsliding in China for the past five consecutive months on a year-on-year basis, according to data from the country’s Passenger Car Association. Tesla’s shipments plunged 49% in February from a year earlier to just 30,688 vehicles, the lowest monthly figure since way back in July 2022, when it shipped just 28,217 EVs — and that was in the middle of Covid.

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I just got a unit couple of days ago and it… just works. It’s quite impressive.

Sabine is an idiot but she’s probably not wrong today.

This is nice but it appears to be around A55 performance which is similar to the SiFive cores. I’m eager to see high speed cores that match the upper end of the ARM core range. And if they’re happen to be open source…

Give us Banana Pi with SMIC-made, fast RISC-V processor. That’ll be the beginning of the end for ARM and all the report you need to show.

Debian stable. It’s been here for 30 years, it’s the largest community OS, it’ll likely be here in 30 years (or until we destroy ourselves). Any derivative is subject to higher probability of additional issues, stoppage of development in the long run, etc.

If you’re extra lazy, Ubuntu LTS with Ubuntu Pro (free) enabled. You could use that for 10 years (or until Canonical cancels it) before you need to upgrade. Ubuntu is the least risky alternative for boring operation since it’s used in the enterprise and Canonical is profitable. The risk there is Canonical doing an IPO and Ubuntu going the way of tightening access like Red Hat did.

I’m writing here to give my sincere applause to this effort.