gravitas_deficiency

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gravitas_deficiency,

Ugh can we just agree that foldy phones are just an altogether dumb idea? I want my phone to have as few moving parts as possible.

gravitas_deficiency, (edited )

It does seem pretty dumb that Apple ditched the mini form factor after the 12

Edit: it was the 13, my bad. But still, why did they have to kill it?

gravitas_deficiency,

I like it when my phone screen doesn’t get a weird little delaminated ridge though

gravitas_deficiency, (edited )

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gravitas_deficiency, (edited )

They’ve had these things for like 6-8 years or so now and it’s the same problem

Edit: please explain to me how “it still has the same problem” conflicts with “it’s gotten a lot better”? I know it’s gotten better. That’s neat. It’s still not solved.

My point is that I personally consider the simple existence of the issue to disqualify it as something I’d buy. I would consider it if it is no longer a problem. Not improved - eliminated. You’re not going to negotiate, debate, or downvote me into changing my mind on that. It’s a physical defect that’s an artifact of the design and the current technology used to satisfy that design.

gravitas_deficiency,

Bro I was just being cheeky about the fact that you double posted

gravitas_deficiency,

Uh… yeah. That’s why I’ve never bought one.

gravitas_deficiency,

Tbh that’s largely an artifact of bad frontend design. People don’t make their interfaces scalable down to that smaller size.

gravitas_deficiency,

…what…?

Like seriously… what the fuck…?

gravitas_deficiency, (edited )

Short term yes; long term probably not. All the dipshit c-suites pushing the “AI” worker replacement initiatives are going to destroy their workforces and then realize that LLMs can’t actually reliably replace any of the workers they fired. And I love that for management.

gravitas_deficiency,

And neither of those two groups will allow themselves to be replaced.

gravitas_deficiency,

Or just, you know, only sell them IADS equipment.

Theres no good reason for us to be giving them bombs and strike missiles.

gravitas_deficiency,

ADHD is doing that every single fucking day, and taking prescriptions that sorta help with it sometimes, but also have a lot of extremely irritating and frustrating side effects for a lot of people.

gravitas_deficiency,

And is Phony Stark helping or hurting that effort? Because he sounds like a Putin fanboy sometimes these days.

‘What’s the Problem?’ Zelensky Challenges West Over Hesitations. (www.nytimes.com)

With his army struggling to fend off fierce Russian advances all across the front, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the United States and Europe to do more to defend his nation, dismissing fears of nuclear escalation and proposing that NATO planes shoot down Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace....

gravitas_deficiency,

That’s an objectively idiotic idea, because that would have a roughly 100% chance of kicking off a nuclear conflict.

I don’t place much stock in Russias saber rattling, but NATO straight up invading Russia would unquestionably trigger an absolutely vicious response.

gravitas_deficiency,

I mean, one of Taiwan’s last-resort contingency plans is to basically blow up all their chip foundries and the machinery inside of it. They are absolutely willing to go scorched earth if their back is against the wall and there’s no hope of a successful defense.

gravitas_deficiency,

If the PRC somehow successfully takes Taiwan, but in doing so, utterly destroys the vast majority of the world’s cutting edge chip foundry lines for cpu + gpu + ram + nvme, it’s a pretty safe bet that the rest of the world will be absolutely fucking livid with China at the very least, because it would cause EVERYONE’S economy to crash.

gravitas_deficiency,

That was the underlying implication of my comment. Of course nobody wants any of these threats to be carried out. But they’re useless as geopolitical constraints unless the threat is credible.

gravitas_deficiency,

You don’t seem to understand the proportion of chips that Taiwan makes for the world these days.

In terms of replacement capacity… there’s not any. You don’t simply flip a switch and start producing other chips on your fab line, let alone scale shit out 5-10x like that on the drop of a hat. It’s not 3D printing. If Taiwan is invaded and they’re forced to destroy their chip industry, there will be an enormous supply shortfall for several YEARS at least, even in the best possible case.

gravitas_deficiency,

An independent Taiwan is nothing of the sort.

The PRC could have adopted a much more diplomatic and friendly approach - think EU-esque. Instead of this dipshit woLf wArRioR crap, the PRC could have taken the more mature and measured approach, and worked towards making a strong industrial, geopolitical, and economic alliance with Taiwan.

Hell, if they just accepted that the slow and steady approach was probably going to work better than the “I’m going to have a tantrum” approach in general, they’d probably be doing way better in a whole slew of areas. They could have essentially created a de facto alliance with Taiwan over shared culture, language, and history… but no, Xi wants to prove how big his dick is I guess.

gravitas_deficiency, (edited )

I feel like you’re not reading what I wrote. Maybe making it bigger will help:

What you’re saying indicates that you don’t understand the extremely nuanced and industry specific constraints around integrated circuit manufacturing at scale.

The fact that you’re sticking to your guns so hard here tells me that you’re deep into Dunning-Kruger territory.

gravitas_deficiency,

You have lost the plot, bud.

That, or you’re going for the agitprop vibe, which is obvious in bad faith.

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