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Yeah but in a war, be it a trade war or kinetic one, against a power WHO HAS modern chips and can process data and intelligence faster, who has better leverage? The one with cutting edge tech, or the one with "okay" tech?

Seeing how the orange bafoon slapped the EU around with his trade war and received no retaliation that could cause even paint in return, I assume the answer is obvious.

Another point being how Ukraine can beat Russia in drone warfare simply because they have access to the superior tech of all western allied nations despite making lower numbers than Russia which makes more but can't easily get embargo chips.

>and there are fabs in Europe that could make them.

Which EU fabs make 14++nm CPUs and GPUs? Which EU domestic CPUs and GPUs IP designs are there at the moment that can be fabbed in case of emergency without parts or IP from rivals?

The truth is EU is painfully absent from this field. Sure, in theory they can duct tape together some RISC-V CPU and some ARM MALI GPU production on Dresden 16nm fabs, in case of a war, but since the EU never built and shipped a commercial domestic CPU and GPU from scratch in the last 20+ years, it's not gonna be as easy as turning a screw, as it is for nations that ship new cutting edge compute chips every year: US, Korea, Taiwan and to an extent Japan and China. When you've been out of the game for so long, you get rusty and comebacks are slow and painful. EU would take decades to catch up and rebuild this industry in case of a war cut them off from these parts. It's basically another supply chain vulnerability it failed to address.

Bad logic for an argument. With this logic you can say you can live fine with your 30 year old diesel car that doesn't need these new cutting edge SiC wafer chips, and that making diesel engines is more important for national security than making chips, and so on and so forth till you reach knowing how to make fire, swords an arrows as the most important for national security.

Truth is fabbing CPUs and GPUs is miles more profitable than what Infineon and EU are fabbing, and they're just as important for national security/sovereignty if not even more:

Did Infineon's engineers use EU or US CPUs and GPUs for the complex CAD/CAE simulations needed to develop those SiC wafers? Why else do you think the US got TSMC and Samsung to make cutting edge fabs on US soil if CPUs and GPUs are not important for national security? When you need to process TB of live battlefield data in case of war, do you not need domestic CPUs and GPUs?

Making power FETs uses different process nodes than CPUs and GPUs. All semi fabs are highly specialized: some for power ICs, some for RF, some for DRAM, some for logic, some for NAND.

Sure, cartel behavior is illegal, but if you're in bed with the right political administrations, then blind eyes can be turned.

Except that modern apps and modern websites can be so demanding compared to their vintage counterparts, that they'll rev an old CPU at full tilt for basic modern tasks, while for a new CPU will seem to be idling at the same tasks.

Just try watching 1080p AV1 youtube videos on a vintage CPU vs one with dedicated AV1 decoder and you'll see what I mean. Yes I know h264ify exists, but its existence only reinforces my point.

I have an core 2 quad CPU at my parents place and simply browsing the web (with adblocking enabled even) pegs it at 100% most of the time sucking >90W. Meanwhile a mid level android phone barely breaks a sweat sipping battery on the same tasks.

There's laptops or X86 tablets with soldered RAM but those are rare and vanish immediately if they show up at a good price.

If you REALLY need GPIO then just add a USB-C OTG MCU board like a ESP32, or even the ancient Arduino Uno works as USB GPIO via serial TTY on Android.

Or just use a ESP32 by itself, if you don't need a full Linux OS, just to toggle some GPIO pins via the internet.

Possibilities are endless. Just use your imagination, or ask some LLM.

I used it a lot since the first demo version came out on CDs of computer magazines of the era, and I wholeheartedly disagree with that.

The first release was definitely not feasible for professional use in the AEC market. It was just a easy to use 3D modelling tool for hobbyists and tinkerers who wanted to CAD or model something simple at home with the mouse, without the cost and steep learning curve of parametric pro tools like AutoCAD, 3DSMax or Maya.

It was the first 3D modelling tool I used that made 3d modelling simple and fun that a child could enjoy. But definitely not AEC levels, at least not the first release.

>Then Google bought it and essentially pivoted it to consumer offering.

When Google bought it, it was already popular in the consumer market. They bought it because they needed a simple tool that anyone could use to populate Google maps with 3D buildings of their neighbourhood via crowdsourcing, and nothing was simpler back then then sketchup.

>They retargeted the offering to professional engineering and architecture firms.

More correct would be they pivoted there because that's only userbase that will pay for SW. Unless you have the backing of someone like Google or Autodesk being you to finance such a loss-leader, then you're forced to move away from free SW for casual home users to paying pro-sumers to survive as a company.

Teaching kids to boo at cars is unsubstantive?

> and flamebait?

You missed the anti-Tesla-booing child-grooming flamebait I was replying to. But I guess if you're also anti-Elon you don't notice that as being flamebait.

> You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

Point me to where the repetitiveness is. Thanks.

>If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

If you could be objective with your moderation and interpretation of flamebait and not take sides in political discussions, I'd also be grateful. Either ban all political comments or none and let freedom of speech work, but don't take sides while pretend you're upholding the spirit of the rules. Thanks.

No honor amongst thieves.

I miss the days when pirates did it for the love of the game.

Not all HNers are good parents

Because adults around them groomed them for those actions. Kids don't just start booing at objects out of the blue, they parrot the learned behavior of the adults around them.

It's true, that the employer can't just enter your machine to look at your personal info just because they feel like it, but they can access it for work related reasons to access work related info, if they have just cause, like a security incident for example.

Ultimately, it's the company's machine, on the company's network, inside the company's premises, on the company's time, so the company can definitely access it for a business use case if they need to, typically with a notification to you to prepare it by removing private info from it or off the screen.

Now if you happen to put your private info there because you're sloppy, and your private info gets vacuumed by accident by IT's mass ingestion of work related data, then you have the right to tell them to delete your private info and they have to comply. That's where the privacy comes in, but it's on you to avoid storing private info on company property, because if it ends up ingested by accident then it's still on you, not your employer if they ingest it by accident.

But I gotta ask, just how hard is it to avoid putting your personal info on company property?

>The boy has been having a blast with it

What can you do with it now?

When will Europe learn its lesson and stop letting itself ruined by German leaders? Bonus points if their Austrian born :)

>Europe's "help" to Ukraine is really overwhelmingly loans, not actual help

Loans is the only way the EU can give money from the ECB but those loans will be written off, Ukraine won't pay back anything. It's how the EU gives money.

>EU's current difficulties are all self-inflicted choices from 10 years ago.

A lot more than 10 years. At least 20 years of mismanagement and of kicking the can down the road on topics that were known issues way back then.

When will Europeans fix the bugs in their EU democracy?

>A single administrator shouldn't have so much power.

A democrat administration having as much power is also not good?

That's why in my country the government is incentivizing via fiscal policies for employers to be cancelling all home office perks to employers. To get people back to spending money on commuting.

>Michigan

So what's your opinion on building car factories there? If we remove those factories, air there would be cleaner.

I don't live there, but this attitude won't make you any friends.

>We all share this world.

Yes, tell me how me and you and Bezos and Musk are all equally sharing the world. We're all in this together and you care so much about the pollution of other peoples' small towns. That's why there's nice neighborhoods and not so nice neighbourhoods, nice areas to live in and not so nice areas to live in. Because some people have to deal with the pollution so that you can live in nice neighborhoods without any pollution while still enjoying all the luxuries of modern society that generate pollution except not in your back yard.

>My car would emit about 5 tonnes of CO2 over about 15k miles(2L hatchback).

And where was that car manufactured? In your back yard or in some industrial town with more pollution? Do you oppose car factories there too?

Amazing argumentation.

If RUssia wouldn't have done it someone else would. If you lave a bag of money open outside your door, someone will eventually take it and its your fault for leaving it out for someone to easily steal it

Literally none of them. You went offtopic like this"

>Again as I said you want the profits from the wars and not refugees

Where did I say I want war? Where did I say I want profits from the war? And where in my bank account can I find these profits from the wars?

> you know full well that is true.

I only know you're a russian troll promoting the weakening and destabilisation of the west as proven by your anti wes propaganda and ignoring my points.

Again, EUs problems, are EU self inflicted and they could stop them if they chose to.

Yes, obviously Russia will weaponize every single weakness of the EU (just how Ukraine, EU, US, NATO and China will weaponzie every weakness of Russia right now), but ultimately it's still a self inflicted weakness, that the EU could close at the snap of the finger if it actually cared about stopping it, and Russia would not be able to weaponize any longer.

Except that everything that is shitty in the EU right now has been the consequence of the last ~20 years of EU leadership and individual EU member policies.

Russia didn't increase the EURO supply during covid devaluing our wages and purchasing power. Russia didn't connect our fridges on the internet without a VPN with credentials admin:admin that any script kiddie could pwn. Russia didn't open our borders to unvetted criminals. Russia didn't offshore our industry leading us to fall behind on everything manufacturing related from cars to leading edge semiconductor fabs. Russia didn't create our NIMBYistic housing policies that made our current housing shortage. etc, etc, etc.

Blaming Russia (and China and Trump) for every single shortcoming of the EU right now seems the default scapegoat for the incompetence of everyone in the EU from politicians to business leaders. Have those people ever taken any accountability for their mistakes?

Everything you wrote is not an exclusive Lenovo risk and vulnerability but applies to every piece of compute sold in the worlds.