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It's my understanding that this is not the case. That CPU (and similar) manufacturing is considered one of the most complex processes humanity has ever developed. What are these plenty of manufacturing operations that are more complicated?

That makes no sense. I am the manager. I make the decision. The calculator gives me some numbers but I am still the manager, still the decision maker, and I can use any tools appropriate to inform my decisions. Even a calculator. Taken at face value, that's what it says. That the calculator doesn't make the management decision; a person does.

Anyone using that energy to make a profit - that is, run a business - pays market rate from the start.

Assuming that's true, do we know if the new claims are fraudulent, or are they valid claims that people simply didn't claim for before?

I think the UK might be the only country that developed, and then fully abandoned, its own capability to launch satellites. Now being slowly recreated, fifty years later.

Well that just doesn't sound true at all. I would definitely remember if it leaked every year. Do you have any evidence for this? A bidet is pretty basic plumbing, and basic plumbing can go decades without leaking.

I guess if someone goes out and buys cheap parts that fail fast, and always does that, then you'll get some people whose plumbing fails every six months and everyone else goes years or decades without problems.

Without prejudice on any other reasons, the most common reason for this pattern I've seen is people thinking in languages that basically don't have constructors, yet writing C++. It's not a good reason.

An example I've seen a lot is a C thinker writing C++ classes with an init() function; sure, it works, but the C++ way is to do that in constructors. (All those about to start listing exceptions to that C++ idiom, please save it to the end, thanks!) The C thinker is still thinking about objects as "allocate memory, then set values" rather than the C++ way where allocation and initialisation are wrapped together into a single action (from the programmer's point of view).

So what are these pitfalls for a C++ thinker when writing Rust? This "phrasebook" is embracing the idea of taking a C++ way of thinking and applying it to Rust, which I'm sure will be fine for many situations, but what are the C++ phrases that are just the wrong way to do things in Rust?

Ha. Total pipedream. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of our current economic system.

"How coding FPGA differs from GPU and what is High-Level Synthesis, Verilog, and VHDL? #36" Yes please!

If general intelligence arrived and did whatever general intelligence would do, would we even see it? Or would there just be things that happened that we just can't comprehend?

What that would look like, how it would think, the kind of mental considerations it would have, I do not know. I do suspect that declaring something that thinks like us would have "general intelligence" to be a symptom of our limited thinking.

I recall the Foxconn Wisconsin situation, and I have no doubt Apple et al are well aware of it. String out a pretense of building factories in the US for the next three and a half years? Easy peasy. President Trump will soon get bored of this game anyway and move on to the next one; he already looks like he's bored of it and it didn't bring him universal acclaim and admiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTkgi7scKo

"you don't grow up until you have to balance a check book."

Is that just shorthand for "be properly aware your own budget and finances" or are there literally still enough people using check (cheque as I might write) books in the US that this is still a literal task people learn.

An example from today was using XAudio2 on windows to output sound, where that sound was already being fetched as interleaved data from a network source. I could have read the docs, found some example code, and bashed it together in a few hours; but I asked one of the LLMs and it gave me some example code tuned to my request, giving me a head start on that.

I had to already know a lot of context to be able to ask it the right questions, I suspect, and to thence tune it with a few follow up questions.