…and then you sit down one key left to the left of normal.

I doubt Trump will be alive when those fabs come online. It takes years. In the meantime he’ll place tariffs on technology imports without having the alternative domestic production.

Were you in the Oval Office yesterday?

To be fair, that interview was conducted in a respectful manner. He was given plenty of space to explain his position. Fox news has surprised me on this occasion.

There’s been been bills at the EU level, but they’ve been defeated. I think individual countries introduced their own bills if they were supporters of the EU one.

Basically browsers are big because they are operating systems for web hosted applications with huge attack surfaces and lots of legacy compatibility requirements amassed over 3 decades.

A rewrite isn’t the answer. Putting limits on browser functionality is. JavaScript was the turning point IMHO.

Personally I keep a copy of chromium around just for Google meet. Everything else is on Firefox.

Mainly just a case of developing the design. If you know how to get performance out of a processor then the instruction set is largely secondary. However, a high performance processor is not a simple thing to design.

That’s not to say the other factors you list aren’t an issue. The latest manufacturing processes are only available from TSMC and all production slots are bought out by nVidia, AMD and Apple. Everybody else has to make do with older processes.

Adoption is probably the easiest one. Linux support for RISC-V is pretty good and recompiling software for it is pretty simple.

No surprise there. Same with Shell. Companies are bad at pivoting away from established revenue streams. They can’t do it. Same reason car firms are pleading for deadlines to be pushed back.

We’re better off backing newcomer companies dedicated to the new paradigm, and let these fossils die. Sadly governments rarely see it that way.

The world functioned before recommendation algorithms. Even the internet did. Once upon a time, when Goggle worked, it didn’t modify its results based on your history.

Netflix could operate fine with classifications, ratings good tagging and search. It doesn’t need to monitor your viewing habits and recommend something based on them.

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Yes. Yes I have.

Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It’s optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.

The thing is, a lot of social media sites have or had this. YouTube has the subscriptions feed. Twitter has (I don’t know anymore) a following feed. Reddit used to keep posts on your homepage only being from subscribed subreddits.

One problem. People don’t use them. They see maintaining subscriptions as work and so want to be fed posts by algorithm.

It’s a big elephant and you send “Toots!”.

How do you confused that with a cynical robot and a giant shark? You’d post “Quips!” or “Bites!”. Wouldn’t work at all. 🙄

Do you refer to the “Following” Vs “Discover” feed?

Apparently it’s very noticeable when a post hits the discover feed. The quality of responses dives off a cliff.

But we did leave…

…about a decade too late.

Main one is that it doesn’t manipulate your feed with stuff “you might enjoy” so you can’t be easily manipulated by the people setting the algorithm. Of course, this is exactly why people find it hard. People want to be fed stuff and told what to consume.

I’ve seen plenty too. They fly over sometimes. I believe they are called “helicopters”.

It’s called empathy. Their words and actions obviously have an effect on you, so it shouldn’t be surprising that the opposite is true as well. Reading people and their moods inform this and help you predict how they might react in the moment.

I suspect most of what you’re talking about is about timing. Taking a jovial mood and injecting serious topics without warning will piss people off. You’re killing the mood. “Don’t be so negative” sounds to me like you’re not reading the room. Let people enjoy those times. If you need to raise a serious subject with someone - a deft “now’s not the time, but I’d like to talk about something” allows them to finish up, switch gears, and then have a more serious discussion.

The same goes the other way. Injecting jokes in a serious discussion can cause problems too.

The whole thing is like merging into traffic. You have to match the pace of the traffic flow. Too fast or too slow causes pile-ups.

I can be like this sometimes, but I normally try to let people know that the dogs are whirring.

• Hmm, good question…let me think…
• How can I put this?
• What’s the phrase I’m looking for?

I’ll especially do this if I’m speaking to people whose first language is something else, as I’ll want to answer the question without resorting to idioms or slang. No point telling a Frenchman that the situation is a bit of a dog and pony show.

Really thought they’d grow their own potatoes.

Guess there will be a market in importing whole ones, and cutting them up there.