[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

As it fucking should be, this is like the third time they have tried to redesign the chip to get around export restrictions

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's not how that works. Bonds cannot just be asked back like that, they mature over a standard set of time. All you can do is try to sell them to other countries.

And if you do, you're just going to drive down the cost of US debt, the Fed will have to increase interest rates so that people buy from the fed instead. Basically all they're going to be able to do is put a lower bound on American interest rates.

That would be bad, but at the end of the day if the US government needs to fund itself it can still print money.

Also a fire sale on US debt means they have to actually trade it for something. That would create a massive correction in the Chinese economy as there surplus of excess capital and trade turns into a huge deficit, all the factory jobs disappear, American manufacturing booms, and they get the value of what they've produced over the last 20 years that since on the dollar as they fire sell the United States bonds.

Lose lose lose lose lose. I would happily encourage the Chinese to try to do this.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Vim really is an IDE, not a text editor. It's usable as an editor but overkill.

Nano serves a difference purpose. It's like telling someone on a bike that a mustang is better.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

No, but when you're fighting the Taliban it's pretty important to use.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm pretty confident next to none of them supported the Taliban. It really wouldn't matter if they fought or not because they are a tiny minority in their country, and their contributions wouldn't have changed a thing.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

It establishes the TPM as a common hardware requirement so that these companies can lock down the web and their hardware to kill your right to control your own shit.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

(I hate myself for saying this)

Horses

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Russia threatens some brand new off the wall nuclear power weapon like this every couple of years, remember the super deadly powerful nuclear torpedo?

They don't have shit

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

on Steam and the Epic Games Store

All I wanted to know. Good news. Fuck epic.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

This is becoming standard operating procedure from companies that want a quick PR boost.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Proud to be one of them. I tried to disable the job that runs windows update, they said I don't have permission, so I switched to Ubuntu on every single computer except the one that runs VR games.

As a bonus, as an enthusiast for artificial intelligence stuff, more programs run on Linux than they do on Windows

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

If you think those industries work on the competency of their programmers instead of the competency of their systems you've got a big surprise coming for you

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