arcterus

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago

I can't wait for the AI future.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm ngl this looks somewhat useful minus the copilot crap. Having lists and headers and so on are useful for actually taking notes.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Tbh I would not be at all surprised if they were vibe coding. The snafu with the new authenticator app logging secrets, them just churning out random new apps no one asked for instead of meaningfully improving their existing products, claiming to open-source all their apps despite the Android calendar app still (after years) not being open-sourced (and with a GitHub link on their web page that implies all their code is available, but it in fact just links to the web clients), etc. have all combined to the point where I simply no longer trust them.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still don't fucking understand how people voted for someone who sounds they're having a stroke 24/7.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's both amusing and a little disturbing that the term for killing the mice is "sacrifice." I'm now imagining a bunch of researchers dancing around the mice while ritually decapitating them.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My dude, the chips aren't manufactured in the US. If the tariffs don't apply to the chips that are inherently imported from outside the US since basically only TSMC and Samsung make them at this point, then there is no tariff at all. Companies in the US import the chips, then use the imported chips as part of their products. All the companies in the US do is assemble the imported parts (and sometimes not even that).

EDIT: Ah, there was a miscommunication. I think we're both saying the same thing at this point. Well, mostly the same, since this doesn't really help US companies and just drives up prices for everything.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean up until recently they were all like, "haha just wait until the list comes out and all you libtards get yours." Of course, now that trump has made it abundantly clear he's on it (as opposed to it just being normally clear he was on it before), they've split into gullible idiots who feel betrayed and cultish idiots who now think pedophilia is actually not so bad somehow.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm convinced you're a troll/bot. That is not in fact how tariffs work since the chips are not made in the US.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I'm building multiple patchsets on a laptop. How tf do you expect millions of lines of even somewhat optimized code to compile in a minute or two? The configuration by itself wastes like half of that, not to mention nix taking 2 minutes to evaluate because specializations are slow af. It in fact takes more like 2-3 hours for them to finish.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Looking into it, the US implementation goes down into the components, so yes. Except, I believe it'd be $50 chip @ 100%, other components at whatever tariff rates they may have, and then the 15% per-country/region tariff applies to all of it on top. So if the other components have no tariffs, it'd be $172.50. I'm now wondering how expensive everything would end up if you have tariffs on materials as well.

In any case though, it becomes ludicrously expensive no matter what because you're at most dodging the 15%.

EDIT: You can also dodge some of the tariffs if some percentage of the product is made in the US. I wonder if you'd be able to dodge the chip tariff if the materials for it were partially sourced from the US. If possible, that'd probably be cheaper for companies than actually trying to manufacture chips here.

EDIT 2: Actually your calculation may be right, I'm having a hard time finding how they're actually meant to be calculated. Admittedly it seems a bit weird to me that the rate would override the country-specific rate and thus be the same for chips from the EU and China, but I suppose none of this makes sense in the first place.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Pretty sure that's their point. Say a product costs $100 dollars with no tariffs. If you import the product from the EU with a 15% tariff, it's now $115 with tariffs (assuming no tariffs importing the chips into the EU). If you manufacture the product in the US, you need to pay 100% tariffs for all the chips. Obviously the impact depends on how much the chips cost relative to the entire product, but if the chips are half the cost ($50), then with a 100% tariff you're now paying $150 for the product manufactured in the US.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I like how they've demonstrated that their verification is basically worthless.

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