"Mandate" on publicly owned and constructed parking lots?

That is, parking lots paid for by government taxes?

Why is this mandate a bad idea?

Just about to read, but I had to change to dark mode to be able to see the examples, which are bold white on a white background.

A long article begging the question when the last paragraph or two countered the panic of the beginning. Two Chinese firms are ramping up production of consumer RAM/SSDs because they see a market opening as the existing producers move to selling to enterprise/hyperscalars.

There have been memory chip panics before, the US funded RAM production back into the 80s/90s in competition with Japan at the time.

The AI boom/"hyperscale" currently is almost exactly like the dotcom boom.

It's already starting to shake down. Anthropic is occupying the developer space, OpenAI has just exited the video/media production space. More focused and vertical market AI is emerging.

The current vortice of money between OpenAI <-> Microsoft <-> Oracle <-> NVidea <-> Google <-> etc etc is going to break.

The effects of the AI hyper scaling boom on the commodity hardware and energy markets are very much not like the dot com boom.

Outside of the obvious economic effect of the dot com boom - the creation of near infinitely scalable high margin online businesses - there was a secondary effect on consumer electronics, with a massive growth in demand for networked devices; there was then much more of a balance between the hardware growth in the network infrastructure and data center worlds as well as in desktop and mobile.

The AI boom’s hardware impact is much more skewed, as this article details.

> Two Chinese firms are ramping up production of consumer RAM/SSDs because they see a market opening

Yes but these Chinese firms are a tiny share of the overall RAM/SSD market, and they'll have the same problems with expanding production as everyone else. So it doesn't actually help all that much.

The biggest problem in expanding for everyone else is they don't trust the market to exist for long enough to be worth paying for a new factory so they are not investing in it. The Chinese might be small, but they think the market will exist and are investing. Will they be right or wrong - I don't know.

Chinese firms won’t have the exact same problems as anyone else. Some problems will be the same but not all.

* Chinese firms finance through different banks and investors than current ram producers

* A company with a mission statement of consumer ram won’t have their supply outbid by data centers

* Chinese manufacturing has more expertise in scaling then any other manufacturing culture

The fact that there’s been a massive expansion in the nonconsumer market means the consumer market makes up a smaller proportion of the overall market, but it doesn’t mean the consumer market is any smaller than it used to be.

Sounds like someone is being "overenthusiastic" about interpreting the KYC/ALM regulations.

Combined with the FSFE not being your "usual" charitable or business organization so setting off auditor red flags and perhaps raising the risk profile of Nexi as a payment processor.

Charles Eames said that "design depends largely on constraints".

If you know in advance, then one of the constraints on the design of that function is that it's on the critical path and that it has to meet the specification.

You're stating the obvious that you need to consider its implementation.

But that's not the same as "I have a function that is not on the critical path and the performance constraint is not the most important, but I'll still spend time on optimizing it instead of making it clear and easy to understand."

I'm very impressed that was written by an LLM.

Does that make the OP an "authoring mechanic"? Or an "AI editor"?

Douglas Adams had it right, the problem is not that the answer was useless, it was that people didn't know what the right question was.

One of CS's heroes lauding another. I feel I know both author and subject better for reading this.

We are all very lucky to have lived through the foundation of a new science and new engineering over the last 50 years.

A bit more than 50 years. Grace Hopper retired in 1966. It's true that Grace kept un-retiring, but the most crucial stuff is all before she retired. Invention of what we'd think of as a linker-loader (which Grace called a compiler) and of the broad concept of high level programming languages all happens in the 1950s.

I rounded down to the nearest half-century :)

I hope to live through to 2050, just to see what's going to happen.

This is awesome for local development of AWS service based software, allowing developers to develop without having to enable AWS access, or handle them stepping on each other's toes with S3 bucket names, or Dynamo table names, IAM roles etc.

I got airpods (Pro v2) and got the squishy memory foam tips from a 3rd party that are a) comfortable, and b) actually stay in my ears.

I hate normal headphones because they make my ears get sweaty and are heavy and uncomfortable.

I told my (now 88) father that if he bought another desktop PC he was on his own.

Tough love works.

He loves his 24" iMac, it just works and I can fix things remotely if necessary (it hasn't been).

This is the way.