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   by rapsey 2y ago

   China is not that far behind and likely to catch up. The entire US STEM workforce is how many STEM graduates China has per year. The US sanctions is just a stumbling block and will result in a stronger China down the line, with a completely
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   by rapsey 2y ago

   Yes they can. DJI drones, solar, battery tech, EVs they are world leaders. They also linked the entire country with a high speed rail network. The US is largely software focused and they are hardware focused, which is frankly the bigger pro
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   by rapsey 2y ago

   There is another place but Americans don't like to hear it. The number of STEM graduates every year in China is equal to the entire STEM working population in the US. They realize the only way out for them is innovation.
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   by rapsey 2y ago

   Someone worth 100B is rich as hell. Giving out that money to every american means less than 300 dollars each. So for that amount of money, you just killed the startup economy and killed all grand vision projects like SpaceX. Nothing gets of
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   by rapsey 2y ago

   They also get hurricanes regularly though.
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   by rapsey 2y ago

   You can't just have every house pushing 10 kW of power into a grid that is not provisioned for it.
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   by rapsey 2y ago

   There really is a strange dichotomy. Plenty of Rust developers have trouble finding jobs and apparently companies have trouble finding Rust developers.
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   by rapsey 2y ago

   You think there are Russian submarines in the gulf of mexico?
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   by rapsey 2y ago

   Waymos drive in limited geofenced zones. FSD exists but needs driver supervision. Both are incomplete and it is unknown who will be the winner.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Waymos however need thousands of dollars of hardware to achieve this and only work in limited areas. Tesla's bet is a lot more risky but also with a lot more potential.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    While understandable, implementing it is however far from easy.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    https://www.hava.io/blog/2024-cloud-market-share-analysis-de...
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    They own 32%
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Their market share is 32%? Both Google Cloud and Azure are very large.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    But you could say the exact same thing about Azure, GCP, Oracle cloud and others.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    The description on that page is entirely about the Amazon store business not AWS.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    In what way is AWS a monopoly. They have a ton of competition in every aspect of their business.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Everything is superior to js, but js has the most important factor of low barrier of entry.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Millions also got by without electricity before the grid was developed. It did not keep them from becoming great men. But it did keep them from technological progress and kept women chained to the household.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Starlink has millions of customers mostly in the developed world because existing solutions are non existent, terrible or cost prohibitive.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    What if that regulation blocks progress like direct cell to satellite connectivity. Just to keep astronomers happy, which would be better off using space based telescopes anyway.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Beeper manufacturer.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Or fast track building 20+ nuclear reactors like China is doing.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Oracle is literally planning a datacenter powered by modular nuclear reactors. The power requirements especially for AI are extreme.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    The only real change since 1.0 was async. If you want to live without async that is completely up to you. It is an entirely optional part of the language. If you want a language guided by the principle of simplicity Rust was never that and
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Note FxHashMap is just the std HashMap with a different hashing algorithm.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Things move quickly because there is so much development being put into these base libraries. Which is of course a blessing and a curse.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    The Musk derangement syndrome sufferers do not have the intelligence to see people as multifaceted creatures.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Libpng and libjpeg have been huge sources oh high severity security vulnerabilities. It is not unnecessary at all.
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    by rapsey 2y ago

    Does bandwidth actually cost Google anything?