you know how much money you have to pour into semi R&D to keep up and how much hardware Apple has to produce & sell to justify that cost ?

You know how much money Apple had to pour into processor R&D to build something competitive with x86? That bet paid off for Apple in the form of the M1 and its successors.

Intel is still profitable so they're covering their own R&D cost and they're still in second place in process technology. TSMC is undoubtedly charging a hefty margin for their cutting edge fab process so the economics might work out for Apple doing its own fabbing.

Is this is the report that DoJ didn't want to make public ?

This is Jack Smith’s final report on the Trump election case, released to the public yesterday. I think Aileen Cannon and Trump cronies were trying to block it — not sure about the DoJ.

I believe that the DoJ was pushing for it to be released, not trying to block it.

Ah, the app to connect to your Sonos speakers, but wants all the permissions from your phone, incl. your geo-location, otherwise it will not work.

Every app that uses Bluetooth needs location permission AFAIK. It's unfortunate.

No, on iOS Sonos requires actual location services, and precise must be turned on. Pairing a basic Bluetooth device does not require that. I went to Sonos tech support, escalated, and they confirmed you can't just bluetooth pair to activate the speakers. Once you've done that you can turn off the location services, but I feel like it's a blatant violation of my privacy. I returned $800 worth of speakers.

I hated that I had to enable precise location. I didn’t return mine, but damn that pissed me off.

Iirc, this is because the network access required to control the speakers could be used to determine your location. So it is really the OS that is letting you know what you’re risking, not the app requesting too much.

I would be interested to hear about your experience transitioning to this line of work, since I want to do the same. I'm in my early 40s, software engineer.

When you say 'this line of work' are you referring to my handyman business or work to develop a new software product? (I'm happy to discuss either)

Sorry for the long delay. Handyman business is something I would be interested in.

Author is beating the drum, but what about mission critical software running on x86 ? replacing it will take decades.

damn

Thank you for posting this. This is exciting, hopefully this will help to someone who is close to me suffering from this condition !

Lol, yeah. They will not do that.

Construction sites deaths are gruesome by nature. I feel terrible for those people. Thanks god, we have OSHA (& hopefully, it will not be dismantled as it has been touted)

With Boeing - A fish rots from the head down. Entire upper management needs to go, now and can't work for Boeing or it's subsidiaries or contractors. Nowhere near Boeing.

This is a Wall Street Journal article.

You know damn well that the financial wizard management is the primary implicit endorsement of Wall Street and the WSJ megaphone trumpets, and has for... ever? Minimal engineering knowledge, minimal core product knowledge, establishment of anticompetitive cartel/monopoly conditions, reduction of open competition via mergers and acquisitions. Short term thinking and planning. Regulatory capture.

Oh, but now there's two "emergencies". WAIT WAIT WAIT, are we calling for a BAILOUT? THE GOVERNMENT MUST STEP IN!!!!! I love it. Talking out of their mouth and assholes at the same time. FREE MONEY FOR THE MEGACORPORATIONS!?!?!?

Intel and Boeing are symptoms of a catastrophic disease America has: cartels and monopolies and associated corruption, economic damage, inflation, high prices, regulatory capture/bureaucracy, and more.

Globalization and the associated fragile supply chains is a symptom of these megacorporations. Our economy is not resilient to disruption in an increasingly unstable world, with long term trends like demographic disruption, war, global warming will only make it worse.

Healthy competitive markets also mean resilience in supply chain. They go hand in hand. THAT is the real national emergency.

WE NEED TO BREAK UP THE CARTELS. EVERYWHERE.

I vaguely hear a lefty in a leather jacket whispering sly warnings about neoliberalism. I may have even heard a hint of “I told you so” but maybe that’s just my imagination.

frame it how you want - it doesn't make their argument any less true or valid.

I agree with the previous response. You don't make any argument or point, you just mumble "leftist" and dismiss. Extremist on either side don't seem to help anything. I lean one way just like most people, but I try not to dismiss everyone without hearing them out and thinking about it.

I have learned by listening. There are many people on both sides smarter than I am. But if they don't listen and discuss, then they are stuck and won't grow in any way. Usually, there are valid points on both sides but you made none.

Apologies, that was meant as a joke but I can see how it was way too vague in this context.

It was intended as a rueful "I concede that guy has/had a point, should've listened more and judged less."

I think what you're saying is wise.