The engineer in me sees a silver lining with the way the USA is being in which it’s highlighting a single failure point dependency on some completely random things.

hackernews its like reddit but the user submitted links are tech and research of hardware heavy. A good portion of my RSS feed is from blogs that posts were submitted to there.

got any legit sources to reference? legitimately curious. I need to know which harmonized codes are excluded.

From an electrical engineering perspective H O S E D. Historically, “Oh you want to manufacture something cheaply but can’t due to IP issues or CCP conflicts of interests? Why not Malaysia, Vietnam or the Philippines?”

People got to realize this is gonna jack up the supply chain so hard. Texas Instruments an IC manufacturer produces some stuff in texas. If my production is in Malaysia then surprise! Tariff to send components to Malaysia. But wait, programming, testing, packaging, and inventory of the boards is in the USA. So the PCBA is surprise surprise Tariff again. Now that the board is considered finished and ready to be sold, it turns out your customer is in china or anywhere else in the world…. So tariff. These Tariffs compound. The business isn’t going to foot the bill so its gonna get pushed to customers.

I am really curious how the TSMC foundry in AZ is gonna work out. They can produce the wafers but packaging is done still in Taiwan. So tariff to Taiwan , tariff again back to the USA, and the tariff again because its an advanced electronic component?

Isn’t pesticides just bee assassination on a mass scale? Thus, I argue, we cannot not yet rule that out.

I look at it through money. Where is its HQ located at and where does it “apparently” pay its taxes. If any of that Info is in USA then it’s an American Company. Hit their bottom line by not paying into what they are dealing.

Yes and no? I would make the distinction its American Designed hardware regardless of where it was manufactured. Manufacturing these days is a cheap commodity no matter what. 100% China would outsource manufacturing to African countries if it made economic sense over domestic production in China. At the end of the day you really got to figure out what your intentions are. Boycotting USA? By stuff designed and sold by companies outside the USA. Buying non exploitative and ethically procured and manufactured electronics? Well let me know if such a thing exists.

Moore Threads is a domestic Chinese company that seems to be trying to compete with NVIDIA, AMD. Their GPUs look comparable to GTX 10xx series cards. Wish I could get ahold of one to try it out. I hear the drivers are pretty crappy but have been getting better fairly recently. Fortunately, most parts are fundamentally based in Taiwan due to TSMC so you might have to research clients of TSMC to find alternatives. CPUs are a pain point. INTEL or AMD. ARM is cool but until RISC really takes off, your going to be tied to at least one or two american companies.

Doubt it. Weather changing sounds an awful lot like climate change which is a “woke” DEI concept of the liberal left. /s

please get me off of this wild ride. I miss when politics were boring.

That is the bummer, it’s all going to cost carbon and it’s all going to happen regardless if we ban people owning a second house. As long as the population keeps increasing, the demand for more new houses will naturally increase regardless of what we do to curb demand for second houses.

So I see it as a necessary evil. One in which I am of the opinion that that if we are going to screw with the environment and increase our footprint on nature then lets make it worth it.

For example, lets demolish more woodland but instead of single family housing, lets build a 30 story condominium with the first 2 levels being a shopping center, the next 3 being rentable office space, 20 levels for condominiums, and the last 5 being for entertainment, restaurants, and leisure. Hell create sub basement levels for parking. Is the construction bigger than building a house in the woods? sure. But in the long run by building vertically the overall footprint is much less than building a sub division, strip mall, individual restaurants, and a business zone.

I would much rather devote efforts into making that a reality than policing people from getting a second house. Hell, really try to market it to that demographic just so that we can combat the NIMBY attitude people have to vertical urban development and we will probably have more net good to the climate compared to anything else we do in urban development.

Counterpoint, I don’t mind people owning a second home on the basis of climate change. There are so many other bigger fish to fry in that realm rather than wasting resources limiting a small group of people with the means of affording a second home. I would much rather people with the means of owning a second home having to pledge to improve the carbon footprint of the second home through things like adding solar panels, smart landscaping, etc. That way when the house is eventually let go its more sustainable and environmentally friendly then when it started.

Normally I would agree. But this is one of those rare instances I say, “Oh shit something is up.” Rather than saying, “How progressive of our government to pilot remote work!”

Not as impossible sounding. I mean I would never attempt it but you might be able to get away with it using a stencil, solder paste and one of those fancy toaster ovens with a broil setting. ROI would suck since you are probably gonna fail the first couple of times.

It is a shit setup. Don’t even get us started on the complete lack of protection you get outside of a government job when you switch from being hourly to salary. I am all for working hard and going above and beyond to get a job done. However it’s exploitation when my employer pays me for 40 hours of work a week but expects me to work 45 hours and justifies it by saying the expectation is pretty light considering other places.