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China pushing back on work leaving China. Taiwanese company Foxconn still working to keep the lights on in the India manufacturing effort.

I disagree with your original position, but it appears even that too has evolved. I appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thank you.

What if people could earn money by generating solar energy and selling directly to vehicles, instead of the grid? I believe this could actually boost renewable energy generation over the roof.

If you’re cutting out the grid, how do you propose getting electricity generated by solar to the EV? In your system do they have to come to my house and plug into my solar array when its sunny to collect their purchase? Or are you expecting the grid to deliver it, but not expect any compensation for grid capacity consumption, transmission and distribution of the electricity?

Generators would be rewarded with a blockchain token for the energy generated, while consumers would pay for the energy in those tokens. Therefore speculation would be curbed as the tokens are for a real thing, energy, which on top is a stable unit - kWh.

I’m a generator. Why would I want a token to buy electricity I already have a surplus of for my EV? How do non-solar EV owners get tokens? Does your system propose non-solar owners buy tokens on the open market with real money (dollars/euros) from solar generators? If I’m spending dollars/euros to buy tokens, why don’t I just use my dollars/euros to buy electricity for my EV instead?

Yep. The problem is that they keep trying to push it as some sort of workspace for home or office.

It’s a shitty workspace. Nobody wants that box strapped to their face and work in a cartoonish porthole view world.

It will eventually be great for a virtual workspace, but the technology isn’t there yet. The resolution on headsets has to get several orders of magnitude better, and the headsets need to get several orders of magnitude lighter/more comfortable.

I just love the people who refuse to get a Quest device (formerly Oculus) because it’s meta. And meta bad. But then they have their entire life connected in a web of google and/or Microsoft.

Meta is a walled garden. You have to give them everything to get anything. Google and/or Microsoft you only have to give them some to get some, so you can choose if what you want is worth what you get from them. Meta is all or nothing. So for Meta, I choose nothing.

I just can’t understand why companies do this weird shit, I always thought order earlier = arrive faster, this is just… weird)

My guess is you’re seeing a tiny view of a global logistics company at work. There are warehouses all over the place and there is large overlap with the inventory in each. Lets say you’re ordering a hot pink Kindle ebook reader. If you were able to see from the Amazon side, you’d see this item represented in dozens of warehouses all over the world. There is possibly one sitting on the shelf in the warehouse right down the street from you, which would ship it to you the fastest. However, that warehouse also contains other inventory that is in high demand and that other inventory is NOT in other warehouses. So the Amazon algorithms don’t want to direct fulfillment of your order from this close warehouse to you because its getting crushed right now.

Instead it finds the hot pink Kindle in a slow warehouse much farther away from you and your order is fulfilled from there (your first order with the long shipping time). Later, the close warehouse runs out of the high-demand inventory that was keeping it busy. You make second order for the hot pink Kindle and the algorithm now optimizes for cheapest/fastest delivery, which is the warehouse down the street from you (your second order).

Welcome to global logistics.

So it was either wait for everybody to finish the Sunday matinee of Wicked so someone can move their car and I could slip in to jump it from mine…or buy a battery and get tools and replace it there in the parking lot.

If you had your new battery and your jumper cables, there would be no reason to buy the tools. You put your new battery on the ground and jump you car from it. Your car will run on the power from the alternator with a completely dead battery. Without turning off the now running car, disconnect the jumper cables and drive the car home where your tools are.

This article is building off of the readers assumed knowledge of quantum entanglement. If you don’t have that, they you’d absolutely be lost.

Here’s a simple explanation of quantum entanglement:

Imagine you have four balls of playdoh and a coin. You flip the coin and let in land on the floor. Without looking at which side is up, you smash one of the balls of playdoh over the coin. You gently peal up the playdoh off the coin but are careful to not look at the face of the coin or the impression it left in the playdoh. You take another ball of playdoh and flatten it between your hands. You very gently lay the flattened playdoh over top of the coin-impression playdoh. You pinch just all the edges together. So now you a single piece of playdoh with the coin impression sealed inside. You do the steps of created a second piece of playdoh from the same coin with the same side up (again without looking at it). Lastly, you close your eyes and pick up the coin and put it back in your pocket, again without looking at it. So now you have TWO of these pieces of playdoh with the coin impression sealed inside and you don’t know which coin impression (heads or tails) is in there, but you know its the same one in both. Instead of wrapping the playdoh in plastic so they don’t dry out, you leave them out for a week and they become hard and crusty as playdoh does.

These two pieces of playdoh are essentially what quantum entangled photons are. They contain information (a coin impression of either heads or tails, but not both), both have the SAME information (both will be heads or both will be tails), and there is no way to know if its heads or tails without tearing open the playdoh to look.

Here’s the expanded idea for using quantum entanglement for encryption:

Alice and Bob want to meet each other in secret a week from now. The problem is Bob’s ex girlfriend, Mallory. She’s has been stalking Bob to chase off any potential future girlfriends. To keep Mallory from finding out where they are meeting, you meet both Alice and Bob separately and give them one of the playdoh pieces you created in the first step. They agree that if its “heads” found inside they’ll meet at the restaurant. If its “tails” found inside they’ll meet at the park. If they learn Mallory knows where they’re meeting, they’ll not meet at all. One week later, Alice and Bob each open their playdoh and even though it crumbles, they can both see that the “tails” impression was inside the playdoh. They know each other is going to the park. They successfully meet at the park and Mallory learns nothing of the meeting or who Alice is.

A week later Alice and Bob want to meet again. They take a new pair of playdoh pieces with a new coin impression inside you made for them. This time however, Mallory overheard Bob talking to his friend about this system and what heads and tails mean. Mallory gets into Bobs apartment when he’s out and finds the playdoh. She breaks open the playdoh and sees the “heads” impression and knows it means that the meeting will be at the restaurant. Mallory tries to put the playdoh back together, but its dried and crumbly, so its clear its been opened when she leaves. Bob returns to this apartment and finds the playdoh broken open, also sees the “heads” impression, but knows that someone else knows it too. At the meeting time Alice shows up at the restaurant, as does Mallory looking for Bob and whoever he is trying to meet. Bob doesn’t show. Mallory never learns who Alice is because Bob wasn’t there to meet and identify her there. Alice knows that Mallory is there somewhere because Bob didn’t show and quietly leaves on her own.

So here’s where the article is coming in for using regular internet fiber optics:

Alice and Bob want to meet a third time, and come to you for more playdoh impressions. Instead of each of them coming to your home to pick them up at separate times. You take each piece of playdoh (with the coin impression inside), and put them in cardboard boxes, and drop them in the mail. Alice gets her box and opens it up and finds the playdoh intact. Bob does the same. All of you thought that the playdoh was too fragile to share the same mail system, but the playdoh survived intact with its secret still safe inside!

Yes. Keep in mind nothing in the article talks about the fiber repeater. That is my addition with some knowledge of telecommunications infrastructure. Because fiber optic cable isn’t perfect, there is light loss over distance. Different grades of fiber have different levels of loss across distance. An example of high end fiber would be ZBLAN. There is experimental level manufacturing (successful in small quantities already) of producing ZBLAN fiber in space to improve the fiber quality, but that makes it much more expensive. Once the limits of the fiber are reached a telecommunications provider can place a fiber repeater to double the length by intercepting the light (signal) and reproducing it (blinking new laser light) into the next segment of fiber.

However, these repeaters create NEW light, and that would mean the quantum information is not carried over in present day fiber repeaters. Even measuring the entangled photon to recreate it would break the quantum state of the entangled photon at the source, so current means can’t be used as a repeater for quantum data.

This is a cool progress forward.

TLDR; Researchers used a 30km optical fiber. They found a wavelength that was off-to-the-side that would mean the quantum entangled photons could ride in the same fiber without interfering (or being interfered with) the classical fiber optic communications. One current shortcoming for scaling this up is that the quantum photons would not survive optical repeaters commonly used for extremely long distant fiber runs. That doesn’t take away from the success of their research, just puts it in perspective for the next researchers to tackle at some point in the future.

Are you not sure because you don’t understand the subject matter or don’t care about it? The first is easy to fix it you’d like. The second would have me just as curious as you are.

“How about a nice game of chess?”

hard to replace.

I’m glad you phrased it as “hard to replace” because everyone is replaceable, and that’s something that some in IT don’t realize until its too late.

become extremely valuable

This is also good. Most in IT think this means “be the best at the technology” but really it means “be able to interface with non-IT about IT, up to and including leadership”. Soft skills are most IT folks’ Achilles Heel.

I feel like everywhere I work, we have this term, and it’s become increasingly more common over the past decade as the USA becomes more and more hateful and aggressive towards the working class people… The offshore team. I really, really hate hearing about the offshore team

…and…

then you see the USA and how We have millions of computer science grads who struggle to find work, can’t get a job

There’s a couple factors in play and depending on how old you are (or how long you’ve been in this industry) some things may not be apparent.

1. IT spending/staffing is cyclical. Boom and bust. This happens every 5-8 years. There is massive spending by organizations in IT for various reasons. This drives up the need for IT staff and as the talent pool is exhausted, salaries rise sharply as companies try to poach from one another. IT workers win in this case. However, when the pendulum swings expensive IT staff are on the chopping block. For the cycle we’re in right now, that started about a year ago and the cuts are still ongoing, but to me, it feels like it will start swinging back in the other direction in the next 8-12 months with hiring picking up again.

2. In-source vs Outsource/ onshoring vs offshoring cycle - Many businesses have short memories and “the grass is always greener” mentality. If they are heavily In-sourced and onshore they look at their budgets and see this MASSIVE number next to the “payroll” line item. They start asking how they can lower this number and save money. Consultants come in and convince them that the company can save money by cutting out a segment of the company’s operations and outsourcing that to another firm that quotes them an attractive rate. The company chooses this option, fires their own staff, contracts out the work. The bottom line is appropriately attractive, and executives get a bonus for making cost cuts. Inertia from the previous staff keeps the org going much as before for awhile. However, the service begins suffers because the contract company is attempting to provide the least amount of resources and money to fulfill the contract. Many times this means using offshore staffing themselves. After a few expensive outages for outright rebellions from the company business departments, the company fires the contracting company hires their own staff again and brings the service back in house. This pendulum swings again for another 8-10 years.

3. International pay disparity - IT workers in the USA are crazy expensive compared to nearly anywhere else in the work. I’m not just talking about a little more, but by a factor of 10 or 15 times more expensive than other nations that provide similar skilled staff. A $150k USD IT worker in the USA can be replaced (mostly) with a $15k USD worker in India with the same level of skill. That same IT worker skill level would earn $75k-$100k CAD in Canada. In Germany that same worker would earn €60-$90. During boom times that USA worker might be able to earn $175k-$300k USD.

As a worker, you can see that working in the USA will earn you the most money when you can get a job. So the trick is to save during the boom times knowing the bust is coming. If you earn $300k for one year, and are unemployed for two years afterward you’ve effectively earned $100k per year for 3 years straight. Being unemployed in IT for over a year is unusual. You can usually find a lower paying job in IT to cover your living expenses and then some until the boom occurs again.

Except companies are already jumping ship to other solutions. One very large company is moving thousands of VMs to an implementation of KVM, virtually eliminating the insane VM licensing.

Sure there are a few, but its unlikely that many large enterprises will be able to completely migrate away from VMware, evaluate and deploy ancillary support products for the alternate hypervisor, as well as retrain all their support staff inside of the time that their existing support contract expires. All but a lucky few that happened to negotiate a long multiyear support deal under the old licensing terms (and pricing) will be paying at least 1 year of expensive support renewals and more than likely more than one year.

Broadcom knows this and will make these companies bleed until they can migrate away.

Broadcom has all but admitted their own solution is inferior, by converting their workstation virtualization to KVM!

This is what sucks about Broadcom. Vmware vSphere is still a good product with thousands of trained professionals available for hire to support it, and great third party support for things like backup and enterprise support services.

To Broadcom’s credit, the writing was on the wall that versions of KVM would be eating their market over the next 10 years (for example, Proxmox), so they’re getting all they can now before their corner on the market weakens.

There was no such writing. Most large enterprises were just fine paying for VMware licensing under the old terms.

I like Proxmox, but it doesn’t even provide half of all the features that vSphere does that are needed for large enterprises. Small shops with a few nodes and no HA requirement? Sure. Hundreds of ESX nodes and tens of thousands of VMs? That is just beyond Proxmox as it is today. Also, good luck hiring Proxmox trained staff. Large companies want ready pools of labor, and Proxmox doesn’t have that market penetration today.

Sure!

Here’s more relatable analogy. Microsoft Office costs about $30/month per user for companies. For our example imagine Google Workspace doesn’t exist. So the “default” office software of MS Office that nearly everyone uses is not cheap, but not expensive. Further, you don’t buy MS Office from Microsoft directly, but through a partner that gives you other discounts and support. Now imagine that overnight Microsoft decides they’re desolving their partner network and you have to buy MS Office directly from Microsoft and also starting tomorrow that MS Office now costs ten times as much at $300/month per user. Would everyone stop using MS Office? Eventually, but you’ve got business you need to do today. Your company can’t even send email without Outlook, which is part of MS Office. So your company is BLEEDING money just paying for MS Office, and there’s no good alternative. So you pay it for now. You try desperately to come up with a plan to use something else, but for now you’re paying through the nose. Companies will take years to identify another product that replaces everything in the company that MS Office is used for and training the entire company to use and support this new product.

Replace the name Microsoft with Broadcom. Replace the name MS Office with VMware. This is what is happening and Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank.

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One of the biggest transfers of wealth of our time is the export of technology overseas to places that don’t care about IP.

This has happened before in history, except “overseas” was the Atlantic (instead of the Pacific) and the IP thief was the early American colonies (later named the USA) the the victims were the nations of Europe. This was before the Berne Convention was established in 1886 which was the first modern legal establishment of copyright.

Where is the sources for the material coming from? I don’t think most people realize that “domestic manufacturing” includes imported materials majority of the time which is getting tariffed.

The USA does produce polysilicon domestically, which is the main raw material in wafers and ignots. Since the plant isn’t operational yet there is no report of where they are getting their polysilicon.

How is domestic silicon manufacturing in any way a “step back”?