Generating vector graphics seems straight up more practical, cause you can use them for icons and all kinds of stuff. Generated images have very little application aside from making stuff like memes I find.

yeah that’s pretty sketchy

Here’s the thing, supply chains have intermediate components and it’s almost certain that liberty phone will have these components in its supply chain as well.

The chart above is the key one. First look at the two bars on the left hand side. This is what conventional trade statistics tell you about the dominance of China as a supplier to American manufacturers: up from being the main provider of inputs to about 5% of sectors in 1995 to just over 60% in 2018. That’s pretty striking. But now look at the two bars on the right. These are the authors’ measure which includes all those intermediate inputs (a far more complex picture) and it turns out China is the main source of these goods for about 95% of all American industrial sectors.

One obvious takeaway from the paper: whoa, America is far more reliant on China than it thought. But actually this underplays the complexity. Think back to our Brandauer electrode. The chances are that it was made of metals which were originally refined in China (I’m guessing here, but given China is the world’s biggest metal refiner this is not implausible). Those metals were then shipped to the UK where they were turned into the micron-accurate electrodes I saw being turned out of the machines in Birmingham. Then they were shipped back to another factory, probably in China, where they were put inside a rear view mirror.

https://edconway.substack.com/p/globalisation-is-a-far-far-bigger

Exactly, I think the whole idea of using a new substrate is very interesting. It’s also going to be interesting to see if power requirements might end up being lower which could be a huge advantage as well.

an article from ars says it is the full instruction set

The resulting processor involves 5,900 individual transistors and is capable of implementing the full 32-bit version of the RISC-V instruction set, which necessarily means it includes sophisticated circuitry like the RISC-V instruction decoder.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/researchers-build-a-risc-v-processor-using-a-2d-semiconductor/

key part:

According to China Science Daily, Wuji is now preparing to enter pilot-scale production. Around 70 per cent of its fabrication steps can be integrated into existing silicon-based production lines. The remaining specialised processes for 2D materials were developed in-house, supported by over 20 invention patents.

I imagine large part of it is that it’s at odds with capitalist drive to increase consumption.

thanks, I spit my coffee 🤣

@davel@lemmy.ml just ran across this model, and it seems to work a lot better than the other ones I’ve tried locally. Seems to be faster as well. One thing I noticed is that it helps to set temperature (which controls randomness) and Top P (which affects variety of output) values to 0 to keep it more focused.

O7

about as much of a death ray as the sun on a mild afternoon https://restservice.epri.com/publicdownload/000000003002029069/0/Product

The intensity of the waves is very low in absolute terms, so they’re not harmful.

Microwave beaming—using radio-frequency phased array antennas with intensity levels below mid-day sun-light—is deemed less harmful, with potential physiological effects manageable through thermoregulation.

https://restservice.epri.com/publicdownload/000000003002029069/0/Product

presumably in a similar way to this https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760009531

I’ve been slowly learning Putonghua for the past two years here. At this point, I just can’t see how anything gets better in the west in the near term, meanwhile life in China is improving by leaps and bounds each and every year.

for sure, this is a very resilient approach that makes it incredibly difficult to take code down

looks that way

I wasn’t curious enough to look deeper.

the world adapts :)

US likes to impose arbitrary sanctions on its adversaries. Basically the US government decided that people from a particular country aren’t allowed to collaborate with people using US based platforms like GitHub.

OrganicMaps GitHub repo was blocked due to contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370