Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The Fab of Fabs ...



The most important tech in the world resides in Taiwan under the auspices of TSMC, the fab of fabs building the most sophisticated chips in the world for virtually all of the heavy-duty players in the digital universe including Apple, Nvidia and the US military, among significant others. The success of the company lies in the fact it tailors chips keyed to the specific needs of companies like Apple while keeping their design specifications sacrosanct to the company in question as building trust, along with supreme competency in doing business are the primary reasons why TSMC rules in building the most valuable technology on earth.



A true contrarian in a good way. 


A Pyrrhic victory at best.

"They call Taiwan the porcupine, right? It’s like, just try to attack. You may just blow the whole island up, but it will be useless to you,” Keith Krach, a former US State Department undersecretary, told me a few weeks before I left for Taiwan. TSMC’s chairman and former CEO, Mark Liu, has put it more concretely: “Nobody can control TSMC by force. If you take by military force, or invasion, you will render TSMC inoperative.” If a totalitarian regime forcibly occupied TSMC, in other words, its kaiser would never get its partner democracies on the phone. The relevant material suppliers, chip designers, software engineers, 5G networks, augmented-reality services, artificial-intelligence operators, and product manufacturers would block their calls. The fabs themselves would be bricked.



The fab of fabs indeed.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Fleeting Winter

 
Winter's becoming but just a memory in CT thanks to global warming so, in order to commemorate the passing of a season yours truly loves is this short clip showing it actually snowed, something one can see along with a bit of ice if one takes the time to look for it. Enjoy.

No national divorce ...

Agreed.

Sunday, March 19, 2023

The decline of the trades ...



The shortage of tradespeople, you know, plumbers, mechanics, electricians, etc, etc., aka the folks that keep America running while the meritocracy, the rich and the entitled pontificate and make love to their cell phones in the act of doing mostly nothing for the large part of the day, has become a crisis because we don't make anything anymore, thanks to Ronnie offshoring the manufacturing prowess of the nation to China in order to gin profits for stockholders.

To whit.







Given where the economy is going, the notion of college grads making more money than tradespeople is becoming rather dubious, right?

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Fleeting Winter/rev XX


The Meander


Edge Line


One of a kind


Field of dreams


Grayscale ...


Shadow Moon

A Random Walk in New Canaan


A day and night tour of New Canaan including a stop at the updated library and a
stroll through the town at nite to check out the sights on a warm winter day. Enjoy.

Thursday, March 16, 2023

The wiring's different ...


Being an Aspie, I know one when I see one and Ron is one, further along the spectrum than yours truly, I suspect, after reading about how inept this very smart guy is in dealing with reality.

The repugs have a problem as the wiring's different in us. Not better or worse but different and this guy, IMHO, cannot change his behavior in public at this point in time while running for POTUS as it took me years to learn how to deal with people and reality in proper fashion.

To whit ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn't officially entered the Republican presidential primary yet, but some of his supporters are taking steps to work around his lacking social skills.

Multiple sources told The Daily Beast the Florida governor struggles with basic social skills, and his allies are working in early primary states to structure events to prevent unexpected interactions between the public and a candidate who is off-putting at best and rude at worst.

“He would sit in meetings and eat in front of people, always like a starving animal who has never eaten before,” a former DeSantis staffer told The Daily Beast, “getting sh*t everywhere.”

Kinda explains his politics doesn't it?



The coolest guy in the world, right?

It's a facade :)


All films are fake, which is not a bad thing as virtually all art, like film, is fake, in one way or another as art is but a fabrication created by us rubes in an existence we will never fully understand. :)


Why western sets? Well, they're the archetypical example of the fake as facades, as seen in the pix above, are needed to build out the "reality" of a western town in the most efficient way possible.


In writing this blurb, the notion of AI comes to mind as its take is like the western set, all facade and no depth in its attempt to describe the vagaries of existence to us without the depth of experience we all share as humans residing on a planet called Earth.


11 degrees, yet another fake by yours truly. :)

Betrayed yet again ...


A must-see film to show how W lied to us just as Johnson lied to us regarding Nam.


Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Job loss & the moral hazard ...



Moving along, it seems AI's going to do a number on jobs as
it's cheaper to have a bot do the deed than us rubes.




The moral hazard ... 







Dividing Line/rev II






1 point perspective/rev II

The Moral Hazard/rev II