Both raytracing and NPUs use a lot of bandwidth and that is scaling the least with time. Time will tell if just going for more programmable compute would be better

I like freshrss mobile site. Works well with those navigation buttons at the bottom

Why doesnt apple just ban apps that do this. Or start charging for bandwidth

Banning apps that linked sales out of app is what they already did, but that was ruled to be anti-competitive. Then they allowed it, but with an added 27% fee for whatever was purchased through the link (banning if you didn't pay the fee), which was also found to be anti-competitive and a attempt to avoid having to comply with the first ruling.

Charging for bandwidth of app downloads and updates would equate to pennies (relatively). It's not worth it. And would probably be deemed anti-competitive in the future anyway if they didn't also allow 3rd party app stores / installs (like in the EU).

> 27% fee for whatever was purchased through the link

No, no, no, no. They added 27% fee for _all_ purchases made, enforced via the audit of the company's books.

It literally was a new tax.

I don't really feel the "power" of google in any way. Search is so crappy i rarely even use it.

This is focused on the customer: advertisers, not the end users like you.

Got to centralize spying on American citizens.

Same but i use self hosted umami

They're not designated as "immortal" gatekeepers. The commission can revise the list at any time, as market conditions change.

Every monopolist was once not a monopolist. Every monopolist came into existence at some point in the past and did not exist before then. So what? Should we abolish all antitrust law for this reason? It's a very strange criticism.

So? They're gatekeepers today.

> Under the DMA, the European Commission can designate digital platforms as ‘gatekeepers' if they provide an important gateway between businesses and consumers in relation to core platform services.

Do you contest this designation?

You make it sound like being a gatekeeper is a thing of honor, but in this context being a gatekeeper means regulation, but not protection.

Yet, birth rate in USA is significantly higher than in Finland for example

Quite high in Somalia too. I'd suggest there are more factors than paid maternity leave.

Why would you pay for stuff that doesnt work? Sounds harsh for some maybe, but its only sensible way to conduct business.

E2E is weird as it is half risk transference.

Sometimes it makes sense to pay even failed things because your overall cost is lower.

Say hypothetically that TSMC said $30 per working chip or $8 per chip and $2 to test. Taking the later choice would result in lower overall costs at current yields.

Typically for this kind of work the manufacturer wants their yield improvements to lead to reduced cost to them so only paying for what works is standard to my knowledge.

In contrast it is bespoke work that sometimes shifts, where there is no possibility for things like down binning to recover failures (disabling parts of a chip and selling for less)