It’s unlikely. It’s not just the machine but decades of proprietary knowledge that is not easily exfiltrated out of ASML. The machines they are trying to rebuild from spare parts from the grey market are not even the latest gen. There’s so few of them and they’re only held by companies that can afford to pay the $400 million for a single machine, so it’s not like they’re just falling onto the market without a clear chain of ownership and responsibility.
Unless you are a type of creature that just likes the taste of hooks.
Carmack very visibly just enjoys mental exercise. Watch any of his Quakecon keynotes if anyone needs to see it for themselves. The fact that it results in groundbreaking code for game engines, VR hyper-low latency algorithms, and rocketships is just a byproduct.
And that’s probably the best way to not be turned into an alien by money: never be in it for the result, always find happiness in the process.
I agree Tom’s Hardware is unnecessarily derisive but I also think the performance curve bending to the current date is an exponential difficulty curve. China still has no replacement and no plausible path to a replacement for the most modern EUV nodes that require ASML lithography machines.
They can very very quickly leapfrog older generations of GPU hardware by going straight to the peak of their home-grown lithography processes, that’s not surprising. But getting performance to keep following the curve to the last 2-3 years is a sheer cliff, not a ramp. It took ASML decades to do it and nobody worldwide has replicated it, because it’s just that hard, even as China tries to acquire export-controlled prior-gen machines on the gray market.
Maybe I’ll be wrong, but don’t be surprised if we see no improvement or minor optimizations for years.
The case outlasted the AG and DHS heads who fabricated it, so yes, time to dismiss it.
MBAs I assume have a required course, Psychopathy 101.
Well, I can’t hate on the staffers.
If we’re driving along a cliff with a ravine to our right, and the brain-damaged driver just keeps pulling the wheel right because their brain is broken, if you stay with them just to keep pulling the wheel back to the left, it sounds more like a service to everyone in the car than a moral failing. Yes, we can switch drivers as soon as possible but the next rest stop is a few years away.
Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say. Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say.
You can say that again!
Yes, ok, that makes sense. AI, famously able to do the simplest math at accuracy rates approaching 50%, and financial and tax software. Just try and name a better match?
All products and services in 2026 are legally obligated to follow the subscription-based “leech extracting blood from a customer for life” model, or on the way to it.
The kids are alright.
I didn’t mention it initially but I also heard was that by doing it on Wednesday, they may be avoiding letting a significant proportion of the employees get their stock vests.
But yeah, it’s not smart, and I assume they just don’t care about productivity hits and hidden costs, if the superficial cost metrics are better.
This article is a great example of why downvoting doesn’t work as intended and might as well be disabled.
I’m glad this was shared, now I am better informed. But the score currently sits at -14 for me, because people are downvoting based on their opinions of what’s in the article. That discourages posters from posting articles like this in the future. Which may mean we see less information.
Please, don’t downvote like this.
Bain or whoever greased the layoff meat grinder for Meta probably recommended it, mainly to avoid anyone coming into work that was laid off and causing a scene.
The industry servicing huge companies basically have one job: help the billionaire owners avoid having to confront any human-to-human responsibility for the damage they do.
That’s great, I didn’t know it was per service. Definitely going to set up Jellyfin now. Thank you!
Oh, that’s great. But just to be clear, when it’s toggled on, that means all traffic on that device is getting routed back through the host Tailscale client (not just Plex), right?
It would be fine if Plex wasn’t hooked on VC capital and needed to make the line go up constantly. Most self-hosters like me have zero interest in what they are funding with subscriptions.
How does it work on TVs? You start Tailscale on the TV, and have to toggle it every time you use Jellyfin?
Hey, if you know another way for a rocket’s thermal shield to not only cost nothing but to pay you, I’d like to hear it!
I mean, you’re not wrong that this moment is probably China’s best opportunity, since the US administration is corrupt and incompetent. Normally the threat of US and allies’ punishment for violating export controls counts for something. But we’re historically distracted right now and I’m sure China is trying to take advantage.