Not really. TSMC has a near monopoly on the advanced fabrication, and ASML has a near monopoly on the lithographic machines TSMC uses. Nvidia is a fab-less designer. Google has its TPUs, and Amazon has some kind of custom chip too.

There’s the famous Pirates porn movie; I think still the highest budget porn ever made. I remember a porn movie about a fire department that also seemed pretty high budget (Flashpoint, I think). Seems like most porn is clips now rather than full-features. I think porn with stories used to be a lot more common when you had to buy tapes or DVDs. There’s a really old one I saw called The Devil in Miss Jones, which I guess could be considered horror. And another one from I think the 2000s called New Neighbors where some demons move in next door or something.

I liked a lot of Michael Ninn’s work back in the day, like Catherine and Neo Pornographia. He definitely was trying to go for a more artistic thing. Looks like it’s extremely hard to find now, and Ninn is now on an AI slop kick.

On the other side of things, Nyphomaniac was an artsy film bordering on pornography, IIRC.

I think the laws are just meant as a soft-ban. There may be legal complications with outright banning strip clubs. The no physical contact takes away what I think make up stripper’s largest income source, and no nipples and alcohol makes it a less attractive place to go. I had a few hours to waste in a city once, waiting on a flight, and walked into one of these strip clubs. There was only one stripper there, one bartender, and I was the only customer; so I’m guessing it really did hurt the market.

I think that’s changed a bit. Hooters went bankrupt, and many local governments have heavy restrictions on strip clubs, such as no nipples can be shown, no physical contact, no license to serve liquor, etc.

You can boot Pis off an USB HDD or SSD. I think there are specific hats for that as well. But yeah, backups, at least of configs, are nice.

It is much easier to maintain software with static type checking.

Debatable

I always just considered AI as a CS field that included things like planning, pathfinding, logic and symbolic reasoning, and ML, of course. Most of it is built on optimization and constraint satisfaction algorithms.

I was thinking about this earlier. The password manager browser plugin I use (Proton Pass) defaults to staying unlocked for the entire browser session. If someone physically gained access to my PC while my password manager was unlocked, they’d be able to access absolutely every password I have. I changed the behavior to auto-lock and ask for a 6-digit PIN, but I’m guessing it wouldn’t take an impractical amount of time to brute-force a 6-digit PIN.

Before I started use a password manager, I’d use maybe 3-4 passwords for different “risks,” (bank, email, shopping, stupid shit that made me sign up, etc). Not really sure if a password manager is better (guess it depends on the “threat” you’re worried about).

Edit: Also on my phone, it just unlocks with a fingerprint, and I think law enforcement are allowed to force you to biometrically unlock stuff (or can unlock with fingerprints they have on file).

IDK. Tech companies are bringing in more revenue than ever. The trend seems to be companies reporting great revenue growth, then laying off shortly after, to which the investors seem to reward. In the past, layoffs would usually bring stock prices down, since they have less human capital to generate profit from.

Is it just the HTML that should be under 14kb? I think script, CSS, and image (except embedded SVGs) are separate requests? So these should individually be under 14kb to get the benefit?