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Unfortunately, most wearables fail at giving you a break, even when it’s justified. It’s simply not built into their programming.
All I Want From My Smartwatch Is to Give Me a Break
theverge.com
Caught between the easy profitability of network effects and growing anger over toxicity, the big social media platforms turned to centralized moderation. Unsurprisingly, this didn’t work. Not only was it an impossible task for the moderators themselves, but it meant that the management of the company was basically required to take an editorial slant. That effectively wrecked the image of the social media companies. And because Twitter’s editorial slant leaned slightly left-of-center, this made conservatives especially mad. Facebook, realizing the impossibility of the task, finally just decided to move its feed away from news entirely; Twitter, of course, couldn’t do this.
The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented
noahpinion.substack.com
Large dies are also much more prone to defects, which in turn reduces the number of good chips that can be cut from each wafer and makes each working chip cost more. At the same time, there are concerns that transistors are getting more expensive as they shrink — coupled with that fact that certain key features on modern chips don’t shrink well — which means it doesn’t make sense to use the most advanced process nodes for wireless communications chips, for example.
Chiplets Helped Save AMD. They Might Also Help Save Moore’s Law.
protocol.com
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