I love the folding ones, but if only I had a folding eink screen, that would be glorious !

Or at least, something close.

Books like Problems In physics by I E Irodov were my favourites

Even with embedded programming, regular C debugger has always been enough.

Signals and signal stores make it very easy.

Did the whole coding by hand, no ai coding tools too.

I get the history with Ferrari cars and their aesthetic and all.

But it looks like what one would expect from the man who designed iPhone.

I remember a time when Apple was chided for integrating functionalities of popular apps into its OS.

Apple created an incredibly awesome device, and its up to the market to make full use of its potential. Why would it be a failure for Apple to not make such an app?

I tried to use it to generate automated reports, and was frustrated at every turn. My usage scenario was a completely offline system to generate reports of a few dozen pages, which included graphics, tables and other visualizations.

1. The whole system download is about 1 or more Gigs. 2. Each report is accompanied by half a dozen files. 3. The choice of packages to use, and the versons to use, is all confusing, with various books and site using various packages, often further customized. 4. The syntax is confusing and jarring, at least to me.

Finally, I ended up using simple template tools to generate HTML with proper semantic structing and CSS print media queries to generate my reports.

I do appreciate the fact that my requirement does not involve laying out content over multiple pages, something which LaTeX is good at. That is very difficult to achieve with HTML and CSS.

But, for use cases where each document page is independent, HTML, CSS and print media queries are great.

You can also use all the exciting javascript visualization libraries to generate awesome graphics.

I am an experienced developer, and, if I know what I am doing, then AI tools are an average junior programmer that I can beckon.

I have also dabbled in music creation with AI, first generating the lyrics, and then the music with vocals. Is it good. Nope. Is it average, some might say so. Is it a great use of my time, sure. Like a paid video game.

I guess the stack should be completed with this. AWS servers, satellite communications, boxes to view content on TVs, apps on mobiles, content creation studios, advertising, product placement, product sales. Whew!

I guess they also want expertise to launch stuff into space, in case it becomes feasible to run space data centers.

They are a civilization going back centuries. No matter their internal fights, they will come together against a common enemy, an enemy for 45 years that is.

I am guessing the IRGC will also be careful enough to not rile up the populace until this war is over.

Iran is collecting about 2 million USD from each vessel through the strait. And they are about 50 passing through them each day. That's 100 million USD per day. Or about 30 odd Bullion USD per year.

Plenty of money to spend on war and some more. Not to mention the money it earns from selling it's oil and blocking GCC oil.

It was Iran's demand that they will not speak to Witkoff or Kushner, who were the original morons in this fiasco. They wanted only Vance on the table, most likely because he was against this war and has kept himself away from the whole thing.

> They can use drones to clear the straight of Hormuz of mines, but that won't address all the other methods Iran has to threaten shipping

Iran does not have to even mine or bomb the strait. Them just declaring that they will hit is enough to stop traffic.

> Any military measure short of the full occupation of Iran will likely fail to reopen the straight

I highly doubt even this. Iranian drones have a range of about 1000 km. They can continue to block the strait, even with a ground force. Not to mention that ground forces blitzing through the whole territory will take at-least a year, if not more. That is enough time to plunge the whole world into a recession.

> At what point do these nations lose patience with the constant economic disruption and look for coercive measures to force the U.S. back to the table?

Most nations cannot coerce the US, at least not Trump. What they will most likely do is have secret or open deals with Iran to let their oil through, with a toll tax of course.

The only options left for US are large scale bombing, like in Vietnam or Cambodia OR putting soldiers on the ground. Going on for years. Or drop a nuke.

Bombing will be of limited use and extremely costly, because is Iran is too large. Its a geographical fortress, mostly large mountain ranges, or deserts.

Soldiers on the ground means a large scale logistics setup, bases, buildup, etc. Its costly and deadly. US soldiers will start dying from day 1.

And then, Iran has total control over the strait. It can decimate the livable conditions in the GCC countries. Mind you, Iran gets about 5% of its water from desalination plants. Almost all GCC countries get more than 50%, sometimes upto 85% of their water from desalination plants. Couple that with hits on their power infra, and the population will be left thirsty in the middle of the desert. None of them can survive without their Air conditioners and water supply. With those countries dying out, Iran emerges as the super power in the region.