ECC are traditionally slower, quite more complex, and they dont completely eliminate the problem (most memories correct 1 bit per word and detect 2 bits per word). They make sense when environmental factors such as flaky power, temperature or RF interference can be easily discarded - such as a server room. But yeah, I agree with you, as ECC solves like 99% of the cases.

They're not creating something new. They're taking their existing tool (which - for all its flaws - is still far ahead of Heroic in many ways), improving it further, and changing it to also work on Linux.

If they then go add additional features like wine integration to that tool to make it overlap more with Heroic is something we're all assuming, but not actually a given.

> The real Tesla engineers must be in all kinds of frustrations

That's a very Hacker News point of view, that *of course* engineers have the correct opinion and attitude and are merely suffering under the boots of the real incompetent and nefarious.

Engineers at Tesla are wholly complicit.

  Rather, the only thing that will truly motivate TSMC to take on more risk is competition. 

I see it another way for more chip manufacturing capacity.

If big tech wants TSMC to increase capacity drastically without TSMC having to take all the risk of CapEx, then they can pre-pay for wafers from TSMC.

They can each give TSMC $10b now in cash and guarantee themselves wafers in 2-3 years that it takes to bring a new fab online.

TSMC is rightfully conservative. If they commit to spending an extra $30b on a fab now that won't make a single wafer until 2029, without any guarantees from big tech, they're stupid. Who knows if the demand will still be there (my guess is yes, but who knows?).

In my opinion, I think it's getting close to this. Nvidia will surpass Apple as TSMC's biggest customer this year. This will start a war for TSMC wafers in 2026 in my opinion. When you have that much demand, customers will be forced to pay well in advance.

There is already a war for memory, silver, copper, energy. No reason why chip production won't be next.

> The direct line across would get run over by cars. Indirect routes would still have to cross pavement and look ugly.

Search for "cable protector ramps"

> And then there are still those six feet of stone that needs drilling through to get the cable outside and back in.

Thin cables designed to run under doors or windowsills are an option. Search for "flat ethernet cable"

It seems like you prefer your setup for good reasons, and these solutions above are both ugly, but I still wanted to note to others reading this that workarounds exist.

One thing that I wondered after reading this, it mentions SARS but then it mentions killing bacteria, but SARS is a virus. Does this have any affects on viruses?

And for metal surfaces which are not self-sanitizing by nature, like steel, there are coatings which can be applied to achieve the same effect. This is often used in public transport.