Chips are different because it costs more to reverse/reengineer them, but once engineered (or copied) for manufacturing, it's trivial to make more. Software and physical design is more difficult to control.
Apple and Samsung already exploit slave labor indirectly throughout the entire supply chain from sulphur mining, rare earth elements mining in the ocean and final assembly. Depending on China might be a stupid move if it suddenly decides to enact sanctions to harm the US economically... it would be a huge hit domestically but it might be necessary for a pretext to war (if foreign relations policies change).
Resources aren't infinite. It's arrogant and wasteful to be lazy and resource greedy.
Electron is an embedded web-browser meets cross-platform application platform.. it's bloated, slow and awful... it makes Java look snappy, lightweight and brilliant.
Nope. A strawman wrong doesn't justify anything related to the topic. fork() duplicates everything, which maybe overkill, which is why pthreads and vfork+exec also exist.
An Australian autistic developer found a top university's custom authentication database exposed to the internet in less than 10 minutes. Please, no more DIY crypto or running unaudited services willy-nilly. :prayer-emoji-here: