quicksand

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[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The thing is china is great at reverse engineering things, but not great at manufacturing things to the spec needed at this precision. There's literally one company on earth that supplies optics manufactured at this level of precision (Zeiss), who have spent decades to get where they are. Even if China has the design technology, they would still be far behind in the manufacturing if they're trying to make their own optics.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I agree. The Usual Suspects and Sixth Sense also fit in here

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Much preferred to a practicing non-intellectual. Also cute trash panda.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I think they meant detergent specifically for colored clothes. I'm sure they used some kind of detergent.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

If only they had reliable utilities. Samsung's fab in Austin got shut down for a few weeks from ice-mageddon. Messed them up enough that they threatened to leave if Texas didn't give them something to make up for it.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohh I misunderstood your other post.

I agree with your main point. I don't think international manufacturers would find value in spinning up new fabs here just to make chips for the DoD. But it does make me curious how big of a chunk defense is vs total. I would guess it's pretty small. Chips are in everything, it's not like these aerospace guys where DoD is their cash cow.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Neither TSMC nor Samsung ever produced chips in North America in the first place

I'm not sure what you mean by ever? Samsung's been making chips in Austin for almost 30 years.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm curious why they appear. The filter or camera optics maybe?

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

He was just cultivating mass

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

More than acceptable

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I think he may have just woken up in a good mood today. Took a peek at his profile and it looks like a person

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there still water nearby? I've always thought they were surrounded by desert

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