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I don’t know, but if it were me being subjected to that, all customers would likely start looking the same and I’d probably not be sympathetic to giving them the benefit of the doubt. I definitely could be wrong but I suspect there are a lot of tired retail workers out there.

Comment · 4 years ago

> The bullshit thing in my mind is that Apple took away the ability for store staff to make discretionary calls to bypass stuff like this and do what’s right for the customer.

It could be that, or retail workers are sick of us and aren't making calls in our direction anymore.

https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-workers-leaving-quit-...

Comment · 4 years ago

There are trade-off there to consider.

One get's ruggedness but carbon fiber is generally not a good thermal conductor which could be a problem for a laptop with no fans. And titanium is very expensive compared to aluminum.

Like all engineering. It's about priorities.

Comment · 4 years ago

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/16/class-action-lawsuit-screen-c...

Filed in Sept 2021.

"A class-action lawsuit is being planned on behalf of M1 MacBook owners who say that screen cracks were occurring during normal use, with both the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pro affected.

Apple has mostly claimed that the cracks are the result of accidental damage, including in the case of the 9to5Mac reader who first contacted us"

Comment · 4 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

“It will be the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment and the largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.”

Does the $3.9B spent on ITER not count?

https://www.science.org/content/article/cost-skyrockets-unit...

Comment · 4 years ago

Maybe, but it worked out really well last time we did this. I say the government ended up with a tremendous ROI.

https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/history-lesson-the-198...

What about the safeguards, which are in place, makes you uneasy?

Comment · 4 years ago

I’m super happy to see these things, and some money is better than no money, but judging by how much my lab spends per year, $50M/yr isn’t going to get them very far. And we do consumer electronics.

Comment · 4 years ago

> How should they know where they want to go if they're entry-level?

I think it’s totally reasonable to expect people to have a plan. It’s also totally reasonable, and expected really, for that plan to change over time. But working without a plan, which implies working without goals, is rarely a recipe for success.

Comment · 4 years ago

There are variants of STM32 that are 90nm. A 90nm foundry was just announced. Not sure if they’re planning on making STM32s, probably not, but there are non-leading edge foundries being run and more are being made.

Here is an announcement from this month

https://www.eetimes.com/skywater-to-build-1-8-billion-fab-in...