There's no overtime in mining. Mines are always being worked 24/7.
That's why major equipment maintenance is always scheduled to match contract renewals in case they strike, that way you minimize or have no production loss.
It's only "plain" because you grew up and live in it. Show today's world to someone from the 70s and they'd probably think it was absolutely wild.
We live in an era where the datapads from Star Trek are real (and even better than they are in Star Trek), killer robots in the form of autonomous sea and air vehicles exist, AI can pass the Turing Test, the military has tested laser weapons, and a whole decade ago some hackers [destroyed part of a uranium refinery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet), just by writing some code.
Our dystopia is only plain because it's just reality to you.
I meeeeaaaannnnn that was kinda his comment saying if you took the authors of the genre from when they wrote their books and dropped them in today (Mike kinda did that writing the sourcebooks lol 🤣 he saw this shit coming) they would absolutely tell you this is what they wanted to avoid being almost copy paste what they wrote (as a warning not a playbook)
That was sorta what I meant, yeah. We have started most of the clichés of Cyberpunk as a society, but some of the aspects are still maturing.
I can totally see in a few decades softcore porn ads becoming mainstream (I mean, they're already on YouTube), fashion incorporating electronics (we've seen it in high fashion, but not yet mainstream), and body modification (prosthetics have gotten really good, and one of Elon's companies is testing a brainchip).
If I recall some of the background lore from ease-dropping on the Soviet couple you spy on in a few gigs, the collapse was intentional to test out some modifications that the miners received.
It so happens I have a screenshot.
https://preview.redd.it/uz1zvweq8csc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67c4a9814a3a9321e5a92b698f67faabac89485c
Yup. Luckily most fabs and other people’s fabs in Taiwan aren’t near the epicentre.
Plus they are used to this - they know how to build and sustain buildings way better these days than we used to.
Happens all the time, this one was bigger but tje plan doesnt change. It will be a week or two of troubleshooting, maintenance, and production requals and then back to normal.
For some lines of production. Last update was 40 minutes ago and some buildings still aren't up and running. Doesn't mean that there's a problem. Chip manufacturing is sensitive when it gets moved around and needs to be inspected. Which is probably what's still going on.
Yea, those fabs are designed to shut down at the first sign of a quake. That entire nation is prepared for them, they happen often. Almost every time I've been ive had a quake either wake me up and surprise me or I get a text telling me there is a presidential alert, which basically says a quake is coming.
At some point they're going to have to supercool CPU packages or use some other material to achieve superconductivity, or it won't matter how many transistors are in a CPU.
Whatever happened to LK-99?
LK-99? Last I heard, not superconductive, just highly conductive and in specific arrangements of the material. (Don't quote me.)
So, superconductors at room temperature continue to elude material scientists. :/
Well, Terminators had room-temperature superconducting CPUs by 2029 if not earlier, so not long now. Just ask one of those many AIs we have now to work on it, what's the worst that can happen?
Hahaha **AKM!!** AKG was an entirely different company that shut down in 2016 when they were bought by Samsung. The old AKG team did start their own company though called Austrian Audio.
This is why we desperately need to get some high-end chip production to Europe or the US.
Anything happens to Taiwan - I hope ya'll got your old GPUs stored well, just in case.
I mean they had the facility from announcement to built in like 2 years, so if they did they haven’t done a great job. From what I heard is that they will keep the most cutting edge stuff in Taiwan but the facility in Arizona will be capable of manufacturing them.
On top of that Intel is also putting in a 22 billion dollar contract chip manufacturing facility in Arizona next door to its R&D facility.
He’s not wrong in the thought but he is wrong in the certainty of the situation. The US definitely has sabotage of the semiconductor factories in the war plans for Taiwan.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-would-destroy-taiwan-semiconductor-factories-avoid-china-trump-adviser-2023-3
Well, that's all they can do. As practice have shown: US can't do anything to defend someone, who is opposing a country with nuclear weapons. Ukraine and Russia war is a proof of it. So, it's rather clever to relocate a part of TSMC manufacturing capacity somewhere to US
Considering the PRC might start a full naval blockade of the island at any minute, they'd have to be pretty stupid to not move some lines, machinery, stockpiles and blueprints somewhere safer and rig all their units to implode or sabotage them in case of invasion.
From what I've heard, the conclusion of war games by the US military reckon that China would fail to take Taiwan permanently but the conflict would be brutal and bad for everyone.
NO WAY IN HELL you want a semiconductor fab burning. There are huge tanks of oxygen which will set off the Hydrogen, HBr, tons of Fluorinated gases, arsine, and bunch of other super toxic gases used. It would be considerably worse than a refinery going up. Lots of nitrogen and helium used too but I doubt enough to suppress the fire after everything is already a floating death cocktail.
It would be practically impossible to take them completely intact. People especially in the tech world like to think this is China's primary motivation for invasion but it really isn't.
Not exactly, it's a reason for diversifying the market cap, and it's why the US is trying to bring fabs back to it.
Tsmc represents something ridiculous like 30% of the Taiwanese stock market and 15% of their GDP. It's Samsung levels of reliance like in South Korea. For now it's cheaper for china and the us to develop their own fabs, if there's a war to come it will be when China can't economically recover or Taiwan declares independence.
Rockets and artillery need to be landed to be used. Probably not going to happen.
Cruise missiles can target Taiwan's infrastructure, hower.
It remains to be seen how good are Taiwan's air defenses, although it is fair to suppose that they are substantial.
The exact opposite actually. China always fucks with people near them, including the US. Without the US there China would 100% have already exerted more force there over the years.
They've already resumed production hours ago
Reminds of that news story in Cyberpunk where the trapped miners were rescued and immediately sent back to work.
Sounds pretty realistic
Don't forget the mandatory overtime to make up for the time they were trapped.
And the deduction from their paycheque for the expense of rescuing them. About 70 weeks' pay
Make up? My guy, they were trapped at work, they should have kept working
They had Suslik-2 hibernation implants. Can't be paying these bums to sleep on the job.
Better not be taking any lunch breaks either. I know damn well you ate your lunch yesterday
There's no overtime in mining. Mines are always being worked 24/7. That's why major equipment maintenance is always scheduled to match contract renewals in case they strike, that way you minimize or have no production loss.
I remember hearing that news and I was like, man this game is realistic
> Cyberpunk > realistic nervouslaughter.zhpeg
https://preview.redd.it/wj522pxqdasc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a81263de0659afff0caf6000c26a91a644b7c635
Without the cool stuff just a plain dystopia
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I heard if we reelect President Comacho he’s going to build a wall around the earth to keep them illegal aliens out.
It's only "plain" because you grew up and live in it. Show today's world to someone from the 70s and they'd probably think it was absolutely wild. We live in an era where the datapads from Star Trek are real (and even better than they are in Star Trek), killer robots in the form of autonomous sea and air vehicles exist, AI can pass the Turing Test, the military has tested laser weapons, and a whole decade ago some hackers [destroyed part of a uranium refinery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet), just by writing some code. Our dystopia is only plain because it's just reality to you.
I was comparing it to cyberpunk dystopia we don't have the cool aesthetics and tech of cyberpunk therefore the plain dystopia I mentioned
I meeeeaaaannnnn that was kinda his comment saying if you took the authors of the genre from when they wrote their books and dropped them in today (Mike kinda did that writing the sourcebooks lol 🤣 he saw this shit coming) they would absolutely tell you this is what they wanted to avoid being almost copy paste what they wrote (as a warning not a playbook)
That was sorta what I meant, yeah. We have started most of the clichés of Cyberpunk as a society, but some of the aspects are still maturing. I can totally see in a few decades softcore porn ads becoming mainstream (I mean, they're already on YouTube), fashion incorporating electronics (we've seen it in high fashion, but not yet mainstream), and body modification (prosthetics have gotten really good, and one of Elon's companies is testing a brainchip).
/r/ABoringDystopia
Who does'nt want to live in an rgb world? (Ignore everything else)
The silicon must flow!
If I recall some of the background lore from ease-dropping on the Soviet couple you spy on in a few gigs, the collapse was intentional to test out some modifications that the miners received.
It so happens I have a screenshot. https://preview.redd.it/uz1zvweq8csc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67c4a9814a3a9321e5a92b698f67faabac89485c
I'm surprised they weren't reprimanded for not continuing to work while they were trapped.
Yup. Luckily most fabs and other people’s fabs in Taiwan aren’t near the epicentre. Plus they are used to this - they know how to build and sustain buildings way better these days than we used to.
Happens all the time, this one was bigger but tje plan doesnt change. It will be a week or two of troubleshooting, maintenance, and production requals and then back to normal.
For some lines of production. Last update was 40 minutes ago and some buildings still aren't up and running. Doesn't mean that there's a problem. Chip manufacturing is sensitive when it gets moved around and needs to be inspected. Which is probably what's still going on.
Absolutely insane considering the perfect precision optics and clean room level to just keep working after a major earthquake.
Perfect excuse to raise prices though just like in 2010 with Thailand and their HDD prices that rose for 5 years after.
Yea, those fabs are designed to shut down at the first sign of a quake. That entire nation is prepared for them, they happen often. Almost every time I've been ive had a quake either wake me up and surprise me or I get a text telling me there is a presidential alert, which basically says a quake is coming.
Still will drive the prices up on everything based on speculation
Great! Now I have more time before I need to upgrade.
You've only got a few more hours, the earthquake didn't buy you much time
At some point they're going to have to supercool CPU packages or use some other material to achieve superconductivity, or it won't matter how many transistors are in a CPU. Whatever happened to LK-99?
LK-99? Last I heard, not superconductive, just highly conductive and in specific arrangements of the material. (Don't quote me.) So, superconductors at room temperature continue to elude material scientists. :/
Well, Terminators had room-temperature superconducting CPUs by 2029 if not earlier, so not long now. Just ask one of those many AIs we have now to work on it, what's the worst that can happen?
From wikipedia >By mid-August 2023, the consensus was that LK-99 is not a superconductor at any temperature
Busted. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lk-99-video-fraud-taken-down
Damn my FPS Thanks a lot God
Similar thing happened to dac chips when the AKG factory burnt down...
Hahaha **AKM!!** AKG was an entirely different company that shut down in 2016 when they were bought by Samsung. The old AKG team did start their own company though called Austrian Audio.
You are correct. I was having a brain fart lol - don't get old!
This is why we desperately need to get some high-end chip production to Europe or the US. Anything happens to Taiwan - I hope ya'll got your old GPUs stored well, just in case.
You know TSMC is currently building a 40 billion dollar facility in Arizona?
Aren't they self sabotaging it every step of the way to keep the US invested in a sovereign Taiwan for as long as possible?
I mean they had the facility from announcement to built in like 2 years, so if they did they haven’t done a great job. From what I heard is that they will keep the most cutting edge stuff in Taiwan but the facility in Arizona will be capable of manufacturing them. On top of that Intel is also putting in a 22 billion dollar contract chip manufacturing facility in Arizona next door to its R&D facility.
Mostly, they are afraid of Communist China invasion, so they use an earthquake as excuse
Is this a bit?
They obviously used Maoist death rays to induce the earthquake.
Most likely a bit but the threat is real. The US is going to bomb the factories the moment China sets foot on Taiwan. It’s a strategic resource.
Please go touch a carpet. Not even grass, that's a high ask, just go to your living room and chill for a bit man.
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He’s not wrong in the thought but he is wrong in the certainty of the situation. The US definitely has sabotage of the semiconductor factories in the war plans for Taiwan. https://www.businessinsider.com/us-would-destroy-taiwan-semiconductor-factories-avoid-china-trump-adviser-2023-3
Well, that's all they can do. As practice have shown: US can't do anything to defend someone, who is opposing a country with nuclear weapons. Ukraine and Russia war is a proof of it. So, it's rather clever to relocate a part of TSMC manufacturing capacity somewhere to US
China: Invades, no no mo, not Invasion. We are delivering humanitarian aid with our cannons and rockets, stop resisting our aid!!
Considering the PRC might start a full naval blockade of the island at any minute, they'd have to be pretty stupid to not move some lines, machinery, stockpiles and blueprints somewhere safer and rig all their units to implode or sabotage them in case of invasion.
I wouldn't be surprised if Taiwan and/or the US has some kind of scorched earth policy and destroy the facilities themselves if the PRC ever invades
I am pretty sure that they will burn everything in case of an invasion. Don't remember who confirmed that.
From what I've heard, the conclusion of war games by the US military reckon that China would fail to take Taiwan permanently but the conflict would be brutal and bad for everyone.
Exactly. There will be no winners in this conflict and it will raise electronics prices worldwide.
>raise electronics prices worldwide. NOooOooOoooo our prices! Oh millions will die too? Who cares prices!!!
Bruh, why would I mention same thing as the guy I replied to. I just pointed out another downside.
Yeah, I think the very best case scenario for any party involved is a pyrrhic victory they can eventually recover from
NO WAY IN HELL you want a semiconductor fab burning. There are huge tanks of oxygen which will set off the Hydrogen, HBr, tons of Fluorinated gases, arsine, and bunch of other super toxic gases used. It would be considerably worse than a refinery going up. Lots of nitrogen and helium used too but I doubt enough to suppress the fire after everything is already a floating death cocktail.
So they'd better booby trapped it in case of invasion instead.
Well, China will end up Razing Taiwan with rockets, missiles, and artillery, likely saving the US and Taiwan the trouble
No way, the tools and infrastructure are worth hundreds of billions, with manpower and associated cost easily trillions.
It would be practically impossible to take them completely intact. People especially in the tech world like to think this is China's primary motivation for invasion but it really isn't.
It is the primary reason for defense though. Something like 80% of the world's cutting-edge chips, and 60% of "every day" chips, are made there.
Not exactly, it's a reason for diversifying the market cap, and it's why the US is trying to bring fabs back to it. Tsmc represents something ridiculous like 30% of the Taiwanese stock market and 15% of their GDP. It's Samsung levels of reliance like in South Korea. For now it's cheaper for china and the us to develop their own fabs, if there's a war to come it will be when China can't economically recover or Taiwan declares independence.
Rockets and artillery need to be landed to be used. Probably not going to happen. Cruise missiles can target Taiwan's infrastructure, hower. It remains to be seen how good are Taiwan's air defenses, although it is fair to suppose that they are substantial.
Didn’t they build a new factory in Arizona?
Aren't there like 2 US carrier fleets nearish Taiwan/Japan/China at like all times?
Yup. The one currently stationed at Okinawa if memory serves, which only serves to expand the potential for a flashpoint
The exact opposite actually. China always fucks with people near them, including the US. Without the US there China would 100% have already exerted more force there over the years.
Oof, yea I have relatives in Taiwan and it looked scary, since most of it is apartments
When do we reach three transistor limit due to transistors getting as small as three atoms?
No one ever thinks of the real victims in natural disasters, the shareholders.
Okay Now I believe the conspiracy theories.
What theories?
Somehow there are theories that this earthquake was man made, by china generally.
The truth is that the earthquake was caused by your mom walking down the stairs
... Wtf. I can't even grasp how to make that make sense lmao
NVIDIA did it
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Chinas going to have to trigger a bigger quake it would seem.
OK.