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22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

_visgean wrote: post #97
vasco wrote: post #82

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> We simply can’t rely on a class of workers to dote on us simply because we fancy living in the burbs You make zero sense. Going to the grocery store involves the same workers helping you pay for gas and selling you groceries, or cooking your meals. Are you a recluse that interacts with zero workers? Who in their right mind calls someone else out for using a regular service? You'd prefer those people to not have job…

Its about efficiency, a grocery store will require one large supply truck. Supplying everyone to their home requires way more people and energy.

Wouldn't delivery be more efficient than people not practiced at logistics delivering thinga to their homes back and forth themselves?

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by Gud »

vasco wrote: post #94
Gud wrote: post #93

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Most would be, but that 0.01% are the ones pushing humanity forward. Let's figure out how to give them the resources. And how do you know most/many people aren't spending their times scrolling tiktok because they don't have the resources to do something more worthwhile?

> And how do you know most/many people aren't spending their times scrolling tiktok because they don't have the resources to do something more worthwhile? Because if that was it, most rich people, rich kids would be all doing crazy science experiments and advancing knowledge. But turns out they don't.

It’s also plausible todays rich kids are descendants of people who have optimized their lives for making money. I doubt such parents make the best role models for aspiring scientists.

It’s possible that a society that has a more prosperous general population will produce more successful scientists.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by _fizz_buzz_ »

OccamsMirror wrote: post #30
DontchaKnowit wrote: post #21

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Live somewhere cheaper and you can make enough to have a garage by painting houses or mowing lawns.

Not in Australia. Even rural is expensive.

I don’t quite get why Australia is so expensive. It’s basically all empty land (bigger than the EU and the population of the Netherlands). Shouldn’t it be dirt cheap?

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dogma1138 »

sadhorse wrote: post #16
ykl wrote: post #14

If you are wondering what Sam Zeloof is up to these days: he founded Atomic Semi [1] with Jim Keller (yes, _that_ Jim Keller). [1] https://atomicsemi.com/

Quite hard to grasp what they are really trying to achieve there. They are building what kind of tools, and for whom?

Semi is the next big thing in distributed manufacturing you already have companies that offer what is essentially ride sharing for semiconductors they manufacture single IC/SoC with multiple blocks on them and you essentially pay for a % of the floor plan which can operate independently from the rest.

So whilst not quite garage ready we’re probably 2-5 years of you being able to order completely custom silicon form the likes of PCBway and have it shipped in the matter of days rather than months.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by mensetmanusman »

jeffreygoesto wrote: post #86
dbtc wrote: post #76

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What if robots did it?

Worse. The main damage is done building things and robots have a much higher total cost of being developed and built.

True to first order, not to second. Economy of scale making robots cheaper would dramatically improve economies and the environment.

Simple example would be to reduce the scale up and install cost of clean energy.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by literalAardvark »

_fizz_buzz_ wrote: post #114
OccamsMirror wrote: post #30

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Not in Australia. Even rural is expensive.

I don’t quite get why Australia is so expensive. It’s basically all empty land (bigger than the EU and the population of the Netherlands). Shouldn’t it be dirt cheap?

The bits that aren't a desert and people want to live in are actually fairly populated.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by tsss »

If my parents had bought me a $30k laser cutter I would be too. But I can't even afford the garage.

If you want to worship a DIY-god then look up Jerry Ellsworth. She's the real deal, unlike this guy, and makes chips with her own dumpster-dived repaired machinery, not with contacts to the local University's million dollar research lab.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by spicymapotofu »

refurb wrote: post #98
reactordev wrote: post #66

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>”I think the key is to have everything delivered to you.“ This is why we can’t have nice things. We simply can’t rely on a class of workers to dote on us simply because we fancy living in the burbs. The amount of waste just so you can get your instacart. The reality is near 8% mortgages have put suburbs with garages out of reach for almost everyone without a trust fund or selling their startup.

What’s the difference between delivery in the city versus the suburbs? Does less distance make it ok?

Yes, last mile shipping takes up an inordinate amount of energy.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by vasco »

_visgean wrote: post #97
vasco wrote: post #82

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> We simply can’t rely on a class of workers to dote on us simply because we fancy living in the burbs You make zero sense. Going to the grocery store involves the same workers helping you pay for gas and selling you groceries, or cooking your meals. Are you a recluse that interacts with zero workers? Who in their right mind calls someone else out for using a regular service? You'd prefer those people to not have job…

Its about efficiency, a grocery store will require one large supply truck. Supplying everyone to their home requires way more people and energy.

There's no end to that game of efficiency. You end up with either ascetic monk life people or asking for population reduction measures.

If you're annoyed about low efficiency of ordering food, what do you think of vacation traveling, hobbies, any sort of vehicles etc. Most efficiency would be to have no humans with our superfluous wants and needs. Otherwise you're just shaming others for doing things you happen not to like, while forgetting all the useless things you do. Surely you have done consumist purchases that weren't required for your immediate survival or health preservation before.

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