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Speaking from personal experience in manufacturing, there are a lot of things that have to go right to get something like a die shrink to work. Say you have a photoresist chemical that supports patterning a 10% smaller pattern. In the lithography step, you also need an exposure tool with good enough overlay to pattern these smaller layers on top of each other without too much of a shift. Then you need to develop the pattern and rinse away the exposed (or unexposed) photoresist, which you as a manufacturer may be on your own to figure out a process to do, and you need to do it with a new photoresist chemical and do it more cleanly than you did it before. Now you need to get a more consistent etch depth, because with smaller features, they are probably thinner too. Along with this, your deposition and polish tolerances need to be improved, and everything in your process needs to be cleaner because some foreign matter defects which may have been small enough to not matter before are big enough to matter now. There are so many processes that all have to be improved on the manufacturing side for each technology node, that a huge step is technically infeasible. Even if you make a huge jump in the manufacturability of one process, you have several others that all need to catch up.

Maybe we're all living in a microverse battery! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They must have switched to goats after the GNU Hurd ran away...

I had a teacher once to whom I mentioned the word "Linux." He said, "Oh, that's the new version of Windows, right?" That was 6 years ago, but we still might be able to fool people. Maybe it needs to be suggested more as a Windows *competitor* than a Windows *alternative.*

I'd credit Bill Nye with being one of the first to make science funny. Maybe he wasn't as good as this guy, but I always appreciated the dry humor as a kid.

Science rules!

What if there were a wheel with the alphabet laid out around it, so that you would pick the letter from around the wheel, instead of scrolling through letters? I realize this is a joke, but I didn't realize it at first, and thought "what could you do with such a thing?" The keyboard in fact is difficult and slow for some people (especially those not brought up in the computer age,) so could there be a faster way for them to type? I'm not saying a wheel is the answer, but considering other possibilities as well as a keyboard might not be a bad idea.