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Comment Re:That was fast (Score 1) 143

Last year I was predicting 5-10 years until China could make chips. It took them 1. The USA is fucked, especially with that racist, demented asshole in charge.

From the fine summary:

The prototype, completed in early 2025 by former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the Dutch company's machines, is operational and generating EUV light, though it has not yet produced working chips. The effort is part of a six-year secret government initiative

This is a prototype, not a complete product. It's the result of a 6-year program, not 1. They have not produced any working chips. Your prediction was bad and your reading comprehension is bad and you should feel bad.

The USA is fucked, especially with that racist, demented asshole in charge.

Yes, but not because China has caught up technologically, because they have not done so and are still years to decades away. The USA is waning but the west is not. It's a lot easier to find out what was done than how to do it with espionage.

(Why espionage? Compare "reverse-engineered" to "engineered".)

Comment scum all day (Score 2) 6

A lot of people think that social networks are the lowest form of shit on the internet, but in fact it's domain squatters. The practice should be illegal, punishable by both fines and being forced to sell the domain in an open auction for whatever the market will bear or relinquish it without recompense within 30 days.

Comment Re:why (Score 2, Funny) 40

sooo F1 is now mario kart?

Yes. Each team gets exactly three bananas to drop in "banana mode" for each race. However, banana mode can only be activated if the car is at least 2.17 seconds ahead of the nearest trailing car, unless that trailing car is outside an 18 degree cone whose vertex is at the nose of the lead car. Banana mode cannot be used if a driver has more than 16.5 MJ of energy in the liquid fuel tank, or less than 3.27 MJ of energy in the hybrid battery, nor can it be used if there are less than 37.3km of travel on the current set of tires. Both the lead and trailing car must have a velocity of at least 82.3m/s for banana mode to be active. At most one banana can be dropped between any two pit stops.

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